MONROVIA–Regardless of current warning by the Minister of Data that protesters shouldn’t attain close to the Government Mansion, a political strain group in Liberia underneath the banner of the Solidarity & Belief For A New (STAND) stays adamant as they’ve vowed to eat lunch and dinner on the Government Mansion throughout in the present day’s protest.
In a robust assertion, Mulbah Morlu, head of STAND Stays defiant saying, “At in the present day’s press convention, we reminded President Boakai that peaceable protest on the Government Mansion can’t be banned; he did it there himself in 2019/2020.”
STAND additional maintained that they are going to assemble peacefully on the Government Mansion; the identical seat of energy the place others earlier than them, together with President Boakai and his COP, assembled overtly in 2019 and 2020.
“This time, our presence will likely be deliberate and sustained. Our courageous and patriotic moms and sisters will convey their pots and spoons-not for chaos, however to cook dinner and look after our folks as we preserve a nonviolent, people-powered resistance till our simply calls for are met,” Morlu stated.
He added, “On December 17, we are going to eat lunch and dinner on the Mansion, patiently ready for the President (who stays a servant of the folks) to hear. We’re conscious that Inspector Common Gregory Coleman just lately traveled to Sierra Leone and Rwanda to foyer for tear gasoline and different crowd-suppression weapons. A essential warning: deploying tear gasoline or bullets in opposition to peaceable residents can be a grave and reckless mistake.”
Morlu famous, “We’ll by no means provoke violence. Our protest is peaceable, lawful, and disciplined. However we won’t retreat, and we won’t give up to concern. That is peaceable resistance; agency, united, and unafraid.”
Alphonso Toweh
Has been within the career for over twenty years. He has labored for a lot of worldwide media shops together with: West Africa Journal, Africa Week Journal, African Observer and did occasional reporting for CNN, BBC World Service, Sunday Instances, NPR, Radio Deutchewells, Radio Netherlands. He’s the present correspondent for Reuters
He holds first MA with honors in Worldwide Relations and a candidate for second grasp in Worldwide Peace research and Battle Decision from the College of Liberia.
