Liberia's recovery agenda requires reinforced bilateral relationship with the international community, mainly its mentor nation, the United States of America. It also requires partnership with the international business and donor communities. The achievement of well-founded relationships and partnerships, of course, presupposes organized, aggressive foreign missions that will sell Liberia's image and thereby endear it to investors and donors. Surprisingly, internet rumors had it that the Liberian Embassy in the United States, of all places, has defaulted on this crucial responsibility; that its mission chief is embroiled in pettiness. No sooner had the rumors begun to take damaging hold than the reported victims of the mission chief's alleged pettiness begin rushing to his defense. The question many are asking is, "Was the rumor a political ploy to discredit the Liberian US Mission chief?" The Analyst, reports.
The wife of the Liberian Ambassador to the United States of America in Washington D.C., Mrs. Kabeh Sulunteh, and the embassy's Minister Consular for Press and Public Affairs, Mr. Gabriel I. H. Williams, say they are shocked by running internet rumors that the ambassador has "started two nasty wars".
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