The Condo Reconciliation Group Incorporated, a US based peace advocacy group with office in Monrovia, through its Administrator, Rev. Dr. George W. Zorbah, has disclosed that the organization will early next year-2023 hold a National Reconciliation Summit in Monrovia.
According to Rev. Zorbah, the pending National Reconciliation Summit is aimed at ensuring that the much publicized 2023 Presidential and Legislative Elections are held peacefully throughout the length and breadth of the country.
For sometimes now, Condo has been involved in series of peace initiatives in Nimba, Lofa, Grand Cape Mount and other parts of the country all geared towards making Liberia a peaceful and prosperous nation, one of the primary objectives for which Condo was established.
Accordingly, Rev. Zorbah made the disclosure recently following a day-long interactive discussion among members and officials of the Condo Reconciliation Group Incorporated, National Grass Roots Pastors Association, officials of Nimba Quidoe, officials of the Grass Root Churches and the ECOWAS Ecumenical Movement at the Condo Head Office on Lynch Street, Monrovia.
‘‘We just concluded a meeting with the members and officials of the National Grass Roots Pastors of Liberia, officials of the Grass Roots Churches and the ECOWAS Ecumenical Movement and we want to get others on board so that we can launch the Condo Reconciliation Summit early next year. This is very important considering the growing political tensions in the country. Of late, we have observed stern war of words between and among leading politicians including the Liberian presidency, which we think, have the propensity to undermine our nascent democracy including the ensuing 2023 Elections if the necessary checkpoints are not erected,’’ the Condo official told a team of journalists in an interview after the meeting.
According to the Condo official, the most awkward of these is spree of rants and invectives used by Representative Yekeh Kolubah in a Facebook podcast against the President.
Also speaking to the team of journalists, Apostle Carinel S.C. Peterson, Co-Chairperson of the Grass Root Churches, said: ‘‘I have come to give my support and I am willing to work tirelessly to ensure that the Condo National Reconciliation Summit is successful. We are calling on all everybody, all the grass roots churches to be part and parcel of this summit because there are issues we want to address in the interest of the government and the country.’’
Madam Peterson, who described the day-long interactive meeting as fruitful and rewarding, added that they met and put one or two things on the table and that they will be meeting again to see how best they can conclude as it relates to the preparation of the ensuing Condo National Reconciliation Submit.
Buttressing Madam Peterson’s comments was her Boss, Bishop John B. Mulbah, Jr., Chairman, Grass Root Churches Association, who said that they are here to give 100% support to the Condo Reconciliation Summit.
‘‘We are here to work tirelessly to ensure that the summit is successful. However, we want to encourage the grass root churches that you have not been marginalized. But we are going to work together in one voice to ensure that the summit is successful. We will bring all grass root churches not only in Monrovia but the entire country together in making the ensuing summit gets its desired result,’’ Bishop Mulbah stated in a brief remark.
For his part, Rev. Amos Gbeyanyon Yloe, Acting Executive Director of the ECOWAS Ecumenical Movement, asserted that the Condo National Reconciliation Summit is very cardinal for the country because, according to him, ‘‘reconciliation is the ingredient we need to move our nation forward’’.
‘‘And so we want to call on all Liberians in and out of the country, we need to put our hands together, reconcile our differences, live together as brothers and sisters and keep the peace,’’ Rev. Yloe, who expressed happiness over the conduct of the day-long interactive meeting, stated.
‘‘When we do this, we believe our country will move forward, we call on our development partners and everyone who is interested in seeing the country moving forward for this initiative as great. We thank Condon for this initiative, it is in the best interest of all of us and encourage everyone to embrace the initiative,’’ the Acting Executive Director of the ECOWAS Ecumenical Movement intoned.
