Senator James Biney's Hypocrisy cum Shenanigan amid CDC's Neglect of the Southeast...

The Perspective
Atlanta, Georgia
Posted: February 5, 2023

We are in this unprecedented political mess because James Biney's National Patriotic Party (NPP), forged a marriage of convenience with the governing Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC). As supposedly a smart or perhaps cunning politician, Senator James Biney of Maryland County cannot continue to hide behind his political strategy of beauty versus the beast; a common feature amid his shenanigans.

A local daily, the Heritage newspaper carried a banner headline last week captioned: “CDC-led Government is of no Benefit to the Southeast” - Senator Biney opens up... Really! Biney, like many a hypocritical, sycophantic, and deceptive politician must have got away with mindless political chicanery in the past, but a dawn of a new day has no place for such selfish and unpatriotic maneuverings.

What is Senator James Biney's track record of championing the doctrine of internal criticisms within the Coalition for Democratic other than being at the forefront of reckless NPP in-fighting? Senator Biney should stop the quasi-intra-coalition blame game, especially in an election year. Make no mistake, Biney was a kingpin in the CDC-NPP's marriage. Biney fought tooth and nail for the merger and later a consummate deal that became finalized.
James Biney graciously celebrated what in his wisest mind was the best political deal for Liberia. Of course, it was anyone's guess that Biney would sheepishly make merry especially when Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Party was almost virtually dead and buried. History is simply not peculiar! Liberia True Whig Party (TWP) and Samuel Doe's National Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL) became decimated after their fall from grace.
Birthed out of an atrocious rebel war, the NPP evolved out of no ideological clarity. The likes of Biney and several others had reckoned that Charles Taylor, the leader of the senseless rebellion was a pseudo-charismatic persona that was capable of leading a broken country. Mind you, they were misreading Taylor's wartime charisma or reckless bravery to mean a rational leader who would become a true patriot – apparently dedicated to the course of national development. Lest we forget, followers, easily get consumed by the frenzy of what their leaders say rather than the ability to deliver.

When level-minded Liberians challenged, questioned, and doubted the ability of George Weah's patriotism and capability to make any fundamental difference for an ailing small West African nation, James Biney, and many of his kind thought counterclockwise. They unquestionably recognized Weah's popularity and saw it as a springboard to ride their personal ego. There was nothing short of that. Weah and his people also irrefutably believed Taylor's NPP was deeply rooted in Nimba, Bong, and Margibi counties and therefore sought to capitalize on their strength. That was essentially mythical! Charles Taylor's exit took along whatever psychic excess baggage there was after all.

Ever since 2018 when George Manneh Weah was handsomely inaugurated as President, Biney solidly stood firmly behind a new ruling Coalition he birthed, nurtured, and nursed to lead the small West African nation. When Liberians were crying about massive looting and abuse of public office, where was James Biney and his NPP? They had become 'Bobo! Some NPP folks were even frustrated that they had no jobs. For them and their availing opportunity of largesse, all was well. President Weah was delivering on bogus promises made to the Liberian people.

Barely 61 months on, particularly when Liberians are bracing themselves for another landmark election that would either force them into degeneration or rescue their aspirations, Senator James Biney is thriving on a rebirth of his political double standard and mischief at the expense of the entire southeast – where President Weah is supposed to hail from. This is a dumb political chess game, Senator Biney! Nobody in the southeast will lately consider you a true ally or a reckoning cum genuine voice. The roads in the southeast and other parts of our country were terribly bad when the LD$16 billion went missing, the $25 million mop-up became a fiasco, and the $30 million stimulus disappeared in thin air.
Where was Biney's controversial voice in the wilderness when four senior government auditors died under mysterious circumstances? Where was Biney's hypocritical voice when his darling President, George Weah had been proceeding wrongly and mindlessly? Where was Biney when the Senate has been grotesquely confirming unqualified and questionable characters? Where was Biney on the floor of the Senate when the national interest was being compromised?

It is shameless that Senator James Biney would see an election year to speak unkindly of his own baby, the CDC as conceived of, engineered and cocooned and marketed and advertised to the Liberia people. George Weah does not need Biney's fake blessing in the southeast. President Weah's political fate lies in the hands of the Liberian electorates. If they questionably believe he deserves a second term, surely they will face the consequences. If they don't think likewise, it is their call. James Biney’s biggest worry should be to rescue the NPP which is engulfed in serious in-fighting and needs some kind of miraculous intervention as it were. Biney’s doctrine of self-criticism cannot reposition him as a good cop versus the bad guys.

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