-Presidential Candidate Sarah Beysolow Nyanti says Liberia doesn’t need a politician.
By: Leila B. Gbati
Liberia’s lone female Presidential candidate of the African Liberation League (ALL) Party Madam Sarah Beysolow Nyanti, says Liberia needs development experts who has the political will to effectuate total transformation in major sectors, as well as the lives of Liberians.
In the view of Madam Nyanti, Liberia doesn’t need politiciansbut people who have experienced in public service. “You don’t have to serve in legislature in order to know how to develop a country and transform a nation in fact, where has the legislature transform this country and where are we after 176 years so letslook at Liberia from the perceptive of where Liberia should be and realize the fact that we fail and we have not done all we should because if we have done things properly we won’t be where we are today. So, this is about how we recognized where we are as a country.”
The female presidential candidate made these statements on Monday, August 14, 2023, when she appeared on the Super Morning Show on ELBC Radio in Paynesville. Speaking on several things she intends to do when she gets to the presidency, Madam Nyanti attributed her participation in the electoral process to her fervent desire to ensure a complete change in Liberia, with her decades of experience with different international NGOS.
“This is about ensuring that everybody come out and find alternative and expresse their desire for Liberia through their vote and participating in a way that is inclusive and ensuring that we continue to encourage all eligible voters to vote. We should be happy that we have options for our people to look at, in some places people don’t have option at all and I am one of those alternative and I want to be the alternative that Liberians choose so that we can work on changing the narrative of Liberia and changing our development trajectory”, she stated.
According to the ALL Presidential Candidate, what she has to offer in term of capacities, competencies and experiences it will better be leverage at the level of the presidency and that is why she is in the elections.
Madam Nyanti said, contesting in the election is about what Liberians decide to do in terms of changing the narrative and how they can identify the leadership that will transform their lives and bring them together.
“Why should we not put that forward, why should they wait in line as the perspective is for many people that you have to come and get in line, who was there before you let the person have the chance. Liberia doesn’t have that time. This is not about learning politics who can be the best politicians. Liberian doesn’t need politicians but development experts,” she stressed.
Having had significant experience and results that transformed the lives of millions of people, Madam Nyanti said Liberians will elect her on the track record of having clear results in serving humanity and people at home and around the world.
“They will be electing me base on my experience here locally in designing the HIV AIDS Program and developing the proposal that was able to bring the Global Fund to Liberia till toady. They will elect me based on community activities I have been doing up until now such as feeding programs for the elderly from 2000-2003, conducting community engagement, social movement for change, learning hut for adolescents’ girls, developing and building latrines,” she said.
Madam Nyanti served Liberia in couple of capacities with the Government of Liberia under the Leadership of President Charles Taylor at the Ministry of Health, as Special Assistant and the National Aids Control Program.
She left the government of Liberia and joined the UN where she started as temporary contract and later became a staff responsible for the Global Fund Grants and to implement the HIV proposal she wrote. She was recruited in to international space and have been working on development and humanitarian programs and growing into the level of leadership where she recently retired at the level of UN Assistant Secretary General.
