By: Peter Dennis
Desk Editor

IPNews-Bopolu City: Several chiefs and elders in Gbarpolu County have pledged their fullest commitment to the senatorial bid of incumbent Armah Zolu Jallah.

According to them, senator Jallah has been a symbol of unity, peace and commitment since he tasted national position.

The elder council believes that when senator Jallah is not retained, Gbarpolu County will suffer developmentally.

“The county has benefited numerous developments through the efforts of Senator Jallah. He is a committed leader and a servant. The Senator made us to have a county status. I don’t even see a reason why he will not be retained” the local chiefs and elders admitted.

They named the construction of feeder and major roads, provision of scholarships across the country, construction of schools across the county, building the human resource capacity of young people through extended means, the provision of rice mills machines across the six (6) administrative districts of Gbarpolu, among several others as tangibles he needs to be retained at the Liberian senate.

“In 2013, Sen. Armah Zolu Jallah provided Micro finance in the sum of one million to women in Beatoe, Zuo, Gbarma vaye town, Parker’s town, Maboi town and many others, a gesture that they are still benefiting. Sen. Jallah in 2016 and 2018, donated rice mills to Yarngaya and Dewah clan, to ease the tension of processing rice in these areas.

In 2017, Sen. Jallah constructed a road from former VP farm to Macca town in Gbarma district and also rehabilitated Gbinie village to Yarngaya road” the chiefs and elders told the Independent Probe Newspaper.

“We as old people can’t allow his effort to be sapped. We will do our best to talk to our children across the county” they pledged.

They also hailed his legislative performances over the years describing him as a complete access to the people of Gbarpolu.

The local chiefs and elders told this station that they further intend to use their resources to motivate electorates ahead of December 8 for continuity.

The citizens’ quests come after a promise made by Senator Armah Zolu Jallah to install a ferry over the St. Paul River to connect Bong and Gbarpolu counties.

They averred that when the St. Paul River is fully bridged, it will further boost the economy of both counties.
“When ferry comes here, we will start to see cars carrying our local goods and other commodities to the Monrovia for commercial purposes from these towns and villages for the first time in our life.

We will also start to see ambulances coming for sick patients and carrying them. It will be a lifetime opportunity and achievement for us” the citizens asserted.

According to them, the senator has a rubber farm that is providing job for over 150 workers; a palm farm that is providing jobs for over 400 workers; a two hundred bed room hotel in Bopolu City that has over 100 workers; a water factory that has over 20 workers; and a radio station that is providing job for over 10 persons, among others.

The elders and chiefs council believes these different developmental undertakings of Senator Jallah can’t go unnoticed adding that it has already paved his way for his second term senatorial bid comes December 8.

Gbarpolu County has three electoral districts (Bopolu, Gouwolalai, and Gbarma), with six administrative districts (Bopolu, Gouwolalai, Gbarma, Kongba, Bokomu and Belle).
Gbarpolu is a county created in 2001 from the territory previously known as Lower Lofa County.

The county is one of the newest of Liberia’s fifteen political sub-divisions. The Seat, Bopolu City is famous as the home and final resting place of King Sao Boso of the kingdom of Suehn-Bopolu, who resolved the conflict between the settlers of the Mississippi Colonization Society and the natives paving the way for their co-existence in the coastal areas.

Prior to the creation of Gbarpolu as a county, Armah Jallah was a politician and member of the National Patriotic Party (NPP) in lower Lofa County. He contested and replaced Cllr. Eddington Varmah as Senator of Lower Lofa in a by-election where he won by about 70%.

The creation of Gbarpolu was the result of a pledge he made in the by-election to replace Eddington Varmah.

Senator Armah Zolu Jallah is an advocate of social Justice. He specifically opposed the Strategic Commodity Bill intended to nationalize all private rights in the country and the new Forestry reform Law of Liberia, intended to expropriate private property rights to logging companies.

He also supported the bill for the establishment of a National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) intended to bring experienced personnel into the security sector of the country.

Senator Armah Zolu Jallah advocated for reform to the act creating the National Commission on Human Rights to conform to international standards, and advocated for a small regulatory government with a large market economy.