PHOTO: Journalist Mulbah Kessellie of LBS
A Liberian Journalists at the state owned Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) is now battling serious health complications at the John F. Kennedy Hospital in Monrovia and he needs urgent assistance, says the Reporters Association of Liberia (RAL).
Mr. Kessellie, who is popularly known for producing and present the news in simple Liberian English, has been a practicing broadcast Journalist for many years now.
Below is a special statement issued by the leadership of RAL headed by its President Cecelia G. Clarke today, Thursday on the worsening health condition of this Liberian Journalist.
Reporters Association of Liberia (RAL) Special Press Conference, August 18, 2022
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Good afternoon, colleagues of the press.
Thanks for showing up for this special press conference, I am happy that you are here and it shows that when we speak as a group with one voice, it tells how strong we are.
Colleagues, today is not about long speech or long talking, but we have come to seek for support for our colleagues who are on their sick beds.
Recently, an SOS Call was made by the family of Mr. Mulbah Kessellie, who is facing serious health complications at the John F. Kennedy Hospital.
Kessellie an employee of the Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) and is called “Sample English man”.
He has been at the hospital for a protracted period and according to his family what they had to underwrite the medical bills of their relative (Mulbah Kessellie) has been depleted something that pushed them to send out an SOS call to people of goodwill to help him get back on his feet.
Distinguished colleagues of the press, the sos call by our colleague and others in the past show we are underpaid as reporters in Liberia.
The reason we have called you all here is to ensure that we find means of raising funds to pay the bills of Mr. Kessellie and other colleagues who are on their sick beds.
As an institution, (RAL) we do not have money to underwrite the bills of our colleague and his upkeep in that government hospital (JFK).
To this end, we are announcing GofundMe to help raise his bills and to keep him up at the hospital until discharge.The GofundMe information will be shared on our various platforms but for now, these our back accounts 002LRD40423320307( LD) and 002USD40423320308. You may pay using these accounts. Also you may pay using mobile money count 0886712256 (Alfred Kollie RAL SG)
Friends, we are pleading with each member of the Reporters Association of Liberia to pay the amount of US2$ or its equivalent.
We are also calling on our bosses and other colleagues in the diaspora to please make payment of 50 US$ each to this fight.
Colleagues of the press, the leadership RAL will pay an official visit at the John F. Kennedy Hospital with an initial contribution collected among ourselves.
It is not much, but it is a good start.
Thanks for coming again, colleagues.