The student community and the first-time voters of Margibi County have underscored the need for continuity in national leadership, noting that there is no need for changing the George Weah leadership given the landmark development initiatives being carried out across the country.
An eloquent first-time female voter, who spoke on behalf of the student community and first-time voters of Margibi County on Wednesday, August 30, 2023, said they were delighted over President Weah’s visit to their county.
She said, “The students and first-time voters would like to seize the opportunity to recount the numerous development achievements of George Weah’s administration, outline why we are voting and how we are informed about issues in our country. The truth of the matter is that, despite the many barriers that the administration has faced and the global crisis around the world, yet your administration was able to do the following for the many low-income families: paying WAEC fees in all schools in Liberia, reducing the cost for parents; improving over 136 junior and senior secondary schools in the republic; the on-going construction of the model schools in Francis Lewis Farm community; the introduction of digital learning classrooms in public schools, with extension to private schools, etc.
“Conclusion: given these landmark achievements, therefore, Your Excellency, we the students and first-time voters of Margibi County deem it necessary for continuity; in other words, no need for change. With this, we pledge our support,” the spokesperson of the students and first-time voters noted.
She was speaking in Kakata, Margibi County, when President George M. Weah and entourage visited the county on Wednesday on his CDC Victory Campaign.
Kakata saw the influx of a human tsunami, with the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) senatorial candidate of Margibi County, Nathaniel Falo McGill, leading an array of partisans and supporters from Schiefflin Township.
Mounting the stage amidst political chanting and battle cries, His Excellency President George Manneh Weah praised the people of Margibi County for the warm reception and entreated them to prove their love for him at the ballot box.
While in Kakata, President Weah broke ground for the construction of a new hospital in place of the C.H. Rennie Hospital, which was destroyed in a fire disaster. The 150-bed facility will be situated in the old hospital compound, as part of the President’s commitment following the fire incident to construct a larger state-of-the-art structure in Margibi County.
The construction of the hospital, President Weah said, demonstrates his commitment to the people of Margibi County, and a testament to his government’s determination to cater to the health needs of Liberians.
President Weah also dedicated the newly constructed gouging units built by his administration for use by the hospital staff.
He used the opportunity to visit and interact with at-risk youths currently undergoing rehabilitation at the hospital, and urged them to keep to the decision they made to leave drugs.
“We were once in the ghetto, but the day we decided to change, we stood by that. No one will change you, but yourself,” he said.