Indeed no country has ever eradicated corruption and no one expects the Sirleaf Johnson's Administration to even attempt to undertake such an impossible endeavor. If there's anyone out there who truly expects Johnson Sirleaf to wipe-out corruption in Liberia, my only question to that person is why stop there? Why not ask her to stop all crimes, banish the Grand Reaper and let every Liberian live forever? In fact, while she at it, why not ask her to turn back the hands of time and prevent the civil war from happening, thereby saving a quarter of a million Liberian lives and billions of dollars in property damage? It is both sad and frustrating that every time this lady makes a careless remark and she is criticized for it, her surrogates like Mr. Dukule come out and accuse her opponents of expecting her to perform miracles. This tactic is in keeping with the old adage that anyone who has been caught with his/her hand in the cookie jar has adopted: deny everything, don't admit nothing and make counter accusations. In 1990 when innocent Liberians were been killed in the most heinous way, she went on the British Broadcasting Corporation and ordered Taylor to "level Monrovia, we will rebuild it." On January 8th of this year at the official opening ceremony of the TRC, she said, "IF called, I will appear" instead of, "I will be the first to appear." Then few weeks later when calls for her appearance before the TRC became intense she used her weekly radio program to say that her appearance before the TRC would create a "spectacle" and for that reason she would not appear. However, she continued, she was in the process of writing a tell-all book due out next year and anyone interested in hearing her side of the story would have to wait as she didn't want to give away the plot and jeopardize sales. Then as innocent Liberian women and children on the Buduburam Refugee Camp were been hauled off by Ghanaian Authority to an unknown destination for peacefully protesting their treatments in that country, she said that it was due to their own rudely behaviors. Then she launched a failed coup that killed one of the country's respected generals and financed a war that saw the demise of everything Liberian because the regime and its leader were corrupt. And now karma is upon her; Gemap, Governance Commission and the newly created Anti-Corruption Commission headed by her cousin have not helped curb the rampant corruption taking place in her own administration. Close friends and relatives in her administration are implicated in one scheme after another. Just this year alone, the president herself has offered to pay the tuition of all Lofa students at the University of Liberia, she gave the Press Union of Liberia U.S. $100,000 gift and has given the Dunn Commission another U.S. $400,000 to conduct an investigation into what has now been dubbed "Knucklesgate II." Where is all this money coming from? When Mr. Winston Tubman asked these questions, Mr. Dukule attacked him as been unworthy of criticizing the president since his uncle, William V.S. Tubman, was corrupt and that he, Tubman himself, also served in the Doe's government, another corrupt regime. Mr. Dukule and the president accused their opponents of wanting mob justice, when it is she who has created new and in the process of creating more bureaucracies headed by friends and family in an attempt to confuse the Liberian people and appease the international community by appearing to be tough on corruption. She has scapegoated unknown and unpopular government employees at the bottom to spare her friends and kindreds at the top. It is absolutely disturbing that after launching such a long brutal campaign against corruption to hear president now declare that the fight against corruption has just begun! The mandate to the Sirleaf's Administration by the Liberian people was very direct and simple: BEGIN the reconstruction and reconciliation process and give the Liberian people something they have never had before- a government that works in their interests. She has failed on all fronts and no smoke screen by her or her supporters is going deter us from using the internet, radio waves, print media or any other tool of the Information Technology to express ourselves. One thing we will not do is do what she did- destroy a country just because we disagree with its leader.

This government and subsequent governments must create corrupt free environment, impact policy against corruptions, and demonstrate fight against corruption in emerging is serious business. The size of government must be drastically reduced with serious reduction in civil servants, merger/elimination of duplicity ministries/agencies, review and cancel ever-ending 50+yrs resource wasteful government building contracts, build all government ministries/agencies with 21st century workplace environment, establish competitive salaries commensurate with qualifications for all civil servants, decentralize government at local levels and create tax incentives for private sectors job creation for rural Liberia.

Besides these impact policies and programs, government must strengthen social service programs for under-previlged citizens; seniors, disabled, youths, and low-income civil servants with pension, health, skills, and infrastructures to acomodate/facilitate their needs. The immorality of ourselves contribute corruptions in Liberia, especially with men with too many girlfriends, children, self-made expenses, red bank deposits, red bank projects(houses, shops, business, lavish life-style etc) for these girl friends and boyfriends are conscious decisions our people need to make, especially adjusting their life styles, spending within their budgets and remaining committed their relations with their spouses and children.

The fight against corruptions is not only this President's problems to fight following decades of total collapse of social values, institutions, power greed, warriors and half-baked educated-in-charge for years. Rather, it's the collective responsibility of every citizens and change attitude to make our government and country corrupt-controlled, before we can make it corrupt-free. THE CORRUPTION FIGHT IS OUR FIGHT.

Thank you, David Flomo North Carolina, USA

To begin with no government can create an environment free of corruption, or, at least, no government, beyond mythology,has done that in the history of the human race.

Accordingly, the thought is purely aspirational. Not that anything is wrong with that; wrong, however, would be the false consciousness that the possibility can be an actualized. Perhaps, the reduction of corruption "at the margins" may be possible. Maybe.

Man or woman is too fickle for that kind of burden: the eradication thesis or, properly expressed, hope or prayer or whatever.

But, soupists eclipse mere men or women: with them, the aspirational determination of the projected IDEAL is decimated, effaced, resulting, precisely thereby, in a vast and deep conspiracy to bamboozle the captured of inhabitants of soupist territories.

Soupism, for God's sake, is CORRUPTION.

Sirleaf, a soupist, cannot be reasonably expected to efface her character: soupist corruption and obsfuscation.

what is to be done? Go figure!