Former Vice President and Stander bearer of the Unity Party (UP) Amb. Joseph Nyuma Boakai, has indicated ‘marginalization or exclusion’ as serious impediment to national unity and at the same time called President George Manneh Weah to use his few months in office to take bold and decisive steps and policy action to unify Liberians.
The UP Standard bearer made this known on Saturday, May 14, 2022 on his official Facebook page when he issued his unification day statement to the people of Liberia on the occasion marking the Country’s National Unification Day, a day set aside by an act passed in 1960 to recognize benefits that the unification and integration policy brought to the nation, Liberia. This is observed on the 14th of May every year.
“Today’s Unification Day celebration comes at a time when the former Peace Ambassador under the Unity Party-led administration is now President of Liberia. Being fully in charge in his fifth year in office, we can only still hope that the President will use the remaining months to take bold and decisive steps and policy actions aimed at unifying Liberians; for this was the intent and essence of the foundation laid by former President William V.S.Tubman, VP Boakai stated in his Unification Day Message during the weekend.
He indicated further that the magnitude of depravation of basic human rights by State actors led to the promulgation of the National Unification and Integration Policy.
In his message, VP Boakai intimated while Liberians celebrate the aspiration of the policy of national unification and integration, it is cognizant to pay tribute to the late President William V.S. Tubman, whose vision brought national attention to issues of disparity, division and exclusion in the governance of our country.
According to the former VP as Liberian Celebrate Nation Unification Day, it is good for the citizens to soberly reflect and remind themselves that it is befitting to celebrate the individual rights to think different and be different without enduring prejudice, marginalization or exclusion.
He stressed the need for Liberians to celebrate their difference in tribe, in gender, in religion and in party association, for these are inalienable rights that no one can deny anyone of.
The UP Standard bearer pointed out that regardless of the perceived differences; Liberians are one people with shared values of a common citizenship. We are all the same- nobody is different and Liberia belongs to all of us, he added.
Reported by: Stephen G. Fellajuah
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