Part II
The
reckless, erratic and irrational leader of the UL Student Unification Party
(SUP), Martin Kollie professes to be a moral purest. He badmouths all who
disagree with him, often caricaturing them in ways and manner he deems most
disparaging, denigrating and demeaning. He portends himself to be speaking for
the masses of our people. Martin is supposed to be the voice of reasoning. Everyone
else is corrupt; everyone is a criminal; everyone is a national thieve. When
you disagree with him, you are a paid agent, media mafia, CDCian, Weah
supporter, even if his allegations found no premise. In fact, Martin seems to
fix an eagle’s eye on corruption, graft, misuse of public funds and properties,
national looting and other wanton crimes that cascade the kind of problems our
people face today. Nice!
But don’t
be deceived. Martin is no different from the rest. When he thinks of his
impoverished life, drowning in liquor bottles checking all bars, they blame
everyone for their miseries. But how could Martin ever think of being a serious
student activist when he is swimming with very huge swamp creatures, the economic
criminal vampires, the likes of who we have not seen before. Think how Martin
and his buddies herald and intermingle with the very criminals situated in the
Council of Patriots as advisors of Martin and others.
Take a
minute to think about it…how could a student activist and his group even think
of coming close to corrupt individuals like Oscar Cooper, the General Manager
of the Inland Logging Company, who pillaged our natural resources, forest, and
commandeered the resources for himself. This is one of Martin’s advisors, his
role model he takes counsel from to tell Weah and his administration ‘you are
too corrupt’. Think about a corrupt and murderous man like Senator Sando
Johnson. Like Oscar, Sando was recommended for prosecution by the TRC for his acts
of wanton killing and destruction. How about the man who siphoned thousands,
perhaps millions from the Liberian Maritime program – Benoni Urey. Martin is
comfortable sitting with these national thieves and taking suggestions from them
about another individual being corrupt. Think about another murderous
individual, Rep. Yekeh Kolubah, who conscripted tens of students and young
people during the LURD and MODEL wars. Martin feels justified working with a
man who rushed countless number of students to their graves. I wonder how
Martin sees Cooper, Johnson, Urey and Kolubah are different from those he
accuses daily of corruption! What else could this be if it is not poor judgment
from a unwise student leader is simply one eye leading the rest of the blind.
Show me
your friend and I will tell you his character, they say. No one has to think
hard that Martin is a protégé of these criminal gangs. What reasoning could
abide why Martin feels particularly glued to them, attending meetings with
them, taking advice from them, and taking their money? It is often said that
those who speak of equity must come with clean hands. Does Martin Kollie have
one? How does he justify his intermingling with people who were recommended for
prosecution for the gravamen of evil they meted against our common patrimony?
Martin does not have the moral compass to excuse himself from the crimes of
yesteryear, committed by viciously greedy, and egocentrically wicked people. I
get it, Martin is hungry and he will look for food no matter wherever it comes,
even coming from people who should be standing trial for the criminal acts
against the nation. How come Martin has never voiced out his concern about the
presence of those economic and war criminals serving as advisors of the Council
of Patriots?
Watch out
for part III.
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