Two Cases In Point: Rep. Yekeh Kolubah’s Claim Solumba Border Area Belongs To Guinea & Sen. Amara Konneh’s Assertion Of Limited Strength Of AFL

By Our Staff Writer

Liberian politics has become increasing bombastic, amid a serious void in harnessing public knowledge on many issues including historical facts, the national constitution and a range of other issues.

This is in addition to the truism that this nation, which fought 14 years of brutal civil war that claimed the lives of some 250,000 people according to UN estimate, generally has failed to learn bitter lessons from the past.

Little or no serious efforts are made to draw on the expertise of experts in specific disciplines and everybody claim to know everything about everything amidst the rising tide of hypocracy and sycophancy within this post-war West African country’s political discourse.

Just recently, controversial Montserrado County District #10 Representative, Yekeh Y. Kolubah was summarily expelled from the House of Representatives by 49 of the 73-member House because he had said on Spoon media network that the Solumba area in Liberia’s northwestern Lofa County occupied by a group of Guinean soldiers indeed belong to neighbouring Guinea, without providing any evidence.

Instead of citing the vocal Montserrado County lawmaker to appear before the House committee on Defense and security and Judiciary to provide them with evidence backing his public declaration, he was slapped with expulsion just as the Supreme Court granted a writ of probation request from Kolubah’s lawyers pending a legal conference. So, public knowledge of what the true account of the actual territorial boundary confusion remains in abeyance.

Then came a statement by Gbarpolu County Senator and former Finance Minister in the Ellen Sirelaf government, Amara Konneh concerning the ongoing dispute on the Liberian-Guinean border and the strength of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL).

Quickly Lawmakers are hammering on Sen. Konneh, calling for him to be investigated on grounds that he ‘disclosed classified information’?

Well, Sen. Konneh was even gracious to say the strength of the AFL is 2000. But the truth is, the strength of AFL is reported as approximately 1858 –  Sex -Disaggregated Data, Ministry of Defence: Gender Policy and Action Plan 2021- 2025.

It is sad that most senators have not read  this report. One wonders what else are they not reading?

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