PUL Officer-In-Charge on Internal Crisis -Calls on Colleagues to Forget Past, Turn New Page

MONROVIA: The Office-In-Charge (OIC) of the Press Union of Liberia has made a clarion call to Liberian journalists to forget their differences and put the union back to its lost esteem and stature.

“Let this be a clarion call that, if we must create a better environment for the public to live peacefully and healthily, it must begin with us media doing what we know best to ensure this,” said Akoi M. Baysah, Jr, in statement at programs marking World Press Freedom Day.

He quipped: “As the watchdog of the society and pacesetters on whom the public rely for setting agendas, if our internal environment is not conducive, how do we envision the larger environment to become? I’m speaking figuratively about the PUL’s internal crisis.”

“We cannot be confronted with ourselves and think we are going to help transform this nation; we are not doing ourselves any good, and posterity is indeed going to judge us,” he continued. “We are nearly sixty years in existence.

“What can we show as a Union founded 1964; still in a rented structure and about to be evicted. This institution was founded on a very good purpose, but today we have betrayed our founders.”

The PUL OIC said “it is time to rekindle our thoughts, forget the past and let turn a new page for oneness in an effort to battling this nightmare call environmental crisis.”

“Let us recreate our environment by considering the Union above all over personal/self-interest. Let this be new beginning for the Union to again be that voice that everyone looks up to.”