The Constitution Review Committee or CRC has urged Liberians not to sit back, but to fully participant in the review process by expressing their views. The Committee said it was imperative that citizens make their views heard to take ownership of the process because the Constitution is theirs.

Speaking early this week to hundreds of residents in West Point Township, committee chair Cllr. Gloria Musu-Scott reminded that it is the people who should tell the committee what they want in the Constitution rather than the other way around.

She said the Constitution Review Committee is a referee, not a player in the process therefore, all Liberians now have an opportunity to improve on past mistakes and project the next generations' future.

Cllr. Scott, a former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia spoke during a public and civic education outreach campaign in West Point where copies of the Constitution and CRC's framework were distributed, includes suggestion box.

Historically, she noted that Liberia is the first country in the world founded by an NGO (Non-governmental Organization) adding that when those who started Liberia came first, they landed at Shebro Island in Sierra Leone.

She continued: "Before some of them started to scout on the sea at sometimes and they discovered this place called Liberia today and that was in the 1800 century. When these people came, the first place they landed was the Providence Island in the middle of the Mesurado River as that name including Montserrado are from the Spanish traders," she historicized.

She praised the late President William V. S Tubman for uniting the Americo-Liberians and the natives, adding that there was gap before, and she did not vote in the 1984 referendum, which led to the writing of the current Constitution, which took effect in 1986.

"Not that I could not because I have just completed law degree as I was an attorney-at-law at the time. I did not go there and many people for that matter. I did not participate in the referendum," she recalled.

Cllr. Scott, also a former Monthly and Probate Court Judge, indicated that as a result of the civil conflict in Liberia, the Constitution was interrupted many times based on peace conferences, which relegated the organic law for years.

"Now it is the time to review the process and make those amendments that are needed, but our people must take the process as their own," she stressed.