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Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>The National Civil Society Council of Liberia (NCSCL) has expressed displeasure over increasing violence at some registration centers, most especially in Montserrado County.<\/p>\n

Ever since the process kicked off on March 20 in six of the 15 counties, there has been increasing violence at some centers, particularly at centers in Electoral District #10.<\/p>\n

Electoral District #10 is represented by Representative Yekeh Kolubah, a fierce critic of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), who is also at the opposite end, believed to be the most hated of the CDC.<\/p>\n

Violence in the district was exacerbated at the weekend with serious clashes between rival camps of Rep. Koubah and the CDC over allegations\/rumors of voter trucking, with each side pointing accusing fingers at the other end.<\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s violent clash, which lasted for more than an hour, occurred when the Chairman of the Youth League of the CDC, Emmanuel Mulbah Johnson, went to the district to register at one of the National Elections Commission (NEC) registration centers on the Old Road.<\/p>\n

During the process, members of the CDC, the majority of whom were youth, chanted anti-Yekeh slogans while heading from and then back to their party\u2019s headquarters.<\/p>\n

With the tension building up by then, the police stepped in and used tear gas to disperse the crowd.<\/p>\n

Predicated on these continuing tensions, the CSO Council, on March 29, issued a statement to raise red flags so that the situation will not further degenerate into chaos as the process progresses.<\/p>\n

In its statement, the Council cautioned the Government of Liberia (GoL) to act through the LNP to exercise power and control to ensure that calm is maintained at all times at various centers, noting that this process sets the pace for Election Day.<\/p>\n

NCSCL also urged Liberians to support the government\u2019s efforts in ensuring that the BVR process remains peaceful at all times, as the ensuing elections would be a defining moment of the nation\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Government of Liberia must do the needful and at all times ensure that these unnecessary tensions are calmed down. If necessary, the police must be deployed at some of these hotspot areas to control the process,\u201d asserted the NCSCL\u2019 statement carved under the signature of its Chairperson, Loretta Alethea Pope-Kai.<\/p>\n

\u201c Not only the government; even the Liberians [voters] themselves need to protect this process by keeping things peaceful. We are in a critical time; this is a defining moment for our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the same time, the National Civil Society Council of Liberia has condemned all acts of voter trucking, terming the act anti-democratic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not good at all for our electoral process, and Liberians must desist. If we are to have a free and fair democratic process for the people to exercise their political franchise, politicians must desist from the habit of trucking voters. On the other hand, the voters too, must attach value to themselves, by realizing the importance of being eligible to vote in a national political process in the first place,\u201d added the Council.<\/p>\n

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