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04/10/2023

GONGLOE/YARKPAWOLO TICKET # 6 FOR PRESIDENT. VOTE # 6 ON 10/10/2023

The article below is part of the story why former leaders of the Unity Party, including Unity Party presidential candidate, Joseph N Boakai are fighting hard to discredit the presidential team of the Liberian People's Party, Cllr Tiawan Gongloe/Emmanuel Emmanuel K. Urey Yarkpawolo.

Prior to the 10/10/2023 electoral primary and registration of political parties and candidates, individuals and groups affiliating with the Unity Party informed voters, contrary to facts published by the National Elections Commission, that LPP wasn't qualified to participate in the 10/10/2023 elections.

Now, in less than a few days to the 10/10/2023 elections, individuals and groups affiliating with the Unity Party are once again poisoning the minds of the voters.

They are not only insinuating that LPP is losing the campaign, but that LPP is beginning to merge with CDC. Wait a minute. Why does LPP want to merge with the child (CDC), and not the parent (UP)?

They, former leaders of the Unity Party, created this criminal Party. They also provided the necessary resources for CDC to walk away with the results of the 2017 elections. Former President Sirleaf and former vice-president Joseph N Boakai know that candidate George Weah was not ready to move Liberia forward, but they also have known him to be a rogue.

Why are former leaders of Unity Party against LPP and the presidential ticket? LPP and presidential team have convinced the voters that corruption is Liberia's number 1 enemy. And, Gongloe/Yarkpawolo ticket and the Party are prepared to investigate the sweet heart deals (64 fraudulent concessionary agreements out of 66) Unity Party administration signed during Sirleaf/Boakai twelve years.

My people, Unity Party and presidential candidate Boakai don't want to fight corruption. Why do I say so? Let's review the facts.

Okay, he was parked in the garage for twelve years, but why did he not fight corruption during the last six years? Candidate Boakai could have initiated an anti-corruption campaign in the last six years if he argues that he was parked in the garage when former President Sirleaf awarded 64 fraudulent deals out of 66.

Former leaders of the Unity Party convinced the current ruling Party, Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) to protect former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former vice- President Joseph N. Boakai, etc. and absolve them from investigation and prosecutions.

Is CDC a brainchild of the Unity Party. Let's analyze them. These two parties have mortgaged Liberia' s natural resources. Moreover, they are hoping to mortgage the remaining resources. How? They are deceiving the voters by speaking the slogan of anti-corruption. And at the same time they are tarnishing the character of patriotic leaders, but promoting and financing the elections of officials who know the game of stealing and lying.

Candidate Boakai selected Jeremiah Koung as Unity Party vice-president candidate. President George Weah and CDC are financing Nathaniel McGill as Margibi senatorial candidate.

These two individuals have been accused of stealing resources from Liberia.

Therefore, UP and CDC just want to change the players, but are not interested in fighting corruption. They can't start the corruption fight.

Obviously, any attempt to initiate the corruption fight might compel the anti-corruption fighters to fight the old rogues and new rogues.

CDC AND UP ARE THE SAME.

J Yanqui Zaza

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The Illegal Return of a Wartime Logger
By James Harding Giahyue -October 2, 20231231 0

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Top: A graphic depicting the illegal involvement of Gabriel Doe in the logging industry during and after the Liberian civil wars. The DayLight/Rebazar D. Forte

By Emmanuel Sherman and James Harding Giahyue

KPANYAN DISTRICT, Sinoe County – In 2016, Numopoh Community Forest leased 7,220 hectares of forestland to Delta Timber Company.

Instead of the forest in Sinoe’s Kpanyan District, Delta harvested logs in another area of the woodland, an investigation by an NGO found two years later. It abandoned logs in the forest and at the Ross Port of Greenville, Sinoe County. Then it failed to live up to the agreement with Numopoh.

But all of this would not have happened had the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) disapproved the agreement. The involvement of Gabriel Doe, Delta’s owner, in the logging industry before and during Liberia’s bloody civil wars means he should not participate in forestry.

Doe owned the Cavalla Timber Corporation, one of 17 logging companies that either supported militias, participated in or facilitated the war. An estimated 250,000 people died during the carnage and about a million were displaced.

“Logging revenue was unlawfully used by political elites and warring factions to fund armed conflict[s],” said the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). “Logging companies shipped or facilitated shipments of weapons and other military materials to warring factions.”

Cavalla had an affiliation with the notorious Oriental Timber Company (OTC), owned by convicted war criminal Guus Kowenhoven, who traded illegal Liberian timbers and supplied guns to then-President Charles Taylor.

In 2001, the United Nations imposed a travel ban and assets freeze on Doe, Taylor, Kowenhoven and more than 100 other individuals linked to the Taylor regime, which took over a decade to be lifted. Two years after the travel ban, the United Nations sanctioned Liberian logs. The sanctions were intended to break the connection between the individuals and Liberia’s natural resources, and arms smuggling, the UN said at the time.

Following a rigorous reform process, the UN lifted the sanctions on Liberian timber in 2006. The Liberian government canceled the contracts of Cavalla and other companies over irregularities as part of the reform.

Gabriel Doe illegally obtained a logging contract though he and other wartime loggers are debarred from participating in forestry according to the Regulation on Bidders Qualification Picture Credit FacebookGabriel Doe Doe
But to prevent future “blood timber,” “conflict timber” or “logs of war,” the reform agenda partially debars wartime loggers from the ravaged industry. It empowered local communities to enter into contracts and benefit from their forests.

An Illegal Re-entry

Apparently inspired by Cavalla, his old company, Doe established Delta in 2012. He holds 60 percent of Delta’s shares, with the rest outstanding, according to its article of incorporation.

Doe did not only have a relationship with former President Charles Taylor. He might have also allied with former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who led the country when Delta was established. In her 2009 memoir, This Child Will Be Great, Mrs. Sirleaf claimed she secretly boarded Doe’s airplane to escape from late President Samuel K. Doe (No relation to Gabriel Doe). Gabriel Doe denies that story.

With his paperwork in hand, Gabriel Doe headed to Sinoe’s Kpanyan District, a region in which he had worked many years ago. He had begun his logging career in Nimba in the early 1970s with another company, he told The DayLight in an interview in Monrovia. Cavalla had also worked in the southeastern region in the 1980s up to the early 2000s.

Villagers knew Doe’s past but he assured them it was a new beginning, Sam Kainde, the head of Numopoh’s leadership, told The DayLight.

“He told our people at this time that there is [National Forestry Reform Law] and [Community Rights Law of 2009 with Respect to Forest Land] that [are] going to [protect] the community so, what they used to do had passed,” Kainde said. “Our people grasped it in their minds.”

But it was the beginning of the community’s postwar nightmare.

The logging industry fueled the two Liberian civil wars according to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission TRC Picture credit Teun Voeten
In December 2018, just two years into the agreement, Volunteer to Support International Effort Developing Africa (VOSIEDA), an NGO, found the company harvested 500 logs outside its contract area. VOSIEDA’s report referenced an investigation by Global Witness in 2017, which captured the illegal felling and other accusations.

The FDA did not punish the company. Per the Regulation on Confiscated Logs, Timber and Timber Products, the FDA should have obtained a search warrant, confiscated the logs in question and auctioned them. It should have fined Delta two times the official price of the logs, a six-month prison term or both, according to the regulation. The FDA did not respond to The DayLight’s queries for this story.

Delta paid Numopoh just under US$1,000 for the illegal harvesting and US$4,963.75 for a one-year land rental fee, according to a receipt of the payment. It owes nearly US$20,000 in land rental and harvesting fees, based on the receipt and the agreement.

Delta has also failed to complete a school, establish a sawmill, and erect a clinic. It has not funded Numopoh’s scholarship program in line with the agreement.

In fact, in all, Delta has only paved a 26-kilometer dirt road.

Delta is one of the most dormant, failing to renew its business registration since June 2021, records at the Liberia Business Registry show.

Delta has abandoned nearly all of the logs it harvested, another violation. Between 2018 and 2021, it produced 1,624.521 cubic meters of logs. However, it only managed to export 237.178 cubic meters or just 41 logs, according to the LEITI, citing company and FDA figures. Some of the logs have rotted at the Port of Greenville, others are scattered in the Numopoh forest.

A receipt from Numopoh to Delta Timber Corporation shows the company paid the community US$596175 in 2017 and 2018
Doe wrongly claims that the logs are not abandoned.

“They were not abandoned,” Doe told The DayLight. “If you decide to operate in the port, you request for an area and you stockpile the logs until the vessel comes in.”

Doe’s claims are not backed by facts. Under the Regulation on Abandoned Logs, Timber and Timber Products, logs cannot stay more than one-and-a-half months at a port. The regulation came a year after the Numopoh-Delta agreement to curtail the waste of timber but has not been enforced.

Several logs Delta Timber Company left at the Port of Greenville Sinoe County have now decayed The DayLightJames Harding Giahyue
Numopoh and DELTA might have acted illegally by signing an agreement. However, the FDA broke its own law by approving it. The Regulation on Bidder Qualifications requires the FDA to disqualify businesspeople connected to the logging industry before 2006 unless they fully and honestly confess their deeds to the TRC.

Doe claims he received a certificate from the TRC after he appeared. “If I didn’t comply, [the] FDA would not have permitted me to do logging…,” Doe told The DayLight.

Proving or disproving Doe’s appearance is difficult, as he is not mentioned in the TRC report and most of the commission’s archives remain sealed until 2029. However, journalists who covered the commission and former commissioners, communication staffers and data clerks deny Doe’s claim.

But appearing before the TRC is not the only condition for wartime loggers to participate in forestry today. The qualification regulation requires wartime loggers to restitute funds that the government lost as a result of their illegalities. Interestingly, they must pledge they would not repeat their illegal dealings. There is no record that Doe did so.

The TRC aside, the FDA has illegally approved a number of contracts for companies whose owners are ineligible. For instance, it approved a contract for a company owned by Deputy Foreign Minister Comfort Thelma Duncan Sawyer, one owned by a rogue company owner and another by the then-Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Cllr. Cooper Kruah.

Harrison Karnwea, the Managing Director of the FDA at the time—who approved DELTA’s contract— did not say whether or not Doe appeared before the TRC. Rather, he justified having approved the wartime logger’s contract.

Karnwea suggested he could not be held responsible for the Delta situation. He claims that the FDA is not required by law to have a list of debarred people and companies and that the FDA only witnesses contracts.

“The communities award their contracts to somebody and take the person to the FDA for the FDA to witness the agreement and acknowledge it,” said Karnwea, the current chairman of the agency’s board of directors.

“There is no such thing as [a] debarment list,” he added.

Karnwea’s claims are not based on the facts. The qualification regulation mandates the FDA to keep a list of debarred persons in addition to a list the Public Procurement and Concession Committee (PPCC) should make.

The National Forestry Reform Law requires the FDA to make sure that companies generally meet the threshold to conduct logging in Libera. Issues include individuals’ financial and technical capabilities, human rights and criminal records, integrity and government affiliation.

A screenshot of the page of the Regulation on Bidders Qualification mandates the FDA to keep a list of debarred individuals
Contrary to Karnwea’s claim, the FDA does not witness community forest contracts. It approves—and can disapprove—them, based on the qualification regulation.

Karnwea’s apparent excuse that it was not his responsibility to prequalify companies does not hold. “The Managing Director shall be professionally qualified in forestry, the act that established the FDA says. “He shall be responsible for the conduct of the general operation of the Authority…”

Termination

Following those years of rigmarole, Numopoh is seeking an end to the contract with Delta. Kainde accuses Doe, who has been away in the Ivory Coast, of holding the forest hostage.

“Given the fact that the agreement has ended and the company has failed to fulfill its financial obligations, the community has decided that it will not renew its agreement with Delta,” Kainde wrote to the FDA in July. “The FDA should therefore not engage in any dealing with Delta regarding the Numopoh [agreement].”

The community’s action is not lawful. To end their relationship with Delta, locals will have to go through an arbitration process, according to the agreement. The arbitration panel comprises three persons, one each from the disputed parties and a third from the FDA.

Doe wants to continue with the agreement despite being indebted to the community.

Kainde told The DayLight Numopoh already engaged an attorney.

“We will seek legal advice for the way forward if FDA does not give us the authorization,” said Kainde.

[Konwroh Wesseh contributed to this story]

The story was a production of the Community of Forest and Environmental Journalists of Liberia (CoFEJ).

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11/08/2023

Who is Presidential Candidate, Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe?

Tiawan Saye Gongloe (born 1956) is an economist, prominent human rights lawyer, educator, and politician. For more than four & a half decades, Gongloe has been at the forefront of the struggle for justice, human rights, constitutional rule, and good governance in Liberia.

Early Life

Gongloe was born in Glehyee-Zorpea, Yarwein Mehnsonnoh District, Nimba County, northeastern Liberia on 6 August 1956 to Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred Kehlebo Gongloe. He graduated from the St. Mary High School in Sanniquellie, Nimba County, and earned his bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Liberia and a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law, the law school of the University of Liberia. In 1988, Gongloe was admitted to the Montserrado Bar as Attorney-at-Law. He practiced law with the Garlawolu & Associates Law Offices where he handled human rights cases. He was granted a human rights fellowship in 1990 by Columbia University Law School Human Rights Institute in the United States. In 1994, he was admitted to the Supreme Court Bar as Counsellor-at-law. In the 2004-05 academic year, Gongloe joined the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy.

Early memories of Gongloe getting involved in politics were while he was a student in Sanniquellie, Nimba County. He joined the Liberian-based Movement for Justice in Africa (MOJA), a pan-African political group. At Mary High School, he joined the Young Christian Student Movement, a catholic apostolic student group with the motto "See, Judge, and Act," which encouraged and created awareness among students and sparked his concern for the world around him. At the University of Liberia, Gongloe joined the Vanguard Student Unification Party (SUP), the most well-organized and powerful student group in the country. By 1978, he had received enough training to take over as co-chair of the intellectual discourse at the University of Liberia. The intellectual discussion served as a highly effective medium for educating the student body about current events in the country. He also joined the editorial board of the University's Spokesman, the nation's most courageous news outlet. While at the University of Liberia, Gongloe was elected as the President of the Nimba Student Association at the University of Liberia where he devoted his time and energy to those who placed their trust in him. Gongloe and his colleagues focused on advocating for the truth and better citizens' welfare, which cost them numerous arrests and detentions.

After the 1980 coup d'état, Dr. Amos Sawyer, Gongloe, and others founded the Liberian People's Party (LPP) in 1983, the Movement for Justice in Africa (MOJA) political wing. The party sought to participate in the democratic processes in Liberia, including the 1985 election. However, the Party was banned by the People's Redemption Council headed by Samuel Doe. On August 22, 1984, students at the University of Liberia protested against Professor Amos Sawyer's arrest and subsequent detention in Monrovia. Professor Sawyer had criticized Samuel Doe, the country's leader, before his incarceration. Doe was offended by what he deemed the "gross disrespect" the faculty and students at the University of Liberia have shown him, so he ordered Major Gen. Gray D. Allison, his minister of defense, to the campus to quell the protesters. As soldiers of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) invaded the university, campus the soldiers looted the campus, whipped students, and r***d female students.

Gongloe, a teaching assistant at the university at the time, attempted to defend an older female staff of the University of Liberia from the soldiers' assault but was arrested, stripped naked, and brutally assaulted by the soldiers. He received care and was admitted to the SD Cooper Hospital. He was hospitalized and treated at the SD Cooper Hospital. After the military onslaught on the University of Liberia campus, Gongloe was fired from his job by the military junta.

Executive Administrative Assistant, Interim Government of National Unity

When Dr. Amos Sawyer was chosen to lead the Interim Government of National Unity (IGNU) in 1990, he asked Tiawan Gongloe, Dr. Levi Zangai, Nathaniel Beh, and James Fromoyan to travel to Monrovia to help prepare the city for the IGNU's arrival. Upon his arrival in Liberia and the setting up of the INGU, Dr. Sawyer appointed Gongloe his executive administrative assistant where he served for four years, giving legal counsel and attending the majority of the peace conferences (Banjul Peace Agreement, Lome I & Lome II Peace Agreement, Yamoussoukro I, II, III, IV as well as the Cotonou Peace Agreement) in search of peace for Liberia.

United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa

In 1994, Gongloe served as a member of the United Nations Observer Mission in South Africa (UNOMSA). He served as a team leader in Port Elizabeth and Eastern Cape, South Africa. The mandate of UNOMSA included monitoring and reporting on voter education; monitoring the distribution of temporary voter cards, and observing the Independent Electoral Commission in its selection of sites and establishment of balloting and counting stations. It also monitored compliance by the security forces with the requirements of the law relating to the electoral process and equitable access to the media. UNOMSA also coordinated with South African and foreign NGOs on issues related to monitoring and observation in South Africa's first democratic election in 1994.

Arrest and Torture

Charles Taylor was elected in the 1997 general election to serve as Liberia's 22nd president 1997. During Charles Taylor's presidency, Tiawan Saye Gongloe was managing director of Legal Consultants Inc, a law firm dedicated mainly to defending the rights of the poor. He became an unwavering critic of the abuses of the Liberian government under Charles Taylor as he had always done for decades. As a human rights lawyer, he provided legal representation for journalists illegally arrested and detained by the government or held in contempt by courts, pro-democracy groups, media, and human rights NGOs, including, but not limited to the Center for Democratic Empowerment (CEDE), The Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC), the Press Union of Liberia (PUL), the Star Radio (a pro-democracy radio station) and many unknown grass-root organizations.

In March of 2002, Gongloe was detained by Charles Taylor's security forces for a lecture he had given in Guinea in which he addressed the importance of civil society in bringing about peace in the Mano River Union. Gongloe received death threats and was physically beaten the whole night of his imprisonment. He was then brought to Cooper Hospital for treatment of his beating-related wounds.[ In addition to losing his hearing in his left ear, he also had blood, swollen, and bruised left eye, significant bruising throughout his body, and excruciating abdominal discomfort. Gongloe was tortured and imprisoned despite no charges being brought against him, and Taylor's government failed to promptly tell him or the outside world of the accusation as required by international law.

On May 12, 2002, as Gongloe attempted to board a flight to Sierra Leone to take part in an election observer mission for the Carter Center election observer team, he was once more stopped by Taylor security personnel for several hours at Robertsfield International Airport. As one of Liberia's brave human rights attorneys, Gongloe was released, and Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International secured his family's exit from the country. He was accepted at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University as a fellow. There, he began researching the shortcomings of the Liberian judicial system and how the justice system contributed to the failed states.

Solicitor General of The Republic of Liberia

Gongloe was appointed as Liberia's first post-war Solicitor General (SG) after Ellen Johnson Sirleaf assumed office in January 2006. Tiawan Gongloe was the first Solicitor General since the independence of Liberia in 1847 to have assigned law school graduates as county attorneys in all of the counties in Liberia, thereby transforming persecution in Liberia. As Liberia transitioned from war to peace and democratization and as the country's chief prosecutor, Gongloe promoted the rule of law and assisted his colleagues via training so they could handle the time, pace, and technology required for legal practice.

As Solicitor General, Gongloe was the first in the history of Liberia to prosecute a former head of State and sitting members of the Liberian Senate. He participated in the renegotiation of the Metal Steel mining concession agreement in Liberia and participated in the formulation of the forestry reform law, amongst other things.

Minister of Labor

Gongloe was appointed Minister of Liberia in 2009. As the Minister of Labor, he published Regulation Number 17, which increased the cost of a work permit for non-Liberian workers from US$400 to US$1,000. Regulation Number 17, led employers to begin hiring more Liberian workers and laying off their non-Liberian workers. He worked tirelessly in putting into action the Liberalization policy to benefit Liberians and Liberia in general. Gongloe resigned from his ministerial post in November 2010 over a policy disagreement with Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia.

President of Liberian National Bar Association (LNBA)

Gongloe was elected president of the Liberian National Bar Association (LNBA), the country's umbrella organization for lawyers, on November 31, 2018. Under his leadership, the LNBA started the issuance of licenses to members of the LNBA. The issuance of licenses assisted the bar in getting rid of individuals posing as lawyers who, without any training in the law, were practicing law in the various lower courts of Liberia and it also helped the LNBA to raise more money and make the LNBA self-reliant.

Under Gongloe, the LNBA established the five legal aid clinics in Montserrado, B**g, Margibi, Grand Bassa, and Bomi Counties with the assistance of the United States Agency for International Development under its Legal Professional Development and Anti-Corruption (LPAC) program. He also assisted in bringing accountability to the management of the LNBA funds by improving the accounting system. As President of the LBNA, the Law Day Programme, the Assembly, and the Convention that were previously held with the support of donors were exclusively funded by the LNBA and his administration erected the first floor of a three-story headquarters of the LNBA that is being constructed on the Robertsfield Highway.

Managing Partner, Gongloe and Associates, Inc

Gongloe's law firm engaged in general legal practice, including courtroom trials, drafting articles of incorporation and bylaws and other corporate documents for corporations, registering different types of businesses, and drafting legislation, the most recent of which was the civil service reform law. Gongloe was part of the team that worked on the local government reform law, prepared the initial draft of a bill to repeal anti-press laws, prepared the initial draft of the jury reform law, drafted the small arms bill, reviewed the code of conduct for public officials, prepared the zero draft for the Criminal Conveyance Act, prepared the initial draft of the Land Authority Act, and the Whistleblower and Witness Protection Act.

Assistant Professor of Law

At the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law, University of Liberia, Gongloe teaches human rights law and criminal procedure law.

In 2008, the Supreme Court established the James A. A. Pierre Judicial Institute with the mandate to train all judicial officers and support staff. As a volunteer, Gongloe lectures on constitutional law at the James A. A. Pierre Judicial Institute while at the Liberia Police Training Academy, he lectures on evidence, criminal procedure, and human rights in the basic training program and legal framework for policing for the senior officers’ in-service training program.

Personal Life

Tiawan Saye Gongloe is married to Sonie Kolako Gongloe and their union is blessed with three children.

Education

University of Liberia (Bachelor's degree in economics)

Louis Arthur Grimes School of the Law University of Liberia (bachelor's degree in Law (LL.😎

Columbia University Law School Human Rights Institute Fellow

John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Fellow

08/08/2023

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06/08/2023

Happy birthday to you our incoming president Cllr TIAWAN S GONGLOE

25/07/2023

WHO SHOULD BE BLAMED?
GOVERNMENT OR PARENTS?

WHO ARE THE IMPORTERS?
WHY POLICE CAN'T FACE THEM?
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25/07/2023

UNCLE Musa.

After living in the United States for 40 years and at the age of 70, Uncle Musa finally relocated to Salagie, The Gambia this year to live in his 5-bedroom house which took him 10 years to complete.

Now in Gambia and in his house, Uncle Musa lives in the living room of the house downstairs while his caretaker lives upstairs in his huge master bedroom.

This is because Uncle Musa cannot climb the stairs without the help of another person.

Even with help, it takes him 10 minutes to make the climb.

As such, Uncle Musa has decided to stay downstairs in the living room as all 5 bedrooms are upstairs.

The house has a living room, toilet and kitchen downstairs; 3 rooms on the first floor and another 2 rooms (including the master bedroom) on the second/last floor.

This is surely not how Uncle Musa anticipated his retirement.

But that is the reality of his journey.

This will be the life of many other Africans living abroad and building mansions back home.

In fact, if you are building a dream house for yourself to live in and the house is not ready by the time you attain the age of 50, forget about it!

Uncle Musa virtually wasted 40 years of his life doing menial jobs abroad, hoping to go and retire back home in his mansion and enjoy life.

But, now he has no life to enjoy and someone else is sleeping in his master bedroom.

Like most aged persons, Uncle Musa is not even able to enjoy a bottle of Malt at his age because it will shoot up his blood sugar level.

Yet, he said he was working hard all his life in order to enjoy life, which includes eating and drinking the finest foods and drinks, when he retires.

Now, he is only able to eat fruit and vegetable salads - and even that, without dressing!

He cannot even eat any of the fine meats out there without his cholesterol sending warning signs.

That is the life of Uncle Musa in retirement?

This will be the story of more than half of us.

The best thing to do is to take mini-retirements now and enjoy the luxuries of life now that you still have the strength to do so!

We must all learn a lesson from the story of Uncle Musa.

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