MONROVIA – The largest umbrella student organization in Liberia, Liberia National Student Union (LINSU), has categorically condemned the planned July 17 protest, which is being announced by some in the opposition bloc.
In a press statement, LINSU said it was registering its unwavering opposition and condemnation to the planned July 17 protest, because it is “an opportunistic mobilization masked as civic activism but rooted in political manipulation and self-rehabilitation by former state pariahs and architects of national despair.”
“We, the vanguard of the Liberian students, reject the hijacking of mass consciousness by former officials who, during their reign, weaponized state institutions against the very people they now claim to defend, and brutalized peaceful students who organized under the same provisions of our constitution to question the barbarity of their misrule.”
The student community turned their ‘guns’ on the main face of the protest, which is being dubbed, ‘Enough is enough.’
“The chief orchestrator of the quote-on-quote July 17 ‘Enough is enough’ protest Mr. Mulbah K. Morlu, former National Chairman of the [opposition] Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), has no political and moral credibility to lecture this nation on governance or accountability.”
LINSU went further to say that while protest remains a constitutional instrument of expression, they assert that the July 17 “street jam is void of ideological clarity, lacks a people-centered agenda, and instead reflects the desperation of displaced political caricatures seeking to re-enter the national discourse through the back door of civil confusion and political instability.”
According to LINSU, to claim the banner of “Enough is Enough” while failing to articulate a progressive, student-inclusive roadmap is nothing but an insult to the intellectual community and our sacred democratic process.
“We make it known that no amount of propaganda can co-opt the banner of LINSU into a directionless political charade. Since our establishment in 1952 and our legislation in 1957, our commitment has been to justice, peace, good governance, decent livelihood, and not drama and confused political theatrics. To transformation, not tantrums. To the people’s power, not recycled power-hungry elites.”
