{"id":43548,"date":"2023-09-12T16:48:51","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/up-playing-double-standard-with-pyj"},"modified":"2023-09-12T17:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T17:26:02","slug":"up-playing-double-standard-with-pyj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/up-playing-double-standard-with-pyj","title":{"rendered":"\u2018UP playing double standard with PYJ\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>President George Mannah Weah has accused the former ruling Unity Party of engaging in a double standard play with Nimba County Senator Prince Y. Johnson while describing former Vice President Joseph Boakai as a \u201cdishonest man\u201d.<\/p>\n

Addressing supporters in Totota, Bong County on Monday, September 11, President Weah told supporters that it was Amb. Boakai and his group of Unity Partisans accused him of protecting Sen. Johnson from facing war crimes charges.<\/p>\n

Mr. Weah explained that the accusation from Amb. Boakai and his group of UP supporters came about after he informed the United Nations General Assembly that he wanted his country to return to the Palaver Hut to sort out their differences rather than choosing the path of war crimes court, which seeks to bring war perpetrators to book.<\/p>\n

He said the very Prince Johnson who he was accused of protecting is currently in the camp of the Unity Party and wonders why they can\u2019t put him forward to answer to war crimes charges now that he is with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe went to the United Nations and said we wanted to go back to the Palaver Hut. Those people you see there-Boakai and his group, they said that Prince Johnson was being protected by George Weah so that he can\u2019t go to war crimes court,\u201d Weah told supporters.<\/p>\n

As if his explanation did not go down well with the crowd, President Weah turned his narrative in simple Liberian English: \u201cMy people, I will talk dis one in simple English. De same Prince Johnson, he na with Jorweah, de same people who say Jorweah wor protecting Prince Johnson, da de same people weh Prince Johnson with why dey can\u2019t carry him to war crime court na.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said this was the deception of Amb. Boakai and his supporters, adding that the former Vice President is a dishonest man.<\/p>\n

\u201cLook, yesterday I was very flabbergasted. I listened to our father Joseph Boakai. I think Joseph Boakai has lost it, he lost something. For Joseph Boakai to be in government for 12 years and Redemption Hospital sat there in ruins no drugs…it\u2019s the same man that stayed 12 years now saying that your elect me, I will give Redemption Hospital …I will bring medicine and put it in there. Are you kidding me? Is this a joke? This is a joke; this is a joke.\u201d President Weah laughed as he queried \u201cHow can a person that spent 12 years and New Kru Town story did not change and is now coming back to say, elect us we will bring medicine to the Government Hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n

President Weah\u2019s jibes at former Vice President Boakai did not stop there and to the delights of his supporters too.<\/p>\n

He continued: \u201cYou know something, when I listened to the opposition, especially our father (Joseph Boakai) I think he missed it, because for him to say that he will be the one to fix everything. Liberia is 176 years old, he spent 50 years in government, he has done nothing for himself, there is no way he can fix anything in this country.<\/p>\n

You know, they called him…You call yourself rescuer, I\u2019m the one who rescued Joseph Boakai. I rescued him. Because he\u2019s not an honest man and you can see around him, because he is a dishonest man that is why everybody around him is angry with him. Look at Joseph Boakai\u2019s history and look at my history, Joseph Boakai is from Lofa County. He has been in government for more than 40 to 50 years, Lofa County the development, who is doing it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cGeorge Mannah Weah,\u201d the crowd shouted.<\/p>\n

President Weah is expected to stay four days in Bong County campaigning for his reelection bid. His main challengers are Amb. Boakai and former Coca-Cola Executive Mr. Alexandar B. Cummings.<\/p>\n

However, most of his campaign messages have been directed at Boakai rather than Mr. Cummings. Cummings\u2019s supporters claimed that the government has nothing on him to say.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Liberia. President George Mannah Weah has accused the former ruling Unity Party of engaging in a double standard play with Nimba County Senator Prince Y. Johnson while describing former Vice President Joseph Boakai as a \u201cdishonest man\u201d. 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