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–For Saying “A Brilliant Lawyer Knows The Law, Good Lawyer Knows the Judge –Says Boakai’s Statement is Corruption Prone He is a lawyer of repute, no doubt about it. But Cllr Tiawan Saye Gongloe is not looking out for himself. He is sounding an early warning that a statement coming from Liberian President Joseph Boakai has the propensity to corrupt young lawyers. Cllr. Gongloe says President Boakai’s comment on lawyers is unbecoming of a national leader. “I always say, an excellent lawyers know the law, but a good lawyer knows the judge.” That was the direct comment of Pres. Boakai,…

By Jefferson Tamba Koijee The September 27 joint communiqué sends a decisive message: the people’s opposition is coming together with purpose, resolve, and a shared commitment to Liberia’s future. The ANC, CDC, MOVEE, MPC, and ULDP have pledged to defend constitutional democracy, demand accountability, and build an alternative that answers to the Liberian people. Mr. Boakai’s government should stop focusing on how to obstruct this genuine and resolute opposition effort. Any initiative designed to silence, divide, or frustrate the people’s lawful political will is dead on arrival. The government should put that energy into solving the complex problems it was…

As former President George Weah, Alexander Cummings, Simeon Freeman and other opposition leaders agree to work together, there are more questions being raised over structure, leadership and political direction remain of the opposition political parties’ collaborative effort. Our News Editor Konah Rufus reports Liberia’s opposition landscape is entering a new phase, with several major political parties choosing cooperation over isolation and promising to speak collectively on issues they say are affecting the country. The development followed a closed-door roundtable in Sinkor, where five opposition political leaders signed a joint communiqué committing their parties to work together on national issues. Those…

Former Liberian President George M Weah was recently invited by the Nigerian Bar Association to deliver a keynote at the 6th Annual Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association. Please read full speech below: FORMER PRES. WEAH’S SPEECH

HOW CAN YOU CALL ME “BIG BROTHER” AND DISTORT THE HISTORY OF MY TORTURE? A Concise Rejoinder to Retired Col. Joseph G. Kollie’s Facebook Post, “Rebuttal to My Big Brother, Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe’s Call for the IGP’s Resignation”—Including His Criticism of Stanton Witherspoon and the Spoon Panelists for Elevating My Call By Tiawan Saye Gongloe Question: Col. Kollie, do you have the right to disagree with my call for the IGP’s resignation? Answer: Certainly. You may defend Inspector General Gregory Coleman and challenge my legal or political conclusions. But disagreement does not give you the right to distort the…

REBUTTAL TO MY BIG BROTHER CLLR. TIAWON SAYE GONGLOE’S CALL FOR IGP RESIGNATION — AND TO STANTON WITHERSPOON & SPOON PANELISTS ELEVATING IT By Col. Joseph G. Kollie (Rtd) EYEWITNESS TO 2002, FOUNDER OF POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY, DEFENDER OF BLUE I listened to my big brother Cllr. Tiawon Saye Gongloe on Prime FM 105.5 calling for IGP Gregory O.W. Coleman to resign — saying IGP “knows drug cartel, shielding them, if President Boakai sees him as son and won’t fire him, he should resign himself.” Now I see Stanton Witherspoon and his panelists elevating it. With due respect, I must dislodge…

This page contains legal documents about Liberia and other international instruments. CONTROLLED DRUG & SUBSTANCES ACT OF 2023

And integrity icon, a social justice advocate and good governance activist, Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe has called on President Joseph Boakai to dismiss Liberian National Police Inspector Gregory Coleman. Cllr. Gongloe says IG Coleman has placed a dark cloud over the entire government. According to Cllr. Gongloe, IG Coleman knows too much about the drug saga that he can not stay in his position because he know those senior government officials who are involved with he drug cartel in Liberia. Cllr. Gongloe is calling on President Joseph Boakai to dismiss IG Gregory Coleman to safe his government from embarassment See…

By Peter Quaqua The question is not whether Liberia needs a law to combat cybercrime. It does. The question is what happens when a law designed to protect citizens online also gives the State unrestrained powers over what people can say, publish and share? At what point does protecting the public from cybercrime begin to encroach on the freedom of expression that the Constitution protects? That is the concern surrounding Liberia’s Cybercrime Act of 2025, which seeks to address hacking, fraud, identity theft, online exploitation, genuine threats and other forms of digital abuse. Several provisions of the Act raise serious…

By Jefferson Tamba Koijee What was marketed to the Liberian people under the deceptive name and style of the “Rescue Mission” has now revealed its true character. It was never a Rescue Mission. It has become a RISKY COCAINE MISSION, presiding over national decline, growing lawlessness, economic hardship and the dangerous erosion of public confidence. In 1887, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche described a condition in which unresolved humiliation, envy and resentment cease to be temporary emotions and become an entire identity. He called it ressentiment. When people cannot peacefully process another person’s success, they construct a worldview around destroying that…