Africa-Press – Liberia. An eminent citizen of , District 10, Mr. Y. Solomon W. Watkins has called on residents of the District to ensure that in competent leaders are not elected or reelected ahead of 2023 general and presidential elections.
“Realizing that the development of our district and the improvement of the lives of our people depend primarily on the political atmosphere under which they do exist, we recommend to the resilient people of Montserrado County, District 10 to reject incompetent leaders as she has demonstrated over decades but in a more different way.
“Don’t be carried away by their physical appearances and self-pronounced overnight acquired wealth. You can’t be fooled again. Building your markets today and destroying it after election is not what you wealth. Putting food on your tables, sending your children to school now and insulting you after elections, we don’t think it’s what you want again. What you want is better policies and systems that will help address the bread and butter issues. Job creation, economic revitalization and the promotion and maintenance of peace and security of our state and people, should be our paramount concern moving forward.
“Residents of our district, leaders of our communities who are the victim of the compound complex bad governance of this district which has shown a sign of lack of leadership by those at the hand of power, it’s time to unite and speak out now. You have the right to demand what is for yours.
“We wish to sound out this wondering that District 10 is not for jokers. We need a good political atmosphere to drive the development of our country and people,” Mr. Watkins noted.
Mr. Watkins, a Liberian journalist and vision bearer of the Watkins Initiative For Nations (WIN) made the declaration on occasion marking the organization’s first nationwide engagement with journalists with focus on the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and potential threats, as well as the way forward for Montserrado County, District 10, as Liberia moves toward 2023 general and presidential elections on Friday, December 31, 2021 (New Year Eve).
According to him, it is recognized that the last two year have brought residents of the district and Liberia many challenges, remarkably the repeated waves of COVID 19 and its many associated deaths, hardship and depression, thus adding more pressure on Liberians already existing economic situation.
“But we can’t give up. Giving up today is giving up on the generation of people who believe in us. It will be about the unborn generation and those hungry and thirsty for the true liberation of a Liberia but do not have the voice to speak out to challenge the system for the development and prosperity. It is about time to put action to work and bring ideas to realities. No more time for big dreams without appropriate action.
“This is because there is a future ahead. I do believed the years to come will be a year of milestone significance for the people of our District and the Republic of Liberia signaling growth and prosperity if we take the right actions and not being deliberate to taking the same usual actions that have brought us where we are today,” Mr. Watkins intoned.
Reading the results of the SWOT analysis conducted by the Watkins Initiative For Nations, which covers health, education, security, environment, access to safe drinking water, sanitation, economic growth and holistic development of our District, including Sexual and Gender Based Violence and Human Trafficking, Mr. Watkins highlighted the followings:
Strengths
Weakness(es)
Opportunities
Threats
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