Monrovia – A former candidate of Montserrado County’s District 14, Kerkula Muka-Kamara, wants Liberians to desist from making comments that threaten national security.
Muka-Kamara said the scars of the 14 years of civil conflict still remain fresh on the minds of many as such people must cease from making reckless comments that undermine the country’s fragile peace.
According to him, insecurity scares away potential investors, undermines development and deepens the country’s existing economic woes.
“We already have problems of economic hardship and then you want protest to resolve that? It will only get worst; if you are not careful the small investors you have here might just run away,” he posited.
Despite the challenges the nation faces at the moment, he asserted that the country has made tremendous gains in the maintenance of peace and security over the years such effort he believes must be supported at all fronts.
The former Montserrado District #14 representative independent candidate was speaking Tuesday, May 14 during an interaction with cross-section of young people at the Center for the Exchange of Intellectual Opinions (CEIO) on Carey Street. At this center, Liberians gathered there to discuss happenings in their land.
Making specific reference to the much-publicized June 7 “#SavetheState” planned protest, Muka-Kamara noted that regardless of political differences, there should be no reason why any Liberian will want to undermine this fragile peace.
Though he welcomed a peaceful protest, he argues that issues prompting the June 7 protest can easily be resolved through dialogue instead of people assembling on the streets to scare the small investors and international partners.
“I have said repeatedly that the protesters have issues which in my mind can easily be resolved because their intent of a peaceful protest might just go wrongly,” he asserted.
“We fought a civil war for 14 years; took guns against each other; what can we boast off? What are the so-called achievements? What did our children benefit and where are we as a country?” he questioned his audience.
Muka-Kamara emphasized that the nation’s dark history should serve as an experience in that no matter how bitter Liberians are as a people. “Liberians must seek dialogue and talk their issues through because violent did not help us in the past neither will it now or in the future,” he opined.