WE ARE PROUD to present the “8 Stars of 2024” – public and private servants – carefully chosen by our Editorial Board based on their extraordinary performance in their respective spheres of work during the year. The referenced performances, which justified their selection, were those executed in 2024 alone. They were exciting as they were motivating, couldn’t be hidden from the eyes and hearts of our researchers who thought singling them out amongst many others for publication, putting them to the spotlight, could be our part in promoting excellency and integrity on the job – something that each so amply and visibly demonstrated during the year. Indeed, we thank Mines and Energy Minister Paye, Education Minister Jallah, Agriculture Minister Nuetah, EPA Executive Director Yarkpawolo, LPRC Executive Director Tweh, Sinoe County Senator Chea, CENTAL Executive Director Miamen, Clergyman Brown for their profoundly incredible stewardships that made them worthy of our adoration.
NAMES OF 67 Liberians, heading public and private organizations, were submitted by the researchers for award, but following a two-day spirited debate amongst editorial and administrative staffs of The Analyst, we selected eight who in our view met all four key benchmarks set by the paper for qualification – integrity, accountability/transparency, reforms, laudable and tangible performance without known internal and external reproach or dissent during the year. There were those who passed one, or two or three, and obviously, they weren’t qualified. Researchers, besides the paper’s general view about candidates, contacted staff and non-staffs familiar with entities whose leaders were tipped, to confirm our conclusions. Once selected, the awardee was contacted to share any information they had that could enrich our justifications for the selection. Some shared, and some did not; but we went ahead anyhow because sharing institutional information was not a prerequisite for awardees since researchers and the entire editorial board had already developed their own clues for the selection.
TODAY, IN THIS special edition, having carried out an independent, unbiased and unsolicited background checks on individuals and institutions regarding performance, integrity, reforms, accountability/transparency, we confirm and affirm that the eight persons who passed 100 percent of criteria set, as our “Personalities of the Year 2024”. These are Liberians in leadership, out of the 67 studied, who set themselves apart in the way they conducted themselves at work, meriting the respect and adoration of those they worked with, as well as the entire public which is a beneficiary. These are individuals found demonstrating selflessly, meekness, respect for colleagues and people in and out of their workplaces, empowered staff and employees, explored and deployed new tools at work, insisted on critical thinking and innovation, and above all demonstrated passion for job for the sake of humanity, not themselves.
LET’S BE CLEAR: Firstly, there are many other Liberians out there leading people who could have been selected. They couldn’t because they were not placed into our sample. Admittedly there are all other good leaders out, and we salute them. Our awardees were only drawn from the 67. Secondly, the timeframe upon which the selection of honorees was based is 2024, not before, not after. We vouch for our honorees for 2024 alone, and make the disclaimer that what they did before this time or after, we do not honor. In fact, going forward into the near future, where any of them breaches the confidence so reposed by engaging in acts proven to be egregious on the job, out of job, against people and institutions, we shall issue an editorial not only to condemn but also to revoke the honor and confidence they had enjoyed.
THE PURPOSE OF our award is to promote integrity, charity, innovation and peace – nothing less, nothing more – and any who falls into our sample, tested and approved to be a paragon of productive service to humanity, will be subject of selection, if possible, every now and then. For now, the eight individuals selected are our proud awardees, to be duly certificated for the feat, for casting the ambers of light into the gloom and doom of 2024 by which the hopeless, tormented and subdued people of Liberia managed a smile to say during the year, “all is not lost”.
AND, FOR THIS, sincerely, we think them, and encourage them to press on. They could be the same helpful light to our society in the years. Kudos!
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