MONROVIA – The opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC) has summed up and unleashed widespread apprehensions simmering within the larger public domain: that the ruling Unity Party has set aside its official policy programs and engaged in self-aggrandizement for individual officials as well as for the corporate party. In statement released to the media, the ANC slammed the Unity Party-led government for prioritizing politics over people, expressing “profound disappointment” over the administration’s failure to address the country’s pressing economic and social issues. The ANC statement accuses the government of focusing on expanding its party headquarters across the country, while Liberians struggle with rising commodity prices, unemployment, and failing public services. The Analyst reports.
The Alternative National Congress (ANC) has expressed its profound disappointment over what it called the continued failure of the Unity Party-led government to address the urgent, bread-and butter/soup and rice issues facing ordinary Liberians, but is instead channelling time, resources, and political energy into acquiring and expanding Unity Party headquarters across the country.
At a time when countless Liberians are struggling with rising prices of commodities, unemployment, failing health sector, deteriorating infrastructure, and a stagnant economy, the ANC opines that the Unity Party administration has chosen to focus on securing political real estate rather than providing real solutions.
“This alarming prioritization exposes a government increasingly out of touch with the daily hardships of its citizens,” the ANC said, adding that it is “deeply troubling that, instead of championing policies that uplift families from poverty, strengthen the livelihoods of market women, create jobs for young people, or stabilize essential commodities, the Unity Party’s primary achievement appears to be the expansion of its own political footprint.”
This is not governance, the party said; it is self-serving politics at the expense of the ordinary people.
ANC further asserted that while Liberians cry for relief, government officials continue to enrich themselves through unchecked allowances, unnecessary overseas trips, inflated contracts, and opaque financial dealings.
“The administration’s refusal to confront economic hardship head-on shows a glaring lack of leadership, compassion, and quite simply lacks the knowhow,” the ANC said, indicating that Liberians did not vote for a government that would put party interests above national well-being.
The ANC has therefore called on the UP led-government to redirect its attention toward policies that meaningfully address poverty, food insecurity, joblessness, and the collapse of public services.
“For example, water is scarce as the dry season has come. LEC has started rationing electricity due to low power supply. Liberia needs investment in its people—not in political structures designed to entrench a ruling party,” the party stressed, noting that “the Liberian people deserve better. They deserve a government that works for them, not one that enriches itself while citizens struggle to survive.”