Men of noble causes who strived in Liberation struggles around the world were of no mean identities. Their unbending itineraries for the peoples’ progress led to the testing of their spirits and tagging them as custodians of societal decencies and flag-wavers of solidified manifestos.
Even at time of turmoil their positions were secured sacred as though the Saviors to the race of mankind and Preservers of the Traditional doctrines of humanity have punctuated events that reflected human’s cruelty to human. The Portrait of Patriots around the world projects the identical sketch of Hon. B. Miller Catakaw, an eminent son of Electoral District #9, Montserrado County.
Living as a crusader for Youth Empowerment, Infrastructural Development, Reinforced HealthCare, Resounding Moral Education, a Rejuvenated Grain Revolution, Free Press and the Preservation, Protection and Promotion of the Sacred Dignity of Humanity in general, Hon. Catakaw has almost entirely influenced his constituency through the above mentioned itinerary.
Some lupen-intellectuals may think that about a critical time in the history of our nation, pronouncing the goods for societal advancement initiates the hidden dollar-agenda of the leftist arm in contemporary Liberian politics. Unluckily, they have missed mark because freedom of access to information is not a prepaid or postpaid campaign. It is a decent tool of a struggling democracy.
They (Pessimists) can snatch change makers progress but they cannot seize the progress of an idea whose time has started. Eulogizing Honorable Catakaw is in affirmation of his platform to his Constituents even when he has not been placed to his suit.
Youth Empowerment And Infrastructural Development
Youth Empowerment and Infrastructural development have been the front runners in his Chronicle of Achievements. Hon. Catakaw as an Assistant Minister at Transport Ministry lobbied for job on behalf of more than twenty- five residents of his District as his contribution to the nation’s New Dawn.
His issuance of foreign (almost eight around Africa) and local (KG to College, since 2009 up to date) scholarships to deserving residents coupled with programs (Educative and Productive) for the youth honed him the praise “The consistent and diligent personality who build the Youth Capacity”.
In regards his Infrastructural Development morale he has invested the highest into construction projects for the benefit of his constituents amounting to about one hundred thousand United States Dollars plus (US$100,000).
A Community School, Market, Bus Stop, Walk Paths, Latrines, Hand Pumps, and Palava Huts are among the many developmental initiatives he has undertaken. The tragedy of our District is not that she has a defect in choosing her Commando/Xena but trampling the District’s ability to rise above parties sentiments exposed our District to political panic since 2005. Every good turn deserves another.
Resounding Moral Education
The best gift you can give mankind so that he can develop his surroundings and protect his family is a Resounding Moral Education. This character of no mean identity saw the need to justly compensate mankind since he is a survival of the race by paying back what he had obtained at a tender age. His contribution to humanity has been seen as insolvency to the many pitfalls that have plagued our path to societal progress that is why the collective destiny of the mass of the people has been crushed only because he has not been well-matched with his like.
As a beacon for the less fortunate high schoolers he has spent almost thirty –one thousand five hundred United States Dollars (US$ 31,500), as a paradigm of rescue for impoverished collegians he has spent around eighty-one thousand one hundred twenty five United States Dollars (US$81,125), as a peasant who has been emboldened to the Hardship of poverty fulfilled his mission and saw his vision by paying back to the poverty-stricken part of the District — the slums. He has at least blessed the slums dwellers with more than six thousand five hundred United States Dollars (US$6,500).
Totally a man who has not been rewarded the mantle already has invested one hundred nineteen thousand one hundred twenty-five United States Dollars (US$ 119,125) in Education so that the race of mankind can be preserved. To a larger extent his Obliterate Ignorance Campaign that have widened in the four corners of our District will trigger the scales of alarming Prostitution and concocted Gangsterism. Indeed the portrait of this great patriot is worth saluting massively!
A Companion To Freedom of Information Act
In the wake of unbalanced stories reported in the media against him and the indulgence of journalists into yellow journalism, his response to issues have been tolerable and responsible for the better promotion of the Table Mountain declaration as signed by the Sirleaf led Administration. It is with no mince of words that I have to drill you through a partial perspective of the character’s contribution to our beloved District.
Freedom of the Press has been one of the mainstreams of his Accountable leadership deportment. His ability to frown on indecent acts against the stature which borne Freedom of the Press by some political-fortune hunters validates his submission to existing laws of the Republic. Being a companion to the Freedom of Information Act he had used all means possible to disseminate information to his constituents and gave information at the request of information. The sharpest weapon to unearth corruption and promote civilized democracy is freedom of information. His personality has held to its main spokes. Let us give rounds of applaud to the statute of a patriot!
Cataloguing insinuated – Prospects of the Patriot
Although the dustbin of backwardness records the wasted twelve (12) years of our post conflict era as a District, the hope and aspiration of the mass of the people have been marred by misrepresentation at expense of the peoples’ unconscious decision.
This soured taste of our representation left us with no remnants of past representations (tangibles) rather incorporated the breed of vultures that have eaten up the pages in our reformist struggle and burning pages that holds the sacrosanct scripts of our legendary history as a District. Undoubtedly with all these drawbacks this Patriot have sailed through the storm bringing to the people’s notice through his famous quote “be diligent and consistent in your convictions and do not ignored antecedents because history and time will reward you”, indeed the time has come.
The wind of change is about to blow from the nadir of our frozen uprightness to zenith of our endow conscience. His reward is a noble reward and has found a place in the peoples’ history. His workings of the past and present have provoked our thoughts to insinuate some prospects of our District. Kindly permit me in my stimulated state to outline some insinuated prospects of our District; they are as followed:
Reconciliation of constituents – The reconciliation of residents will help ease tension created during crucial period of District debates. The calling of common ground ton parts of the District that report quarrel.
Construction of a modern multipurpose district home office – The building of a District Home office with a well-furnished research Library, Hall for all District Meetings, and mini Recreational Center will add a lot to his indoctrinated developmental agenda institutin a Democratically Structured District Council – Some of the reasons the challenges of the people recur in all passed resolutions are due to the inability to organize a District Council by majority vote rather than Appointments. If a democratically structured District Council is instituted the problems of the people will be tackled. Empowering this constituted Council with a Administrative District Account.
Erection Of Major Projects In Official And Local Communities – Constructing major projects in communities would ease financial burden on seated leadership and serve as a mean of fund generation for communities based projects.
With my insinuation of the prospects or what this patriot should tackle when given the responsibility to lead I think in my candid opinion will help raise our District above others and keep him in good rapport with the mass of the people. Eulogizing our Heroes/Heroines For Their Works Is Like Venerating The Progressive!
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Mr. Daniel T. Bestman- Student of Stella Maris Polytechnic Careering Civil Engineering. He Is a Student Radical Who Chose to Live Similar to the Life Lived By the Progressive. He Founded the Conscious Order of Gabriel Bacchus Matthews in 2012. He’s Executive Director of the Voices of Societal Reform. 0776811809/0880618248