Liberia: Water Advocacy Group Launched in Liberia

MONROVIA – A new water advocacy group has been launched in Liberia, with a call on government to ensure the equitable and affordable provision of safe drinking water to citizens across the country. By Obediah Johnson The group named and styled Liberia Water Justice Forum was launched at the climax of a capacity building workshop held at the New Water in the Desert Apostolic Pentecostal Church in Brewerville, outside Monrovia. The Forum was launched by Church Aid International (CAI, in collaboration with the Fellowship of Christian Councils and Churches in West Africa (FECCIWA) and Africa Water Justice Network based in Togo and Accra, Ghana respectively. Speaking during the launch, CAI Chairman Bishop Kortu Brown disclosed that the Forum would advocate and ask hard questions surrounding access to water in Liberia.

He said those who would not listen and respond to inquiries being raised by others to address social and other challenges confronting Liberians, should not be leaders here. “No matter how hard the questions are, we can find solutions to those hard questions. If you are leading people you must be ready to answer the hard questions. All those who are running away from the hard questions should not be leaders because leaders speak to the rock. You must find answers to the hard questions. ” Bishop Brown maintained that church and other religious leaders of the Liberia Council of Churches (LCC) must speak out and ask hard questions to find solutions to societal issues. “We have to face the hard questions because if Moses does not speak to the rock, the water will not come. The are things that we God servants would like to pray Moses prayed and God said to find solution you have to speak to the rock. ” He said many leaders in Liberia get worrisome when asked the hard…