Following a marmot crowd that welcome popular talk show host Henry Costa on Thursday December 19, 2019 ahead of the planned December 30, protest , Liberian leader Geoerge Weah says he is too busy to hold negotiation talks with protesters.
Popular talk show host Henry Costa Thursday morning arrived in Liberia ahead of the planned December 30 protest co-named “Weah Step Down”.
President George Manneh has ruled out that the government will negotiate with the planners of the December 30, 2019 protesters because he is too busy fixing the current economic situation in the country instead of “wasting his time”.
Speaking on Friday December 20, 2019 in a live radio interview the president boasted that every citizen in the country has the right to protest and will never stop anyone from doing so, noting that his government continues to solve the economic situation in Liberia.
President Weah said while every citizen has the right to protest on issues of national concern, government will not relent in dealing with any violator of the law.
Police scuffles with Costa supporters
A buffer zone created by the Liberia National Police to prevent crowd of popular talk show host Henry Costa Thursday led to serious scuffle between supporters of the Costa and the Police in the Sinkor Vamuma house area.
The LNP’s decision to create a buffer-zone at the Vamoma House, on Tubman Boulevard near the old Fish-Market, created a commotion which saw teargas fired at the crowd. In response our correspondent said some believed to be supporters retaliated by throwing stones at the police which led to the injury of an un-named female police officer.
Our reporter quotes Sources as saying that the buffer-zone was meant to deny Costa and his group from entering central Monrovia, where the firebrand political commentator was expected to address scores of supporters at a popular intellectual center.
LNP Spokesman, Moses Carter was earlier quoted by local newspaper as stating that there would have been a detour of the crowd in Sinkor, but unfortunately, the group was not allowed to enter the Sinkor area as the police had planted their equipment and used their vehicles and other objects to create a buffer-zone.
He assured the huge crowd that he remains humble and together they can move forward with changing Liberia and emancipating it from corruption, bad governance, and abuse of office and violation of the Liberian Constitution.
Henry Costa: “One day, one day, I tell you, we will free our country. We will free our country and will have a leadership we deserve; we will have a leadership that will not be concerned about building wealth for itself, taking our money and diverting it in personal account,” he told the crowd.
While coming from the RIA earlier in the day, Montserrado County District #10 Representative Yekeh Kolubah joined him along the highway and they both stood together in the open-top vehicle driving towards central Monrovia.
