SOURCE: Liberian News Agency
By Rancy S. Teewia &Reagan S. Lebbie
MONROVIA, Aug. 1 (LINA) – The Liberian President, Dr. George Manneh Weah, has with immediate effect ordered the Ministry of Justice and the entire National Security apparatus to arrest all those involved in the violent incident on July 26, 2022.
The Liberian Chief Executive said the national security network must also ensure that those arrested face the full weight of the law.
Pres. Weah has strongly denounced the recent violence involving the two rival groups purporting to be Students of the University of Liberia campus-based Students Unification Party (SUP) on July 26, 2022.
Speaking on the State Radio on Monday, the Liberian leader noted that anyone or group that has his image on a banner in support of the ruling Party and the Government must be peaceful, respectful, and tolerant.
“I have stressed, in all my public engagements, the need to maintain the hard-earned peace that we now enjoy, and this is a cause for which I have lent personal sacrifice – as an Ambassador of Peace,” Pres. Weah emphasized.
According to him: ”Anyone or group who supports of his political ideology and love him should disengage his or herself from any form of violence.”
He further said that as the founding father of the Congress for Democratic Change, now the Coalition for Democratic Change, “We do not have any CDC-COP within our organization.” Pres. Weah noted.
“When you come to join us, you become a CDC partisan of peace, democracy, and development,” Pres. Weah stressed.
“I have also instructed the Minister of Health to ensure that all those who sustained injuries during the violent attack be given the best medical treatment at the expense of the government” Dr. Weah disclosed.
He added: ‘Liberia remains a country of laws, despite our political differences, we are one nation, one people united under God’s command.”
Meanwhile, Pres. Weah has expressed heartfelt thanks and appreciation to all Liberians and friends of Liberia alike, for the beautiful celebration of the country’s 175th Independence Day on July 26, 2022.
“I am also grateful to neighboring heads of state and other dignitaries who joined us to mark this very important milestone in our nation’s history, including President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau, President Mohammadou Buhari of Nigeria, and President Adama Barrow of The Gambia”.
Pres. Weah also seized this opportunity to thank the government and people of the United States of America for the historical gift of solidarity and to President Biden for his invitation to join him in Washington DC in December to discuss peace and development along with other African leaders.
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