President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has disappointed the Liberian people on her zero tolerance for corruption promise. She has not shown the willingness, courage and resolve to go after her officials suspected of corruption – those who cannot account for missing public funds and other resources, or who show signs of having built themselves mansions and acquired bank accounts and farms from unexplained resources.
Recently, she even failed and refused to denounce her spokesperson for statements threatening the press -- which led to a press black out of government information. This stance on her part has been a source of great frustration to the press and a bone of contention between the media and the entire administration, all branches of which play the same game of obstruction, making it nearly impossible to get to the truth.
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