The National Youth League of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) has vowed to peacefully assemble on January 22, 2024 at an unspecified location to demand justice for all innocent CDCians allegedly “killed” by the Unity Party (UP); Cynthia Quinisier reports.
Speaking at a news conference on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 at the national headquarters of the CDC, the Youth Chairman of the party, Emmanuel Mulbah Johnson, said, “The youth league is aware of how the Liberia National Police (LNP) has been infiltrated and politically weaponized by President-elect Joseph Boakai to deny innocent families justice for the killing of scores of CDCians.”
Chairman Johnson called on all CDCians to remain committed to the ideology of the CDC and continue to remain the beacon of hope that Liberians can count on.
“We have witnessed for the past few months, before and after the elections, the mass killing of partisans of the CDC by the death squad militia of Unity Party. Those martyred comrades, which include, but are not limited to, partisans Aloysius Barh, killed in Nimba under the direct instruction of Vice President-elect Jeremiah Koung; Tamba Momoh and Josiah Gayduo, killed in Foya, Lofa County; and partisan Joshua Solomon, who was killed a few days ago. All these names were allegedly killed under direct instruction of President-elect Joseph Boakai,” Johnson alleged.
Meanwhile, the CDC Youth League says it strongly believes that Representative Fonati Koffa’s election as Speaker will cause the National Legislature to gain its independent status, in order to exercise its legislative responsibilities without fear or favor.
“This will serve as a genuine step toward putting an end to the culture of imperial presidency and ushering in a Legislature of robust oversight, adequate representation and proper lawmaking,” he stated.
The CDC Youth League used the occasion to urge the next government to make use of existing audit reports and, if need be to conduct a forensic audit of the out-going government officials for the past six years, conduct the audit.
“We believe that accountability breeds national trust and transparency—a feat the CDC government has achieved over the past six years with consistent periodic audits of the consolidated account and the strengthening of the internal audit at various MACs, which has created control and internal transparency and thus eliminating any act of corruption in public service for the past six years,” Johnson continued.