Tuesday 7 May 2019

Liberian President, George Weah suspends press minister, Eugene Fahngon for fueling ethnic tensions


Liberian President, George Weah suspends?press minister, Eugene Fahngon?for fueling ethnic tensions??
On Monday, Liberian President George Weah  suspended his junior press minister for fueling ethnic tensions in the country.
Weah suspended Eugene Fahngon over comments that a call for a big anti-government demonstration on June 7 was engineered by the so-called “Congo Liberians,” or descendants of freed slaves who returned from the United States to create Africa’s first independent republic. 

Weah, who overcame childhood poverty to become an international football legend, is not from this class, which has dominated politics in Liberia for 170 years. Weah and his government were “committed to a ‘one country, one people’ policy with zero tolerance on divisive politicking or tribalism,” a statement said. “I will not go for the June 7 demonstration,” Fahngon had said on Facebook. It is the Congo people who are behind the June 7 demonstration.”

The US embassy on Monday said it was “concerned by recent comments made in various forums which could impede Liberia’s progress.  

“Those who promote through their words or deeds a Congo-Country divide do not have Liberia’s best interests or that of their constituents at heart, but rather appear motivated by personal ambitions or fears,” a statement said. 

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