Liberia: Nation Labors in Vain - As Referendum Failure Raises Legal Questions

1 September 2011

"My people perish for the lack of knowledge [and vain arrogance, too?]," says God Almighty in the Good Old Book.

Though far yet from perishing, Liberia has just lost millions of dollars of meager taxpayers' money and international aid as a result of running an indeterminate national constitutional referendum – reason being that some politician-cum-legal advocates tricked the credulous nation into accepting form and formality over substance and goal. Now with the nation used and dashed by its own sons and daughters, the questions many are asking now is, "What next?" The Analyst, reports. 

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