PHOTO: (L-R) Incoming Liberian Chief Justice Yuoh and British PM Truss
The teenage, based group Girls Alliance for Future Leadership has congratulated British Prime minister Liz Truss and Liberia’s incoming Chief Justice for their preferments to top leadership positions in their respective countries, the group says in a statement issued in Monrovia today, Tuesday, September 6, 2022.
Girls Alliance in a statement released Tuesday, lauded the UK conservative party for electing Liz Truss as the leader of their party to replace prime minister Boris Johnson.
In the Statement the secretary general of the Alliance Patricia Davies said prime minister Truss election is a significate achievement for some degree of gender balance in the current patriarchal global governing structure and a win for women and Children across the world.
She said this is also a win for the Liberian girl child considering the British government investment in girls’ education in Liberia over the years.
At the same time, Girls Alliance is commending President George Manneh Weah and the Liberian Senate for respectively appointing and confirming Liberia’s incoming Chief Justice SieA-Nyene Gyapay Yuoh. The Secretary General of the Alliance Patricia Davies called Justice Youh’s preferment a significant achievement for Justice for women and girls in the country.
The Alliance says it is receiving Chief Justice Sie Yuoh with opened arms optimistic that the chief Justice will protect women and children especially the Liberian girl Child.
The girls release pointed to a miscarriage of Justice by the Chief Justice Francis Korpor led supreme Court in releasing the convicted murders of the late 13-year-old Angel Togba, Madea Paykue and Hans William, who have immediately fled the country. The couple is said to be living in the United States. Girls Alliance noted that hearing the appeal to that initial verdict in the case during the Ebola Crisis when no one was allowed to gather resulted in that midnight Judgement.