Monrovia-The Liberia People Democratic Party (LPDP) has been alarmed over what it termed, a “retrogressive tendency” in the country’s democracy, urging the Joseph Nyuma Boakai leadership to desist from the said act.
In a communication issued on Saturday, August 17, in Monrovia, the LPDP expressed grave concern over how said proceeding is speedily taking root in the governance of the state, noting that if not checkmated and halted, it might land the country into “uncontrollable chaos” with the magnitude of paralyzing normal activities nationwide.
As a result, the party wants President Boakai to see the need to put an immediate halt to the said attribute of his government.
“President Boakai needs to wake up and arrest the situation with vigor.
As Liberians, particularly political and civic organizations are yet to comprehend the
a shocking wave of missteps in policy decisions and encroachments on the Rule of Law, as well as
the infringement of fundamental rights to free speech, which was upheld by former
Presidents Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and George Manneh Weah, seem to be a new dimension which the Rescue Mission has packaged for Liberians,” LPDP said.
This, the opposition-based political party believed, is sad and must be discouraged.
The LPDP maintains that the dismissals of nine (9) civil servants at the Monrovia City
Corporation (MCC), for what it dubbed “simply expressing their opinions” against how
the country that title to is being governed is wrong, unconstitutional, and should have never been contemplated by the regime.
The LPDP believes that well-meaning Liberians everywhere are disappointed and
grieving over the deliberate and unlawful action of the CSA boss to deprive some
Liberian citizens from enjoying their constitutional rights under Article 18 of the 1986 Constitution, by “preferring people not based on merit, but purely based on partisanship.”
LPDP sees this as “unacceptable and dangerous” to Liberia’s nascent democracy and the peaceful coexistence of the socio-political co-existence
“If this was wrong yesterday, it is also wrong
today,” LPDP intoned.
On this note, the LPDP wants President Boakai to urgently take siege of the matter and reinstate the affected government employees who they speculated, have been “wrongfully dismissed” for criticizing the Boakai leadership and his officials as alleged by some agents of the Executive.
The LPDP further viewed instructions from the CSA Director General, Josiah Joekai as being extreme, adding that it could label President Boakai as intolerant to alternative views, which is an anti-democratic tenet.
Similarly, the LPDP added that considering the concerns raised, the Legislature should also
put aside partisan divides and protect the country by protecting and upholding the
Constitution of Liberia, through the exercise of their oversight responsibility as enshrined in the 1986 Constitution.
