Martin Kollie: No Respect For Facts, Pandering Exaggeration

Martin Kollie - A pathological liar

Part III

I had rather delve right into part three, but I am tempted to pointing out a major flaw with some Liberian students. This is the headline of Martin Kollie’s second part article:

“The Jettison of a Career Rascal Blustering in Amnesia and Notoriety – Sexagenarian Gibson W. Jerue Under The Guillotine...”

Let’s synthesize this headline for a moment. Martin meant to tell his readers that I am a “jettison” (drop from an aircraft or ship), that I am a career rascal blustering in amnesia (career rascal ‘loud mouth’ in forgetfulness and famous for bad thing), and he assume I am a sexagenarian (60 to 69 years old) and I am under the guillotine (a notorious killing machine of the French revolution). What the heck is the senior student of the UL writing! No wonder why these students leave the walls of the university and cannot land a job. What the heck is career rascal loud mouth in “forgetfulness”! I see why some folks keep telling me he does not worth my time. But let’s return to the issues here.

This is the exaggerated falsehood that Martin wrote in shed ignorance that I rebutted to. This is Martin Kollie kind of facts:

“The Facts you do not know. 1. George Weah spent US$2 million of our tax-dollars to build a military hospital. He named the hospital after his football jersey (#14) even though he didn't spend a dime of his own money to construct it. 2. Didier Drogba spent US$5 million of his own football money to build 5 of this hospital in green color. He did not name this hospital after himself or his jersey number even though he spent his own money.”

Now, let’s dissect his so-called facts. The central argument of Martin here is that Weah put his Jersey number on a publicly funded structure solely to take undue credit. For Martin, since Didier Drogba did not put his name on his hospitals, Weah cannot. I was blown away by the shed unfamiliarity displayed here. In my comment to debunk Martin, I reminded him that William VS Tubman named the Tubman high school after him although it was built with public funds. Samuel Doe named the SKD Complex after him although it was built with public funds. And to add, the Tubman boulevard was named after our 18^th President although it was constructed with public money. So, what is the issue that Martin tries to highlight?

In my estimation, Martin Kollie failed the student community, as he has done several times. He has no respect for due diligence to ensure that information he puts out there are correct. He exaggerates his claims. He lies to make his point and gain attention, and portends himself a serious activist. He lacks the credibility a student activist needs to stand in the gap as a moral voice. But why do we go to school for – to write and speak differently from people who are not trained to make factual and data-drive assertions.

I thought Martin was a senior student at the University of Liberia. At that university, don’t they teach students how to do research, make data-driven assertions and conclusions? Is it not what social science is all about? How could Martin wake up in the morning, grab his smart phone and publish garbage just to deceive the public and create a publicity stunt for himself in the name of advocating for the masses of our people? Is this what is being taught at the UL? I bet not. But Martin and his likes are the kind of students who leave the walls of the university and misrepresent it. I would not be surprised Martin would find it very difficult to assimilate into the labor market. Like I said elsewhere, when I was at Martin’s age, I was already a News Editor and already winning awards. During that same time, I was heading one of the influential committees of the Press Union of Liberia – the Press Club.

Instead of Martin priding himself with falsehood, exaggerated propaganda and ambiguities, he should calculate his actions, research and focus on what would move him from his current mediocre lifestyle.

Watch out for part IV.