The Bishop of the Independent Catholic Church of Liberia (ICCL), Bishop Nimely Jackbokly Donyen has given LD174, 000 to the proprietor of the Care School System in Mount Barclay.
Speaking at the presentation ceremony at his residence on Red Hill, City View Community in lower Johnsonville over the weekend, Bishop Donyen disclosed that the amount represents tuition assistance for the second semester of 2019/ 2020 academic year for the students.
He said that the donors are concerned because people were not benefiting from their gestures as they have also funded other projects which implementations were halted by powerful people in the country.
According to the Bishop, people have launched what he called a ‘campaign’ aimed at making sure that he does not carry out any initiatives as a defeated candidate in 2017 Elections so that the school would no longer receive further support.
“We have decided to increase our assistance to the institution and the community because most of the residents lack the financial potency to adequately cater to the educational and other needs of their children,” he said.
He stated that the prevailing educational environment of the school coupled with the social status of the students who are mostly from the underprivileged group of the society triggered his passion at the time to have sought for the assistance so that the kids could continue their educational sojourn.
Speaking further, Bishop Donyen explained that some people are bent on stalling every opportunity that he has had to undertake projects that have the ego of addressing some of the crucial social services of the people simply because he contested for the then vacant post of Representative for District # 2, Montserrado County in the 2017 General & Presidential Elections.
“The donors gave me more than US$19,000.00 which I spent and brought pipe borne water to the Red Hill Community and its environs but it has been diverted and sold to the people,” he indicated.
According to him, his humanitarian group at the time also gave him money to connect the Lady of Fatima High School, Christian as well as below Grass Field Communities with safe drinking water and to bring the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC)’s current to the area but those efforts did not materialize due to the sustained campaign that anonymous influential personalities in the county have launched against him.
“I brought a caterpillar that was here for three days to recondition our roads in the community but I was again prevented from doing that because I am a defeated candidate of 2017 Elections,” he stressed.
What is more intriguing is that he has written President George Manneh Weah and other high profile government officials but they have given my plight deaf ears.
He however assured Mr. Paye that those who are denying the people the right to education including social services are NOT GOD and that He (GOD) will change the situation one day so that they can be able to do more for people again and promised to give the marketers a micro loan as means of improving their businesses too.
Responding to the gesture, Pastor John D. Paye, Proprietor of the school, lauded the Bishop and the donors who he maintained that their humanitarian gestures have impacted the lives of many students of the school over the years.
He described the assistance from the Bishop as a normal thing because he has being giving support to the institution on two installments explaining that they received the first payment during the first semester while the second was also presented during the second semester without delay since 2017 to present.
Mr. Paye asserted that the termination of their support is a shocking news for the entire Care School System because students, parents and even the teachers were all benefiting from that support due to the fact that the parents usually paid small portion of the tuition while the support offsets the remaining portion.
“He paid the WAEC Fees for the 9th Graders this year; we have being paying teachers from the support and also acquiring stationeries for the school so the news is a setback to the running of the school,” he stressed.
The Proprietor announced that the fees at the school will remain as it is and prays for God’s timely intervention as most of the students are disadvantaged and frowned on those who have politicized the assistance wondering why they are bringing hardship to the people.
“Bishop has been demonstrating exactly what the Bible teaches by helping those in needs in society. Our relationship will continue even stronger despite our support being halted,” he assured the public.
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