Health, Education, Peace And Justice Tops Party’s Manifesto
PHOTO: Lusinee F. Kamara, Sr., presidential candidate of ALCOP
By Alvin Worzi, worzialvin2011@gmail.com
Less than two months Presidential and Legislative elections, former Finance and Development Planning Minister and now Presidential candidate of the opposition All Liberia Coalition Party (ALCOP), Lusinee F. Kamara, Sr. has unveiled his party’s national manifesto.
ALCOP is among 20 presidential candidates (political parties and Independent) who are in the October 10 presidential election in which the incumbent President George Weah is making his second term bid.
Mr. Kamara said his party stands ready to provide the requisite leadership, capable of transforming Liberia to a modern nation, while addressing socio-economic needs, institutional reforms, and instituting policy measures to eliminate crimes in society.
According to him, ALCOP is poised to resuscitate Liberia’s agriculture, education, social security; and improving our infrastructure to acceptable standard.
The manifesto title: National Transformation, Development and Progress has seven key components aime at transforming Liberia.
The party’s manifesto focuses on healthcare, education, peace and justice, economic policy, freedom and comprehensive housing development program for Liberia.
At the unveiling ceremony held at the party’s headquarters in Gardnerville on Tuesday, August 15, 2023, Kamara said paving public, community, and all major roads of Liberia and addressing electricity infrastructure will remain key to his administration, if elected.
Kamara said it is difficult to position any better arguments or excuses, especially after 20 years of civil conflicts, that Liberia cannot still supply constant electricity to homes, businesses and industries, multinational companies, public corporations including Robert International Airport (perhaps the only Airport in the world that does not have electricity leading from the capital to its airport in 20 years).
“Liberians girls and children must be protected, educated and empowered in our governance structures.
It is no secret that Liberia’s infrastructure deficits are increasingly huge with limited resource allocations and the lack of national priorities for infrastructural development,” Kamara said.
However, this is the first political party that has unveiled national manifesto in the 2023 Presidential and Legislative elections.
“Liberia still has over 9, 943 kilometers of road in abject ruins, requiring serious national attention for development. Similarly, electricity supplies are still inadequate within Monrovia and its environs, and we intend to ensure that you have interrupted supply and affordable,” he emphasized.
He said Liberia’s electricity infrastructure must effectively address the issues that include transmission and distribution; equipment such as power transformers, voltage regulators, circuit breakers, switchgear, capacitors, fuses, controls, arresters, conductor, as well as electric grid control technologies.
“We want a healthcare where health is available, affordable, accessible and standard. We also want the educated society where education is made free, mandatory, accessible and standard,” Mr. Kamara said.
ALCOP, he said, has the best of strategies to build a climate-resilient and
sustainable food supply across the geography of Liberia, promote county agriculture specialization and food production, build food industries, efficient marketing programs, and local trade systems to transform agricultural and rural economies.
The ALCOP Standard Bearer said that his party has the best of strategies to build a climate-resilient and sustainable food supply across the geography of Liberia, promote county agriculture specialization and food production, build food industries, efficient marketing programs, and local trade systems to transform agricultural and rural economies.
“Our nation is entangled into a situation of poverty and hunger, that our collective efforts and resolve to decisively address this protracted menace lies in our presidency. We will accelerate production capacity across Liberia by way of Building market system and commercialization; and designing National synergies between production, demand and supplies of agriculture products,” he said.
Commenting on policy framework on Gender and Crime, Kamara said women and children have suffered these threats and abuses either with minimum checks or lack of comprehensive but decisive programs for redressing the risks of kidnapping, robbery, murders, drug offences, sexual coercion, childhood sexual abuse, rape, human trafficking and physical violence against women and children.
“We have realized that there is an urgent need to strengthen existing National Gender laws and policy framework that create and strengthen gender responsive structures, provide mechanisms for gender mainstreaming and empowering women and vulnerable groups and enhancing women’s and girls’ empowerment in accordance with the Strategic Development Goal-five (SDG-5), aims at achieving gender equality by ending all forms of discrimination, violence and any harmful practices against women and girls in the public and private spheres,” he said.
Mr. Kamara said his administration will certainly call for collective participation of women, with equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of political and economic decision-making in Liberia.
The ALCOP presidential candidate added he ready with the party agenda and vision to address Liberia’s infrastructure deficits including roads and Bridges, while Remodeling resource allocations towards road infrastructure development.