Africa-Press – Liberia. Senator Jeremiah Koung has mocked President George Weah’s 2018 inaugural pledge that “Liberians will not be spectators in their own economy.”
Koung, who is the vice running mate of the Unity Party’s President Joseph Boakai, said that Weah’s claims to the contrary have left many Liberian businesses struggling as foreign businesses benefit from key contracts and concessions.
A one-time ally of Weah, the Nimba County Senator has of late hammered the president on everything from his character to his attempts to boost record achievements — and fail policy.
The Senator’s criticism of the President is being made at outreach events, which is now serving as a springboard for him and Boakai to sell their vision for a better while criticism of policies failure of Weah ahead of the October 10 polls.
“When the President said Liberians will not be spectators in their own economy, is he telling the truth? Becuse you have now become more than a spectator,” Koung said at a outreach event in Caldwell recently.
“When President Weah said Liberia looks like Miami, it is true. Miami is the best place for holidays. It is where people go to enjoy themselves. So when he sits at Jamaica lodge, and playing pool and everything, that is Miami. So most of the things he is saying are true, only that they are not a reality.
Koung’s latest criticism of Weah reinforces his position that the President has failed the country for nearly six years and that giving him another term would be disastrous for the country.
He believes that Liberia has gone backward under Weah and there seems to be no hope for a better future — a narrative which he argued can be changed when Boakai –a man him claimed to be visionary is elected president.
According to Koung, who for five years was in bed with the government as part of a collaboration with his Movement for Democracy Reconstruction, the president only cares about increasing his personal wealth at the expense of the people whom he says are now living worse off than.
“There is no better time in this country for Ambassador Boakai to be president than now,” Koung noted. “This country needs someone who will, out of every twenty four hours, stand for twenty hours listening to the problems of this country and giving direction to the problems of this country. If you miss this chance, in the next six years, I don’t know what will happen to this country.”
“When we came from war and Madam Sirleaf and Ambassador Boakai were elected president and vice president, they said ‘small light today, and big light tomorrow, and that became a reality.
“They rescued the economy at the time. People could afford. People could do things for themselves. People were trying. People were trying. The Liberian people said they wanted President Weah. He came and broke everything down. We are all feeling it and this is now time for change.
However, Koung noted that Liberians should not worry as Boakai who was former President Sirleaf deputy is still around and capable of staring the ship around.
He claimed that no other politician in the country understand how fix problem more than Boakai who was “the deputy captain at the time when there was nothing in this country.”
“We are all feeling it. When the President enters the field (during inauguration in 2018) people were children’s school fees. At least father was going home with something in the hand and that there were drugs in the clinics and hospitals. But now he has put everybody out of the field. Nobody is on the field again. He is alone having the game.
“Thank God that President Weah became President. At least all of us have seen his presidency. No more hustle. We will beat you (Weah). We will defeat you. We will beat you eight percent,” Koung said.
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