On Wednesday afternoon, November 27, 2012 having had a full day restless meetings in faraway Europe land where I am attending a conference, I was browsing the online papers of Liberia and in FrontpageAfrica pages, I ran into University of Liberia intellectual with big vocabulary who graduated with highest honor, a popular legislator with tricky announcement and apologies. It's said that politics is an honorable profession and, indeed, it can be. For many contemporary politicians, it's also a lifelong one. Today's political landscape in Liberia is dominated by con artists who got into politics rather early in their lives - in university, as a first job or after a short time in another career (either in driving, cooking or others) - and are now embedded in evil politics. Part of the reason is the sheer fascination that politics holds for some people.
Speaking at the induction of the workers union at the Liberia Broadcasting System Tuesday, Representative Edwin Snowe mumbled, "People in this country lie, People live on lies; they will come to you and lie to you and the lies will be per the size of your pocket if you have deep pocket and give them more money they will lie more if you don't give them money they will not lie. Had we not listen to some of the lies maybe some of the press conferences we taught we had in the interest of the country we wouldn't have had them." It struck me, and still strikes me, and I wept over the sorry state of our country's direction. Some of what you are saying, or even mischievously conjure up, ends up being "100 per cent untrue" What a deception from a legislator!
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