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Liberia – President George Weah’s fearless critic, Montserrado County Distric #10 Representative, Yekeh Kolubah has warned the Liberian leader to be mindful of those he has in his inner circle.
Sources told PUNCH online service that Yekeh met with Weah, at the president’s Rehab Community residence on Monday evening in the pair first ever one-on-one meeting, where the lawmaker is said to have spoken frankly.
Our sources divulged that the meeting was initiated by several lawmakers under the banner Independent Legislative Caucus, to forge cordiality between President Weah and Rep Kolubah, who has been very vocal against the Liberian leader in recent times.
Recently, at a program organized for him to join four collaborating opposition political parties (UP, ALP, LP and ANC), Rep Kolubah, among other things said President Weah is a squatter who will leave the presidency within three months’ time, a statement that caused stir in many quarters here, leading the Ministry of Justice to invite him to clarify his remarks which many viewed as a potential threat to the peace of the country.
Following his meeting with Justice Minister Frank Musa Dean earlier on Monday, the lawmaker also met with President Weah, informing the Liberian leader that his concern for the president was for him to watch his surroundings, indicating that he has people in his inner circle who do not seek the interest of the Liberian leader, according to one source.
The source maintained that during the course of the meeting, Rep Kolubah, repeatedly warned President Weah to watch his surroundings.
During the meeting, Rep Kolubah reportedly informed President Weah that his (Rep Yekeh’s) incessant outbursts against President Weah is a transferred aggression stemming from House Speaker Bhofal Chambers’ leadership defects.
Rep. Kolubah, who is said to have told President Weah that he holds no personal grudge against him, noted that all of his outbursts have been turned on the president due to Speaker Chambers’ bad leadership style, which he and his colleagues from the Independent Legislative Caucus are dissatisfied over.
The lawmaker told the president that since becoming Speaker, Chambers has been ill-treating those from the Independent Legislative Caucus bloc, most times, downplaying their concerns and ignoring their plights, according to a source, who said for this reason Rep Kolubah intimated that he has transferred his anger onto President Weah because the Speaker comes from the president’s party and he (Rep Kolubah) perceives that the Speaker is working in concert with the president. A perception President Weah debunked during the meeting.
But according to our sources, Rep Kolubah maintained that speaking directly to Speaker Chambers, who has refused to give them listening ears to the point that the Speaker is no longer moved by whatever is said by he and his likes – hence, he transfers his anger to the president, to get redress such as the one that made way for their first ever face-to-face meeting.
President Weah, who earlier welcomed Rep Kolubah and nine other lawmakers into his home, raised concern over him taking insults for Speaker Chambers’ alleged wrongdoings, pleading with the lawmaker to refrain from transferring whatever aggression arising from their leadership disagreements in the House of Representatives onto him.
Majority of what came up in the meeting centered on Chambers’ alleged leadership shortcomings at the House of Representatives, according to our sources.
Rep Yekeh repeatedly told President Weah that he wants the peace currently being enjoyed in the country sustained, indicating that he’s not interested in engaging in anything that would disrupt the peace.
Meanwhile, our sources revealed that Rep Kolubah said he could not talk much because he was mourning the loss of the late Representative Adoph Lawrence, with the district #10 lawmaker requesting that following the burial of his fallen colleague he would love to have another meeting with the president, at which time he would speak much more lengthily regarding his transferred aggression against President Weah. His request was granted by the president.
Neither Rep Kolubah nor the Executive Mansion would be immediately reached for comments.
