The Student Unification Party (SUP) has called on the University of Liberia (UL) administration to stop playing game on the education of thousands of students who await their admission letters to officially enroll at the university.
SUP said it believes that proper attention should be given to these students to fit in for the new academic semester, in line with their fundamental Constitutional right to education as guaranteed by the 1986 Constitution of the Republic of Liberia. “The university must ensure to do everything possible that all of these students that await admission get their due admission letters ahead of the official opening of school,” a SUP release stated.
According to the party, “In line with the historical creed of the vanguard party, SUP shall remain ever ready and non-hesitant to come in defense of these students if their right to education is infringed and trespassed by the administration. As the ULFA and administration brouhaha is an issue of old longroot, we are calling on the administration and ULFA to find amicable alternative to settle their issue, whether through a memorandum document or any possible remedial means, to enable the over 20,000 students of the university get back to classes and resume academic services.
“While we ardently believe in the human dignity of all forces of society, especially the service men of academia in ULFA, we also believe that the students have their right to education and have also been the victims in the usual administration and ULFA brouhaha. This commotion and uproar between administration and ULFA always send students home while members of ULFA and administration get their fat wages to support their sons and daughters in local and international schools,” the release added.
SUP sent out the warning recently after successfully conducting its congress, electing a new corps of officers to stir the affairs of the 32nd Politburo and Central Committee of the party.
At the SUP Congress, the following individuals were elected to the Politburo: Cde. Kelvin Ab-lua Tuah, Chairman; Cde. Hagginson W. Kwein, Co-Chairman for Party Affairs; Cde. Alvin M. Koffa, Co-Chairman for Governmental Affairs; Cde. Mohammed S. Jalloh, Secretary General; Cde. Kelvin O. George, Assistant Secretary General; Cde. Olive Larmie, Financial Secretary; Cde. George P. Carr, Treasurer; and Cde. Mary Kerkula, Standard Bearer.
SUP said it sees the moment as a revolutionary turning point in its historical existence as a new dawn of hope and aspiration in fighting for the dignity, nobility and human decency of the ordinary Liberian masses, which have been entrusted into the hands of a new breed of not only ideological men but also ready foot-soldiers of massescracy who remain ebulliently prepared to perpetuate and prosecute the agenda of the poverty stricken masses of the Liberian people.
“On this new journey, we are fearlessly determined to stand in defense of the Liberian masses against state-produced poverty, hunger, destitution and misrule. This new leadership is committed to living up to this historical essence that inspired the foundation of the Vanguard Party. It is an unquestionable fact that the [Weah] regime is nothing but a shadow of ignorance and arrogance that needs to be fought and crunched. We remain committed to this obligation of resistance politics against the tendency of corruption, misrule and administrative decadence,” the SUP release continued.
SUP then mandated all of its stalwarts, ideologues, militants, veterans, sympathizers and affiliates to “fall behind the party’s flag in revolutionary submission and obedience to the supreme character of the party. Congress is now over and all tendencies are hereby dissolved. All militants, cadres and stalwarts must respect the sovereignty and supremacy of the party and support a singular SUP agenda. We ask all devotees of massescracy to remain energize and vitalize as a new era has dawned in the party to uphold the banner of academic freedom, social justice and peace with unhindered gallantry, bravery and audacity.”