—-Erects Intelligence and Protection Units, Others

IPNEWS: In the aftermath of the Tuesday’s, July 26, fracas involving the Student Unification Party-SUP, and aggressors of the CDC-COP, bells of the pre-rice riot organizers, including University Professor, Alaric Tokpa, is again calling for an immediate increment of support for the NDC Intelligence and Protection Units, including the activation of the Medical Emergency Response Teams around Liberia.

Alaric Kormu Tokpa is a Liberian politician and political scientist who was a founding member of the Progressive Alliance of Liberia, PAL, alongside River Geee County Senator Commany Wesseh, and former Defense Minister Brownie Samukai, that stage the infamous 1979 rice riot that led to the overthrow of slammed Liberian President William Richard Tolbert.

Tokpa ran alongside George Klay Kieh in the New Deal Movement and, as a pair, received 0.5% of the vote in the 11 October 2005 presidential election. Tokpa has been pursuing a Ph.D. at Clark Atlanta University. As of 2002, Tokpa was the acting Chairman of the Department of Political Science at the University of Liberia.

In a statement issued in Monrovia over the weekend, the opposition National Democratic Coalition (NDC) frowned on the ineffective and tyrannical management of Liberia by the George Weah government and denounced the breakdown of security in the country.

NDC also lamented that the meeting assessed the deteriorating national security environment under the CDC autocracy of President George Weah.

“Thus, the meeting of NDC participants unanimously decided to encourage the national leadership of the NDC to pay close attention to the demands of the times by: (1) immediately increasing support for the NDC Intelligence and Protection Units and (2) activating Medical Emergency Response Teams around Liberia.” The statement noted.

The statement further indicated that the meeting expressed concern that the legislative and presidential elections of 2023 in Liberia are crucial for the healthy survival of the country.

“In that regard, the meeting decided that the North America Chapter of the NDC will strongly stand in the forefront of the mobilization of support for the participation of the DAL in election 2023 for the main purpose of ending the cruel administration of Mr. George Weah, the dictator,” the statement noted.

According to the statement, the meeting hailed the participation of the NDC in the organization of the Democratic Alliance of Liberia (DAL) and encouraged the NDC national leadership to continue to participate in the organization of the DAL.

Accordingly, the meeting further emphasized the need for the NDC to continue to work with other political parties and Liberians in the mobilization of the opposition around the interest of the country and the Liberian people.

Additionally, the NDC disclosed that at its “Second Consultative Meeting” of the North America Chapter in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States of America strongly condemned the brutal attack by the Weah dictatorship on the peaceful protestors of the Student Unification Party (SUP), the University of Liberia during the July 26th Fix-The-Country Campaign in front of the United States Embassy compound in Monrovia.

Accordingly, the NDC North America Consultative Meeting, therefore, called for the immediate arrest and prosecution of the planners and perpetrators of the violence against the “SUP Fix-The-Country” peaceful protestors.

The NDC statement disclosed from Friday, July 29 to Saturday, July 30, 2022, the second Consultative Meeting of the North America Chapter of the National Democratic Coalition (NDC) convened on Sharon Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the United States of America.

According to the statement, the two-day meeting which convened in an atmosphere of cordiality and mutual respect brought together Liberians of like minds from around the United States of America.

Adding the meeting is taking place in the presence of the national and international leaders of the NDC (Alaric Tokpa, NDC National Chairman, Nyaquoi Kargbo, NDC Political Leader and Dougbeh Chris Nyan, NDC International Vice Chairman), the meeting reviewed developments in the NDC North America Chapter, paid attention to progress made in the formation of the Democratic Alliance of Liberia (DAL), and studied ways of involving diaspora Liberians in the DAL process.