Monrovia – The Revolutionary Nationwide Youth League of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) on Thursday formally endorsed the July 17, 2025, peaceable protest organized by the civil society group Solidarity Belief for a New Day (STAND).
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STAND, a grassroots civil society motion, has dedicated to advocating for justice, together with the institution of a battle and financial crimes courtroom in Liberia. The group has scheduled the “We the Individuals” protest for July 17, which it says will spotlight governance failures, social injustices, and widespread corruption.
Whereas no political get together has formally endorsed the protest, the CDC Youth League staged a symbolic march on Thursday. Supporters paraded from the previous Ducor Palace Lodge by means of central Monrovia to West Level, Liberia’s largest slum neighborhood.
Talking to supporters in West Level, CDC Youth League Chairman Emmanuel Johnson mentioned the younger folks of Liberia is not going to stand idly by whereas the nation crumbles.
“The Revolutionary Nationwide Youth League of the mighty Congress for Democratic Change totally endorses the July 17 ‘We the Individuals’ protest. We stand with the folks in resistance to corruption, oppression, and neglect,” Johnson declared.
He continued: “We’re standing for the hungry who sleep with out meals, for daughters that suffer in silence, for graduates who roam with out jobs, and for households whose cries echo unanswered. We name on each patriotic Liberian—youth, pupil, girl, employee, mom, and father—to rise in unity and with function. July 17 is a nationwide declaration that the folks will not be silenced.”
Johnson added that Liberian youth will not whisper dissent in worry or kneel earlier than oppressive energy, however will rise with braveness and function to confront what he described because the “misrule” of the Unity Occasion-led authorities.
He sharply criticized the present administration underneath President Joseph Boakai, saying Liberia has descended into what he termed “an abysmal state” in lower than two years.
“We’re witnessing rampant corruption, an alarming enhance in sexual and gender-based violence, a breakdown within the rule of legislation, heightened police brutality and insecurity, deepening financial inequality and hardship, record-high youth unemployment and poverty, a fractured justice system, and a brutal crackdown on freedom of speech and meeting,” Johnson asserted.
He lamented that regardless of Liberia’s huge pure assets, hundreds of thousands of residents proceed to undergo with out entry to scrub water, electrical energy, meals, and different fundamental requirements.
“Those that can afford these fundamentals usually accomplish that by leeching off state assets, with utter disregard for the struggling of abnormal residents. Because the Unity Occasion authorities took workplace, corruption has been seen from the onset—from the questionable funding of the President’s inauguration to the unlawful procurement of automobiles at NASSCORP by Sylvester Grigsby—due course of has persistently been ignored,” he mentioned.
Johnson concluded by accusing the Boakai administration of turning a blind eye to corruption, noting that implicated officers are sometimes merely suspended, with no prosecutions or efforts at restitution.
