The Perspective
Atlanta, Georgia
Updated March 26, 2020

A Maryland County diaspora organization based mainly in the United States has donated several pieces of equipment to Tubman University’s Radio Phoenix 102.7 (The Voice of Tubman University (TU)).

The equipment include a high quality 12-channel audio console for the radio station as well as cameras, complete with tripods, software, a high-end laptop, multi adaptors and other smart gadgets for the opening of an online TV station. Several pieces of MFP 20th Anniversary souvenirs flashlights were also included in the package.

Mr. Jefferson Elliott who presented the items on behalf of Board Chair of the MFP, Dr. James Elliott, conveyed good tidings from the organization and prayed the items be used for the intended purpose of community and social outreach throughout the county.

Receiving the items on behalf of Radio Phoenix, Professor Dr. Elliot Wreh-Wilson, President of the William V. S. Tubman University, thanked the MFP for another milestone presentation worth thousands of United States dollars, while noting other significant donations and projects the organization is involved within Maryland County, including the construction of water wells for safe drinking water in populated urban and rural communities in the County among others.

Dr. Wilson also used the occasion to admonish Phoenix FM to use the equipment with care. He noted the MFP’s non-political motives and highlighted its sole intention of bringing hope to the people of this historic county of Maryland.

Meanwhile, the MFP has expressed satisfaction with the objectivity of Phoenix FM in its programs which are sometimes shared on social media and other online media outlets like SoundCloud.

In a letter addressed to university President Professor Dr. Elliot Wreh-Wilson, dated 11th March 2020 and signed by incumbent MFP President Madam Roberta Brown-Cooper, the organization expressed willingness to continue its support to the institution and the county.

It must also be noted that it was the MFP which donated the initial equipment for the opening of Radio Phoenix in 2014 and officially commissioned by the LTA in an elaborate ceremony on 14th September 2015, during the university’s 6th Charter Day celebrations under the regime of founding President Dr. Elizabeth Davis-Russell.

Donations by the MFP to the William V. S. Tubman University since its inception as a full-fledged university are worth tens of thousands of United States dollars.

Radio Phoenix covers three counties, including a good part of Ivory Coast, broadcasting twenty-four hours a day in several other languages including Grebo and French.

In a related development, a rest-stop under construction in Pleebo, Maryland County’s commercial hub is nearing completion. This project is being undertaken by the umbrella diaspora Maryland County organization NAMCAL.

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