Monrovia: President John Dramani Mahama, on Saturday, joined President Joseph Nyuma Boakai and the people of Liberia to celebrate their 178th Independence Day celebration in Monrovia. The event held at the Centennial Memorial Pavilion in Monrovia, Montserrado County, was attended by heads of states from the subregion including the Presidents of Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Bissau. There were also representatives of the governments of Cote d’Ivoire, Nigeria, and Gambia.
According to African Press Organization, Liberia used the occasion to recognize ECOWAS member states that contributed troops to the multinational peacekeeping force, ECOMOG, which played a key role in ending the civil war as well as securing humanitarian corridors during the Liberian war. The celebration, with the theme “One people, one destiny, healing the past and building the future,” reflected on the past, emphasizing the need for stock-taking, reconciliation, and a united national identity to rebuild a peaceful Liberia, endowed with rich natural resources.
The President was accompanied by the Minister for Defence, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, the Chief of Defence Staff of the Ghana Armed Forces, Lt. General William Agyapong, and Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations, Stanislav Xoese Dogbe.
