Increasing violence in Nimba County characterized by discharge of firearms and destruction of government and company assets is taking a toll not only on that county, but the economy and should claim the attention of all peace-loving Liberians.
It is quite unfortunate that a country that is still reeling from 14 years of devastated civil war would take delight in violence as a means of seeking redress to issues it is confronted with, as in the recent case at ArcelorMittal Liberia that left the company’s assets stolen and vandalized. This raises serious psychological question about the behavior of Liberians.Â
Last Friday’s (July 28, 2023) violence in Zolowee, electoral district two, Nimba County during execution of a search warrant by Police that left a 20-year-old man shot, a Police officer wounded and several others hospitalized, was totally unwarranted no matter what grievance citizens had.
Even worse, this is coming at a time when Liberians are just less than 80 days away from general and presidential elections on October 10th which has left the entire country politically charged with violent languages everywhere.Â
We hasten to remind that persistent violence by aggrieved citizens in Grand Cape Mount County for land and other concerns was one key reason why the Malaysian oil palm company, Sime Darby, folded and left Liberia, leaving several thousand Liberians jobless.
Today, similar actions are taking place in the same county, this time around, against Bea Mounting mining company, particularly in Kungbor and other districts marred by running battles that left a lawyer brutally attacked recently.
Aggrieved citizens of Zolowee town along the Sanniqullie -Yekepa route in Electoral District Two, Nimba went on the offense last Friday during execution of a Search Warrant issued by the Yekepa Magisterial Court on several homes in the town for missing assets that belong to ArcelorMittal Liberia.
Citizens had no reason to become violent if their consciences were clear and convinced that they had no stolen or missing items hidden inside their various homes.
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 Liberians who reside near concession areas across the country should be reminded in no uncertain terms that investors come here for a win-win agreement with government that provide employment for jobless citizens. But when concession grounds become battlegrounds, real money takes flight and leaves the economy as we experienced during the Civil War. Lest we should forget, government alone cannot provide employment. It needs investors to generate revenue for development that all Liberians yearn for. Â
Rather than resorting to persistent violence, vandalizing both private public assets, discharging firearms, and wounding people, we encourage citizens with concerns no matter how grievous, to choose roundtable in seeking redress to their grievances because we need foreign investors to keep the economy out of the toilet.
Indeed, the violence should stop in Nimba!
Nimba County is the problem in Liberia from time to time!
From late president Doe to former president Charles Taylor, Nimba County has always been the problem!
Nimbaians were the most employed Liberians in the Doe’s era yet they orchestrated violence and tribalism!
Their famous sons such as Thomas Quiwonkpa, Jackson F. Doe, Sam Dokie, Carpat Dueyene, D.K. Wonselle, and others formented tribal anarchism to wrestle power from the Krahn tribe thereby engaging in armed raids and other violence that killed AFL soldiers which provoked a Krahn tribal reprisal of violence against Nimba!
Prince Johnson is the mastermind of the violence in Nimba!
The senator is a tribal instigator of violence and hate speeches against the current Kru ethnic groups led government and south-easterners!
There are reports of.a planned attack by Prince Johmson and dissent Libetian groups mostly.based in the US and some other African countries to assassinate president Weah in Nimba during the president’s pending campaign in order to install an interim government!. These reports are very credible and are the concerns of some powerful foreign governments!
Nimba people should be very careful ! No true Liberian will tolerate another crisis because of Nimba!
Liberians will resist another foolishness from.Nimba!
Professionally, that photo should not have been published.