Toast to Republic of Liberia at 174 msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Liberia has come a long way, writes Tiko Okoye
Once upon a time, as the storyline goes, a group of eminent white American citizens – including literary giants like Daniel Webster and Francis Scott Key, and political titans like Presidents Andrew Jackson and James Monroe – reached a consensus that any efforts to create a truly integrated America with the formal abolition of slavery would amount to just a pipedream. They then decided to register an organization known as the American Colonization Society (ACS) that purchased a large tract of land along the West African coast from the indigenous population, where freed black slaves from the United States, the West Indies, and intercepted slave ships, would be resettled.
Republic of Liberia @174! msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
For a government beleaguered on all sides by a host of seemingly intractable problems, one would think that a war with the press would be the last thing on its laundry list of things to do.
This is because experience has shown that government invariably loses the fight, although it may succeed in shutting down radio stations, banning journalists or even physically attacking or killing them, in the end the government always loses the propaganda war.
But just why would the Minister of Information, absent any semblance of due process order media institutions to ban the airing or publication of material produced by its strident critic, Henry Costa. Costaâs radio station has since been shut over a year ago but critics claim that the action by the GoL was illegal because of the lack of âDue Processâ attending its closure. And they have cited Constitutional provisions, Article 15, specifically.
Liberia: A Lot of Issues, Uncertainty Over the Chairperson of the National Elections Commission, Madam Davidetta Brown-Lansanah allafrica.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from allafrica.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.