An environmental group which creates awareness and support legislation to require concession companies to respect human rights and the environment, has launched a new advocacy and sensitization movement in Monrovia, “It’s Time to Stand Together and Demand for our Insurance Benefits”.
Green Media Campaigners (GMC), through its Lead Campaigner, Steve Doito, said the movement seeks to create sensitization and ramp up support among thousands of vulnerable and affected workers who lost their insurance benefits, as a result of the Central Bank of Liberia’s June 5, 2018 action, which placed the below listed five (5) insurance companies under provisional administration: African Insurance Corporation (AICOL), Capital Express Assurance Company (CEAC), Continental General & Life Insurance Company (CGLIC), Family Dollar Universal Insurance Services INC. (FDUIS), Global Trust Assurance Company (GTAC).
In a press release issued in Monrovia over the weekend, the group said it has begun a step-by-step approach, gathering signatures and encouraging affected workers through its Facebook page and town hall-styled meetings to sign a petition demanding that the Central Bank of Liberia takes full responsibility and settles all liabilities and losses.
“The Central Bank of Liberia has woefully failed in its obligation as regulatory body under section 10.10 and 10.12 of the 2013 Insurance Act of Liberia,” Lead Campaigner, Steve Doito, stated.
The group said it is therefore encouraging signers, particularly all affected workers, to share the petition as a means of showing solidarity and strong grassroots support to seek appropriate legal redress and restitution for harm and injury.
“We believed that transparency and accountability is an essential element for building respect for human rights. Corporate crooks and thieves will have no hiding place,” Doito maintained.