YESTERDAY, A DRAMATIC scene was witnessed in the chambers of the Liberian Senate when confusion erupted between Nimba County Senior Senator Prince Y. Johnson and Grand Kru County Senior Senator Cletus Wotorson using profanity.
THE TWO SENATORS went into bitter exchanges in the presence of Finance Minister Amara Konneh and Defense Minister Brownie Samukai who had gone to explain the operational function and financial implication of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) mission in the West African region of Mali.
THE CONFUSION NEARLY disrupted regular session when the presiding officer and President of the Senate, Joseph N. Boakai, called the two senators to orderand promised that the matter would be taken to the Senate's leadership for settlement.
EVEN WITH THE intervention of the President of the Senate and other lawmakers, there were still side comments across the floor from the two lawmakers to the extent that Sen. Johnson threatened to strike back if his colleague did not apologize.
WE ARE INDEED disappointed over the two senators' immature behavior because not only that they are statesmen but they are prominent individuals and first class citizens who ordinary citizens would refer to as 'godfathers' of the society.
WORST OF IT all, with the names involved and with them both being senior senators, it was expected that one would have conceded for the sake of his name and class even if he felt so much offended.
WE SAY THAT the name 'honorable' carries a huge burden and much is expected of you and to imagine that they would choose to use profanity in the mist of strangers proves otherwise.
IT THEN BECOMES disheartening when law makers choose to become law breakers; who would their constituents run to if they have similar disputes which brings to mind the central point of the novel 'Things Fall Apart' which says when such happens the center will surely not hold.
WE ARE THEREFORE pleading with the lawmakers not to use the sacred hall as a ghetto or place of disorderliness because to whom much is given, much is expected and for old-hands or reservoirs of governance in the First Branch of Government to take on disorderly conduct in public, one wonders if it is the beginning of a chaos in governance structure.
WE ONCE AGAIN crave your indulgence to see reasons to apologize to your consciences before making amends in your behavior and peace with your colleagues to avoid future recurrence and restore sanity to the 'honorable' Liberian Senate.
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There is a saying that when you 'sow the wind, you reap the whirlwind'. These men were elected by their constituencies based on the contents of their characters and respective resumes. Could it be that the very things that made a candidate attractive in the first place are the things being displayed publicly? Now, 'the chickens are coming home to roost'. Certainly, the Capitol Hill drama was no fluke, but a natural dividend on the voters' investment.
Well, Prince Johnson is a CRIMINAL who belongs behind bars instead of the Liberia Senate. He has blood on his hands, blood of innocent people, and I hope the ghosts of those poor people that he killed years ago will turn him Crazy. I hope the ghost of President Doe keeps hunting him.
Long live Senior Senator Prince Y Johnson, savior of NIMBA COUNTY and Liberia as a whole, who delivered us from the corroding hands of cannibal and master mass murderer samuel k doe. May the cursed ghost of that demon rot in hell forever!
BOTH OUR PRESIDENT AND JOHNSON HAS BLOOD ON THIER HANDS.POWER GOES TO WRONG PEOPLE.The way a man plays a game shows some of his character. The way he loses shows all of it.KILL,KILL N KILL.There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse for why a job was not done, and a results person will find any reason why it can be done. Be a creator, not a reactor.GOOD EXAMPLES WE ALL NEED FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDREN. He that gives good advice, builds with one hand, he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both, but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
This is what happens when you put illiterates and selfish people in power. These same people who kept talking about hte Americo-Liberian elites now oppress their inidigenouos people even more. These senators vote pay increases everytime they want and are the trash of liberia.
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