By Belthan E.K. Tano|LPR News Gbarnga
Bong county Superintendent Madam Esther Walker has threatened to dismiss in mass numbers, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the county that would associate with the Council of Patriots.
She has warned that she would sack any employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) assigned in the county who will form part of Council of patriots planned protest on January 4 or 6, 2020.
The council Patriots or COP was initially scheduled to protest on December 30, 2019 but postponed it due to appeals from international community for economic and security reasons.
The protest under the banner ‘Weah Step Down’ campaign according to its organizers is meant to force President George Manneh Weah to implement recommendations from the June 7, 2019 protest.
During a press conference Friday December 27 2019, Superintendent Walker said, staff who would “support or participate” in the protest would face disciplinary action that “could be serious and may include termination of employment”.
According to our reporter some employees of the MIA are planning to form part of the scheduled January 6 Council of Patriots protest but will be doing at their own risks.
Mr. Henry Costa, head of the Council of Patriots at a press conference told reporters that their aim is not for president Weah to step down will be calling on him to implement recommendations that were presented to him through a petition on June 7, 2019.
Costa told the BBC that it will be ‘unconstitutional’ and a bad precedent for the Council of Patriots accept the government of Liberia desire date for the protest on January 4, 2020.
Weah government must listens
Meanwhile a youthful Liberian, Kasemu A. Dukuley is recommending to the Weah led-Government to listen to the cry of the Liberian people, if his Government must succeed.
The youthful Liberian want the Government of president Weah to critically looks at the demands of the people in adhering to the concerns of the COP.
It can recalled that in 2017 General Elections the CDC Led-Government was voted sixty percent of total votes cast , but the expectations of the people have not been met, he said.
