Barclayville, Grand Kru County – Political party’s supporters in Grand Kru County, in southeastern Liberia, are expressing their opposition to their candidate’s opponent in a strange way: tearing poster or banner with image of the ‘opponent’. Bartekwa’s face, from his eyes, was ripped off from his banner erected along Hospital Camp road, in Barclayville, where his campaign office was. “They threw stones at the banner, which caused the tear.”He said the children were caught while throwing the stones at the candidate’s campaign material, taken to Hon. Road conditions in Grand Kru County make early intervention or arrest by the Grand Kru’s team of the Liberia National Police—with less than 17 officers, Commander Adolphus Cole had disclosed to me—impossible. Others are predicting the consequence of tearing or pulling down a candidate’s campaign banner: The victim today would not extend development projects in community, when he or she is the (new) Representative.

Source: Front Page Africa September 27, 2017 01:30 UTC