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- Left Before Oct. 11, 2011 Voting Starts -
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WHY FRANKLIN SIAKOR FOR PRESIDENT 2011
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Liberia, after 14 years of civil war, still finds itself entrenched in deep-rooted
corruption with alarming inflation, abject poverty, high illiteracy, deteriorating
economic problems, frightening unemployment and poor services. Greed for
personal wealth and the lack of accountability as well as the culture of
impunity has brought us to where we are, as a nation. Ordinary Liberians
have been asked to make painful sacrifices to address our worst economic
nightmare with many living on less than $1.00 per day. However, corruption
and the politics that has put self-interest above our common interest are
keeping our nation adrift while the overwhelming majority lives in a state of
hopelessness.
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Profile of Senator Franklin Obed Siakor
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Senator Franklin Obed Siakor was born on December 3, 1967 in Phebe,
Bong County unto the union of Mrs. Nyoungor Siakor and Mr. David A. Siakor.
He is the second of eight children including five boys and three girls. The
young Franklin was named after an American doctor, Franklin Keller but most
people called him Franklin Roosevelt when he was growing up. His mother
is a mid-wife. His father worked as a nurse aid (operating room technician) at
Phebe Hospital. Franklin, as he is affectionately called grew up in the Grace
Baptist Church, where his father also served as pastor. He became youth
choir director, interpreter and financial secretary of the Baptist Youth
Conference.
Education Background
Senator Siakor holds a BA and MA in Developmental Studies from the
Kimmage Development Studies Centre in Dublin, Ireland. He earned his MA
in 2002. He also studied Conflict transformation at the Quaker Study Centre
in Birmingham United Kingdom (UK) in 1995 and participated in the Refugee
Studies Program at Oxford University, UK in 1997.
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SIAKOR: A Geographical and Generational Icon
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When Senator Franklin Obed Siakor enters the race for President in 2011,
this will be the first time in decades a Bong County citizen will be making
a serious bid for the nation’s highest office. It is almost certain that he will
be the first senator ever to contest for the presidency who hails from one
of the former interior counties that became recognized in 1964 by an act of
the National Legislature. These include Lofa, Bong, Nimba and Grand
Gedeh counties. More importantly, he will be the first Liberian born in the
1960s to be elected President and the first person from Central Liberia to
occupy the Executive Mansion.
His election will mark not only a huge geographical shift in Liberian
politics but also a major generational change. After all, Senator Siakor,
42, is a 21st Century Liberian political leader who made his debut in
2005. Within four years, he has already captured the hearts and minds of
his people in Bong County by employing a new political approach of
seeking compromise over confrontation and cooperation over coercion.
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Sen. Siakor LAC High School
graduation speech 2009
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"No county has ever succeeded
in lifting its people out of poverty
without educating its people.
Poverty is both a cause and an
effect of insufficient access to
quality education".
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Sen. Siakor Harbel Multilateral High
School in Harbel Margibi County 2009
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"Corruption undermined trust, increased
suspicion and hindered political
inclusion. By so doing, corruption
hindered fulfilment of the Liberian
dream of one nation, indivisible with
liberty and justice for all."
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Sen. Siakor Flag Day speech in Gbarnga
Bong County 2009
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"... They omitted any analysis of the
nature of democracy in Liberia and the
class struggle that eventually paved the
way for native citizenship and native
participation in the governance of the
nation..."
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Sen. Siakor Bishop Jewle
Catholic High School 2009
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" we must take bold steps to
organise Liberia’s
education system in ways
that give rural children better
access"
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Sen. Siakor Development Initiatives and Quotes from Other Dignitaries
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USA President Obama in Ghana
7/11/2009
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"No business wants to invest in a place
where the government skims 20 percent off
the top, or the head of the Port Authority is
corrupt," he said. "No person wants to live in
a society where the rule of law gives way to
the rule of brutality and bribery. That is not
democracy, that is tyranny, even if
occasionally you sprinkle an election in
there."
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USA Secretary of State Clinton, in Liberia
2009
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“I will say to you what I said in two days in
Nigeria, a country that has the fifth-largest
supply of petroleum and gas, so many
riches, and yet the number of people living
in poverty is growing. Nigeria is now
further away from achieving the Millennium
Development Goals than they were ten
years ago. That is a travesty. That does not
have to be either Nigeria's future, and it
should not be Liberia's future.”
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