An article written by Carlton Diahn  recently appeared on the website of the Grand Gedeh Association in the Americas, Minnesota Chapter. Carlton is a young man and my cousin. His piece is so insightful that you want to wonder who is this guy. But he is a young Grand Gedean who is beginning to see things as they are in our community. People  who aspire to the leadership of this community should try to get people like Carlton on your team. He is very conscientious as oppose to some of these way ward young people most of whom are surrounding Martha Kannah. Carlton did not insult anybody.

All he is saying is that Grand Gedeh Association can not be a strong and credible institution if it is not built on credibility and transparency. Some of these people mostly these hoodlums around Mrs. Kannah are only interested in insulting people because in their world, they have it made; they are officials of the Grand Gedeh Association and it does not matter how they got there. But hey, they were told  that when you come to America, you associate with the Grand Gedeh Association and then you go to Liberia, get a big position no matter whether you are qualified for it or not. So, that is their mission and anyone who they perceive as the obstacle in the way, they will be derogatory towards you. These young people will insult me and call me names. They will insult the venerable and honorable Bai Gbala, Honorable Charles Breeze and other leaders in our community. The reason they are so bitter is that older people are telling them that you can not disrespect and disregard other people right on your way to power and stardom.

In his piece, Carlton expressed shock that individuals once consider as leaders in the community who should have been called upon to mediate in any dispute in the community are the ones who were instigating the controversies. This is what we have been saying all along. It is a good thing that young people like Carlton is seeing this.
This is the crux of Grand Gedeh Association problems. People served in leadership but would not want to let it go after their term is over. And don’t talk about it because they will come after you. I am sure Carlton has gotten a lot of phone calls.

 Clash of agendas
I have sat back in the last couple of months and I have gotten a lot information about what is happening in the Grand Gedeh Association. What I am hearing is that it seems that chickens are coming home to roost. Apparently, these folks are trying to share the spoils of victory. But it seems that their agendas are different. On the one hand it is those with the supreme leader mentality; those who think that they are entitled to the right to appoint the leaders of the Grand Gedeh Associatiaon and any leader of the association must do what they say or  they will undermine you and destroy you. These people are not politically  popular in the community. These people do not  have a core of supporters who they can galvanize to support them at the polls. Or a core of voters who are enthusiastic about them and would support a candidate of their choice if they are not on the ballot. They can never face electoral politics. But they still believe in their supremacy as a leader, like an ayatollah. Anytime they support a candidate, that candidate is soundly defeated. This time around in 2009 in Philadelphia, when they could not get the votes, they attempted to circumvent the process in a very disingenuous way.  Hence the law suit . The limbo is known to the public. But there is a division going on. The leadership they are supporting does not share their agenda. This is a leadership that is made of a lot of criminals and immature people. Their goal is to get to the association’s account. It was public knowledge that the Grand Gedeh Association had $33,000 physical cash in the bank. The first thing, while the election results were in dispute, a group of ignoramous who call themselves the board of directors authorize the so-called administration to take hold of the association’ account. They took hold of the account but the chairman is now complaining about accountability. But is n’t that is what we have been talking about? You are dealing with a bunch of criminals; some with criminal charges against them for bank fraud, insurance fraud, with two or three social security cards, two or three driver’s licenses and going to the extend of purchasing academic degrees to get professional jobs. I know these things because  I know some of these people personally and professionally. And they are going to Liberia to represent Grand Gedeans in America? We really need to think about these things very seriously. But  maybe we deserve these people as our leaders. Marion Barry, the former mayor of the city of Washington D.C was arrested in a hotel room for smoking crack cocaine. During the next election circle, he was re-elected Mayor of DC.
The conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan when asked about the episode playing out in DC, he said” a people deserve the leader they get”

Do Grand Gedeans deserve the leadership they have now? It is up to our young people like Carlton Diahn to set us straight.

Comments (14)

	1. 30-01-2010 08:12
	Right On The MOOOONEY! Solo,  I could not agree with more! But the fact of the matter is, please don't consider Kannah and cliques as leaders of GGAA; they are not!    Look! How many times Kannah and cliques will tell the public that the case has been dropped or dismissed...and then after two days or so, there is a different issue? This is to show that they cannot even read, with comprehension, the court's rulings. They would/will be the first to paste on the internet the action of the court, and then calling it their victory. Look what has happened in the past and now. Do you know that after their flashy email that they have won the case, they now resort to calling the national president Glay to talk to the citizens in Rochester to reconsider their action? There are calls going from Nyanue and Isaac Vowal (board chair) of Chicago, Saydee and Paye Dennis of New England and others from Philadelphia and elsewhere asking Glay for the same favor.    The so-called chairman of the board wrote a letter to bank while sitting in Chicago and it was notarized in Atlanta, GA. The bank, without taking keen look of the document, took action and transferred the association's money as you rightfully mentioned. This same board wanted to do the same with the court and allegedly wrote another letter to court informing the court that they (board members) had resolved the matter, and therefore the court must dismiss the case against the association as was passively proposed by Kannah's unsolicited lawyer (Nixon Kannah)at the end of the two long-day court hearings in Media. Accordingly, based on that understanding, the judge dismissed some motions of both lawyers (prosecutor and defendant).     Surprisingly when the prosecutor sent motion of an appeal to the higher court and demanded the judge to provide reasons for the court's ambiguous ruling, the court turned around and asked the prosecutor to re-submit his written closing argument. The prosecutor was the first to submit his closing argument in early October; what happened to that original written closing argument? If, as alleged, the board wrote another letter to the court without convening a meeting for the both parties to resolve the matter and lied about it in the letter or any foul play in this matter, then we believe that this time, the board's hand is caught in the judicial jar of the land. This can go a very long way with a lot baggage hanging. We submit!

M. E.

	2. 30-01-2010 15:36
	It is time for battle The horses are out and thanks to Mr. Solo and Carlton Diahn. Let Nyanteh Gaye or Steve Boley or Rancy Wright and those who Mr. Solo refer to as waywards and hoodlums come on and defend the criminality that is taking place; the lies and deception that have virtually destroyed the Grand Gedeh Association. The association as it is, can not speak with any credibility on any issue concerning the Grand Gedeh people. Is this the position we expect ourselves to be in? Why is William nyanue and all calling Henry Glay and asking him to show leadership; How come William Nyanue has not shown leadership in all these disputes? The reason is that he can not really show real leadership because he is so narrow-minded. All he cares about is his image. But the image he has build on his tenure as president has gone down the drain with the image of the association. Does he understand that? So, all these buffons should be going around as leaders of the Grand Gedeh Association. But there is no credibility. You can not buy it. You have to earn it. William Nyanue does not earn it amongst Grand Gedeh people. Neither does martha Kannah and her hoodlum and criminal gang.    Kai Dweh

Kai Dweh

	3. 30-01-2010 21:27
	George Boley arrested and Jailed There are reports that former Liberian warlord Dr. George S. Boley has been arrested in the United States of America. This was reported yesterday by American blogger Jeffrey Goldberg. We have the entire blog post.     "Some news out of New York. Dr. George Boley, a warlord I first met when covering the Liberian civil war in the mid-90s, and who later moved to New York, was arrested January 15th by U.S. Immigration and Customs and is now sitting in a jail cell in upstate Batavia.     "So far, he's being charged administratively, with lying in order to gain entry into the U.S., and with committing extrajudicial killings while in another country.     "Other branches of Homeland Security, I've been told, are looking at charging him with actual war crimes, which is a good thing, because he belongs in the Hague with his fellow warlord, Charles Taylor.    "I've been involved with Boley's case for a little while. I was subpoenaed by a human rights group in Minnesota, the Advocates for Human Rights, to testify against Boley in a defamation lawsuit that he himself filed against the group (the definition of chutzpah, by the way).     "I eventually provided a sworn affidavit in the case, in which I detailed what I knew of Boley's activities in the civil war, which is a lot -- I knew, from firsthand observation, that his organization, the grossly-misnamed Liberian Peace Council, recruited and armed child soldiers; fed them drugs; and ordered them to rape and kill. For starters. (The lawsuit, unsurprisingly, was dismissed earlier this month.)    "Boley, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Akron, received his undergraduate degree at SUNY Brockport, and he kept his family in upstate New York for the duration of the civil war.     "I've been speaking to him on and off now for a year, and his excuse-making had become increasingly ridiculous.     The last time we spoke, he told me that there had been two organizations in Liberia during the civil war named the Liberian Peace Council: His, which was peaceful, and someone else's, which was a fighting faction.     This was an absurd line of argument, especially to someone, me, who had seen him actually in command of child soldiers in the war zone.

Tuzon

	4. 31-01-2010 11:02
	heart goes out My heart goes out to dr. George Boley and his family. I hope in every Grand Gedean household there is a discussion about what is going to happen to Dr. Boley. Iam sure some people are thinking where is the Grand Gedeh Research Unit when we need it. This was a group in the Glay administration which saw the need to advance a public relations campaign on issues concerning Grand Gedeh and Grand Gedeans. That group prepared a dossier on Charles Julu's activities in Liberia before, during and after the wars when the general was incacerated charged with planning a coup. That dossier was published and the copies submitted to the US State Department. He was later acquitted of the charges. But the research unit and its organizers were demonized and attacked. The board of directors of the Grand Association under the chairmanship of one Steve Boley published statements to counter the unit's version of Julu's activities. There were some Grand Gedeans who even challenged the assertion that General Julu was a fine Liberian soldier. These included some of the late general's own relatives who benefitted from his largesse. I can remember a Grand Gedean warned at the time " that now it is Julu, it could be someone else tomorrow". Yes indeed. It is Dr. Boley today.What are we going to do? A community divided against itself can not do anything to defend itself. Yes, because of greed for power and money, a community which when united can be a force to reckon with, is divided and it is paralyzed. Maybe those calling Henry Glay to beg for him to take the case from court, should ask him to assemble the research unit to do some fact finding on Dr. Boley's case. I know the other camp is incapable of doing anything. In the meantime we should join Dr. Boley's family to keep on agonizing.    Kai Dweh

Kai Dweh

	5. 31-01-2010 21:59
	George Boley got his PHD in running rac George Boley got his PHD in running race (Physical education). All he knows is to fight. Good thing is, he has been arrested! Thank God! There are others who need to be arrested as well. Some of them are right in DC.

Kai Johnson

	6. 03-02-2010 12:41
	Joseph Solo Here you go again Joseph Solo, calling your fellow Grand Gedeans names. I am very happy your nonsense was removed from the Minnesota website three days after it was posted. You call yourself an intelectual, but your attitude is contrary to intellectualism.  Since you started writing on this forum, I have not read anything interesting from you. You either accused people of stealing money or causing trouble in the Grand Gedeh Association. You talk about money that you did not contribute to the association.   The group in Minnesota are not stupid like you to keep your stupidity on their website.     Only coward like JD Slanger/Kai Dweh will agree with you because you guys think alike. For JD, he better keep his mouth shut and stop talikng about people hand in a legal jar, because a fugitive has no moral ground to speak out when it comes to legal matter. I hope Alfred Jardia and Jake Kabakollie are watching and listening to the people of Liberia. If their party is to be taken seriously, they better keep fugitive Slanger and others in the background. I hope Acarous Grey will take this information back to the party's executive committe. You cannot have people like JD Slanger in the front and try to go after corrupt individual like Harry A. Greaves, Jr. Gentlemen, you are forewarned!    Good Day!  Nyanteh Z. Gaye \n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ' target='_blank'>http:// This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Nyanteh Z. Gaye

	7. 03-02-2010 13:03
	Joseph Solo Joseph Solo, get a life and leave William Nyanue alone. This guy is living life that you will not come close to living untill you get old and die. This guy got head on his shoulder and you and your likes need to understand that.  Your petty jealousy will not change what God had given this guy on earth; carisma and high self esteem. You cannot (compare) yourself with William, because you are too low in all aspect of life. The Grand Gedeh people you claim to be speaking for have not honor you and will never. The William Nyanue you and JD Slanger continueously lied about have been honored by Grand Gedeans several times. When will they honor you? I don't think Grand Gedeans are stupid to honor fool like Joseph Solo. Because honoring Joseph Solo will be a mockery to every honor in the Grand Gedeh association.    Borbor Dennis null \n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ' target='_blank'>http:// This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Borbor Dennis

	8. 04-02-2010 10:39
	You are the same person Borbor Dennis(null), Nyanteh Gaye, You are the same person. Joseph Solo is not going to respond to you and he never send his article to the Minnesota website in the first place.It is posted on the forum where it has wider readership. By now, even William Nyanue knows that you promoting him and defending him does not do him any good. I bet you, Nyanue is begining to regret some of his actions and the people he has associated with. You have to ask him. Because, if this is not true, why is he calling Henry Glay asking him now to show leadership in this Grand Gedeh Association election debacle which he instigated,after all this time when you all celebrated so many victories just to come back to begin begging. No body cares about William Nyanues personal life and personal success. Grand Gedeans have seen successful people before. Some of these give back to their communities; their villages and towns. The late johnny Gaye is a good example. he was from the same section as william Nyanue and they are from the same part. The late Gaye built a school in his town of Pellizon and bounght a generator so that every hut in that town was electrified. The late Gaye never passed by any Krahn people who needed help. what has your man Nyanue done with all his success? All he did was used the Grand Gedeh Association to get recognition from Liberian politicians. He exploited the organiztion and can not account for its finances and scholarship program he and his wife ran for ten years. Up to now, there is no record of anyone graduating from school on that scholarship. For Joseph solo, whenever he has the opportunity he helps Krahn people. When he was supervisor at the Jewish Employment and Vocational Services, he facilitated the employment of Martha Kannah at the agency. How many Krahn people William Nyanue ever helped with all his success? So, Nyanteh Gaye or Steve Boley, keep on supporting lost causes. Maybe you need to concentrate your efforts on your brother who is incacerated. Again, I am not J.D.Slanger. But be ready to deal with me.    Kai Dweh

Kai Dweh

	9. 04-02-2010 11:12
	superficial people This is the problem our people have and they will never get it. They will certainly not understand me. I don't do anything so that I will get recognition. Grand Gedeh association has not honored me? So what? My purpose here is not to be honored but conscientize my people. And the way things stand, I am successul. Minnesota took my artcle down, I did not send it to them in the first place. They took upon themselves to post it and then took it down I guess when they got a call from Chicago. But the truth supress will rise again and again. I may not be as wealthy as William Nyanue. But I am proud of who I am. I don't lie or deceive; I don't try to control a county organization by using all the illegal and immoral means in the book to do it. So, Nyanteh Gaye, you need to go to college and learn proper English before you insert yourselve in these debates like I alway tell you.    Joseph Solo

joseph solo

	10. 04-02-2010 21:04
	Joseph Solo Thanks for your advice. Just let me know where the english language is used wrongly and I will ask the master of the Queen's lanuage Joseph Solo to help.You are right Joseph Solo, because you have reached your peak in life and can go no further; so you are fined. Whether you don't lie or deceive, Solo, you have no place in the midst of sound minded people.     This is while I alway told you that your hatred for Nyanue will not harm him in any shape or form. Why will Nyanue call Minnesota to take down an article written by fool like Joseph Solo? He has better things to do with his life. I don't think Nyanue wants to waste his time on loser like Joseph Solo.    Grand Gedeans don't want to understand an insane man like you. Solo, get this; you are an educated fool who has no sense of direction.    Good Day!    Naynteh Z. Gaye \n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ' target='_blank'>http:// This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Nyanteh Z. Gaye

	11. 04-02-2010 21:17
	JD Slanger/Kai Dweh JD Slanger,  You need to control your mouth. I know you are happy that George Boley is in jail, but be ware, some day you will return to central prison in Monrovia. You stole from the Liberian government and ran away to the United States. I understand you are in the fore front to elect George weah in 2011. The Liberian people will not sit around for criminal like you to steal from them for the second time; Our people say, "first fool is not a fool, but second fool is a complete fool." Whatever you do, please remember that you have some questions to answer in Liberia. By the way, do you know that your name is associated with crimes? Check yourself and people around you.    Good Day!    Nyanteh Z. Gaye \n This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ' target='_blank'>http:// This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Nyanteh Z. Gaye

	12. 04-02-2010 22:42
	you are the biggest fool nyanteh Gaye,  You are the biggest fool. William Nyanue has better things to do? Why is he calling Henry glay to beg him to take the case from counrt? But Henry glay will not do it. The Pennsylvania superior court has taken the case. So, continue to attack people because they call principleless people like william Nyanue to account. Joseph Solo does not deceive and does not make public pronoucements that are false. Joseph solo does not committ bank fraud in a desperate attempt to choose leaders of the Grand Gedeh association. Joseph Solo does not connive with people to rig an election and at the same time carries himselve as a reformer. Talk about duplicity and hypocrisy at the highest order. By the way, does William Nyanue approve of you defending him? If you ask him now, he really does not because a fool like you are just making him look worst than he really is. If he needs any redemption, he needs to rain an idiot like you and others in to stop defending him because he himself is realizing that he is on the wrong side of history. This is a man who Grand Gedeh people used to stand up whenever he enters a hall. But are they doing that today? So, keep attacking Joseph Solo but he will continue to raise these issues. I am not JD and I have no criminal record in Liberia or here in the states. You and your allies can not say that.By the way, who are you? Are you Krahn or Congoe or Grebo? Or just a disgraced fufu masticator and pepper soup drinker who does not know who he is? It is a waste of time debating you.    Kai Dweh

Kai Dweh

	13. 05-02-2010 14:32
	The tune of the exchanges Nyanteh Gaye, I get in these exchanges because of your unprofessional and country behavior. I am not sure what you have against Joseph Solo. But you seem to not have any restrain when addressing him. As I understand it, he does not know you. But you are alway prepared to unleash insults on him whenever he writes an article discussing some pertinent issues. The sad part is that you do not deal with the material facts in Solo's presentations. All you have to say is that William Nyanue is a great man who Solo can not match in terms of accomplishments. But what you fail to understand is that every body do not look William nyanue that way. It seems that you worship and respect people for their accomplishments and material possessions. But some of us give regards to people for more tangible reasons than that.Some of us respect people for their intellect and more especially their integrity. We respect people who say what they mean and mean what they say. We respect people who say the truth even if it is politically inconvenient to do so; People who do what they say publically they are going to do. But we don't respect people who create rules for other that they themselve can not abide by or reufuse to abide by. This is the issue Joseph Solo has with william Nyanue and a lot of people have that same issue with him as well. But for you, you do not understand but just hurl insults at Solo but you don't take your time to study these issues. These two people have known each other for over forty years. They are in laws and I understand at one point they were allies. But it seems that the tune of our exchanges is getting uglier. But you started it and it is not going to be too long for you to start some profane rantings about William Nyanue this, Joseph Solo is not that, bla bla bla. I am not going to stop you but hopefully you'll see reasons and allow other people to express their views even if you disagree with them. I am not jD and I am not a criminal.    Kai Dweh

kai Dweh

	14. 07-02-2010 12:57
	Former of GGAA, Mr. Henry Kohn Glay is w Dr. Mary Tarlue  Ministry of Gender Affairs, Monrovia, Republic of Liberia, Tel: 231 622 7296, Email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it       Madam Edith Glay  Baltimore, MD  U. S. A.      1/30/10      Re: Former Grand Gedeh Association President Wanted On Prostitution Charges    Dear Mrs. Edith Glay,    It comes to my attention in time when Liberians at home are gearing up for the dry season vacation. Your husband (Henry Kohn Glay) former president of the Grand Gedeh Association in the Americas, Inc. has been sleeping around with Liberian refugees women in the United States now for some decade. Please see a partial list; and I believe, some names will be recognizable by you.    (1) Rebecca Holder-Baltimore, MD  (2) Victoria Dennis-Baltimore, MD  (3) Felecia Zeh-Columbia,MD  (4) Solo Doegbe-Philadelphia, PA  (5) Zeeyea Nyanue's cousin (.......) Philadelphia, PA  (6) The Lexis Truck Lady with Delware license plate (Sarpo by tribe), Philadelphia, PA  (7) Bearice Johnson-Atlanta, GA  ( Agnes Cole-San Diego, California    As a aging man, when you can't respect yourself, all your business will get outside. I told you Henry, ever since that all these things you have been doing will come to light. since you can't hear, you can feel. In fact, interestingly, some of these women already agree that when contacted/confronted will explain their side of the story.    However, the Ministry of Gender Affairs is please to announce that Mr. Henry Kohn Glay is a person of interest in what we see as systematic abuse of women. Mrs Glay, it is better to live with the difficulties of been single, than to call Henry Glay a husband.         Signed:     Dr. Mary Tarlue     Director of personnel & Prostitution  MOGA/Liberia

Alvin Travers

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