Liberians erected, upon a platform of more than a decade of death and devastation, an epitaph of civil rule in 2005 – based on an all-inclusive multiparty democracy – and reinforced it in 2011. Multiparty democracy promises collective rule and collective responsibility. This is why by instituting it Liberians had hoped their elected officials would work together to resuscitate their nation. More than a decade on – depending on whom one asks within Liberia's political mishmash – the nation is facing two extremes. Either it is on the way to achieving its goals, or it is about making a u-turn towards socio-economic and political dysfunction. The leadership of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), the main rival of the ruling Unity Party, is amongst those that believe the latter is the case, and it is calling for immediate actions. The party is fuming over a wide-range of issues that run from corruption to the environment. The Analyst has been looking at an unsigned press statement the party released yesterday.
The opposition CDC says that rather than President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf's cabinet lieutenants showing off academic credentials, it is high time they take serious administrative actions to mitigate the corruption and nepotism that the party says are countervailing the nation's recovery efforts.
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