Harper, Maryland County – Inadequate representation and lack of vision that attends to the plight of Liberians, especially those in the rural counties, is a major challenge Liberian politicians struggle to address year-in-year-out.
Report by Willie N. Tokpah/ [email protected]
This situation continues to retard the country’s development and further weakens the country’s economy.
Presidential aspirant and leader of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), Alexander B. Cummings, has alarmed over the enormous difficulties people living in the southeastern part of Liberia are faced with on a daily basis to make ends meet.
“It does matter to me that the Southeast is cutoff from the rest of Liberia. It does matters to me that our young women are using prostitution for living, schooling and grades. It does matters to me that we have so much corruption in our country,” Cummings said.
Cummings was addressing scores of Marylanders during the commemoration of Liberia’s 19th President William V.S. Tubman birthday in Harper City during a recent visit. The visit, according him, was to reconnect with his people.
According to Cummings, Liberia is too old an independent state for its citizens to remain underprivileged.
Cummings lamented that the southeast, the region from he hails, lacks all necessary social amenities that a government has to provide for its people.
“We should believe that this is not our destiny and our economic lives must improve from what it is today, but we have a choice in terms of who we select,” Cummings intoned.
He maintained that Liberia is still backward as a result of constraints it is faced with, emphasizing the need for a quick correction to the said problem.
According to him, the economic status of Liberia and the lives of its citizens can improve on a daily basic if the believe that citizens themselves can do better is prioritized. He said his political struggle will begin from Maryland County.
“We believed in Liberia and Liberians, most besides Maryland where we hail from and my work has to begin from here. As the saying goes, if your home does not sell you, the street won’t buy you and if you can’t fix your own home, where will you go,” said Cummings.
He called for the support of his kinsmen in Liberia’s in the pending 2017 election.
According to him, his election would be a gateway to an improved lifestyle for the people of the southeastern region.
He expressed readiness to uplift Maryland County vigorously develop Maryland County through capacity building and empowerment.