The man behind the anti- protest release, Mr. Jerome Carngbe

MONROVIA, LIBERIA – A group calling itself the Independent Civil Society Union of Liberia (ICSUL), is reminding the ‘Weah Step Down’ planners and Protesters that the political and economic problems of Liberia require collective efforts of all Liberians and not government alone.

The group said the planned December 30 protest by the Council of Patriots (CoP) to remove President George Manneh Weah from power, as an act of terrorism that must be condemned and resisted by Liberians and its international partners.

The ICSUL, in a release issued Thursday, December 26, 2019 in Monrovia, termed the ‘Weah Step Down’ Protest Planners of the protest, “as democratic losers and agents of chaos and instability, whose sole intent is to destabilize Liberia in their quest to obtain state power through undemocratic means”.

The release also condemned the protest by the Cop and stressed that Liberians have learnt the hard lesson of insurrection and will no longer allow undemocratic means of removing presidents from power.

The Independent Civil Society Group is therefore, urging members of the CoP to explore other available democratic options to present their grievances to Government at this critical junction of the country’s democracy.

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Jos Garneo Cephas Sr. is a practicing and experienced Journalist specialized in Civil Society, Land Rights, development and Human Rights reporting and is an Online Writer/Content Manager, at the Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS/ELBC) since 2011. He holds a BSc in Development Studies, from St. Clements University, Liberia, AA-Degree in Journalism, Public Relations and Entrepreneurship from the Ghana Institute of Journalism (GIJ) and Manifold Tutorial College. Served as Liberia’s Desk Editor, Columnist, a Volunteer Fellow of Journalist for Humana Rights (JHR) at Ghana’s Daily Guide Newspaper, and also published the Vision Newspaper covering 42,000 refugees during the Liberian refugee crisis in Ghana and reported for the Voice of America (VOA).

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