Joseph K. Solo

I applaude your heartfelt concerns and how it matters most for you to have spoken out the way you did. However, I want to differ with you on the question of your father owning properties in Liberia. If the Liberian people have conducted statastical analysis involving possessions in Liberia, your father by legal standards would have been denied the assests you have mentioned. Those assests belong to the Liberian people via the Liberian government. The president might exercise humanitarian leverage to award the Doe children something they can consider theirs. But, I believe the presidents owes nothing to the Doe family and cannot be blamed for the seizure of any assests from your family. If the government would conduct a financial audit involving your father’s assumed assets, it will be establised that the salary of the president of Liberia including his benefits combined could not have gotten him over two hundred million dollars of assets. Have you thought of that. So, please tailor your concerns through the proper way. I know how you feel but I believe there is something the government can do to address your concerns.

My attention was drawn to a response from Mrs. Kannah, our former Secretary of the Board, PA Chapter President, and National President of the Grand Gedeh Association in the Americas, Inc. On the question of quaterly financial report, Madam Kannah said,”administratively the National President makes report to the National Board and the National Board makes report to the various Local Board members (whom are sent by their respective presidents) who then reports to their Local Presidents who calls local chapter meetings and conveys the state of our union or message to the body.”
For the sake of our reading public and our young Grand Gedeans, I would like to make this correction through this medium. I am not challenging our dynamic fromer president, but am compelled to speak out as a member of the National Board from the great State of Pennsylvania, the seat of the Union.

According to Article-VII, Section 4: The National Treasurer

a) The National Treasurer shall be the Chief Financial Officer of the Association and one of the Signatories to the Association’s bank account(s).

b) He/she shall receive and deposit in the account(s) of the Association all funds and monies belonging to the Association, and maintain accurate records thereof.

c) He/she shall be charged with the responsibility to collect dues, levies, taxation and donations from members, chapters and donors.

d) He/she shall submit quarterly financial reports to the National President who shall furnish copies of same to the local chapters and the chairman of the Board of Directors.

e) He/she shall perform other duties, as may be directed by the President, relative to the financial management of the Association.

f) He/she shall be responsible to prepare or cause to be prepared the Association’s annual tax returns and to ensure the Association’s tax exempt status is kept current.

Thanks,

P. Alphonso Bargblor
PA Chapter

Always, as an “Elder on the Palm wine tree with the youg . . .” as well as the surviving elder (politician) of of Grand Gedeh County, I resist the temptation to be drawn into petty, political, personal arguments. However, regarding TRUTH for POSTERITY (the history of our County), silence is not an option.

The issue of Dr. George Boley should and must the concern of all patriotic, Grand Gedeans. For it was the courage, bravery and sacrificial action of Dr.. Boley, the Resist-ance Leader of LPC, drove the armed, occupation forces of the NPFL out of our county. As a matter of fact, it was the brave, sacrificial, decisive by of the men and women of the Resistance Movements – the LPC and ULIMO – in “standing tall” to the murderous NPFL, that made possible the relative peace, stability and security that prevail to day in our country.

Mrs. Martha Kannah, former President of our Association USA, may have appealed, privately, to the Liberian President on behalf of Dr. Boley; but there was no march on Washington during her tenure, sa Boakai Boley claims. I know, because I drafted the statement to be presented at the planned march at a meeting at Professor Charles Breeze’s home, with several persons present, including the then…

Yes our former dynamic president meet her in new york. Yes the Boley Issue was raised, and Yes in their presence she gived orders to Amb. Nathaniel Barnes to get involve. I made follow up with the embassy many and nothing was done. the ambassador wrote several times to monrovia seeking guidiance and made phone calls that were not returned. so let get this clear. Dr. Boley was deported he was not released. and Ellen had nothing absolutely nothing to do with it! when we send for police clearance to prove that boley was not wanted in liberia we never recieved it. thats the help we got, when we wrote the justice minister about thir inquiry into thee 24months detention of a liberian citizen.

No response is the help they give. So yes let me clear it up Ellen did nothing in this saga. she may have accorded the leadership of the GGAA but it was one of her usual stunts. we are fine. lets see what next. anyone wants prove i will give it to you in a heart beat. stay bless family

Nathan.

Gaye/Mn

Nathan.

(There have been issues with this in the past and we wish to resolve that. This is my third attempt to post this same comment)

Gaye/Mn

in journalistic practice, this editorial failed to demonstrate balance as there is only one side to these serious accusations.

the editor didn’t stop there, he also put himself in the position of being the campaigner of futher progress for members’ future desire to pursue higher office(s). there and then, using his acquired position, he issued journalistic threats to campaign against people for failing to correct actions he had accused them of.

but I believe journalist who assign themselves the task of “Watch-dogging” our communities should exercise extreme patience rather than being as recalcitrant as”George Zimmerman.” the editor should have made a case and allow room for those he’s dazing to be compelled to come up with a response. he chopse to rather not pursue this channel. I suggest he rather needs to press that “re-set” button. and if what he did can really be described as an attack on personalities, such an attack is not only pathetic, it also has no gaurantee for success.

This is the path to genuine reconciliation in the beloved Liberia. It is my prayers that this humble initiative perpetuates…