BUCHANAN, Grand Bassa – Buchana City Grand Bassa County was a place of joy as over 500 women in the city turned out in their number to attend a ceremony intended to announce a launching of a loan scheme in the county by the Political Leader of the Movement for Progressive Change, Simeon Freeman.
By Edwin Genoway, [email protected]
The loan is expected to enable businesswomen in the county to improve their businesses among others.
Mr. Freeman expressed commitment in improving the business climate of Grand Bassa County.
The MPC political Leader had launched the loan scheme for business women within the Peace Island community in Monrovia and its environs before moving to Grand Bassa.
The loan is interest-free and benefiting individuals are expected to be given additional money above the set threshold.
Mr. Freeman said due to the bad handling of the economy in Liberia by leaders in charge has led to the suffering of the Liberians business community.
Informing the public about the scheme in Buchanan City over the weekend, the youth Chairman of the MPC, James Freeman, said the MPC political leader will continue to support development in the county.
“Most of these women benefiting from the loan are single mothers, and our political leader Simeon Freeman is very passionate to alleviate the people from poverty,” he said.
He explained that the launch of the loan is a stepping stone for women in that part of the country, saying, “our political leader has been giving money to people as loan around the country starting with Montserrado County. He has been giving money out for the past four years in the counties and Monrovia respectively.”
James thanked the people of Bassa for turning out en mass and said in subsequent time Mr. Simeon Freeman will appear in the county to speak to the people.
As launching of the loan was being announced in Buchanan City by the MPC team women were seen dancing and singing in a jubilant mood as they also pledged their support for him in upcoming elections in October 2023.
One of the expected beneficiary communities, Gunnigar Town, thanked Mr. Freeman and his MPC for the loan.
Speaking on behalf of her colleagues, Madam Martha Kennedy, 65, joyfully praised the MPC family for the news of the loan and said Grand Bassa County is one of the right places to help, because according to her, there where Mr. Freeman’s mother hails from.
“We are not ungrateful, we will pledge our support for him when campaign starts. Mr. Simeon Freeman, out son, has been helping us in the county, he built and opened all our roads that were closed,” she said.
Josephine Garjay is another lady from Buchanan that attended the program and called on Mr. Freeman to not listen to those she described as ‘failed politicians’ in Grand Bassa County.
“We don’t know how to thank Simeon Freeman for his good work in Buchanan Grand Bassa County, as he is helping us, there will be lot of failed politicians who will want to politicize his good work done, but we beg him not to listen to them,”
“They have been around in the county for long and we have not benefiting anything good from them, besides bringing each other down in the name of politics, unlike Simeon who has deemed it necessary for the common people to benefit, Amos Barcon, a youth in attendance at the program noted.
Barcon thanked Mr. Freeman for his gesture and what he has done, describing it as unprecedented.