LIBERIA – The planned December 17 ‘We tired Suffering’ Rally organized by the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), has received a boost with endorsements from two political parties, and other civil groups.
Today, United People’s Party (UPP), People Liberation Party, and Disenchanted CDCians endorsed the rally. Other organizations that endorsed the planned rally are the Indigenous Movement of Liberia and the Gobarchev Market women.
The groups said they were joining in the rally to tell the CDC Government that Liberians are tired of suffering.
The Collaborating Political Parties, CPP, says no degree of threats and intimidation by government-sponsored “thugs” will stop its December 17 rally, which is intended to bring the government’s attention to issues of bad governance.
The rally is to be staged outside the SKD Sports Complex in Paynesville. Justice Minister Frank Musa Dean said it is the Constitutional right of organizers to rally to assemble and petition their representatives.
The Ministry of Youth and Sports (MYS), had earlier denied CPP the rights to the venue. The CPP comprises the opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC) and the faction of the Liberty Party, loyal to its chairman, Musa Bility insist it would hold the rally at all cost.
Organizers of the rally say they campaigning to bring 700,000 Liberians together on December 17 to tell Pres. George Weah and his government that Liberians is retrogressing and that the citizens are tired of suffering.
CPP say the rally will hold and that nothing can stop them from achieving such a goal.
“The rally is intended for the suffering masses, and those injured by the failed and inept administration of President George Weah to amplify their demands for good governance and to end the worsening economic conditions in the country,” said Ambassador Lewis Brown.
Brown, who heads the 2023 Presidential Campaign Team of Alexander Cummings, has come under a heap of attacks and criticisms by public officials since he announced the planned peaceful rally, slated for December 17.
Brown was however attacked on December 5 by some unknown men who stoned his vehicle while leaving a radio station on Capitol bypass in Monrovia.
Brown said he is not perturbed by the attacks and acts of gangsterism by youths, whom he said are being misused and abused by public officials to “attain their failed agenda of threats and intimidation against politicians and citizens opposed to bad governance, corruption, and wasteful spending of public resources.”
He said the planned peaceful rally on December 17 goes beyond political parties and involves civil society, interest groups, religious groups, as well as ordinary Liberians who are disappointed and affected by the poor performance of President Weah’s administration.
“The December 17 planned peaceful rally is a platform created by the CPP for Liberians to vent their frustration and dissatisfaction against the deteriorating economic conditions and extreme poverty in Liberia.”
If you are enjoying yourself, stay home. If you like the poor state of affairs, stay home. If you are scared, stay home. But if you are suffering and bearing more than you can carry, then the planned peaceful rally on December 17 is for you,” Brown said as he called on all Liberians, irrespective of political affiliations, to attend th
