“WE ARE ABANDON  & REDUCE TO BEGGARS”, the Liberia  Children  Parliament Speaker  says.

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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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