“Liberia must be charmed” when you considered the zigzag way things are going in the country”
PHOTO: Bishop Kortu K. Brown, former Pres. Of the Liberia Council of Churches (LCC)
BREWERVILLE, Liberia–In response to the delivery of the State of the Nation (SONA) Address on Monday, January 26, 2026 and the subsequent fallout based on the many inerrancies in the report, Bishop Kortu K. Brown has observed that the current developments seem to suggest that the country is charmed.
Speaking at a prayer meeting recently at New Water in the Desert Assembly in Brewerville to observe the first day of a three-day fast for sanctification for pastors of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church International, the Pentecostal cleric opined that “Liberia must be charmed” when you considered the zigzag way things are going in the country”.
Bishop Brown, who is the immediate past president of the Liberia Council of Churches, told the pastors and ministers to continue to pray for the country because it is really concerning to see and read for example somebody writing that they have paved more than 1,100 kilometers of road in the country in the past two years and a speech writer placing it in the president’s address to the nation and the President standing before the people’s representatives reading it out as if it is true and then people argued over it. “Liberia must be charmed” he said
The bishop warned against utilizing deception as an effective tool for governance and reminded his fellow church leaders that “nations are ruled by spirits and it is either the Good Spirit or the Evil Spirit” both of which manifestations are discussed in Saint Paul’s letter to the churches in Galatia:
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these; … idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revelings, and such like…” (Galatians 5:19-26). This is the work of the Evil Spirit and charming falls under idolatry and witchcraft.
The Bible warns against “charmed” or “charming” in two major ways either as a condemnation of witchcraft and sorcery involving spells and enchantments against God’s laws as recorded in Deuteronomy Chapter 18 and verses 10 thru 12 and Isaiah Chapter 19 verse 3 and as a metaphor for deception bordered on the nature of words or the skillful, timely use of wisdom. The Bible condemns witchcrafts, charmers, sorcerers and all those who cast spells and views them as detestable to God.
Bread and Butter issue
“’Liberia must be charmed’ for people to want to deny that other people are facing hard times or economic hardships in the country” he asserted. Bishop Brown argued that it has nothing to do with whether roads are being constructed or improvements are being made in other areas. The reality he said is that there are families struggling in the country and it’s insulting to play down their miseries in the name of politics or scoring political points
“Look at the United States for example” he said where some of the best roads have been built, yet the people still complained about the economy. People vote based on their pocket books and not on what physical development is going on as much as that’s appreciated. “See Nigeria, a country of great potentials and contradictions. People praise Nigeria’s infrastructural development yet ordinary Nigerians repeatedly complain about a lack of a performing economy. Right now some economic survey estimates Nigeria has about 139 million people living in poverty” he added
Liberia must face the reality he admonished adding that the country must put efforts into addressing the bread and butter issues. “When the Boakai government, one of my first advice to them was to focus on addressing the bread-and-butter issue, interview on interview until some people started referring to me as the man who is usually calling for the bread-and-butter issue to be addressed” he recalled. We have to create jobs and help put food on people’s table and send their children to school and hospital.
Breaking down peoples’ homes
The Apostolic Pentecostal Church general overseer called on the government to temper justice with mercy when it comes to breaking down peoples’ homes in the communities. “No matter what the justification is, these are difficult times and we cannot just go around breaking down peoples’ homes in the name of applying the rule of law. Where’s our compassion? Where are our lawmakers? Why are they not formally inquiring? Ordinary people used time and resources to build their places of living and to just get up and break them down without recourse, is unacceptable and lacking in compassion and a full understanding of the times we are living in, to me!
Put out real job figures
The current job figures debate points to the fact that some agencies of government are not doing their work. That’s why it has been difficult to breakdown the jobs numbers in a convincing way. It is hard time that government officials get on the ground to do their work for ordinary Liberians adding “the purpose of government is to serve the people. To do this, they must listen to the people” he advised.