By Our Staff Writer
For as long as Liberia became a nation, the people of the southeastern region have featured very prominently in the governance structure of the country. Several heads of state, vice presidents, chief justices and justices, cabinet ministers, ambassadors, heads of autonomous agencies, and more have hailed from this region of Liberia, yet the southeastern region of Liberia remains amongst the most under-developed and poverty-ridden regions of the country. Even former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf though is said to hail from Bomi County, Liberia, her mother is a native of the southeastern region. Apart from Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, all other regions that are somehow progressive and developed in the country are not located in the southeast of Liberia. Even now, the CDC-led government is in southeastern control and dominantly in terms of agency and institutional leadership. Still, road access and access to health, education, and safe drinking water are lacking in the southeast. In Liberia today the entire administration is southeastern-dominated. Officials of Government from Southeast Liberia.
Key Executive Branch Posts
George M Weah – President of the Republic
Samuel Tweah – Minister of Finance
Aloysius Tarlue – Executive Governor, Central Bank of Liberia
Nyema Pearson – Deputy Governor, Central Bank of Liberia
Wesseh Blamo – Minister of State for Presidential Affairs
Samuel Wlue – Minister of Transport
Ledgewood Rennie – Minister of Information
Williametta E. Piso Saydee Tarr – Minister of Gender and Social Protection
Thomas Doe Nah – Commissioner General, Liberia Revenue Authority
Edwin Martin – Chairman, Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission
Wilson Tarpeh, Director General, Liberia Environmental Protection Agency
Marcus Solo – Director General, Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency
Lenn Eugene Nagbe – Commissioner General – Liberia Maritime Agency
Alex Dixon – Director of Liberia National Fire Service
Diana Nebo – Managing Director, National Port Authority
Cecelia Cuffy Brown – Managing Director, National Housing Authority
Key Diplomatic / Foreign Service Posts
Isaac Nyenebo – Ambassador to the European Union
HE George Patten – Ambassador to the United States
HE Gurley Gibson – Ambassador to the UK
Blamo Nelson – Liberia Ambassador to Japan
Andrew W. Kronyanh – Liberia Ambassador to Italy
Supreme Court of Liberia
Sie-A-Nyene Gartificial Yuoh – Chief Justice, Republic of Liberia
James Etta Howard Wolokollie – Associate Justice
Associate Justice Joseph N. Nagbe – Associate Justice
Legislature – Senate
Albert Chie – President Pro Temp of Liberia Senate
Legislature – House of Representatives
Bhofal Chambers – Speaker of the House of Representative
Fonati Koffa – Deputy Speaker of the House of Representative
Government Institutions of Higher Learning
Dr. Julius Sarwolo Nelson Jr – President, University of Liberia
Dr. Elliott Wreh Wilson – President, Tubman University
If these people, southeastern leaders, despite all the power and authority they have in terms of the control of governance, cannot help in ensuring that their region is developed, at least with a good road, how can the entirety of Liberia depend on them for the development of the country? No doubt the southeast region of Liberia produced some of Liberia’s most talented and smart people, but there is something bizarre about their behavior. Primarily, southerners do not seem to like one another, and they do not like their region and people. If they did, the region would have been very developed. Nimba, Bassa, Bong, Lofa, and even Bomi is more developed and advanced than places in the southeast.
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