‘Pull Liberia Back from the Brink’ -Cummings on Capitol Hill Fire Incident, Rebellion of ‘Majority Bloc’
MONROVIA – Prominent opposition politician, Alexander B. Cummings, has expressed shock and dismay over the inferno that hit the sacred hall of the Capitol Building, stressing that scene of fire engulfing the Capitol should serve to remind all Liberians that “our politics is seriously broken and our political leaders must do everything within their powers to pull the country back from the brink”.
The political leader of the opposition Alternative National Congress (ANC) asserts that recent history of the country clearly teaches that as a country, “we are bound to pay a heavy price unless we resist extremism in all its forms and embrace the values of principled compromise and moderation”.
It is in this light, Cummings says, the ANC urgently calls on all stakeholders to do all they can to find an amicable solution to the impasse that now characterizes the fraught state of affairs in the Legislature and the country writ large.
“If there is one thing in which all Liberians can take justifiable pride, it is that for two decades now our country has been a beacon of democratic governance and political stability in Africa, particularly West Africa, where we have seen much democratic backsliding,” he said, quoted by an ANC press release.
According to him, the speedy and peaceful resolution of current political crisis is necessary so that Liberia continues to build on democratic gains and avoid the fates of other countries in the sub-region.
He said the ANC is ready and willing to help lead this effort with all other political parties and interest groups, “as we urge all Liberians to see politics not as a zero-sum game in which one side wins everything and the other side loses all, but as a way of peacefully mediating our differences rather than exacerbating them”.
Liberia, Cummings also stated, “is the only country we have. Let us resolve to pass it on to our children as the peaceful and prosperous country they deserve.”
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