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`We Are in a Short-Sighted Transition' - Ellen Observes

The NEWS (Monrovia)
NEWS
December 15, 2004
Posted to the web December 15, 2004
Monrovia
The people of Nimba County have been told that the nation is in a difficult
transitional period, a period in which people are "short sighted" and all they
want is how much they can quickly get for themselves and leave.
The Chair of the Governance Reform Commission (GRC) Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf made
this observation recently when she spoke in Sanniquallie, Nimba County.
She said, "we are in a transition where people are not concerned too much about
the welfare of the public because their time is short and they want to get as
much as they can get."
But Mrs. Sireaf fell short of naming those individuals within the transitional
period who are within this category.
However, the GRC boss stressed that, "change is the way", pointing out that,
"they can delay it but they can denied it."
Madam Serlief said she honestly believes that in view of what the country and
people have gone through, Liberians should now begin to turn things around.
She told the citizens of Nimba County that with their participation and right
decision, Liberians would get a new government that would be committed to
peace, stability and more importantly, to development and decentralization. By
this, she said, power would be returned to Liberians where ever they may be.
Mrs. Sirleaf told Nimbaians that the new government that will come through
their participation would be committed to transparency and all those tenets of
good governance to which the GRC was now working.
"And I believe Liberians will have a future which we all can be proud of", she
said.

   

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