Monrovia – The Motion for Financial Empowerment (MOVEE) has begun lively political coordination with the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) to pave the way in which for former President George Manneh Weah’s return to the presidency in 2029, marking one of many earliest and most strategic mobilization efforts within the post-2023 political panorama.
By Willie N. Tokpah
Former International Affairs Minister and MOVEE Political Chief, Ambassador Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah Sr., introduced the collaboration on Saturday, June 21,2025 throughout a commencement ceremony for his ladies’s vocational coaching program in Paynesville, outdoors Monrovia.
“The return of former President Weah in 2029 isn’t just possible, it’s irreversible,” Mr. Kemayah declared to cheers from supporters.
“MOVEE and CDC are working county by county, construction by construction to make sure this imaginative and prescient turns into actuality,” Mr. Kemayah acknowledged.
Mr. Kemayah disclosed that MOVEE had efficiently convened a Nationwide Govt Committee (NEC) assembly, with illustration from all 15 counties to realign the social gathering’s strategic roadmap. The discussions centered round social gathering restructuring, grassroots mobilization, and coverage priorities geared toward reclaiming state energy by means of democratic processes.
The transfer indicators an aggressive begin to the 2029 electoral marketing campaign cycle, with each events leveraging development-based applications to strengthen grassroots assist throughout Liberia.
Whereas the event was primarily organized to honor 40 younger ladies who accomplished vocational coaching in tailoring, catering, and cosmetology, it additionally served as a platform to advance MOVEE’s message of inclusive empowerment tied to nationwide growth.
“Our objective isn’t just to win elections, however to rework lives alongside the way in which,”Mr. Kemayah stated. “This program empowers ladies from all political backgrounds and helps us construct a stronger, extra self-reliant Liberia.”
The coaching, initiated and sponsored by Mr. Kemayah and his household, is a part of an ongoing effort to mix politics with sensible group influence.
Based on organizers, the following session of this system will start in August and can goal ladies in extra counties.
Additionally talking on the occasion was former Assistant Minister for Gender, Youngsters and Social Safety, Maminah Carr Gaye, who hailed the initiative as a nationwide mannequin and challenged all political events, whether or not ruling or opposition, to copy comparable applications.
“This isn’t about MOVEE or CDC. That is about actual change,” she acknowledged.
“Political events should transfer from guarantees to motion. If MOVEE can do that, all others can, too.”
Addressing CDC Get together Chairman Janga A. Kowo, who was in attendance, Carr Gaye, urged the previous ruling social gathering to revive its ladies’s empowerment coaching applications, as soon as held at its headquarters, to match the rising expectations of Liberian ladies.
“Thank God our Chairman is right here,” she stated. “Let’s reawaken the CDC’s dedication to ladies’s abilities coaching.
Liberia’s ladies deserve extra than simply applause. They want alternatives.
A number of graduates appreciated this system and dedicated to utilizing their abilities to assist their households and communities.
Some additionally introduced their resolution to affix MOVEE as a gesture of gratitude and perception within the social gathering’s empowerment platform.
“I now have one thing to name my very own,” stated one graduate. “Due to this coaching, I can assist myself and others.”
The Ambassador Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah Ladies Empowerment and Vocational Expertise Coaching Program is a part of an agenda to strengthen MOVEE’s group affect by means of actionable growth, and its continued rollout is anticipated to serve each social and political functions as Liberia edges nearer to the 2029 elections.
