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Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>Several Liberian and political pressure groups have threatened mass rallies and protest action against the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) government if President George M. Weah failed to arrest the current rice crisis in the country.<\/p>\n

The group which includes Economic Freedom Fighters of Liberia (EFFL) and University of Liberia campus-based Vanguard Student Unification Party (SUP) say their move is being instigated by the president\u2019s \u201ccallous and lethargic\u201d tendency toward the ongoing crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe callous and lethargic tendency of President Weah\u2019s government toward this crisis is not just a signal of administrative ineptitude but a gross demonstration of how the Liberian public administration has degenerated into the insolvency of carelessness and imbalances,\u201d the group noted adding, \u201cPresident Weah has once again shown our people how incompetent and incapable his government is in providing leadership.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

According to the group, the current Liberian state is in disorder because of poor statecraft with incompetent human agencies of the highest order that lack the discipline, thought, and requisite knowledge to administer leadership in a third-world nation like Liberia.<\/p>\n

The group further that it\u2019s saddening that Liberians are currently buying a bag of 25kg rice for four thousand five hundred Liberian dollars, while a cup of rice is sold for one hundred and fifty Liberian dollars, something which the group describes as \u201cfirst of its kind\u2019\u2019 in the country\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

EFFL and SUP also pointed out that the scarcity of and heightened increment in the price of rice is not only generating hardship for the people but has also condemned them to a shameful situation of sleeping on the street in long queues and jumping over fences and combating over who to be served first by the wholesalers.<\/p>\n

It has been over three weeks since the situation of rice shortage evolved in the country and the inimitable increment in the price of the commodity hit the country. The government has failed to give attention to the situation to properly remedy the crisis but maintains that there is enough rice in the country.<\/p>\n

But also addressing the situation at a press conference Tuesday, October 4, 2022, on the main Campus of the University of Liberia, SUP Chairman Mustapha N. Kanneh said that rice which is Liberia\u2019s staple food is a commodity with a history in the country which led to social-political eruption because of past government\u2019s inability to exercise decisive leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rice riot of April 14 1979 is a classic historical account that any serious government should learn from. Again, we are seeing another rice crisis that has evolved in such a short time and the Weah regime has been unable to provide any feasible solution so far. Since the regime has played just lip service to this plight, the crisis is pushing the people along the line of forceful mass action with the government paying little or no heedfulness to the situation\u2019\u2019 Chairman Kanneh noted.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, speaking in an exclusive interview with this paper Tuesday, October 4, 2022, the Commander-in-chief of the Economic Freedom Fighter of Liberia Emmanuel Gonquoi termed the Ministry of information statement defending the availability of rice in the country as shameful, disgusting, ridiculous and unrealistic.<\/p>\n

He said that no government plays with the day-to-day economic survivability of its citizens mostly for Liberia which has record of war, and conflict about its staple food which is a serious political commodity.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you play with the economic survivability of the people, you embrace crisis, conflict. You cannot say we have food and then you put taskforce on the street. (But) the EFFL has always been in the vanguard for advocating for Liberian and we stand with SUP in their quest to end this situation through protest. We support the protest 100% and we will make sure that our people\u2019s needs are met\u2019\u2019 he noted.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the peace and stability of Liberia, he disclosed that once the government takes food from the people\u2019s mouths that means they don\u2019t appreciate the peace because they have failed to address food security, and stability. Therefore, the citizens don\u2019t respect it also.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u201d We don\u2019t have peace in Liberia. What we have in Liberia is a moment of silence. The government should stop and desist from playing politics with the survival of the state. The survivability and peace of the country surely depend on the availability of food on the market, mostly the country staple\u2019\u2019 Gonquoi concluded.<\/p>\n

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