MONROVIA – The Student Unification Party (SUP), under the direction of its Chairman, Sylvester Wheeler has announced a bold and unprecedented initiative to assume full responsibility for repainting the University of Liberia Graduate School, citing the government’s ongoing failure to maintain the institution. In an official statement released by the SUP Bureau of Press, Propaganda, Research, and Guidance, the party accused the government of a “relentless failure and its shameless refusal to improve the learning environment at the University of Liberia.”
The statement highlights the presence of top government officials within the institution, including the Speaker of the House as a lecturer, the Deputy Speaker as a student, and the Presidential Press Secretary, Koli Fofana, as both a teacher and scholar. According to SUP, “their daily presence within these deteriorating walls is a living indictment of a government that has abandoned its duty to the nation’s premier institution of higher learning.”
SUP framed the planned repainting not as charity but as a direct political challenge. The party described it as “a bold revolutionary action, a declaration that SUP refuses to stand idle while the future of Liberian students is suffocated under the weight of incompetence and betrayal.” This move underscores the party’s broader critique of government policies, which it claims have “pushed the University to the brink.”
The statement situates the University of Liberia as more than just an academic campus, calling it “a national shrine of intellectual resistance, a sacred ground where generations of Liberians forged the courage to challenge oppression and shape the destiny of the state.” SUP criticized the government for allowing the campus to operate under “unhealthy, unhygienic, and dangerously unfit” conditions, while other state universities reportedly enjoy modern and functional learning environments.
SUP emphasized that the degradation of the university is not coincidental but deliberate. “This is not an accident. It is a calculated pattern of abandonment, a systematic attempt to weaken the quality of education and silence the critical minds that refuse to bow to power,” the statement declared. The party portrays itself as a defender of public education and the intellectual integrity of Liberia’s youth.
In the statement, SUP issued a forceful rejection of the ongoing decay and neglect. “SUP rejects this decay. SUP confronts this betrayal. SUP stands as the uncompromising force defending the soul of public education in Liberia,” the party declared, signaling a confrontational stance against government negligence.
SUP also called for broader public engagement. The statement urges students and the wider Liberian populace to support the party’s actions. “We therefore call upon the entire student populace and the broader Liberian masses to rally behind this revolutionary mandate,” the statement read, emphasizing collective mobilization as part of the initiative.
The party further promised to issue a “formal press statement, mobilizing militants, sympathizers, and the patriotic public for immediate action,” suggesting that the repainting project will be part of a larger campaign to spotlight the government’s perceived failings in education management.
The statement concluded with revolutionary rhetoric, reflecting the party’s confrontational posture: “Long live the struggle. Long live revolutionary defiance. Bold actions for a betrayed people.” The SUP’s commitment to repaint the Graduate School stands as both a symbolic and practical action aimed at challenging government negligence and asserting the party’s role as a defender of public education.
