—-Labels Them as “Criminals”
IPNEWS: Wednesday afternoon was one of the terrible moments for both Finance and Development Ministers Samuel Tweh and closest colleague Nathaniel Mcgill, Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, when angry students chased them out off the premises of the State-run University of Liberia.
According to the angry students, the pairs are extremely ‘corrupt public officials’ that should not be permitted consciousness of the Liberia society.
The incident begun minutes following the arrival of the two Ministers on the main campus of the University of Liberia, in an apparent intend to inspect ongoing roads rehabilitation, when crowd of students marching towards them chanting SUP revolutionary slogans.
The two ministers were labeled as thieves, through slogans chanted by the group of students from SUP, asking the ministers to leave the campus immediately.
The two Ministers are being accused by the students for the backwardness of the University, claims the pairs have repeatedly denied.
Meanwhile, the President of the Republic, Dr. George Manneh Weah, has dispatched a high-power delegation headed by the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Hon. Nathaniel Farlo McGill as a Special Envoy, to the State of Israel and the Vatican.
The delegation headed by Minister McGill, which leaves the country Wednesday, June 1, 2022, includes Hon. Mawine G. Diggs, Minister of Commerce and Industry; Hon. Jeanine M. Cooper, Minister of Agriculture; Hon. Ledgerhood Julius Rennie, Minister of Information, Culture Affairs, and Tourism; Hon. Henry B. Fahnbulleh, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs; and Hon. Jefferson S. Kanmoh, National Security Advisor.
Minister McGill, as Special Envoy, will also visit other European Countries under the President’s mandate.
Meanwhile, the Liberian Chief Executive, who is still out of the country, has designated the Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Hon. Samuel D. Tweah, Jr., to act as Chair of the Cabinet in close consultation with the Vice President of Liberia and via telephone with the President of Liberia, Dr. Weah.
In a related development, President Weah is expected to depart the United Arab Emirates (UAE) today, June 1, 2022, for Ghana to attend the Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
