Subject: You can’t Afford to Lose AB Kromah In Your War Against Drug Pandemic
Your Excellency!!
Once again, via this memo, we have the pleasant duty to extend our warm compliments and bring to your attention yet another concerning national issue—this time the issue being about the action taken against your vicegerents at the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency and how the action impacts the overall fight against the existential threat posed to our nation by the rising specter of drugs and other harmful substances. From all indications, you were absolutely right to timely intervene with the suspension of the most-senior officials of the Agency who shamefully and recklessly embroiled into baseless altercations, not only bringing your administration into public dispute but also sidestepping and undermining one of the most critical national responsibilities—fighting drug pandemic. Your decision and action against the three officials were necessary and popular, as it attracted public support from across the political divide. And we also thank you for this.
Now that calm is restored at the LDEA, the next burning question amongst critical thinkers is how your suspension action has been faring relative to the general commitment to keep drug users and drugs traders, who are powerfully entrenched, to their place. Many are asking: Where are we now? What’s next? Do the suspended officials remain suspended and how long? Should they all or some be purged out the drug war, dismissed from the LDEA? Which of them deserves to go, and which deserves to stay?
Your Excellency, if you and your advisors have been following those questions and concerns on the traditional and social medias, you would see and behold how most Liberians who unanimously applaud your suspension action against the LDEA officials are also undivided in one view: that you can’t afford to lose Abraham Kromah, the head of the Agency, in the war against drug abuse. In the view of these Liberians, as far as their radio talk show, newspaper and social media commentaries and assessments of the internal LDEA conflict is concerned, the subordinates of Col. Kromah are wrong in the prevailing matters for showing him gross disrespect and threats to his life. Citizens following the LDEA crisis are also rather definitive in their thoughts that it is only person of all three who is popularly credited with notable anti-crimes credential and is capable to valuably help you fight and possibly win the war against drug abuse in this country. They say that person is AB Kromah who is widely believed and popularly hailed to be the most lethal force feared by the powerful cabal of drug barons, drug peddlers and drug users.
In addition to what ordinary citizens are saying, there is also a conjecture by a number of national security experts that the misfortune visited upon the LDEA officials, particularly Col. Kromah, has directly emboldened the drug cartel, triggering jubilations and joy—jubilation and joy because their most venomous foe, Kromah, is about to be axed by you. And that’s obvious. No one likes the presence of their arch-enemy. AB Kromah’s removal in the last few days, whether it be temporary or not, constitutes a source of joy for those drug barons whose shenanigans are known and can be unrivaled and crushed by this gentleman called AB Kromah.
Your Excellency, it’s needless to lecture you on how important and morally obligatory it is for you to make a concrete impact in Liberia’s drug war even if you didn’t win the war hundred percent. Fighting crimes and drugs was key in your campaign promises. You and your Unity Party paved the way to political authority with sustained criticism against the then ruling Coalition for Democratic Change government on what you called its failed policies, including the fight against illicit drugs. The electorate were amused particularly by that drug criticism against the CDC and embraced your promise to solve the problem, which is why, amongst other things, you won the 2023 elections. Now it is time for you to keep that promise. Keeping it requires high sobriety and alert against the subtle and sophisticated schemes of the common enemy. As many thinkers have already deciphered, the LDEA fracas is one of such schemes. And scheming to purge out the most capable and savvy lieutenants in your human arsenal against drug abuse is top of their tricks and artifices.
This is why we tendered this Memo to keep you and your security advisors alert by advising against the disruption and weakening of your defense and aggression against the sophisticated enemy. This is why we maintain, as many veteran security experts also believe and warn, that keeping AB Kromah out of the LDEA will be like yielding to the machinations of the enemy that it is altogether proper and strategic to keep him in the job which is like oiling and harnessing your security machinery to deliver your solemn promise of defeating the illicit drug empire and its existential threat to Liberia.
Thanks for your understanding.
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