Buried Inside Liberia's Port Decentralization Bill: A Potential 2029 Rivalry - and the Security Gaps Nobody Wrote In

Liberia, Aug. 17 -- A Vice President and a Senate Pro Tempore are quietly positioning for 2029 over who profits most from Liberia's new port law - while the bill itself creates four independent port security forces with no shared command, no seat for the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency or Coast Guard, and no security mandate at all. The recent Mark Kuiah/IB Atlantic IV case already showed what that gap costs under one port. The law is about to test those same gaps under four ports.

By Rodney D, Sieh, [e-mail]

Monrovia - There was a ceremony, a signature, and the kind of applause that photographs well. What the cameras did not catch is the quieter dogfight that has been building in the corridors of power for ...