Monrovia – With elections fever getting hot as Liberia approaches the October 10, 2017 Elections, Presidential Candidate Dr. Togba Nah Tipoteh has called upon the people of Liberia to elect candidates who have a good record of representing the people of Liberia.
Dr. Tipoteh said that it is most important to make this point at this time because too many people are endorsing candidates who do not have a good record of promoting the interest of the people of Liberia.
Dr. Tipoteh made his call when he was commenting on the wave of political rallies endorsing political candidates for the October
Elections.He expressed the view that the people have themselves to blame for the longstanding and widespread poverty that they continue to undergo because they elect candidates who use the people’s money to push their personal interests rather than the interest of the people who elected them.
This is why Dr. Tipoteh has called upon the people to correct their mistakes by voting for candidates who are not for themselves but for the people.
Dr. Tipoteh made his call in a Statement issued over the weekend, when he pointed out the different types of candidates who have records of doing things against the interest of the people of Liberia.
The first type of these candidates is the group that has a record of sending children to their deaths, as in the civil war that ended in 2003 in Liberia. Dr. Tipoteh said that it is well known that some 300,000 Liberians, mainly children and other young people, died in the civil war.
He went on to say that the money made from the civil war is the same money that is financing the political campaigns of this group that brought the Civil War.
Dr. Tipoteh pointed out that some persons from this group are running to be President of Liberia while others are running to be representatives in the National Legislature.
The next type of candidates is in the group that uses their government positions to spend the people’s money, taxpayers’ money, for political campaigning while giving the people the wrong impression that the money is the candidates’ own money.
What Dr. Tipoteh presented as very strange behavior is the support for government candidates when the government itself has said that it is so very corrupt that corruption has now turned into a “vampire”.
Again, Dr. Tipoteh indicated that the people have themselves to blame for their terrible conditions when they support government candidates, thereby depriving the people of better living standards.
No wonder, Dr. Tipoteh pointed out that there are more than 50 Legislators supporting the government candidate for President because they want to continue corruption that continues to make them richer while the masses get poorer.
According to Dr. Tipoteh, there is yet another type of candidates, unconstitutional candidates, those who are citizens of the United States of America or some other country, when the Constitution of Liberia calls for single citizenship, Liberian, rather than dual citizenship.
Lastly, he said that there are these candidates who come to the people only when they need the votes of the people. When they get the votes and become elected, they forget about their duty to serve the people.
Dr. Tipoteh said that with all of the wrong and illegal things going on about the electoral process, the National Elections Commission (NEC) is not doing anything to stop them.
He expressed no surprise at NEC inaction because of NEC’s own illegal actions, such as having the NEC Chairman being an American citizen, having foreigners to run as candidates in elections, having foreigners to vote in elections, using wrong names on the ballot papers and announcing publicly its preferred Political Party, the All Liberian Party (ALP) when it called ALP a “civilized” Party upon certificating the Party.
Dr. Tipoteh reminded us all at the end about the continuous support of this bad electoral process by the International Community, as seen in the financing of NEC.
Dr. Tipoteh concluded his Statement by saying that the people are not sleeping and this is why the NEC Chairman is now in court to face a case for his removal, as he is a citizen of the United States of America.