Insecurity — Liberia threatened with mass demonstration
By Punarimam Fehintola
Liberia is still at the verge of a serious unrest if care is not taken as top political parties are set to begin a mass demonstration that may lead to insecurity that may set the country to confusion.
This was contained in a country report presentation by a Liberian parliamentarian honorable Edwin Melvin Snow during the ECOWAS parliament in Abuja.
The presenter said” recent political events unfolding in the country have the propensity to further shatter Liberia already fragile peace if steps are not taking to arrest the situation”.
Honorable Snow further explained that case in point is a planned demonstration slated for June 7, 2019 by a group named “council of patriots” under the theme “SAVE THE STATE” and some members of the opposition, particularly four major opposition political parties named collaborating political party CPP”
He further stated in the report that the president of Liberia has called on dialogue and has invited the leaders of the council of patriots to a meeting on 14th May 2019 to which is the national unification day and is observed as a national day for a possible reconciliation and dialogue.
The presentation also revealed that the president of Liberia George Weah has suspended the minister of information of the country and two members of legislature due to allegations made by the US government statement expressing dissatisfaction in the divide especially congau- Native politics.
Honorable Snow also added that as the country is working hard to tackle the issue of corruption especially the issue of a major allegation of corruption in the country which involves “missing SIXTEEN BILLION and 25 USD the president through the ministry of justice has set up a committee to investigate the issue with a mandate to further ascertain the fact of the missing dollars while a private US company Kroll has been hired to foster the investigation.
He said according to findings of both reports has revealed that the central bank of Liberia did not provide proper accounting for three billion Liberian dollars with this the former CBL Governor Mr Wilson weeks, and his deputy Mr Charles Sirleaf along with the director of banking operations and former director of banking services were arrested charged and sent to court.
In order to win the fight against corruption the president of Liberia has implemented the recommendation contained in the reports by commissioning the general auditing to conduct a forensic audit of the mop up exercise and the president promised that anyone who is linked to any misapplication, be it members of his government or not will face the weight of the law.
