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20/03/2022

Amb. Valentine Konoe writes

Title: The Liberian media landscape and its shortcoming.

Back in time machine, 'News Reporters and Editors' in Liberia were shapeless.

They represented "every religion", "every s*x", every tribe and also provided, accurate and balance information to the public.

In addition, they kept a check on government and established figures in Liberia, they were 'watchdogs'.

Journalists at the time were driven by the love they had for their profession hence, they tailored their stories in a balance, accurate and clear fashion.

Kwame Clement, Albert Porte, John Kollie, Aaron Kollie, Charles Gberyon, Tmax J'lateh, Frank W, Peter Quaqua, Philip Wesseh, Hassan K, Victoria R, Kenneth Best, Hassan Bility, Helene Cooper, Samuel Kofi Woods and the legs of other professionals brought out the true colors and definition of news writing, broadcasting, and talkshow business.

Media historian says journalists activities at the time were centered around passion and commitment for their job couple with International best practice.

Persistent observation, however, reveals that journalists and the work they do have changed completely in recent.

The good marks of journalism have erased almost totally thus, the noble profession is no more the same.

"Today's journalists have turned the noble profession called 'journalism' upside down" a media critics expressed.

This article shows no disrespect to my media colleagues: however, there are good apples amongst the bad ones.

Reporters, editors and talkshow hosts of recent are hugely liberal in their political beliefs.

Majority are male, younger and in short they don't sincerely represent the public any more.
In stead, they belong to the same elite classes over which they thought themselves to be watchdogs and for whom they were unknowningly producing their daily products.

Allegedly, journalists are members of major cults and fraternity in Liberia as a result, they seek their brothers interest while the public eat their spoiled.

Journalists have become beg boys in the pockets of politicians from left to right.
Thus, politicians direct the affairs and run the profession their own way.

59 percent of news papers, Online TVs and radio stations in Liberia are owned by politicians and political parties, as a result the profession have turned out to be nasty and yellow.

Capitol FM, Truth FM, Flash Point news paper, Freedom FM, Spoon FM and other FMs and news papers are classic examples of politicians dominion over the media.

However, many have argued that Journalists have compromised their integrity and decency due to low and unpaid salaries.

Media houses in Liberia have bad labor practices; reporters can't get wages on time and in full, as a result, they have become slaves in their own profession.

In Liberia a good number of journalists can't afford buying their own car, gadgets and at the same time lacked quality trainings as compared to their counterparts.

As a result, journalist bow down and kiss the feets of politicians: journalists have become toys in the mainstream of life.

Journalists of recent are chasing material wealth, social status and money.

In accumulating these three, they have to engage themselves into unethical practices.

Talkshows have become an 'Enterprise', self proclaimed intellectuals and journalists use it to exploit people.

Spreading lies, fake news and hate messages to the public about an individual in return for kickbacks.

Experts in communication says journalism in Liberia is losing its true meaning.

"We have few journalists in Liberia the rest are bunch of 'join the lists', flash point news paper editor, David Kotee said.

To balance the picture, the recent have produced brains in the media landscape; just to name a few:

Mae Azango, Martina Brooks, Helene Cooper, Rodney Sieh, Lewis E. B. Konoe, Titus W. Torkpah, Musa Kenneth, Marka Davis, AB Godsent Whewion, Chris Sirleaf, Eva Flomo, and the rest of other PQSJ trainees.

These professionals are keeping the torch burning regardless of the odds.

The media/press is the birometer on which society is measured hence, reporters and editors must hold on to that balance.

As a Public Opinion Scholar, Amb. Valentine Konoe is encouraging journalists to hold on to best practice and at the sametime trigger the Press Union of Liberia(PUL) to setup strategies to expose individuals in the name of journalists who are tarnishing the image of the Journalism profession in Liberia.

In addition, the Labor Ministry and PUL need to play its role: they need to seek the welfare of Journalists, it's shameful but Journalists are under paid or even not paid at all.

As a result, Journalists are dancing to sound of political drums and at the same time crossing the road for greener pastures.
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Amb. Valentine Konoe
Executive Director
Public Opinion Scholars of Liberia

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20/03/2022

CULUMN

Title: Lapses of Liberian Churches

Written By: Culumnist
Valentine Konoe

Introduction:
As a matter of fact, the Christian Church by nature is a body of men and women who share in common the same faith and belief.

History holds in evidence to show that in Europe and Latin America the Church has been, and still is, a power in the governmental environment.

Thus, the Church can act upon, and, in turn, be acted upon by, the government.

Main article:

In the case of Liberia, the existence of the church is made possible by the fundamental law of the country.

The Constitution, in all fairness is the first linkage between the President and the Church.

The duty of the President is to enforce the law: sharply, the law requires that the Church must pursue nothing but benevolent objectives, if it wants to be in Liberia.

In order to be in Liberia, the Church must obey the law, and the President alone can say whether or not the Church has obeyed the law.

The most common benevolent objective Churches in Liberia has defined is to educate Liberians.

However, it appears that Churches are not fully prepared to all necessary resources behind the pursuit and accomplishment of their educational objective.

On the other hand, perhaps Churches are faced with limited resources for successful accomplishment of its educational objective.

As a result, the government of Liberia, which considers education as one of its high priority items, must subsidize the educational program of the Church.

To illustrate, in 1950 the government of Liberia granted $5, 000. 00 USD to the Protestant Episcopal Church of America for “Cuttington University”.

In the same year the government of Liberia granted $4, 000. 00 USD the Methodist Church of America for the “College of West Africa”.

$2, 000. 00 to the Catholic Church for “St. Patrick’s School, and St. Theresa Convent”, and 6, 000. 00 to the Liberia Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention for “Ricks Institute”.

For Liberia, it’s the President who makes and recommends the national fiscal budget to the legislature.

He/She has the power to include and exclude an appropriation in the budget for the Church.

The Churches want the money, and it must therefore satisfy the wishes of the President of Liberia.

“In a blatant fashion, a Liberian pastor who only a few days previously had been removed from office by the President of Liberia found himself stripped by the vestry of his post as senior pastor warden the Church”, J. Gus Liebenow said.

From Brother Liebenow statement above, it can now clearly be seen that money is the second linkage between the President and the Church.

Membership in the Church in the Church is the third linkage between the President and the Church.

Most leaders in government today started in the Church as leaders, and the tendency amongst them is to combine civil and religious leadership roles to exploit the ordinary people called “Masses”.

Today most pastors, prophets and prophetesses see the President of Liberia as their god.

Church leaders have turned themselves into praise singers to the President of Liberia just for money and material gains.

In fact, many Liberian pastors must, in order to maintain a decent standard of living, divide their time between their congregation and a government job.

Many pastors, prophets and prophetesses have become beg boys and girls to the President, to gain favor they put false preaching, teachings and prophecies in the President interest.

Hence, their reforming zeal in both the religious and political realm is necessarily blunted.

Big “Shame” on the Church, voice from the market.

Caution:
This fairly written article doesn’t applied to the entire church community of Liberia.

18/03/2022

Column

Political insight of Liberia

Title: Liberia’s Economic and Political Stagnation

Written By: Columnist
Valentine Konoe

The economic plights of Liberia is a problem of growing concern to many Liberians today.

However, economic stagnation coupled with rapid political corruption has produced a grave crisis on which there is widespread agreement as to the condition but little agreement as to the best mix of policies to fix the country’s problem.

Indeed, so much has been written in the past and current on policy proposals for Liberia that, the critique of these proposals has itself become a growth industry for educated people.

In addition, Liberia’s economic and social conditions began its fall before Tubman’s regime in 1944, and continue to do so under the regime of President Weah.

However, the country’s GDP dropped below its belt in the past, and continue to do so under the watchful eyes of President Weah’ finance minister Samuel Tweh.

With Liberia population rise around 3 percent a year couple with its income per capita after 2017 is estimated to be 2 percent below the previous years.

In the same light, agriculture output per capita has continued to decline even before the CDC led government, with these issues on hand, food imports in Liberia have increased; the situation has provided a breathing ground for nationwide concern and one meal situation amongst citizens from urban to rural communities.

Much concession companies in Liberia capacities stand idle…..

Moreover, public and private institutions in Liberia are deteriorating, both in physical capacity and in their technical and, financial ability to perform.

However, the purpose of this column by the columnist Valentine Konoe is to provide an overview of Liberia’s problems.

As a matter of fact, no single cause sincerely explains Liberia stagnated, and economic decline syndrome from which the country is suffering.

But many citizen have given their opinions on the matter:

Senator Dillion, Martin Kollie, Mo Ali, former Vice President Boikai, ANC Leader Alex Cummings and other opposition political figures have described the CDC ability to solving Liberia problem as Cosmetic.

On the other hand, supporters and surrogates of President Weah and his CDC said while it’s true their government is not speeding in terms of development and economic growth; they conclude that they inherited lot of political spoils from the past government.

To validate the opposition claims, rapid negative societal changes on a nationwide scale are visible everywhere, and many variables are responsible.

ANC Cummings sees policy mistakes of the past as one enemy hampering the CDC led government decisions economically and politically.

In this sort of situation, the Opposition community strongly believed that the Liberian society suffer simultaneously from the lack of foreign exchange, political corruption, lack of reconciliation, bad security sector, shortage of jobs, unreliable electricity, bad roads and bad health sector among many other needs.

However, Weah’s minister of finance Samuel Tweh and the cheering squad of the president still believed that time is on their side to redeem.

In his strives to develop Liberia, President Weah embarked on the construction of community roads, market buildings and the construction of a military health facility, with these indicators supporters of President Weah believed that they are working in the interest of Liberians than the previous government.

As situation unfolds it is fair to say that the pending general election slated for 2023 will be a challenging one as President Weah and his CDC fight to maintain power while quote on quote fragmented opposition community fight to unseat President Weah and his CDC from power.

As examination day is set ahead, Valentine Konoe provides a quick and balanced summary of the implications of the events described above.

Even if Liberians decide to vote one of them, will Liberia problem be solve?

The stories the CDC and the Oppositions are telling sound interesting but the margin of errors and delusiveness in their stories is hard to undo.

To illustrate, pundits in Liberia and the diaspora believed that both parties are jokers.

It might be possible to conclude that President Weah and his CDC might end up victorious in 2023 since the opposition community is at war with itself.

Yet the fact remains that the great majority of the people are still living in abject poverty with unsafe drinking water, unstable electricity, messy education system, bad health sector, lack of good roads, challenging communication system and the increase of criminals called Zogos and Zogirls as huge challenges affecting the citizenry.

Besides, as Liberia’s population increases Liberians prefer rice to beans and cassava, the billion dollar question is: ‘How is rice to be produce in Liberia?

This question speaks to the fact that there is need the ruling establishment, opposition political parties, and legislators begin to chart a new course in diversifying their political arguments, from mom and dad curses to policy base politics comes 2023.

One opinion is that, Liberian voters have been betrayed by politicians extensively, making it impossible to count.

In another space of argument, political observers said the year 2023 will be a boxing year politically: there will be alignments and realignments as political betrayal will be at the perk of the nation called Liberia.

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