Liberia’s main opposition Congress for Democratic Change Chairman Janga Kowo has accused the ruling Unity Party government of disregarding the country’s constitution and rule of law.
Kowo’s comments come amidst increasing tensions between the opposition CDC party and security forces.
Kowo alleges that “all the laws of the country have been broken in just seven months.
This, he said is a clear demonstration of incompetence and ineptitude on the part of a government that came to power on an electoral margin of Error.”
The CDC chairman has also condemned the recent invasions of the CDC’s national headquarters on August 5th and August 22nd, 2024, calling them.
These aggressions were “clearly intended to elicit a response that will serve as an alibi for the level of violence and mayhem visited on unarmed citizens,” he said.
Kowo charges the Unity Party government of attempting to “intimidate and silence the CDC and distract attention from the dismal failures of the government to fulfill its campaign promises to the Liberian people.”
He has called on the Liberian legislature to exercise its oversight responsibility to “check the abuses and excesses of the Executive branch before it is too late.”
The CDC chairman has also written to the National Legislature, ECOWAS, the U.S. Embassy, the European Union, and other diplomatic missions, raising concerns about the Unity Party government’s disregard for the rule of law and the rights of citizens to protest.
Kowo has vowed that the CDC will “do everything legally permissible to resist a creeping dictatorship” and that the party “can not be cowtowed or intimidated.”
He has reminded the government that when the former CDC-led administration under President George Weah conceded power, it did so “as a Patriot, not a Coward.”
