Monrovia – Former Speaker Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa has described the construction of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) new headquarters as a powerful symbol of former President George Weah’s anticipated return to power in 2029.
Delivering an electrifying speech at the groundbreaking ceremony on Saturday, Koffa — who chairs the CDC Headquarters Construction Committee — said the new complex will stand as a monument to resilience and revival following what he called the “unprecedented eviction and demolition” of the party’s previous headquarters by the Unity Party-led government.
“This is a sophisticated edifice that will emerge as a symbol that truth crushed to the ground will rise again,” Koffa declared. “It is our vision that by the time we reach 2029, this entire area will be a CDC complex. It is from this complex that will rise the new mantle of leadership that the Liberian people will give to President Weah in 2029. We are witnessing an unprecedented juxtaposition of unmitigated power and naked greed.”
Koffa accused the government of attempting to erase the CDC from Liberia’s political history.
“In an unprecedented eviction move, the government of Liberia went to the headquarters of the CDC and destroyed it with the intention of erasing this noble party from the annals of history. But they got the opposite effect,” he said.
‘We Don’t Want That Kind of Power’
In a fiery critique of the Unity Party-led administration, the former Speaker said the government has failed the Liberian people and has turned state security forces into political instruments.
He recounted a recent chat with a Unity Party supporter who boasted that “the UP knows how to use power.”
Koffa said he replied:
“If knowing how to use power means turning the police that should protect protesters into a shoot-and-kill death squad, we don’t want to know that kind of power.
If knowing how to use power means stopping motorcyclists from making a decent living after taking their insurance money, we don’t want to know that kind of power.
If knowing how to use power means taking jobs from over 200 Liberians at the Ministry of Transport and giving them to foreigners so you and your friends can share the benefits, we don’t want that kind of power.
If knowing how to use power means making times so hard that families can’t pay their children’s school fees or their rent, we don’t want to know that kind of power.
If knowing how to use power means taking an oil deal from an American company, ExxonMobil, and giving it to one corrupt man so that a few can benefit, we don’t want to know that kind of power.
If knowing how to use power means to lie, steal, and rape, then we don’t want to know that power.”
In a humorous jab, Koffa added: “I know the Ministry of Mines and Pa Cuss will get ready for me, but thank God Ma and Pa are dead — they will not hear it.”
A Symbol of Resilience and Hope
Saturday’s groundbreaking ceremony drew thousands of CDC partisans and sympathizers.
Observers say the event, coming just two months after the party’s former headquarters was demolished, has rekindled the CDC’s political energy and renewed hope among supporters for a strong comeback in the 2029 elections.
