allAfrica.com: Liberia: Make Anti-Liberianization Moves Impeachable (Page 1 of 1)

MAKE ANTI-LIBERIANIZATION MOVES impeachable, a law that gives exclusive right to Liberians to produce and sell some 26 micro-businesses, was juxtaposed to the extent she had to diplomatically withdraw it. According to her, she withdrew the draft bill to enable her make the necessary consultations with all stakeholders after which she intends to re-submit to consummate her design.

THE OLDMA'S IDEA with its hurricane strategy pitilessly takes breads from the mouths of ordinary businesses people, whose only unpardonable sins are that they are not capable of effectively carrying out production and sales of the 26 commodities and services that the law guarantees to them. She said that Liberianization, which avails citizens the rare privilege to produce and sell 26 petit businesses, has not be taken advantage of by citizens since lawmakers passed it several decades ago.

THE LOGICAL FORMULA according to the Chief Executive is that the ineffective law that has not bolstered ebullient growth of businesses must be scrapped for everyone to participate in the exclusive preserve of citizens, this way, competition will flourish. The unstated part of the argument is that given the expected competitive environment that is envisaged, government will still realize huge revenues but the 'inefficient Liberian business people will fall out and remaining eternally paupers in their own land. The formula is therefore simple: scrap the 'obnoxious decree' and open the fence so other investors have a bite of that which is being concealed from them.

WE RECALL THAT the domain of foreign relations or the policymaking thereof has historically been the pepper bush of the President of the Republic. However, recent developments in legislative oversight of the Executive has signaled that the Legislature can keep the Executive Branch on track by legislating that any action with propensity to place majority of the citizens at risk of any sort must be guarded against with crafty laws. One of such laws made by the National Transitional Legislative Assembly (NTLA), and heavily endorsed by the current 52nd National Legislature is the diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China. Historically, since the PRC's accession to the United Nations, various countries including Liberia have oscillated between the Mainland and the Island in chameleonic fashion to obtain assistance for the collective or governmental functionaries. But since the NTLA signed into law that the Liberia would henceforth maintain its external ties with the Mainland, they also framed alongside the legislation a razor annexation to the effect that any administration making an effort, covert or otherwise for the swapping of such recognition to the Island must be impeached lest their action embitter the Mainland and withdraw their usual substantial assistance to the country. On this score, the One China Policy has stood unchallenged.

WE BELIEVE THIS is a very good model to apply to the Liberianization debate. By extension, the suffering or disaster that Liberians would face, given a liberal commercial environment as envisioned by our economic experts is beyond fathoming by administration officials. The Senators and Representatives must be swift in discerning what ramifications follow the institutionalization of this Executive "free for all" environment. Our leaders must be kept in check with laws that manacle them to do what they have publicly sworn to uphold, protect and defend. They must safeguard the Constitution, the Republic and its people against all forms of deprivations and impoverishments. Our traditions like oath-taking or covenant keeping no longer seem to be sacred observances to anneal our formalities through kissing religious texts. Only God will save this situation but before then, lawmakers have a role to play and play they must lest the quest for empire that some of our leaders harbor reduces citizens to mere cattle in their own land.

BUT HERE GOES the paradox: Liberians are not in competition of the key industries for which they do not have the capital sourcing capability. They welcome outsiders and are ready to provide cheap labor for all their hard inputs to the success of these enterprises. Yet the little territory that past generations of leaders have endowed them with must be pried open for everyone. Such is a sad song that must not be chanted in a free land like ours. Our people must be helped, not denigrated to the worst forms of deprivations in their own land.

SO FOR US, it's not that counter measures against Liberianization cannot be consulted upon, that is an essential chore. But whenever such consultations are concluded, it must never proceed from the decision forest that a formal legislation is made against the people of this country. Such action is distasteful and unacceptable. We therefore demand that moves contrary to the Liberianization policy must be greeted with immediate impeachment proceedings against whoever is concerned. Let this be the second in the series to the One China Policy!

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