By Solomon T. Gaye, Sr.
The Liberia International Christian College former Business Manager, LawrencePayeKorquoi, has vowed to contest for the senatorial seat in Nimba County.
Korquoi made the disclosure before a huge crowd representing 32 communities at a gathering in honor of him in Ganta, Nimba County.
Speaking to team of reporters over the weekend, Korquoi explained that his visit in the county is designed to meet with all traditional chief elders, women group, marketers, youth as well as the Christian and Muslim communities to informed them about his political ambition to contest the senatorial seat in the county.
Korquoi hails from District two, which is the second to openly declare his intention for the senate to battle with incumbent political God farther Prince Yormie Johnson.
During the beginning of 2022, NyanTuayen Jr. openly declared his political intention to contest the senatorial seat in making sure that Senator Prince Y. Johnson be replaced
Korquoi boasted that if elected as senator, he will reintroduce farm-to-market road initiatives, provide loans to marketers, scholarships to needy students, job opportunities and will lobby to have oversight responsibility over national issues pertaining to the county.
Speaking on behalf of the students communities in Ganta, student Pauline Saye, called on all school going children to shine their eyes to vote right for Korquoi in the pending presidential and representative election in the country.
Speaking on behalf of the Traditional Chief Council, elder Wilson Paye, warned residents to shine their eyes and choose the right person to represent the interest of the county in the Legislature.
Polling places across Buchanan City are said to be registering more females as compared to the large number of males recorded in the provincial result released by the LISGIS recently.
According to supervisors of majority of the polling places, the females are taking advantage of the process by obtaining their cards before the last minutes rush to meet the April 9, 2023 deadline.
During the course of the day, most of the poll workers are seen exhausted either based on the faultiness of the machines or no residents are at the centers to register though almost all centers have a political party representative or aspirant observer.
Meanwhile, the National Elections Commission (NEC) has declared that there will absolutely be no extension of the ongoing Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) in the Phase 1 counties that include Montserrado, Grand Bassa, Grand Cape Mount, Margibi, Bomi, and Gbarpolu.
Speaking at a news conference Friday, Chairperson Davidetta Browne Lansanah clarified that the contract end date of April 17, 2023 for temporary BVR staff does not in any way indicate that voter registration in the Phase 1 counties will be extended beyond April 9, 2023. She said the contract is a generic one drawn for one month, from March 18, 2023 to April 17, 2023.
The Chairperson said the eight days from April 9, to April 17 will be used for temporary BVR staff to compile reports, retrieval of equipment and materials deployed to the field, and processing of payment for staff.
“Let me reiterate that the BVR in Phase 1 ends on April 9, 2023 and there will be no extension,” Madam Browne Lansanah emphatically declared.
She urged Liberians 18 years and above within the phase 1 counties to use the remaining days to complete their registration and assured that more voter cards will be deployed at registration centers to ensure that eligible voters registered.
Chairperson Browne Lansanah said there is no need for eligible voters in the Phase 1 counties to panic, as those who show up at the registration centers within the period will be registered.
Meanwhile, NEC has terminated the services of Antoinette Yancy, one of its Temporary Staff, who served as a Registrar at the Namuwa English and Arabic School in District 10, for acts inimical to her status as a BVR staff.
Ms. Yancy was terminated following an investigation that established her involvement in activities that had the propensity to undermine the integrity and credibility of the commission.
