Following weeks of helping students settled their financial obligations with the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), the opposition Coalition For Democratic Change is calling on the Government of Liberia and other non-governmental institutions to help ease the financial burden of over 15,000 students that is expected to sit this year public exam.
According to the CDC, it would have love to settled all of the students WAEC fees but it seems almost impossible for just a political institution with no outside financial support to incur all the burdens.
The party described as “extremely serious” the continuous influx of senior high school students at both their political leader home and its headquarters in Congo Town.
“For the last three weeks, our political leader, Amb. George M. Weah has been helping to settle some students WAEC fees. This we believed encouraged more students who will be sitting this year public exam to always be at our party headquarters,” CDC Youth-Wing Chairman, Jefferson T. Koijee told some students who were at the party’s headquarters on Monday, November 20, 2017.
“Our political leader, for the last three weeks, undertook this huge responsibility from his own pocket and we believed he could do more but with the numbers growing day by day, we think it is time for the Government of Liberia and other NGO’s to intervened,” he accentuated.
According to Koijee, a CDC’s government when elected into office will ensure such financial obligations by senior high school students are holistically settled with young Liberians also having access to free and compulsory education.
He said unlike the present administration were the parents of the students do not have job, a George Weah leadership, will create job opportunities were parents will be able to explore and gather money for their children school fees.
Koijee explains “This is why we continue to say give us power and we will not fail you. This initiative and many others our political leader did in helping Liberians and it should be an evident of what the CDC is capable of doing when we are giving the leadership of this country”.
