Students hailing from the District of Pleebo Sodoken attending various universities in Monrovia do not believe that those in cabinet positions around President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf are giving her information to enable her take informed positions of issues of national importance.
In the case of the Decoris Oil Palm Agreement signed between the Liberian Government and an Ivorian Company, SICFA, the students said they were of the strong belief that the president had been misled.
Their position was contained in a statement issued Wednesday in which they took issue with the president and those who they claimed are passing judgment against Representative Bhofal Chambers.
All of what happening as far as the Decoris agreement is concerned relative to the position of Rep. Chambers, according to the students, centers around the failure of officials to tell the president what they should be telling her.
Some public officials charged with the responsibility to adequately inform the president have not done justice and fairness to the process, and thus misled the president on the circumstances regarding the current takeover of Decoris by SIFCA,” the students said in the statement under the signature of Marvin Williams, President of the Sodoken University Student Union.
Though angry with the president over the manner in which they said she reacted to the issue, they said they still maintain explicit confidence in Madam Sirleaf’s ability to lead this nation toward sound economic recovery, social healing and national reconciliation.
In a latest opposition statement issued Wednesday, the students, as they have been doing since the eruption of tension, said they were surprised and disappointed given the fact that President Sirleaf approbated the SIFCA takeover of the Decoris Oil Palm in Pleebo, Maryland County.
According to them, they were taken aback at what they called “president’s Sirleaf condemnation of Rep. Bhofal Chambers for his alleged disruption of the company’s work.
Following claims and counterclaims as to the capability of the company to manage the farm, a major source of employment for the residents with Representative pioneering the attack, university students hailing from Sodoken District, have come out strong against the agreement and those backing it, including President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
But in the statement, the angry students put up a strong defense for Rep. Chambers, noting that at no time did Rep. Chambers cause any problem, claiming that his advocacy is to attract alternatively viable investment for the District in Pleebo.
They used the statement to reiterate their challenge of the Agriculture Minister Florence Chenoweth’s assertion that an open and transparent bidding process took place in this regard.
Moreover, the students also used the channel to reiterate their call on the House’s Committees on Agriculture and Investment to launch an independent probe into the entire process as they are yet to be convinced under the prevailing circumstances, the release stated.
There is more tension created as compared to calm since the Decoris Oil Palm Agreement signed between the Liberian Government and an Ivorian Company, SICFA, came into operations.

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