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Written by Sherman C. Seequeh
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Sunday, 07 April 2013 22:55 |
On Thursday and Friday last week, the nation’s capital was submerged in the seas of trepidation when the security machinery of the state growled over the top of its throat and stampeded, drilling with trucks of armed police in the streets of Monrovia respectively—all representing their “robust” official responses to pronouncements by a group of citizens to protest against corruption and bad governance. As the echoes of Defense Minister Brownie Samukai’s roars and threats against April 12 protesters faded away on Friday then Police Inspector General Chris Massaquoi launched “military drills” of forces of the Liberia National Police on Friday. These twin events of last week coming four and five days to the planned demonstration not only increase an already extremely charged public disquiet but also revive memories of the dark old days of terror, tyranny and political bully. Whatever those conceited display of power intends to achieve, it is becoming amply clearer now that following a chain of tragic political upheavals that befell the Liberian people in the last 25 years in the name of freedom and liberty, the country is still sadly firmly locked in total stagnation if not retrogression.
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