This, therefore, compelled the ICOP, being a splinter of the COP, to emerge with their own protest, which is professed to be quite different from its originally announced protest. “Over time as a result of our pressure, they quickly changed from Weah step down to step up,” the ICOP chairman scoffed. The ICOP believes, however, that the leadership of COP is not fighting in the interest of the ordinary Liberians but for their personal interests. ICOP says its own set of petitions dubbed — the “ten commandments” will be reveal to the public by Friday, January 10. He said it was because of the ICOP pressure that forced COP to change its mantra from “Step down” to “Step up”.

Source: Daily Observer January 10, 2020 02:15 UTC