By: Naomi Tappia
Monrovia – Liberia’s House of Representatives became a centre of attraction on Tuesday, February 8, 2022 when a popular opposition legislator, Yekeh Kolubah entered and presented two trophies, awarding the country’s President, George Weah for allegedly discussing his wife and Liberian women’s sexual activities to Isaac Vah Tukpah and colleague Emmanuel Clarke, the duo that wrote a book profiling the President’s social life before and after his ascendency to the presidency.
The book ‘George Weah: The Dream, the Legend, the Rise to Power’, whose 13th page was posted by Liberian based U.S. political commentator, Henry Costa, caused outrage in the country with outpouring of condemnations from women and other state actors for what they termed as an attack on womanhood by the author.
President Weah is reportedly to have revealed to Co-author Isaac Vah Tukpah and accomplice Emmanuel Clarke that “He [Weah] didn’t marry any of the Liberian women he dated because of their poor performance during copulation,” a statement in the book that has since caused pandemonium across the country with social media pages flooded with condemnations over the manner in which Liberian women were negatively presented to the world.
Speaking on News Desk, a local news program in Monrovia after session, Representative Kolubah alluded that his reason of entering with trophies in Chambers was not for winner(s) of the fight he was threatened with by ruling party Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) lawmakers for raining insults at Mr. Weah but, to congratulate the Head of State for ill-discussing the mothers, sisters and wives of the West African State, narrating that he has scored a point that no sitting President has ever scored.
The staunch critic of Mr. Weah, Representative Kolubah had earlier condemned the excerpt in that publication and called out the President for his reported disclosure of Liberian women sexual activities in a derogatory manner while revealing to the general public how his Jamaican wife performs excellently in bed which prompted him to tie a note with her.
When quizzed by the presenter whether the two awards were for the President alone, he explained that the second trophy, which was the smaller one was intended for a reason unmentionable on a national platform, but would divulge the intent on his official platform to the general public.
He avowed that the Legislature House is envisioned for discussing issues that will impact the lives of the citizenry; not for fighting as stated by the CDC legislators in Chambers before the House’s Speaker who is member of the governing party.
Meanwhile, the Co-author of the publication, Isaac Vah Tukpah and colleague have sharply reacted to the barrage of condemnations from the public over the mentioning of the republic’s First Lady and Liberian women activities in bed, which the public termed as “nefarious for any decent man to do publicly”.
While in conversation with State of the Nation, a local radio show in Monrovia, Tukpah and Clarke asserted that “instead of people expressing indignation over the authors’ decision to have publicized the first couple and Liberian women copulation issues, they should shift blame on the narrator, President George Weah who reportedly brought to the public his sexual encounters with his exes and wife to the authors.
Tupkah and the Head of State enjoyed companionship before his ascendency to the presidency in 2017 when he overwhelmingly won in the second round of the election.
Tukpah characterized the action on the part of the joint security to have prevented his entry into Sierra Leone while escaping due to threats made on his life as unnecessary and, an indication of Liberia transitioning to an authoritarian state under the regime of the ex-football star in the West African State.
He added that the book clearly intone the state of the nation and praises the First Lady, something he recounted the first couple should celebrate along with other Liberian women because the President outlined positive things about his wife Clar Marie Weah, stating amongst other things that she is beautiful, committed, decent as a wife before mentioning what has been described as “their privacy”.
In recent days, opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC) Standard-bearer, Alexander Cummings had asked Tukpah to resign as Chief of Office Staff at the height of denunciations from women organizations, politicians and, average Liberian women and men over the publicized excerpt which was very graphic detailing the country’s women intercourse in an explosive manner.
Cummings decried the idea of exposing what should be a person’s privacy and in an excerpt of a book, while calling on men to show respect to women in general whether an alien or the women of Liberia.
