Liberia: 'Total Nonsense' - Wesseh on PYJ's Back Over War-Corruption Claims

In a search for Liberians, mainly leaders, having clean bill of morals to lead, there unarguably loom difficulties and challenges. The nearly 14-year civil conflict has dinted many citizens who advertently, or directly, or inadvertently supported the war in which over 250,000 of compatriots died. Coming out of the civil war situation, which has rendered many pauperized and therefore materialistically inclined, corruption sets in and has been tainting many more who even may not have participated in the conflict. In the country, it is either one is unfit for being a warmonger or unfit for being corrupt. And which one is the lesser evil is yet to desire. At the Liberian Senate recently, the dilemma sparked and a few one traded allegations along the corruption or warmongering lines, as The Analyst reports.

That Senator Prince Y. Johnson is doubtlessly a "freedom fighter", the title anti-Samuel K. Doe rebels bore and which Senator Johnson wrote last on a piece of paper and slipped it on the desk of Senator Conmany Wesseh in the Senate chamber as debate heated over who's a murderer and who's a kleptocrat.

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