By: Naomi Tappia
Collaborating Political Parties famously known as the CPP comprising of the Alternative National Congress (ANC) and the Liberty Party’s Chairman Musa Bility faction have stated that threats will not stall a massive protest planned intended to awaken the government they considered dysfunctional when it comes to improving the livelihoods of the Liberian people.
It can be recalled, the Mayor of Monrovia City, Jefferson Koigee along with some government officials, warned members of the opposition political parties in Liberia against inciting violence as the 2023 General Presidential Elections approach.
The opposition political parties once organized a protest in the country on June 7, 2019, which was perceived by the populace as the biggest since the famous rice riot held in 1979 April, something some members of the ruling party attributed to the election of Senator Abraham Darious Dillion in 2020, taking Montserrado from the ruling establishment after dominating the most populous county in the country for 12 years.
Addressing the nation during a press briefing recently in Monrovia, the Chairman of CPP standard bearer Alexander Cummings, election campaign team, Lewis Brown disclosed that the much publicized protest will go on as planned, adding that no amount of intimidations from the government will thwart this “We are tired suffering protest as it is the constitutional right of the citizens to assemble peacefully and express their grievances.”
Brown and other influential members of the opposition community have called on all citizens not to be deterred, instead, to turn out in number and alert the Government of Liberia about the high cost of living while the President is wasting taxpayers money by flying to Qatar to watch his son, Timothy Weah play in the World Cup for the U.S.A.
