MONROVIA, Oct. 7 -- In Liberian public life, a man's word is currency, and a man's oath is something close to a mortgage on his name. Yekeh Kolubah took out a heavy one. Now, with a press conference set for October 11, the expelled lawmaker is being asked whether he is about to default.

By Selma Lomax, selma.lomax@frontpageafricaonline.com

'The Street General'

Long before he held a legislative seat, Kolubah was a man of the street. His brand was never polish. It was volume, defiance and the ability to put a crowd where he wanted it. Politicians courted him for that reason, and none more usefully than Joseph Boakai.

By Kolubah's own telling, the call came from Boakai's farm. Former President George Weah was about to announce a politica...