By Naneka A. Hoffman
The Angie Brooks International Center (ABIC) for Women Empowerment, Leadership Development, International Peace and Security through its flagship program the Women’s Situation Room urges Liberians to maintain peaceful posture after the November 14, 2023, Presidential Runoff Election.
Speaking at the Women’s Situation Room Motorcyclists’ Peace Ride for peaceful election in Liberia on the eve of voting Monday, November 13, at the former Ducor Palace in Monrovia, Coordinator Cllr. Yvette Chesson-Wureh said Liberians should promote and maintain peace after the election, cautioning that they don’t want any Liberians dead or victimized because of elections.
Cllr. Wureh says Liberians are free to vote for whoever they want because it is their right, adding that it doesn’t matter which party they elect.
She says whichever government comes to power is for all Liberians, and they should promote and maintain the peace.
“If partisans don’t like the results of the election, they should help their political party and bring evidence so that they can also start the legal process. There is a legal process; no need to cut anybody or fight anybody, they should use the legal process”, she underscores.
Also speaking, the Chairperson of the Board of ABIC Olubanke King Akerele says Liberian youth are the future of the Nation, so they should prepare themselves for leadership.
Madam Akerele, former foreign minister of Liberia, says the youth should not allow themselves to be fooled by anyone.
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“We will die and go to hell, and we will leave your here, you people will build this Nation, and people have to continue.”
She says the only reason they are here is because people or forefathers built Liberia, noting that Cllr. Yvette Chesson–Wureh’s father, was one of those killed in 1980, but she has not given up.
Madam Olubanke King Akerele continues that youth participation and presence at the Women’s Situation Room Motorcyclists Peace Ride for peaceful election in Liberia is important because they are part of the future of Liberia.
Eminent Woman of the Women’s Situation Room, former Mayor of the City of Monrovia, Ophelia Hoff Saytumah, says the future of Liberia lies in the hands of the youth, so they should do everything to preserve the peace, saying, “That means we have to be responsible citizens of the Republic of Liberia.”
The former Mayor of Monrovia adds that peace is not something that you knock about, so it is very important that young people conduct themselves in a very peaceful manner. Editing by Jonathan Browne
