By Monrovia,Liberia-The Resident Bishop of the Trinity Evangelical Church of Liberian, G. Abraham Powell is calling on Liberians to maintain the peace as the Country heads towards the October 10 general and presidential elections.
Speaking in an exclusive interview with reporters, when his Church ended a four day conference in Parker Coner Brewerville city, Bishop Powell noted that the Country is heading to what he termed as a critical and crucial junction which is therefore incumbent upon all, to upholding the peace every Liberians enjoy.
He further noted that despite the constitution gives right to eligible Citizens to vote, there is a great need for peace to rein during and after the electoral process.
” The Constitution of Liberia provides that all Citizens who attained the age 18 and above are eligible to vote but said right comes with the responsibility of all of us in maintaining the high earned peace”.Bishop Powell disclosed.
The Liberian clergyman also reminded Christians especially,heads of religious congregation to desist from dragging God’s house into a political ground.
He emphasized that some politicians nowadays are in the habit of dragging the church into politics inorder to get their needed goals,an act he called on all prelates to prohibit as it has the proclivity to undermine the growth of the church.
” Politicians and their associates nowadays are smartly bringing the church of God into politics,which am calling on all prelates to disallowed”Bishop Powell intoned.
Liberians are expected to go to the polls in the discharge of their constitutional right, a decision that will last for the next six and nine years respectively.
However, the calls for peace have taken the center stage across the Country, as many don’t want to go back to the dark days, where fourteen years of civil unrest led to the destruction of lives, properties and forced others to flee the County in the preservation of their golden animations.
In the wake of this,the government of Liberia has continued to assure citizens and the international community of the conduct of a free, fair and peaceful election comes October 10.
By :Matu Cole
