ALVIN WORZI
Africa-Press – Liberia. Lusinee F. Kamara, the presidential candidate of the All Liberia Coalition Party (ALCOP) has released his manifesto ahead of the 2023 election, promising capable and transformative leadership.
Kamara said an ALCOP administration will seek to assemble a government of inclusion that will endeavor to pull Liberians out of poverty and illiteracy and project on the path of total development in a spirit of national unity—promising to make Liberia a secured, healthier and an educated society.
In the manifesto released on Tuesday, August 15, at the headquarters of the party, the former Finance Minister listed seven priority areas his administration would concentrate on if elected president in 2023.
The ALCOP manifesto titled, “Manifesto for National Transformation, Development, and Progress,” focuses on healthcare, education, infrastructure, peace and justice, economic policy, national security, freedom and comprehensive housing development program for Liberia.
Kamara indicated that his party is prepared to provide the requisite leadership, capable of transforming Liberia to a modern nation when given the mantle of authority on October 10.
“We are also prepared to address the socio-economic needs of the Liberian people, embark on institutional reforms, and instituting policy measures to eliminate crimes in society,” he said.
“ALCOP is poised to resuscitate Liberia’s agriculture, education, social security, and improve our infrastructure to acceptable standards if elected comes October 10, 2023.
The manifesto also stressed the restructuring of the polity through effective legal and institutional reforms to entrench the rule of law, aggressively fight corruption, reduce cost of governance, and establish an honest and efficient governance system.
Kamara also noted that the construction of public, community and all major roads across the country, and addressing electricity infrastructure will be key to his administration if elected.
“It is difficult to make excuses, especially after 20 years since the civil conflict ended, that Liberia cannot still supply constant electricity to homes, businesses and industries, multinational companies, public corporations including Robert International Airport. Our airport is perhaps the only Airport in the world that does not have electricity leading from the capital,” he said.
The manifesto also captured the protection of women and children, whom Kamara said “must be protected, educated and empowered through our governance structures.”
It is no secret, he added, that Liberia’s infrastructure deficits are increasingly huge with limited resource allocations and the lack of national priorities for infrastructural development.
ALCOP is, however, the first political party that has publicly unveiled a national manifesto ahead of the 2023 Presidential and Legislative elections.
Kamara said at the unveiling ceremony that Liberia still has over 9,943 kilometers of road in ruins that require serious national attention. “Similarly, electricity supplies are still inadequate within Monrovia and its environs and we intend to ensure that you have interrupted supply and affordability,” he emphasized.
Liberia’s electricity infrastructure, Kamara indicated, must effectively address the issues that include transmission and distribution; equipment such as power transformers, voltage regulators, circuit breakers, switchgear, capacitors, fuses, controls, arresters, conductor, as well as electric grid control technologies.
On the issue of healthcare, he said his government will not only make healthcare available, but affordable, accessible and standardized. “We also want an educated society where education is made free, mandatory, accessible and standard,” Kamara said.
ALCOP has the best of strategies to build a climate-resilient and sustainable food supply across Liberia, Kamara boasted. “We will promote county agriculture specialization and food production, build food industries, efficient marketing programs, and local trade systems to transform agricultural and rural economies,” he said.
“Our nation is entangled in a situation of poverty and hunger, which needs our collective efforts and resolve to decisively address this protracted menace lies in our presidency. We will accelerate production capacity across Liberia through the construction of modern market systems and commercialization; designing National synergies between production, demand and supplies of agriculture products,” he said.
Commenting on the policy framework on Gender and Crime, Kamara said there is an urgent need to strengthen existing National Gender laws and policy framework that create and strengthen gender responsive structures, provide mechanisms for gender mainstreaming and empowering women and vulnerable groups.
“Women and children have suffered threats and abuses either with minimum checks or lack of comprehensive but decisive programs for redressing the risks of kidnapping, robbery, murders, drug offences, sexual coercion, childhood sexual abuse, rape, human trafficking and physical violence against women and children,” he said. “This is why there is an urgent need to strengthen existing National Gender laws and policy frameworks that create and strengthen gender responsive structures, provide mechanisms for gender mainstreaming and empowering women and vulnerable groups.”
“We will also work to enhance women’s and girls’ empowerment in accordance with the Strategic Development Goal-five (SDG-5), aimed at achieving gender equality by ending all forms of discrimination, violence and any harmful practices against women and girls in the public and private spheres,” he said. “My administration will certainly call for collective participation of women, with equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of political and economic decision-making in Liberia.”
Kamara added he is ready with the party agenda and vision to address Liberia’s infrastructure deficits including roads and Bridges, while remodeling resource allocations towards road infrastructure development.
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