By Joseph Tumbey
The Head of the Liberia Children Parliament now Children Forum Speaker, Mr. Joel G. Gray has accused the Government of Liberia of being the key supporter of all the violence melt against children mostly raped, early marriage, child labor, street selling among others.
Speaking at their press conference on Tuesday December 6 ,2022 in Monrovia, The Forum speaker said the Government has reduce them to Mere beggars but yet and still pretend that children in Liberia are safe on National and International platforms in the name of getting support on their behalf when they’re not benefiting from it
According to him, they are witnessing series of abuses inline with the United Nations convention on the right of the Children more especially (article 3) which states that the ” Best interest of the child ” is a primary consideration in all actions concerning Children “the right of Life, survival and development” to be treated as a fundamental right to all children.
Based on their responsibilities per the 2011 Children’s Law of Liberia to advocate
He said, while the government of Liberia is a signatories to many international standards that seek the wellbeing of all Liberian children but, she’s limited in implementing those laws.
Meanwhile, Mr. Joel Gray is calling on international communities to ensure that the National election commission (NEC) goes through their process by requesting birth certificates, citizens ID cards or other legal documents to avoid politicians using Children to register in their constituents to gain vote.
“As we approached 2023 General and presidential election we strongly condemned politicans who think to get power or maintain power is to allegedly raped, killed innocent children across Liberia as proverbs 6:17 says ” a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood” are those things that God hate the most from politicans, we are kindly begging to leave the children and allowed them to lived in peace than fear in her country ahead of the Election.
We again, condemned politicians, political parties, who are consistently using Young people (Youth/children) to disturb the peace and stability of mama Liberia in the name of protecting your party but rather teaching them to be sober in her engagement for the betterment of Mama Liberia, with this On the 28th of October according to frontpage students in Marigbi county where force by school Administration to petition the former minister of states and Presidential Affairs Honorable Nathaniel McGill to contest for the Senatorial seat in the county ahead of 2023 General and presidential election is an example of children violation ahead of 2023 election in Liberia”, speaker Gray asserted.
He is however calling on the Federation of Liberian Youth (FLY), Liberia National Student Union (LINSU), Manor river youth Parliament (MRU) Human rights Defender (HRD) , international communities mostly the United States Government to join them to expressed challenges they are facing Nationwide
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