PHOTO: The Author
Kokpar B. Wohwoh
Liberian Politician, Advocate, and Humanitarian
President George Manneh Weah
Office of the President, Executive Mansion
Capitol Hill, Monrovia
West Africa
April 7, 2022
Dear Mr. President:
I am not only motivated but am encouraged to register my honest thanks and appreciation to you for mustering the courage to engage the situation by leading the troop instead, regarding the current artificial rice shortage. I am not one of your die-hard or soft supporters, but I have resolved to recognize the untiring efforts and sacrifices you make on behalf of the people and the country. Thank Mr. President for protecting the peace, a recipe for our survival as a nation.
The opportunities, you have misapplied, could have facilitated a million gains, if you have chosen to be selective of the many messages you have heard from your supporters. Nevertheless, “better late than never”. The alternative is to thank you for your inclination and aptitude to withstand the endless disgusting hates and maligning of your character and leadership by your faultfinders.
Mr. President, our frustrations would have lessened or disappeared if you had approached the past inconsolable issues as you have done with the current artificial rice shortage.
Let me remind you that Liberians were hopeful after your historic election that appears as a sign to help vanish the entrenched hate and replace it with unison.
Mr. President, your failure to act swiftly placed you in an unfavorable position to relate to those who even supported you when you were not a president. Are you aware that Liberians were pride and their patriotism went high when you earn the presidency and subsequently took the oath of office?
The pundits and oppositions are irritated about the “hope for change” you promised in both your campaign and inaugural address. This cosmetics promise has been debris in the garbage. Should we blame this failure on you? I say no because we all will be held accountable in the long term. It is a known fact that most of us have resolved to fight back for the sole purpose of capturing power and leadership instead of supporting a single goal.
Mr. President, from the beginning of your leadership till now, Liberians continue to speak louder against injustice, insecurity, joblessness, uncountable corrupt practices, and abuse of power. As it stands today, our nation and people have turned to reserved or protracted beggars Even though you have allowed press freedom and inexorable protesters, Liberia continues to inevitably decline. I do not know what your stewards and advisors are telling you, but there are very crucial trending issues that you need to hammer out instantly.
Corruption, the intermittent missing of Individuals without a trace, and the gruesome killing of citizens, since you took state power have snared your hard-earned reputation across the breadth and length of Liberia. It is not too late to recover the missing opportunities, all you need is to get involved, say it, and do it yourself.
Mr. President, kindly accept this as my inner gut feelings without emotion. I did not support you or stand by you because I felt you were in the right place but among the wrong people. Besides, I felt consciously balanced that you were going to be forced to earn a failure “better late than never” It is not too late, you can recover!
~Kokpar