The Perspective
Atlanta, Georgia
August 11, 2021

Abraham Darius Dillon

Campus-based Student Unification Party- SUP, a party formulated on the principles and precepts of Marxist-Leninism and Massescracy on October 20, 1970, has called on the administration of the University of Liberia to expeditiously and immediately open the Student Union Building.

The University of Liberia Student Union (ULSU) is the mother organization for all campus-based student groupings on the campuses of the University of Liberia. ULSU is charged with the responsibility to promote, protect, defend and seek the well-being of all students at the University.

In a press statement read by the party Chairman, Alexander James Momo Peters, the most powerful man on the campuses of the University of Liberia, at the Capitol Hill Campus on Thursday, August 5, 2021, SUP asserted that the Student Union Building has been closed for more than two years and it was legally agreed amongst the University authority, campus-based political parties and counties based associations in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) signed on April 21, 2021, that the union building would be opened this semester. However, the party has accused the University administration of failing to uphold or adhere to the MoU.

"The perpetual closure of the ULSIL Building is a gross violation of the Student Handbook and the democratic rights of the students of the University of Liberia" Chairman Momo Peters quoted. 

Also, the party in its press statement called on the University of Liberia authority to immediately suspend all classes at both the Graduate and Professional Schools respectively if classes at the undergraduate level are not open. On August 3, 2021, the administration suspended classes at the undergraduate level after a peaceful protest staged by the students turned violent and chaotic after armed men of the Liberia National Police invaded the campus and shot live bullets and tear gas canisters at unarmed students. SUP term the closure of classes at the undergraduate level as a tactic by the UL administration to distract the students' attention from their uncompromising stands against the ill-fated, unworthy, unscrupulous and draconian 100% e-Learning instituted by Rev. Nelson.

The revolutionary student group concluded its press statement by calling on all human rights organizations and  Liberia developmental partners such as African Union,  Ecowas, the European Union, the United States Embassy in Liberia to launch an immediate investigation into the bloody Monday saga of August 2, 2021.

The party has threatened to rally thousands of students to continue their protest actions against the habitual violations of their rights by the UL administration if e-learning is not made optional and the Student Union building reopened.