By Precious D. Freeman
The standard bearer of the Movement for Progressive Change (MPC), Simeon Freeman, revealed that Liberia does not need a united opposition to make the country a better place, but rather a person of vision.
According to him, it is not by oppositions coming together that the issues of poverty, unemployment, no infrastructures and every other social issue that is bothering the country will be solved.
He mentioned that it will be better if the people of Liberia open the flood gate and look among all of the oppositions in order to pick the rightful candidate that have the capacity in the private sector that will be able to re-level and silent these issues.
“The citizens continue to call for someone that can change the country around, but they do not want a group of pretenders that will come together under one canopy and present themselves as the candidate that the people of Liberia needs,” he stressed.
The MPC boss added that the CDC-led government came together and they were given the opportunity to serve for six years but they have massively failed because most of them that were in the race were those that never had money yesterday but today they are the richest.
“It is better to vote for a candidate that has his own private sector running and financially built than to give a chance to those who never had it before because by doing so, hardship, hopelessness and poverty will continue to roam in the country,” he believed.
Mr. Freeman further stated that oppositions are not supposed to focus on how the government has failed, instead they should be concerned about the strategies in making sure that there are lots of jobs, because Liberia has a serious growth population and they all need to survive.
“The people of Liberia should be able to listen to the candidate that is willing to change things around for the good, because we all know that most of our foodstuffs and resources are all imported, so I see no need of us having Agriculture Ministry when we cannot be able to grow our own food and create opportunities for farmers to benefits. I promise that during the Simeon Freeman-led administration, it will change completely,” he said.
“Around the world, Agriculture infrastructure and industrial infrastructure for transformation is changing; people are now making their own food but, Liberia is different because even chicken feet, rice, pepper and gari are all imported which need to change during my regime,” he promised.
He explained that to change the importation concept, he will have to create structures for public resources under the private sector and have the sector going out and engaging farmers on manufacturing and production. There will be private company that will engage with farmers and can help with whatever resources that is needed.
“If that type of structure is in place, it will help Liberians because those companies will want to do graphic designs, marketing, advertise on the media and that means that the media will not have to wait for a government sector to make money but also engaged the private sector due to lots of advertisement” he said.
Mr. Freeman furthered that some of the critical issues that is supplying poverty and hopelessness is the issues of taxation and interest rate which is killing the people noting, “Sometimes when somebody credits money the interest rate increases to 30 percent or 50 percent.”
“In as much that the outcome that we want is better schools, better health care, better production, better road, good market, it will not come forth if the citizen do not choose the best candidate from the oppositions” Freeman maintained.
“It is better that we all believe in one man in this country, because the President of Senegal invested in education and they now have the best education; even the President of Cote d’Ivoire believes in infrastructure and the country has now become the most developed in terms of infrastructure in the country, and many more,” MPC boss said.
He reaffirmed that the power of one man, the vision of one man, can change everything around, because what Liberia needs is a benevolence leader.
“There are lots of interesting stories in other countries about how a man transformed the country to its best, but the only interesting story that Liberia has is that a senator who has never had a house, car and properties now becomes the owner of all this after winning the seat, which is very sad for the nation” he said.
