By Mark Dahn & Belthan E.K. Tano| LPR News Monrovia
A group of protesters under the banner Council of Patriots (COP) says they will remain in the streets of Monrovia until their concerns are addressed by Liberian president George Weah.
The protesters are who gathered at the capitol building in Monrovia on Monday January 6, 2020 are calling on president George Weah to address counts contained in their June 7, 2019 petition which that drawn that attention across the world.
Our protesters on the scene in Monrovia saw some of the protesters with tooth brushes and sleeping clothes declaring that they will not leave the street except President George Weah give them redress.
The COP was planning to host a massive protest on Monday December 30, 2019 but was cutoff due to security concern from international community and government itself.
The protesters shouted slogans:” We will sleep here today, we will sleep here today” as they lay flat on the main street of Monrovia.
“If the president does not come to speak to us we will not sleep here atw the capitol building, I already have my sleeping clothes with me” said one protester named Massa Johnson.
Monday’s protest started in the morning with just few hand full of mainly middle age people from the main street from central Monrovia but the crowd grew huge later in the day.
Will Weah meet protesters?
It remains unclear whether the government of Weah will address counts from the COP as it is rumored that the president is out of Monrovia at the moment and unwilling to meet the protesters.
This is the second protest from the Council of patriots in less than a year.
President Weah during his live radio interview on December 20, 2019 ruled out negotiation with any protesters because he is too busy with running the affairs of the country instead wasting his time.
He 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 despite many criticisms from his opponents.
