As the race for the Executive Mansion continues to gather momentum, presidential aspirants are also garnering the will to face the challenges. Madam Ellen one of the many candidates for the chief magistracy of the land has indicated that Liberia will become a great nation under her administration.
As standard bearer of the Unity Party (UP), Madam Sirleaf has outlined several measures she hopes to undertake when she ascends to power. Ellen said she would ensure “national development and recovery programs for five years period” aimed at making Liberia a great nation.
She made the commitment when she addressed an intellectual gathering on Carey Street Monday. She said Liberia “is endowed with natural and human resources but has failed to develop same due to misuse” by those she called “small group of predatory individuals in the past regimes.”
The UP standard bearer indicated that she was seeking the nation’s highest office not to “amass wealth at the expense of the suffering masses, but to promote a healthy economy in which all Liberians and the international business partners can prosper.”
Also in the first five years of her presidency, she said she would create “investment climate that will pave the way for confidence building among Liberians and foreign investors in the areas of trades and commerce.”
“Every child will be given the opportunity to go to school through a compulsory primary education scheme,” she told the audience of financial and media professionals who have assembled for the occasion.
“The UP led government will ensure that there are quality secondary schools in all of our political sub-divisions and to provide the way out for the rehabilitation of vocational and technical institutions aimed at providing basic skill trainings for child soldiers who were associated with fighting forces in the just ended civil conflict,” Madam Sirleaf added.
According to her, her leadership program will cover the enhancement of college education to its citizens by decentralizing the University of Liberia.
