Several members of the Fullah community in Liberia, under the banner “JNB-JKK Clean-up Committee/Fullah Community”, turned out on Saturday, January 20, 2024 to join the clean-up campaign activities leading to the inauguration of Ambassador Joseph N. Boakai and Jeremiah K. Koung as President and Vice President, respectively.
Speaking at an organized program held on Ashmun Street on Saturday, a prominent Fullah youth, Abrahim Barry, on behalf of the National Fullah Governor of Liberia, Alhaji Bailo Sow (alias Supa), and Liberians from the Fullah community, extended thanks and appreciation to the JNB-JKK National Clean-up Committee for the laudable project.
Barry said, “We see this as a national call; as such, we are obliged as citizens of this country from the Fullah community to join other Liberians out here, in an effort to clean the city for the inauguration of President-elect Joseph Nyuma Boakai and Vice President-elect Jeremiah Kpan Koung. Therefore, we have assembled here this morning in the spirit of nationalism and patriotism.”
According to him, they were pleased to present to the JNB-JKK Clean-Up Committee, under the instruction of Governor Sow, through the Fullah community, a few items they had brought along with them to join the clean-up activities.
He named 10 rented dump trucks, 2 front loaders, 270 gallons of fuel, 1,000 pieces of reflector jackets, 1,000 pieces of brooms, 100 pieces of shovels, 50 pieces of rainboots, 100 pieces of cutlasses, 1,000 pieces of hand gloves and 502 packs of nose masks as items donated by the Fullah community to the JNB-JKK Clean-up Campaign Committee.
The elaborate program was attended several stakeholders of the Fullah Community, the Political Leader of the Movement for One Liberia, MacDella Cooper, and leaders of the Unity Party (UP) Alliance.