Part II
The reckless, erratic and irrational leader of the UL Student Unification Party (SUP), Martin Kollie professes to be a moral purest. He badmouths all who disagree with him, often caricaturing them in ways and manner he deems most disparaging, denigrating and demeaning. He portends himself to be speaking for the masses of our people. Martin is supposed to be the voice of reasoning. Everyone else is corrupt; everyone is a criminal; everyone is a national thieve. When you disagree with him, you are a paid agent, media mafia, CDCian, Weah supporter, even if his allegations found no premise. In fact, Martin seems to fix an eagle’s eye on corruption, graft, misuse of public funds and properties, national looting and other wanton crimes that cascade the kind of problems our people face today. Nice!
But don’t be deceived. Martin is no different from the rest. When he thinks of his impoverished life, drowning in liquor bottles checking all bars, they blame everyone for their miseries. But how could Martin ever think of being a serious student activist when he is swimming with very huge swamp creatures, the economic criminal vampires, the likes of who we have not seen before. Think how Martin and his buddies herald and intermingle with the very criminals situated in the Council of Patriots as advisors of Martin and others.
Take a minute to think about it…how could a student activist and his group even think of coming close to corrupt individuals like Senior Oscar Cooper, the General Manager of the Inland Logging Company, who pillaged our natural resources, forest, and commandeered the resources for himself. This is one of Martin’s advisors, his role model he takes counsel from to tell Weah and his administration ‘you are too corrupt’. Think about a corrupt and murderous man like Senator Sando Johnson. Like Oscar, Sando was recommended for prosecution by the TRC for his acts of wanton killing and destruction. How about the man who siphoned thousands, perhaps millions from the Liberian Marine Time program – Benoni Urey. Martin is comfortable sitting with these national thieves and taking suggestions from them about another individual being corrupt. Think about another murderous individual, Rep. Yekeh Kolubah, who conscripted tens of students and young people during the LURD and MODEL wars. Martin feels justified working with a man who rushed countless number of students to their graves. I wonder how Martin sees Cooper, Johnson, Urey and Kolubah are different from those he accuses daily of corruption! What else could this be if it is not poor judgment from a unwise student leader is simply one eye leading the rest of the blind.
Show me your friend and I will tell you his character, they say. No one has to think hard that Martin is a protégé of these criminal gangs. What reasoning could abide why Martin feels particularly glued to them, attending meetings with them, taking advice from them, and taking their money? It is often said that those who speak of equity must come with clean hands. Does Martin Kollie have one? How does he justify his intermingling with people who were recommended for prosecution for the gravamen of evil they meted against our common patrimony? Martin does not have the moral compass to excuse himself from the crimes of yesteryear, committed by viciously greedy, and egocentrically wicked people. I get it, Martin is hungry and he will look for food no matter wherever it comes, even coming from people who should be standing trial for the criminal acts against the nation. How come Martin has never voice out his concern about the presence of those economic and war criminals serving as advisors of the Council of Patriots?
Watch out for part III.
Note: I am not going to respond to Martin Kollie describing me as paid agent, media mafia, Weah supporter, belly-driven, and other characterizations. He will do this throughout this exchange.
