The of Board of Directors of the Liberia Labor Congress (LLC) has constituted an interim leadership following the expiration of the four-year tenure of the incumbent leadership of the organization on September 30, this year.
The seven-man interim leadership which has the mandate to take the Liberia Labor Congress to elections within six months was set up Friday (November 19 2021) at the end of an extra-ordinary meeting called by the out-going President of the organization Mrs. Theresa Viskendah.
The Interim LLC leadership headed by Mr. Jerry R.B. Duplaye is to arrange another congress of the organization to elect a genuine leadership after the previous Congress held September 27-29 under the leadership of Mrs. Viskendah ended in dispute over the selection of delegates.
Those appointed alongside Mr. Duplaye include Kieh Moore Co-Chairman, Isaac Grant Secretary General, Evelyn Sanbou Treasurer, Alphonsus Hneh Senior Adviser, Amelia Draper and Amos Temgbeh.
The interim leadership which was immediately inducted into office is to begin work Tuesday November 23, 2021 in preparing the LCC to hold discussions with an international delegation comprising several groups including ITUC-Africa, OATUU, OTUWA, TUC of Ghana and PSI and SC of the USA is expected to visit Liberia from November 30 to December 4, 2021.
According to a member of the Board representing the National Brotherhood of Teamsters Union of Liberia, Mr. J. Nyemah Natt who inducted the interim leadership into office, the unanimous decision by board members to set up the interim leadership was to fill the gap created by the expiration of the four years tenure of the Mrs.Viskendah leadership as international partners and supporters of the LLC were now referring to it in recent communications as former leaders.
He disclosed that the Mrs. Viskendah leadership being aware of the expiration of its tenure on September 30, 2021, organized a Convention on September 27-29 in Gardnersville to among other issues elect a new leadership to succeed her leadership but was unable to conclude the process due to disagreement over the selection of delegates to participate in the convention.
He said now that the leadership gap has been filled, official letters will be written to all authorities concerned local and international and affiliating partners to notify them about the new interim leadership that would see the organization through elections within six months.
During the constitution of the interim leadership by the Board Mrs. Viskendah and three members of her outgoing leadership departed the meeting apparently in an expressed displeasure over the abrupt manner in which the interim leadership was set up; although her leadership spent extra two months in office after the expiration of its tenure on September 30, 2021.
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