Bomi County Representative-Candidate in the just-ended by-election for district #1, Armah V. Boakai, has descended on lawmakers of the county.
The Bomi County former Representative-Candidate stated that over the past years, since the election of lawmakers, they have not been working in the interest of the citizens of the county.
Boakai stated that the citizens of Bomi County elected their lawmakers to put the citizen’s interest first, above their personal matters, but this has not been the case.
Addressing newsman over the weekend in the county, former Representative-Candidate Boakai alleged that over the years the people of Bomi County have been ill-treated by the Mano Palm Plantation, and lawmakers of the county have not been making any effort to address the issues the citizens of Bomi are faced with in relations to Mano Palm Plantation. He alleged that “employees working at the Mano Palm Plantation are living in total slavery”.
The Bomi County former Representative-Candidate described lawmakers of the county as heartless leaders who are at the Capitol Building only after money to enrich themselves at the detriment of the citizens of Bomi County.
He told newsmen in the county that lawmakers of the county only come around the citizens when there is election, which he said is wrong.
According to him, lawmakers are not making any effort to pressure the Mano Palm Plantation to adhere to their social cooperates responsibility to the county. The former Bomi County Representative-Candidate observed that they, as the emerging leaders of the county, wil redeem the citizens of the county, and vowed not to stop the advocacy for the citizens of Bomi against the Mano Palm Plantation.
He stated that, despite the fact that he was defeated in the by-election of Bomi’s electoral district #1, he remains committed to engaging his people regularly.
He stated that what he has started is not about politics, noting that the wellbeing of the citizens of Bomi needs to be sought first.