In an effort to curb ongoing power thefts in Liberia, the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) Women with partnership from Ministries and Agencies on Friday. November 4, held daylong walks aimed at declaring war against stealing power.
Government’s institutions buttressing LEC Women walks includes, General Service Agency (GSA), Immigration, Police, Liberia Fire Service, Land and Energy, aimed at ensuring increase in reporting on power thefts.
The protest walks was intended to demonstrate the danger of stealing current, and also a way of telling the public that women are ready to expose those involved in such devilish act.
The LEC Women and partners who took on the initiative were led by GSA Boss, Mary T. Broh seen holding different placards with various inscriptions saying, ” Stop Stealing power; Power theft undermines development in Liberia” and continued the protest walks from West Point to Bushrod Island.
Addressing the Women, LEC Management, represented by Monie Captain, expressed excitement due to the enthusiasms LEC women, partners showed to curb power thefts.
Monie Captan said, he was so proud of the women for taking up their precious times to get on the streets aimed at telling the public to stop the stealing of power, noting that it hampers government’s power to develop the country.
He added that said message is to encourage the communities to report anyone involved in stealing power and also stressed the importance of the protest walks purposely because Management depends on the women as a backbone to tell Liberians to be good citizens.
“Today, you’re carrying on an important message out there to halt power thefts and this is particularly so because we are expecting electricity from Ivory Coast at the end of this month, and we have to pay for it. So, all of us have our role to play in that,” Captan noted.
According to Monie Captan, his wife joined the women walks to also encourage Liberians to be good citizens to help Liberia to keep the electricity that is coming to Liberia.
He further explained that the only way to build Liberia is, “We as a country can help share the responsibility with gov’t to pay our bills and not to steal it.”
Also speaking was the head of GSA, Mary Broh who rallied communities’ women to fearlessly expose power thefts in their respective localities.
Broh said they (women) have arrested one culprit that is languishing behind bars already, noting that if they can do it before, Liberian women can even do it better. Madam Mary Broh assured that women in the communities have developed a new approach which is to report the crime quietly and that WHISTLE BLOWERS’ will not be exposed.