-Daintowon Paybayee optimistic about replacing Saah Joseph
An outspoken young Liberian female politician, Daintowon D. Paybayee, a former Representative candidate in the Montserrado County District #13 election in 2017 says she will be a force to contend with in the up-coming By-election in this District.
This slot has now been made vacant with the recent election of its outgoing Representative Mr. Saah Joseph as Senator of Montserrado County, filling the vacancy created with the election of former Senator George Manneh Weah in the 2017 Presidential election.
She unsuccessfully ran against former Rep. Joseph in the 2017 polls.
But Ambassador Paybayee disclosed her readiness to contest in the forthcoming By-election when she granted an interview to Reporters in Monrovia a few days ago.
According to the female representative aspirant, the vacancy created by the election of former Representative Saah Joseph has cemented the pathway for her to serve the people of Montserrado County District #13 at the Liberian Legislature.
“During the 2017 elections, I contested to serve the people, but my people said that it was not the time for me to serve them. I strongly believe that this by election that is pending will be the chance for me to service. We are just waiting for the National Elections to declare campaign activities open for us to continue our campaigning,” the former United People’s Party (UPP)
District #13 Representative contender.
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As a woman, a mother, a sister and a person living with disability, she asserted that she will be well-posted to work in the direction of making sure that the rights of vulnerable groups are protected and laws enacted to benefits them as well.
Ms. Paybayee indicated that the issues of Women, Children and Persons with Disabilities as well as Youth are global concerns which need to be addressed by leaders of any country.
“youth Peace and Security Resolution of 2015, Convention on the Rights of a Child, Convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities, the Darkar Platform for Women, Security Resolution 1325 and the Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Violence against Women, etc.. As radicalization close in, there’s an urgent need to look at youth development as well as capacity building and key is their inclusion,” the young Liberian female politician said.
She also stressed: “Women education has been a challenge and they started voting which is a key participation in decision making as late as 1948 in Liberia, children selling on the streets and UNICEF reported 2016 which was on their daily bulletin on September 5 that “62% of primary school going age kids as not in school” testimonial around us”
As for persons living with disabilities, accessibility is the key to their equitable participation adding that education remains the only key to independent living for every human kind, Ms. Paybayee said.
According to her, even when persons living with disability are educated, acquiring job required accessibilities.
“ I am only a privileged child not knowing where my Families got ideas from to educate a girl with Disability as early as age 5 which is the passion to be a solution because I am not better than my colleagues on the Streets, one on the key reason I am never proud,” the articulate female politician said.
Ms. Paybayee wants to contest the upcoming District #13 Representative By-election to help address some of the key issues faced by women, children and persons living with disabilities in district 13 and Liberia in general.
The Women rights advocate said that as long she lives she remain a voice of the voiceless as a Youth, a Woman, a Person with Disability and now a Proud Mother with a Child. Report by Mark N. Mengonfia