MONROVIA – The former president of the Liberia Council of Churches, and Pastor of the New Water in the Desert Apostolic Pentecostal Church, Bishop Kortu K. Brown has described Africa’s oldest republic as a stubborn crawling child that has refused to walk, noting, if the country must move forward, it must graduate from crawling and rise up to walk.
“Disappointedly, the country continues to be wholistically hopeless with the politics of personal vindictiveness, greed, largely immature political leaders who have failed to follow the good examples of many countries even in our neighborhood – and the greater African continent, choosing rather to promote mediocrity, extreme partisanship over the common good and a divisive society even to the detrimental of our peace, security and tranquility,” the quick-witted and sharp tongued clergy said during his church’s end-of-year prayer week.
Bishop Brown especially frowned at what he called the unnecessary power play on Capitol Hill which has unnecessarily delayed the people’s work including the passage of the national Budget.
“If one group of people control all the power in the country, what will the ordinary people benefit from it? One political party controlled the government during the last six years. What do we really have to show? he quipped.
“But we are watching everyone, especially those who are refusing to put the country above selfish interest, those who use all kinds of intrigues to undermine the rule of law and continuously shame this country and its people. The Liberian people will hold them accountable,” the Pentecostal cleric warned.
Bishop Brown then cautioned the Government of Liberia to avoid making the country hopeless, adding, “our national efforts must be better coordinated and directed so that the ordinary people of the country can continue to be hopeful about their country and not lose confidence in their leaders and country”
“It is time for the country to STOP Crawling and Rise Up and Walk. All eyes are set on the Supreme Court of Liberia to see whether they can take the moral high ground and reset our national politics”, Bishop Brown stated, adding that ordinary Liberians are gradually losing faith in the system.
The bishop’s assertion comes as Liberians eagerly await the ruling of the Supreme Court in the Mandamus case filed by House Speaker Fonati Koffa and his legislative backers against the recently inducted Speaker Richard Koon and his Majority bloc.
The New Water in the Desert Assembly weeklong year-end prayer service runs from Sunday, December 1 thru Sunday, December 8, where the church is imploring “Almighty God to take away Liberia’s shame and reproach as we move to the new year, 2025”, he concluded.
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