Like Ellen, Like Tilman – The Blood Of Vendetta In Their Veins

Right from start I can safely say President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is contagiously vindictive. She would go at any length to seek to punish people who disagree with her. She devises many different devious and satanic ways to get at her real and perceived foes. She masters it and it appears that kind of bad blood runs not only in her but in the President of the Grand Gedeh Association in the Americas, Tilman Collins.

Let’s look at some ways Ellen has sort to pay back evil people who disagreed with her:

1)      Ellen and the late President Samuel Doe were never on good terms, although the latter saved her life during the early hours of the coup d’état that ushered in the People’s Redemption Council military junta. For the record, Ellen was arrested and detained during the middle part of the PRC regime. She fled the country into exile. Later, it became clear that she helped raise a rebellion group to overthrow the man she disliked most on earth. But not only that, she believes that since he is dead and gone, his people must suffer the blunt of it. So Ellen actualized her vendetta against the people of Grand Gedeh – i.e., the case with Charles Julu and Andrew Dorbor, the random arrest, torture and prolonged detention of young men from Grand Gedeh, the sidelining of educated Grand Gedeans in her political appointments, the withholding most time of Gedeh’s development funds, the strangulation of the Gedeh Community College, etc.

2)      She hated Edwin Snowe because the gentleman disagreed with her. To pay back she ensured, including bribing representatives to oust Mr. Snowe from the position of the Speaker of the House. It worked. 

3)      She asked Cletus Wotorson to back off from the standardbearer position of the Liberia Action Party in 1997 so that she become standardbearer of the party. Wotorson refused. Ellen bought over the Unity Party and became the Standardbearer. She was going to punish Wotorson later. To actualize that, she ensured in 2005 when she was now president that Wotorson lost the Pro-temp position to Isaac Nyenabo. Wotorson later won the same position when he carved into her praise singing. 

4)      John Morlu had his own share of the Ellen vendetta, something we all know of today. The point is Ellen does not forgive. She must pay back. She has in her the blood of Satan that considers evil as good and good as evil.

We all criticized President Sirleaf for her deliberate action. Tilman Collins does too. But let’s look at how much vendetta Tilman has running in his veins:

1)      Augustine Zulu has repeatedly disagreed with Tilman on his failure to ensure financial probity, clear and prudent leadership of the GGAA. What Tilman sought to do was to go on public radio and described Augustine in ways to bring disrepute to his name and that of his family. Collins talked openly about Augustine immigration status, and dirty stuffs oozed out of his mouth like he forgot he was the president of all Grand Gedeans in the Americas.

2)      Kwame Weeks, the man who propelled and polished the image of Tilman very high in the eyes of Grand Gedeans, was also victimized by Collins’ deadly vendetta. When Kwame suggested that the status of the women among us should be raised to another level and not just calling on them for cow killing, Tilman pitched Kwame against the women. They badmouthed him and Tilman disparaged Kwame. Don’t let me tell you how he told voters of the National Sixty Born in Des Moines, Iowa, that they should not vote for Kwame president because he was not a “proper” Grand Gedean.

3)      Think about Tilman first Secretary General, Grody Jacob Dorbor – he was completely sidelined because most times he disagreed with the manner in which the administration handled issues. Grody being a trained journalist believed that PR should not include saying dirty stuffs about people but the articulation of clear and distinct facts to convince the public. Tilman did not want that. For him, Grody’s punishment should be a complete ostracism. And it worked. We saw how Tilman violated the constituted by appointing an acting secretary general not approved by the board.

4)     Michael Gilman is the latest enemy – gosh! The man who made him president twice is his worst enemy today. Why? Simple. Michael would not allow Tilman and Jonathan Gayechuway to make a fool of him on the Facebook forum that he established. Overnight, Tilman and his unthinking team of administrators had suspended Gilman. When the public rose up, Gilman was reinstated but not before Tilman was highlighted in public forums. So, in Tilman’s veins run deep-seated hatred for the brother today, and if Tilman was standing at checkpoint and Gilman arrives there, he would be “dee-bee-die”. Everything Michael did was wrong, even if it made sense to every Grand Gedean.

The same satanic blood of vendetta that runs through Ellen runs through Tilman. In subsequent articles we will show how Tilman is dragging all of us in the pool of animosity, his divide and rule tactics, and amassing feeble-minded cronies and blind stooges, some calling themselves educated, to badmouth other Grand Gedeans in national administration meetings. Watch out!

GGAA Board Finally Orders Accounts Frozen

Joseph D. Dueh - GGAA National Board Chairman

It’s just a single word - moratorium - that is going to change the flagrant way and manner the finances and bank accounts of the Grand Gedeh Association in the Americas (GGAA) were being handled. This is first step to stamping the pillaging of the GGAA coffers. And if the accounts were to be salvaged from depletion by the current Collins-Poah administration, the Board has come to the rescue.

SEE LETTERS AND STORY HERE

The National Board of Directors of the GGAA is taking the bull by the horn, in a bid to ensure financial probity for the Association. Board members have ordered frozen all accounts of the Association in any and all commercial banking institutions within the United States, and anywhere else they might exist under the umbrella of the Union.

An email message sent to National President, Tilman N. Collins was quite clear. It was surmountable to “don’t withdraw any money, don’t discuss with any business people in effect of the accounts, don’t plan any program that will require your administration to spend a dime from the GGAA coffers”.

The Board seems firm and decisive. As the second highest decision-makers of the Association, they authorized their secretary to inform Mr. Collins, “The National Board of Directors is pleased to inform the Administration that moratorium is called on all GGAA Financial accounts.”

Board secretary Dennis Bowah referred Mr. Collins to Article X of the By-laws and Constitution of the GGAA, which provides that “five signatories are required for the GGAA’s accounts,” and noted that “until these signatories are affixed, it is deemed necessary by the Board to suspend financial transactions.”

The Board has mailed to Mr. Collins an official letter, signed by the Board Secretary Bowah, and approved by the newly elected Board Chairman, Joseph Dueh. In the letter, under reference: GGAA Accounts on Moratorium”, the Board ordered, “The National Board of Directors writes to inform your Administration that moratorium is called on all GGAA’s accounts, and until such moratorium is lifted, we strongly advise refraining from initiating, and or negotiating financial transactions with financial institutions with which GGAA does business.”

The Board reminded Mr. Collins of the constitutional lapses in the establishment, holding and maintaining accounts of the GGAA, and instructed that he take constitutional notice of Article X, Section 1€ of the Constitution which calls for five signatories to all accounts.

The Board’s decision to suspend all accounts and financial transactions of the Association derived from a vote of 21 to 3 votes in favor of suspending the accounts to ensure due diligence, financial probity and constitution adherence.

One of the accounts of the Association at the Wellsfargo Bank only carries the signature of the Treasurer, Richard Dayway, who did withdrawals unilaterally and dishes the money out to President Collins and national secretary Jonathan Gayechuway, without due reference to the Board, sources closed to the board have informed Daily Palaver Hut.

But the Board was resolved to correct the errors of the National Administration, appropriately placing the National President on notice that notarized letters have been sent to the financial institutions holding the moneys of GGAA informing them of constitutional breaches and to place a moratorium on the Association accounts.

In the letter, dated June 3, 2014, the Board introduced the names of five officials, including National President Tilman N. Collins, National Secretary Jonathan Gayechuway, and Treasurer Richard Dayway from the administration. Those introduced to represent the Board are National Chairman Joseph D. Dueh and Secretary Dennis J. Bowah.

Those five people are the constitutionally authorized signatories to any and all GGAA accounts as a way creating and upholding checks and balances within the union’s financial administration. That check and balance has eluded the Association for nearly two terms of the Collins administration with only him and Treasurer Dayway maintaining their signatures, sometimes Dayway alone on the Wellsfargo account.

Neither Collins nor Dayway has mustered the moral courage to correct the situation. In fact, Mr. Collins is currently allegedly instigating other subservient board members to oppose the Board's drive to correct the constitutional abuse being perpetrated by the administration.

 But the Board was quite adamant, saying, “The process is a priority and presumed to be expedite to delay in GGAA’s operation, and the Board will be honored to work with the Administration to speedily have these signatures affixed as soon as possible.”

And in their letter to the Banks, the Board wrote, “While this process of affixing signatures to the account(s) is in progress, the Board kindly request a moratorium on withdrawers from the account(s).

Meanwhile, the administration is yet to respond to the Board’s letter, not even an acknowledgement has so far been sent to the Board in respect of the second highest decision-making body of the Union.

Eric Kohn Impersonates As GGAA Board Chairman

Without surprise, the defeated chairman of the Board of Directors of the Grand Gedeh Association in the Americas (GGAA), Eric Kohn is now impersonating as the current chairman of the Board. 

Mr. Kohn was defeated in an election at the last general convention held in Kansas City, Missouri by Mr. Joseph Dueh. But since May 11, 2014, Mr. Kohn has reportedly told the national administration and the webmaster of the GGAA website to maintain his name on the website as the chairman of the Board. Further details will follow subsequently.

The photo below shows Mr. Kohn's picture is still on the website as the GGAA Board chairman. The picture of the current Board chairman is yet to be placed on the official website of the GGAA.