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Monrovia, Liberia – The Indomitable National Youth Congress has issued a fiery condemnation of President Joseph Boakai’s leadership, accusing his administration of waste, negligence, and outright abandonment of the country’s youth.
In its Third State of the Youth Report, the group criticized the government’s approach to Liberia’s drug crisis, claiming that millions are spent on presidential convoys and state celebrations while rehabilitation programs remain grossly underfunded.
“This is not a war on drugs it is a war on common sense. You cannot fight million-dollar cartels with chicken change. You cannot rehabilitate a nation with empty rhetoric,” the report declared.
The Youth Congress pointed out that while the Ministry of Justice budgeted $490,000 for drug rehabilitation, the Ministry of State spent over $592,000 on celebrations, and the presidential convoy alone consumes more than $4 million annually. Meanwhile, the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency’s $3.5 million budget largely goes to salaries, leaving little for real enforcement.
Beyond drugs, the report also lambasted the government over allegations of press censorship, arbitrary arrests, and misuse of national security forces, while accusing the presidency of wasting taxpayers’ money on lavish foreign trips with little to show in return.
The group further called for the transformation of the controversial “World Trade Center” a hub where young Liberian IT talents were arrested into a National Technology and Innovation Hub that recruits, rather than criminalizes, young minds.
“We must not fear our brightest minds we must empower them. We must not chase them we must champion them. We must not imprison innovation we must institutionalize it,” the Youth Congress urged.
In closing, the movement appealed to the United States government to intervene in Liberia’s drug crisis, accusing the Boakai administration of fostering corruption within the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency.
The statement ended with a defiant pledge: “Let history record that we did not whisper in the face of tyranny we roared. Let history record that we did not kneel before corruption we stood tall. Let history record that we did not wait for change we became the change.”
