Members Of The 3,000-Strong Liberian Community Prepare For Leadership Election
By Alfred Kollie, alfredkolliejr92@gmail.com
‘’Liberian Community in Rwanda is expected to conduct its first major elections on the 27 of June in Rwanda with a call for the establishment of Liberian Embassy in that Country’’.
The Chairperson of the Independent Elections Committee of the Liberian Community in Rwanda disclosed that all is now set for the elections in Rwanda with debates scheduled for the 23rd and 26th of June while elections is expected to take place on the 27th of June across six districts in Rwanda respectively.
Currently, there are about three thousand five hundred Liberians residing in Rwanda that are under direct supervision on the Liberian Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
According to the committee chairperson, the significance of these Elections is to institute a Leadership that will serve the Liberian Community in the absence of an embassy or an appointed consular by the diplomatic policies.
Speaking in an interview Tuesday June 20, 2023 on the line from Rwanda with our reporter, the Chairperson of the Independent Elections Committee of the Liberian Community in Rwanda, Moses Holder call for financial support toward the process noting that all is now set for the elections in Rwanda but more support is needed.
This according to them will reinforce their communication to the President of Liberia for the establishment of a Liberian embassy and help to strengthen other institutions around various countries in terms of building partnership with the media and communicating the same Agenda.
Holder maintained that the establishment of its National leadership in Rwanda will also help the government of Liberia to maintain Unity, cordial economic, political, social and transnational ties with the government of Rwanda in the absence of consular.
For his part, the Secretary General of the Independent Elections Committee of the Liberian Community in Rwanda Nelson Teah Toe called on the government through the Foreign Ministry and its embassy in Ethiopia and other officials for financial supports in having a successful election.
Mr. Toe noted that the leadership when elected, will buttressed government effort in dealing with the many challenges that the Liberian community face in Rwanda nothing that the need for embassy in Rwanda cannot be overly emphasis.