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Monrovia – One of President George Weah’s fiercest critics, Montserrado County District #10 lawmaker in the House of Representatives, Yekeh Kolubah, Wednesday, turned down an invitation for him to jointly dedicate a newly constructed market in his district with the Liberian president.
The Executive Mansion announced Tuesday that President Weah and Rep Kolubah, were poised to have jointly dedicated the newly constructed Joe Bar Market building situated in the lawmaker’s district at the Monrovia suburban of Old Road, Sinkor.
Rep Yekeh, according to deputy presidential press secretary Smith Toby, was expected to make remarks during the market building dedicatory ceremony.
The contractor of the market project, the government-run Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment (LACE), on 5 August 2019, in a letter of invitation, to which Punch FM/TV online service is privy, wrote Rep Kolubah in his capacity as Representative of the district, requesting him to have graced the dedicatory ceremony held on the ground of the newly constructed market, at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, August 7, 2019.
“We look forward to seeing you,” the communication signed by LACE General Manager, Mr. Quiwu Pepsi Yeke, informed Rep Kolubah.
But Rep Kolubah, a fierce critic of President Weah turned down the invitation, citing his previous engagement with other matters of importance in Bomi County as the basis for his absence from the occasion.
The Montserrado District #10 lawmaker also told a local radio station that he would not attend because the communication inviting him to the dedicatory ceremony was delivered late, by 4 p.m. on 6 August 2019.
Rep Kolubah stressed that letters of invitation to such occasions must be served much earlier than what happened in this case, indicating that if the former had been the case, he would have attended the Joe Bar Market dedicatory program, and if given the opportunity to make a remark, he would have told President Weah to change his (Weah) attitude.
“I would have gone there and when I was invited to speak, I would have told the President, look you need to change your attitude, you need to listen to us the opposition, you have been listening to your people for too long and you are not achieving anything, so it’s now time to listen to us,” said Rep Kolubah, when he was asked if he would have attended the ceremony had he been given ample notice.
However, multiple sources told Punch FM/TV online service that Rep Yekeh snubbed the occasion because he vowed not to attend such an event with President Weah except the Liberian leader turns over to the people of Liberia the 47 condominiums he built within a period of less than a year; and remove his wife, Clar, from the national budget where she’s allotted US$1.5 million, while several Liberians languish in poverty.
Rep Yekeh has earned for himself the reputation of being a sworn critic of President Weah on several national issues, something which has made him more popular with his people, and many see the construction of the Joe Bar Market and the Asphalt pavement of a street in District #10, the Chugbor Road, as publicity stunt on the part of President Weah and his administration, with the sole intent of trimming down the lawmaker’s growing population which he’s gained mainly for his resolve to boldly speak truth to power.
The District #10 lawmaker, since the inception of the Weah’s administration occasioned by the President amassing early wealth, has repeatedly challenged the Liberian leader to prove through a legitimate bank statement, that the monies being used to purchase and construct his private properties are truly his and not what he’s corrupted from public resources.
Just six months into his administration, President Weah begun constructing and/or reconstructing several structures at different locations in the country, including 47 condominiums, in the Baptist Seminar Community, off the road leading to Liberia’s lone international airport, the RIA.
