Key figures from Liberia’s main opposition party, the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), have sharply criticized the Boakai administration’s anti-corruption efforts, calling them politically motivated and a cover for alleged governance failures.
CDC Secretary General Jefferson Koijee, former Montserrado District Representative Moses Acarous Gray, and journalist Abraham Godsent Wheon of Kings FM issued strong statements condemning recent arrests of officials from the former administration. The trio described the legal actions as part of what they called a “political theater” aimed at silencing dissent.
“Today, we witnessed one of the most shameful displays of political theater in our country’s recent history,” Koijee said in a Facebook post. “The Boakai-Koung regime, desperate for relevance and drowning in its own incompetence, has now resorted to weaponizing the justice system in broad daylight.”
Calling the charges against former officials “bogus,” Koijee accused the administration of selectively applying the law. He cited the ongoing controversy surrounding Speaker J. Fonati Koffa, and claimed the president himself had disregarded a recent Supreme Court ruling.
“How dare Joseph Boakai and his cabal speak of law and order, when just weeks ago they disregarded the Supreme Court’s ruling and carried out a legislative coup d’état?” Koijee asked.
He also criticized the head of the Assets Recovery Task Force, calling him “a known abuser” and accusing the administration of hypocrisy.
“This is not a government; it is a syndicate of frauds playing with our country’s future. We will resist. We will rise,” Koijee concluded.
Former Representative Acarous Gray echoed similar sentiments in a social media post, calling the government a “fiasco, mafia, and 419 regime.”
“DIVERSIONARY TACTICS FROM BOAKAI’S FAILURES,” Gray wrote. “Pure BM government ~ you make a big show of arrests only to release people within hours. It’s all noise to distract from their lack of results.”
Abraham Godsent Wheon, a talk show host and known supporter of former President George Weah, accused the administration of using law enforcement as a political weapon.
“Since taking office, JNB has weaponized suspension as a diversion tactic,” Wheon said. “Opposition figures are jailed and publicly humiliated, while insiders face quiet suspensions and are quickly shielded from consequences.”
He further alleged that the administration’s actions were aimed at provoking a reaction from the opposition to create chaos and avoid accountability.
The statements come just hours after former General Services Agency (GSA) Director Mary Broh, former Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Kemayah, and others were arrested, indicted, jailed, and released on the same day — a sequence that has sparked intense political debate and public scrutiny.
Till press time, the government has yet to respond to the allegations.
