As They Vow To Reject Him, Come December 8
By Emmanuel Mafelah, mafelahemmanuel29@gmail.com
Some citizens and residents in Bong County have vowed to reject the senatorial bid of the Council of Patriot (COP) acting Chairman, Menipakei Dumoe barely five months to the special senatorial election in Liberia, described him as non senatorial material.
In separate interviews with journalists on Wednesday June 17, 2020, the citizens many of whom are commoners stated that Domue lack moral, integrity and the political will to represent the people of Liberia central Bong County at the house of elders.
The citizens’ frustration came a day after Mr. Dumoe declaration on a local community radio station (Super Bongese FM 104.9MHz) morning magazine program, SUNRISE on Tuesday June 16, 2020 in Gbarnga, Bong County.
The aggrieved citizens added, “Why will Mr. Domue want to get popular at the expanse of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) led government headed by President Dr. George Manneh Weah.
This is a man who once used the social media including other national platforms to ask the Liberian government to distribute AK47 to the Liberian people instead of food under the government Stimulus Package, Henry Willie, age 47, and a resident of Millionaire Quarter community said.
Mr. Domue in a face book post in early May of this year posted, “we don’t need free bags of rice. I say we the poor in Monrovia need AK47s so our leaders can take us seriously.”
After his insightful statement, Domue was arrested by the Liberian government through the Ministry of Justice for questioning where he was detained for days at a prison facility in Monrovia.
Mr. Willie worried that electing the Council of Patriot (COP) Acting Chairman (Menipakei Dumoe) at the Liberian Senate is disastrous and only intended to enrich himself including his family members, friends, love ones and the some members of the COP.
Another resident of the County, J. Howard Mattaldi Jr. want citizens of the county to reject Domue on ground that he doesn’t have a valid voter Identification Card for Bong County.
He continued, “My own COP man Dumoe does not have a voting ID card for Bong County for the pending 2020 senatorial election. He is a registered voter of Montserrado county electoral district #9.
In order to bring developmental growths to your people, you must be an identify citizen of the area in which you are outing to represent. How can Domue conceptualize said debate to the vehement stands? The upper house is not a CASINO.”
Thomas Marley, a resident of District #2 in the County said he will go from districts to districts to inform citizens to deny the COP’s Acting Chairman senatorial quest comes December 8, 2020.
He added, “We will not elect people in this election base on sympathy. The COP that Domue comes from what have they done for the Liberians people before we talk about Bong county.
The COP is one of several groups in the country that continues to create confusions under this government.”
Mr. Marley want Domue concentrate on creating and providing the enabling environments for the livelihood improvement of the ordinary people.
At current, some notable names that have immerged in the corridor of the County for the senatorial include, former Ambassador to the US Mexico and Canada, Jeremiah C. Sulunteh, Former Agriculture Minister, Dr. Mogana Flomo, Liberia’s Deputy house Speaker (Bong County Electoral District #2 representative) Prince K. Moye, former Development Education Network Liberia (DEN-L) Executive Director, Dorathy K Tomann, Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment (LACE) Technical Team Manager and former Federation of Liberian Youth (FLY) President, Mohammed A. Nasser including the Incumbent Senator, Henry Willie Yallah.