Ex-Finance Minister Samuel Tweah, Jr. has described the Unity Party-led government as a ramshackle coalition that made its way to power on arguably the thinnest of electoral margins and is now daring to push an already fragile Liberia toward the precipice of chaos.
Former Minister Tweah, who is now a fugitive and is reportedly seeking asylum in exile, has accused the UP government of breaking laws and discarding semblance of governing Liberia “once enjoyed under President WEAH”.
Tweah, who recently under mysterious circumstances, flew to escape an arrest warrant following a GAC audit report that got him in the web corruption, and financial malfeasance, claimed that the UP administration has recklessly been emboldened to veer lawlessly into man-hunting.
He claimed that the illegitimate use of political power to debase violates and demoralizes political opponents by illegally and physically breaking into premises, an example of wish was on “shameless display at the headquarters of the CDC”.
According to Tweah, all of this is happening under the loud silence of the international community whose contribution helped knit Liberia’s post-conflict social fabric, noting that it’s time to call President Boakai and UP minions to order before events degenerate beyond control.
“Let it be clear that political witch-hunts and manhunts cannot weaken and daunt the Mighty CDC. These diabolical tactics will only harden the resolve and will of the CDC to UNITE and confront the menace from the UP,” Tweah emphasized.
Former Finance Minister Samuel Tweah meanwhile revealed that in the coming days, he will be returning to the country to challenge allegations levied against him by the UP government.
“In the coming days, I will be returning to the country to legally rubbish a bogus witch-hunt launched against my person for political purposes and to join my colleagues in mounting the fiercest opposition to the collapse and paralysis of governance the country is now witnessing,” he stated.
The “fugitive” ex-Finance Minister noted that they are never going to be intimidated by the weaponization of power, especially by a “weak governing coalition struggling for its bearings and using shenanigans and distractions to confuse the public about its incapacities”
“Our political forbears before us stared down tyranny at the price of their lives. To stare down these bluffers takes almost nothing!”, he stated in a social media post.
“Mr. Standard Bearer and Political Leader Dr. George MANNEH WEAH the moment has come to stop the abuse of your pedigree for peace and your magnanimity. You conceded power to the UP when the outcome of the 2023 election was still in doubt. That patriotic example has been squashed and misconstrued for weakness,” Fugitive Tweah emphasized.
According to him, strength is not the unlawful abuse of power against an obliging opponent esteemed peaceful; and peace is never sustained by excessively caving in the face of a heartless aggressor!
Tweah said the hour is now to show firm and resilient leadership and to rally the CDC in this existential moment of aggression.
“In the foothills of this new political battlefield, we will sustain our hard-won national peace and cement the pillars of governance for the transformation of our country. But these will be done on the grounds of fairness, equity and honesty,” he noted.
Continuing, he said: “Any Government that brazenly bastardizes the country’s laws in pursuit of its narrow interests is not worthy of respect. In the way Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr summons our capacity to ‘disobey unjust laws,’ we in the CDC and other well-meaning patriotic Liberians must marshal that capacity to resist breaches of our laws and reckless physical and moral aggression against our people!”
