Bishop Nimely Jacobkly Donyen has challenged the first batch of graduates from the Rancella Christian School System (R.C.S.S.) to learn how to work and be successful in life.
The renowned clergyman said it is incumbent upon each of the graduates to hereafter forge ahead in pursuit of additional knowledge that will enable them specialize in professional fields like medicine, engineering, including law amongst others.
Delivering the keynote speech at the ceremony in the edifice of the Wesleyan Church in Stephen Tolbert Estate, situated in Gardnersville, Bishop Donyen advised the outgoing seniors to always engage in meaningful ventures that will positively contribute to their success, saying that it requires determination and perseverance.
The humanitarian referred the enthusiastic young people to St. Paul who wrote, “When I was a child, I think and act like a child but now that, I am matured, I must think and act maturely” adding that they are gradually transitioning in life so they should try and analyze happenings in their daily lives and select what’s best for them.
Speaking on the theme: “We Belong To a Country That Is Always Training People”, the Independent Catholic Church of Liberia (ICCL) Bishop warned that the Government of Liberia and future government to desist from sending people abroad for advanced trainings, because after acquiring the knowledge and return home with requisite qualifications, they become job-seekers when incoming government takes over.
“Many people were trained abroad using states resources before former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s Administration but that administration did not absorb them. Former President Sirleaf’s Administration also had people trained abroad, but the George Weah-led government has failed to absorb them in government,” Bishop Donyen narrated.
According to the ICCL clergyman, if Liberia should be developed, present and future governments must refrain from employing people based on party’s loyalty, favoritism as well as segregation and other vices because they retard the progress of any nation.
“Huge number of our citizens who received advanced trainings are roaming the streets in search of job with no sign of getting one,” he intimated.
In retrospect, Bishop Donyen intimated how one former Assistant Minister died very poor about five years ago little knowing that the deceased acquired vigorous foreign trainings in Europe, Kenya and other countries through government’s sponsorship, but was abandoned by authorities speculating that his death could have probably been attributed to the aforementioned scenario.
Therefore, the eminent citizen of District #2 Montserrado County who is regarded as the highest private contributor of development initiatives in the district urged the alumni of R.C.S.S. to remain steadfast and unwavering and aim at achieving their goals.
He however reminded them not to use the social media especially Face Book to defame people’s characters because that will have a bad reflection on them in the future and then referenced Leviticus 19:16 as their guarding principles that talked about gossiping discreetly.
In an effort to help some of the graduates further their studies, the Keynote Speaker gave scholarships to two female graduates and two others to males to study at the the University of Liberia (UL). According to reliable sources, a total of 13 students have so far benefited from similar gesture and as such, he promised to include the school on his free education program by 2024.
The valedictorian of the class of 2021/2022, Nehamiah Geelar said that they are grateful for the achievements pointing out that they will continue the educational sojourn in order for them to climb the rungs of the academic ladder.
He then lauded all those who helped them along the way including their parents, teachers and guardians.
For her part, the principal of the school Madam Vivian W. Lawrence stated that education is very important because, it reduces the work load relative to time as well as the hour that is applied to do a work.
She then encouraged all female graduates to remain focused and prepare themselves so that they can be able to even do better than what men can do.