Sen. Sando Johnson joins calls for postponement of 26 celebrations

By Francis Caulker

Tubmanburg- With barely 3 days to the celebrations of Liberia’s 172nd Independence Day, many Liberians continue to call for the postponement of the day due to the current economic nightmare the country faces. 

The citizens want the Coalition for Democratic Change  led government to rather use money intended for the July 26 celebrations to help the ordinary Liberians who are not able to afford their daily square meal. 

The latest to make such call is tough-talking  Bomi County Senator Sando D. Johnson who said Liberia’s 172nd Independence Day celebration is only intended to apiece the Liberian leader  George Manneh Weah and his collaborators and not the ordinary Liberians.

According to senator Johnson, Liberia cannot boast of anything   and as such it is unnecessary for the country to celebrate Independence Day while Liberians are living in a challenged economic condition.

Senator Johnson said Liberians mainly in the rural areas are living in abject poverty and cannot afford a daily meal but on the contrary President Weah is inviting foreign guests to spend over million dollars of taxpayer’s money in the name of celebrating Independence.

The National Patriotic Party officials told Liberia Public Radio in Bomi County that instead of spending millions of dollars for to ‘entertain’ foreign guests and dignitaries such amount of money should go towards uplifting the lives of the ordinary people.

He added that he will boycott this year’s national celebration in Monrovia and spend the rest of the day with his kinsmen in the county.

Recently some members of the opposition community in Liberia called on the government of Liberia to cancel this July 26 Independence Day celebration due to the current economic condition facing the country.

In another development, the Bomi county lawmaker has hailed the management of Radio Bomi for exhibiting a high degree of maturity in ensuring that new Radio equipment have been procured.

According to Senator Johnson the action by the station management to use the County Social Development Fund (CSDF) allotted to them wisely to erase speculations that the funds were mismanaged by them.