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Original Post Date: 2011-04-24 Time: 01:00:06 Posted By: News Poster
Recent media reports say the government of Liberia is planning to use a portion of the community known generally as “ELWA” to construct a “ministry complex”. It is not clear what the government has petitioned the Liberian Senate to do about that; but it is reportedly using the reported acquiescence of the Liberian Council of Churches (LCC) perhaps as proof that ELWA/SIM establishment has accepted its plan. ELWA/SIM is believed to be the legal custodian of the land. Now, the Christian Community of Liberia (CCL), in conjunction with the Christian Media Center (CMC) which is a member of LCC, believes a conspiracy to deprive the ELWA/SIM establishment of the land is in the making; and it is crying “Wolf!” The Analyst, reports.
Two Christian groups, CCL and CMC, say unless government’s plan to use a portion of the ELWA land to construction a ministry complex is thwarted, Liberia stands to forfeit the ELWA/SIM establishment’s planned development of the property.
“This we consider not only a violation of a legal agreement but a reintroduction of jungle justice,” the groups said in a press release they issued last week, without further comment.
The release said the Christian missionary group, ELWA, has concluded plans to begin, within the next 12 months, the construction of several state-of-the-art buildings to house a high school, a modern hospital, and extended range radio and TV studios.
“The Chief Executive Officer of Samaritan’s Purse, Franklin Graham, who recently held the Liberia Life Festival, has committed himself and his organization to underwrite the cost,” the release said.
Thwarting government’s plan, the group said, first required tackling LCC’s conspiratorial acquiescence, which it says the government of Liberia is wielding to its advantage to “grab the ELWA land”.
It though, did not say how, neither did it say why it was essential to confront LCC rather than issue a counter-petition to the Senate calling for a public hearing on government’s proposal or whipping up a citizen’s action against the so-called planned takeover of ELWA land.
What seems the contention though is that the government’s plan to construct a ministry complex on ELWA “land” is in for a long haul discontent with the custodian, ELWA/SIM, backed by two Christian groups that believe that the government is simply playing the bully. But why?
Government/LCC factor
According to the CCL/CMC press release, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf recently told the Liberian Senate that LCC has endorsed government’s plan to “grab of the ELWA land” to use it to construct a ministry complex.
The release said the government is seeking to use 14.5 acres, of the over 137 acres of land the Tubman Administration gave to ELWA on an eleemosynary or charity grant, to construct the ministry complex.
The CCL/CMC release said while the bulk of the contention over the plan is against the government, the reported collusion of LCC was troubling.
They said it indicated that the Christian umbrella group was not only siding with government’s land encroachment plan against a Christian establishment, but worst, that it was also doing so without the advice and consent of its membership.
By reportedly endorsing the government’s encroachment plan without a consensus nod from the church and church-related organizations that make up LCC, the duo contended, LCC was once again putting itself under public scrutiny.
The duo said the public scrutiny, to which the Bishop David R. Daniels leadership was recklessly exposing LCC, was coming fast at the heels of the infamous secretary general election debacle, which it said dampened its image as the moral and spiritual conscience of society.
Reiterating CMC’s claim that it was unaware of an LCC meeting that endorsed government’s ELWA land encroachment plan, the release said any government-LCC collusion to legitimize the plan was “grossly wrong”.
Without any such meeting also, the release contended, President Sirleaf’s reference to any LCC endorsement in her reported communication to the Senate was “not only cynical but an attempt to divide the church of Liberia”.
How the President was supposed to know that the LCC endorsement did not meet the consensus of all members, the release did not say, to the surprise of observers. It conceded that the President might have met with some officials of LCC, but it contended that any agreement derived from a meeting with a select membership of LCC was illegal.
That aside, the release quoted CMC as further contending that the President was in error to consult LCC on her administration’s plan to use a portion of the ELWA land because LCC does not have the authority it was presumed to have.
“LCC is not an umbrella organization for all churches in Liberia, neither the custodian of all government donated church lands or properties in the country,” the release quoted CMC as contending. “Christian Media Center then appealed to members of the legislature especially those of the Christian faith to remember that their first loyalty is to God their creator before any other being.”
CMC also reportedly called on all Christians in the country not to take the attack on the church with partisan sentiments but to begin fasting and praying for God’s intervention – again why God’s intervention for a purely legal question, CMC did not say. But it rallied Christian leaders in the country to repel government’s “attack” with prayers.
CMC recalled a statement LCC had reportedly issued in October 2010, classifying the government’s planned takeover of the ELWA land as “an attack on the Church of Liberia” and claimed that any reversal of the position may have been influenced through an inducement.
“We believe getting the news media to campaign for the use of 14.5 acres of ELWA land in the name of development seems deceptive and is a front to grab all of the property. It is an attempt by government to destroy the ambience of ELWA by knocking down residential buildings, getting rid of antenna fields and even removing the grave site of missionaries and nationals alike who tirelessly labored for the Mission while they were alive,” the release quoted CMC as saying.
CMC then wondered why the government was keen on the ELWA land, which was given for the propagation of the gospel and for humanitarian purposes, when there was so much land in the country.
“Why would anyone want to build a ‘ministry complex’ near Liberia’s oldest radio station, a hospital and an educational institution?” the release wondered, recalling the Doe Administration’s ill-considered and wasteful construction of a radio and TV complex near the Omega Tower in Paynesville.
“Are we going to make the ELWA area which is the principal entry point to the airport a ‘bottleneck’ like Red Light and Duala? Has the government engineers considered the demographics of the area for the next 10 years?” the release wondered further in view of the existence of the nation’s only sports complex in the vicinity of ELWA.
It said while the duo supported the government’s development drive, it also fully recognized the level of contribution ELWA has made and continues to make on the lives of ordinary Liberians in the areas of healthcare, education, spiritual renewal and social intellectual development.
Side-stepping a legal guarantee?
If the so-called ELWA land is a grant by the government of Liberia, then there should be legal guarantee for the ELWA/SIM establishment, observers said.
Even though the CMC/CCL duo agreed, noting that the land cannot therefore be retrieved by the government without a legislative repeal, it refused to say why it preferred to side-step legal approach to the issue of the feared government encroachment on ELWA land.
It however implied that the ELWA/SIM establishment would only forfeit the right to administer the land had it violated the terms of the eleemosynary grant, which it did not do, as the government claimed it did.
Instead of stressing that point and rallying support, the duo reiterated its call to Christians in the country to oppose the government’s plan, fearing that it could be the beginning of a land-grabbing spree.
“The ELWA land-grab is not only an event but a precedent that will soon have a ripple effect on the Christian community if a clear and unequivocal message is not sent to government. We also appeal to the conscience of some of our church leaders who are now partnering with government against ELWA to understand that today it is ELWA; tomorrow it can be any other institution,” the release quoted the duo as saying.
The duo has meanwhile called on the Sirleaf Administration to stay all ongoing feasibility studies being conducted by Chinese engineers on the land in question.
“The land in question legally belongs to ELWA and no one else. Until any would-be legal issues appertaining to the eleemosynary grant can be resolved we are appealing to government to respect the law and stay clear of ELWA land. May the Lord Jesus Christ bless us all and save the state”, the statement said.
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Original date published: 18 April 2011
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