The previous Nationwide Safety Advisor, Dr. H. Boima Fahnbulleh, Jr., has urged President Joseph Nyuma Boakai to empower the Liberia Anti-Corruption Fee(LACC) to behave with out worry or favor to prosecute people he described as “rascals” who’ve looted the nation’s sources.
By Francis G. Boayue
Talking on Wednesday, February 11, 2026 at a memorial program held in honor of the late Dr. Alhaji G.V. Kromah, Dr. Fahnbulleh didn’t maintain again, labeling a number of unnamed political actors as “criminals”.
Dr. Fahnbulleh, recognized for his fiery intellectualism and historical past of advocacy, took goal at these he accused of utilizing “rhetoric” to masks a historical past of violence and financial theft.
“You’re a legal; the data present you’re a legal,” Dr. Fahnbulleh declared, his voice resonating via the corridor.
“And that’s the reason we attraction to the President: let the LACC go on these rascals. They need to come and deceive our folks with rhetoric once more!”
The veteran statesman’s feedback come at a time of heightened public discourse concerning accountability for each financial and war-era crimes.
He instantly linked present political ambitions to previous atrocities, accusing sure figures of looking for to return to energy to protect themselves from their historical past.
“You looted our treasury, you killed our comrades, and also you assume you’re good as a result of you possibly can spew a couple of phrases,” he added. He warned that permitting “rascals” to dominate the political panorama via deception would lead Liberia again into the darkish chapters of its historical past.
“This tragedy that occurred to our nation mustn’t ever occur once more,” he warned, referring to the a long time of civil upheaval and systemic corruption which have lengthy stymied Liberia’s improvement.
This system, which introduced collectively a number of high-profile figures from the Seventies progressive period and the previous warring factions, was meant to replicate on the legacy of Dr. Alhaji G.V. Kromah, a former member of the Council of State and chief of the ULIMO-Okay faction, who handed away in early 2022.
Whereas the occasion was a memorial, it rapidly remodeled right into a platform for political reflection. Dr. Fahnbulleh’s remarks highlighted the deep-seated tensions that stay between Liberia’s outdated guard of “mental revolutionaries” and the figures who emerged from the nation’s civil conflicts.
Dr. Fahnbulleh concluded by urging the Liberian folks, significantly the youth, to look past the “spewing of phrases” and examine the historical past of those that search their votes.
He emphasised that for Liberia to maneuver ahead, the tradition of impunity—the place those that “looted the treasury” are allowed to reinvent themselves as “saviors”—should come to an finish.
