I am George Solo, a son of Chien District in Grand Gedeh County, born unto the union of Col. Joseph D. Solo retired, and Lucinda Wade Solo, deceased of pleebo Maryland County respectively; Cornell and Harvard educated and presently a regional bank executive in Africa, and a CDCian....Mighty Congress for Democratic Change. It is with a twist of sadness and relief that I address this open letter to Liberians on all sides of the political equation; some admire my courage and some despise my very existence.This is the time when we must sit with our children and explain our views, involvement and ultimately clear up perceptions about what we did or said during the 2011 electoral process for our people and nation. Some of us took on the challenge and engaged in what we believe to be our patriotic obligation and whatever the outcome, it is easy to say to my children, "I put in a good effort to push an ideology that millions of others and I believe in and will continue to do so." How many can say that?

Billions of U.S dollars have been invested in foreign economies from Liberia’s first president to the present. This figure is underestimated, yet it is obvious misanthropists will begin to question how this figure was arrived. So, let’s hold tight and follow these lines that will lead us to the how. The white man says it does not take a rocket science to know this and that and do this and that. One of Liberian free and independent thinkers, Dr. Syrulwa Somah writes, “Whatever one’s own disposition may be, there remains an urgent need to live out this truth that we must be made and unmade by ourselves, and not by the judgment of other people.”

New York Friday 3, February,2012, the Permanent Representative of Liberia to the United Nations Ambassador Major Kamara has had a meeting  with the New York -based   Committee on the Status of Women   (CSW) non-governmental organizations community in preparation for the fifty-six session of the Commission on the Status  of Women which will be  held at the United Nations headquarters in New York from the 27 February to 9  March 2012.

Liberia certainly has enjoyed a semblance of peace and stability in recent years, especially in the last six.   Some Liberians quickly attribute this atmosphere to their incumbent President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.

In their eyes, her stewardship of their country is directly tied to it.  They blindly believe that her leadership has particularly contributed to their nation’s present stability.  Her supporters also believe that by exerting her “woman power” on the country during her first full term in office, she has almost brought the nation full circle.