This President will say and do anything, once she realizes it will benefit her personally. She once supported President Charles Taylor, and advocated the violent overthrow of President Doe and the destroction of the Executive Mansion in order to smoke-out Samuel Doe. She calls herself Americo-Liberian when it is beneficial to her, and she becomes Gola woman when she wants the votes of the native women of Liberia. She is a typical Liberian politician who happens to be a female, a typical African politician who resides over an economic where her children and other polical elite are amassing fortunes and deposits in banks abroad while the majority of liberians live in abject poverty. She provides good jobs for her children, other relatives and friends, she provides them with jobs that pay as high as similar jobs in the United States, if not higer, while the majority of her fellow citizens (Liberians)are lacking access to basic social services such as sanitation, clean drinking water, good education(Elementary,Junior & Senior high) and affordable health care. What a scam perpetuated on Liberia?

Article 5(C) of the Liberian Constitution does not define a law against nepotism per se. The provision allows for a framework that empowers the Legislature to be able to enact a nepotism law. Such a law would define and set standards of what should constitute nepotism. It can only be said that the president breaches this article where she tries to hinder the Legislature from enacting such a nepotism law. However, until such a law is enacted, she can not be in violation of nepotism in the legal sense because no such law exist at the moment. It seems that Sirleaf's appointment of her son provides an opportunity for lawmakers to carry-out their legislative responsibility by passing a clear-cut law against nepotism in government as a whole. However, such a law will have to be comprehensive for the public sector not just meant to only target the president or a select group of people. But it seems that rather than deal with this issue in earnest some lawmakers are only politicizing the issue. I'm sure many of them have their relatives and children working right in their offices and receiving scholarships to attend colleges abroad on taxpayer's money. Therefore, it is not surprising that they lack the moral backbone to enact such a law.

Pres. Sirleaf could be testing the morality of the society thru our lawmakers like in the case of the "Code of Conduct Law" which has remained idled in the Legislature for years now. This shows that there is a problem with morality in our country. Lawmakers have no principles at all. None whatsoever! Conceptually, an appointment of a relative in itself may not be unlawful since to be in breach of nepotism it must be proven that the appointment was based strictly on favouritism without any consideration of merit. The challenge is left with our lawmakers to enact a national law. Until then, Gongloe's recommendation for Sirleaf's resignation has no legal foundation.