Former Montserrado Senatorial Candidate Sheikh Al- Moustapha Kouyateh is expected to join the race of presidential aspirants comes 2023 Presidential and Legislative race.
The one-time Civil Rights Advocate and the leader of the Liberia First Movement is expected to announce his ambition to contest in the upcoming presidential elections for the higher seat of the Nation.
Kouyateh who contested twice for the senatorial seat of Montserrado County and lost both in 2011 and 2017 Presidential and legislative elections respectively has been heavily involved into active activism in Liberia for the past six to seven years.
Kouyateh has been seen as a civil rights advocate since the ascendancy of President George Weah to the higher seat of the Land.
Kouyateh was among individuals who organized the recent #Fix-The-Country protest that caught the attention of many Liberian both in and out of the country..
He has also been called for the establishment of War and Economic Crimes Court in the country as a means of ending corruption in Liberia.
Mr. Kouyateh said as a Liberian he cannot sit and allow Liberians keep living in poverty and the Weah-led Administration has done nothing to put it under control.
He said Liberians hardly eat on a daily basis and also the government’s failure to provide jobs for it citizens is making them to beg from street to street throughout the Country.
The human rights Advocate said when elected to the Presidency of Liberia he will make sure the establishment of the War and Economic crimes Court in Liberia be done in order to give justice to those who died during the civil war.
He said Liberians should see him as a passionate Liberian calling for Justice not as a means of going after individuals as it have been perceived by others, but they should join him and other Liberians who are championing the cause for social justice.
“The 14 years civil war unrest has carried our country back to the doldrums and it is time that we as Liberians need to come back as it was done some years back when many of us joined the movement for the establishment of the War and Economic Court”.
The Liberian businessman-turned-politician said “it’s time we come together for us to celebrate establishment of the Court if that is done people who committed crime against the state will pay for their actions.”
According to him, the issue of jobs creation will be high on his agenda, as well as Education, Better Health Care for the people of Liberia, Equal Justice for All, massive Development and a Corruption-free Government. By Taisiah K. Merfee
