Monrovia – Liberian Senators are providing contrary opinions on calls by President George Weah to revisit laws on citizenship, property ownership, and law to make people of non-Negro decent citizens of Liberia. Some of the lawmakers supported the idea of making “white people” citizens of Liberia, while others kicked against the idea. But those of them who were seen supporting a white person citizenship disagreed with the proposal to give white people rights to own property (land). “I am of the view that these threats no longer exist, and that these conditions have changed." “I believe that this is an anomaly that should not have found its way into the 1986 Constitution [Chapter 4, Article 27].

Source: Front Page Africa January 31, 2018 03:56 UTC