CDC Vows 2029 Comeback -Weah demands accountability for Kinjor killings

MONROVIA – The Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) has chosen its 2029 battleground early, and chosen it with care. By marking its Martyrs’ Day in Kinjor, the party fused two memories. One is the 2011 killing of partisans at its Monrovia headquarters. The other is the 2024 shooting of protesters in Kinjor under the Boakai government. The message is plain: the CDC wants to be seen again as the party of the aggrieved. Its speakers paired grief with harder rhetoric, from Wie’s vow to set aside the Bible to Kolubah’s attack on the Chief Justice, as THE ANALYST reports.

Under the heavy banner of historical remembrance and what political pundits called a revolutionary resolve, thousands of partisans and sympathizers of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) and other opposition figures converged on the mining town of Kinjor in Grand Cape Mount County on November 7, 2026, to observe the party’s National Martyrs’ Day, using the occasion to launch the party’s bid for a political comeback to national leadership come 2029.

The event, which the party said was dedicated to honoring fallen partisans killed during the tragic November 7, 2011 electoral dispute at the party’s Monrovia headquarters, as well as victims of subsequent political and civil crackdowns, took on an intensely militant tone.

By staging the commemoration in Kinjor, a resource-rich mining community deeply scarred by fatal police actions against protesting citizens in 2024, the opposition directly linked past party tragedies with contemporary struggles against what it described as state-sanctioned violence and economic neglect.

Wie: ‘We Bleed With Our Souls’

Delivering the keynote address under the resonant theme, “They Carried the Struggle, We Carry the Legacy,” former Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs for Urban Affairs Madam Pauletta CC Wie launched a scathing attack on the ruling Unity Party (UP) administration led by President Joseph Nyuma Boakai.

Speaking with palpable grief and revolutionary fervor, Wie declared that the CDC stands as an unyielding movement for the homeless, the vulnerable and the marginalized.

“Today from the soil of Kinjor, Grand Cape Mount County, the CDC speaks with anger, speaks with pain in our hearts, we bleed with our souls, we are disappointed in this government, we are frustrated,”

Wie told the charged crowd. She criticized the glaring paradox of Kinjor, a land brimming with gold and diamond wealth yet starved of basic infrastructure, electricity and paved roads.

“Today we are in Kinjor, Grand Cape Mount County, a county so rich in natural resources but continues to suffer from poverty, from basic social services. Look at the road leading to Kinjor; does it look like a road that has gold and diamond? If you pass through Kinjor, there is no electricity, no good school, no infrastructural development. Do you think it is fair for the government to treat the people like this?” she said, amid cheers from the surging crowd.

Directing her ire at the executive branch, Wie contrasted President Boakai’s claimed decades of agricultural and administrative experience with the lived realities of struggling Liberians. In a striking warning regarding the 2029 electoral showdown, she declared:

“We want to convey this message to the office of former President George Manneh Weah that come 2029, we will not put the Bible on our chest any longer; we are not taking the Bible in our hands anymore. CDCians, we deserve the right to live in this country,” she said.

She paid glowing tribute to the party’s fallen members over the years, describing them as true heroes and torchbearers for the struggle and the quest for emancipation of the suffering masses, stressing that the party will not bend on its principle to be a mass movement championing the cause of the ordinary people.

“Comrades, today CDC stands in solidarity with the wounded, the victims, the voiceless and the families who are still grieving, weeping and waiting for social justice. The CDC speaks as a revolutionary movement that speaks for the homeless; we speak for the vulnerable. This is a movement that does not abandon its partisans whether in position or not; it is our right to protect the citizens, it is our right to protect those who are defenseless.”

She challenged the leadership of the party, especially those who were elected and are serving in government, not to abandon the party and the partisans, whom she described as “pillars of the revolution,” stressing: “They were the ones that stood in the sun and in the rain to elect you, so you should not abandon them.”

Earlier in the program, Miss Angel Wilson led the memorialization of fallen partisans, including Muna Pelham and Momo Tamba, while recounting the dark history of the demolition of the party’s headquarters.

Weah Demands Accountability for Kinjor

A powerful message from former President George Manneh Weah, delivered by former Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, commanded rapt attention.

Weah requested a moment of silence for the citizens who lost their lives on February 29, 2024, when security forces discharged live ammunition during protests over living and working conditions in Kinjor.

“Those deaths occurred under the Boakai-Koung Unity Party-led government,” Weah’s statement noted. Emphasizing that no community’s poverty diminishes the value of a citizen’s life, the statement added: “The killings in Kinjor demand accountability.

“The government of Liberia must answer for the conduct of the security officers serving under its authority. The families deserve justice and this community deserves serious attention to the conditions which brought the citizens forward with grievances.”

Drawing from his recent address to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Port Harcourt, Weah reminded the gathering that democracy requires enduring responsibilities long after elections conclude.

Warning against administrative overreach, he reiterated a sharp caution to the political establishment: “A tyrant without a certificate of return is still a tyrant. Winning an election does not exclude the view of political office.”

Opposition Solidarity and Margibi-Cape Mount Synergy

The commemoration also drew broad opposition solidarity, featuring remarks from opposition figures including Representative Yekeh Kolubah, who emphasized the necessity of a unified opposition front to relegate the Boakai administration to history in 2029, admitting past political miscalculations and pledging to work toward correcting them.

He told the audience that he remains unrepentant in his assertion about Chief Justice Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay, stressing that he was “corrupt and does not have the moral to be the Chief Justice of Liberia.”

Kolubah also said that while he remains optimistic about victory in his suit at the Supreme Court, he will resign his portfolio as Representative of District #10, Montserrado County, because the regime is corrupt.

McGill Urges Votes for Justice

Margibi County Senator Nathaniel F. McGill reinforced the day’s political message, urging partisans to channel their grief into active electoral mobilization.

“Your own future for tomorrow is in your own hand,” McGill told the cheering crowd. “Go and vote for CDC in 2029 so that those who died will have justice… and the Unity Party people know that the people will defend their votes.”

McGill also announced a strategic regional partnership with Grand Cape Mount County Senator Simeon Taylor to improve concession agreements for local residents and rebuild party structures across western Liberia, while reiterating his uncompromising stance on institutional accountability and judicial integrity.

He praised the efforts of fellow CDCian Taylor for uniting the partisans and ensuring that the welfare of the people of the county is promoted. He announced the construction of the party’s headquarters in Kinjor, whose cost he said will be shared between him and Taylor.

The program was widely attended by top party executives and members from far and near, including the Chairman of the party, Atty. Janga A. Kowo.

As the Martyrs’ Day observance concluded in Kinjor, the collective message from the opposition was unmistakable: armed with historical memory and galvanized by shared grievances, the CDC is repositioning itself to challenge the ruling establishment.