Senatorial Aspirant, Voters Clash Over Money A current aspirant for the Senatorial seat of Bomi County for the 2014 elections has allegedly failed to settle potential voters after trafficking them to register within his area. Contestants for the various Senatorial seats are making maximum use of the ongoing Voters Roll Update (VRU) by trucking possible voters to obtain voting status in their areas of interest. Mr. Morris Saytumah, a former key official in the office of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf during her first term, is accused of recruiting over 100 young persons, mainly males, with a promise of settlement following their registration process in Bomi County. The aggrieved voters mentioned that no specific amount was allotted for their voter registration trip to Bomi County. But commotion broke out after the voters observed that Mr. Saytumah appeared unwilling to live up to the promise of settlement. They explained that the agreement to register in Bomi County was not directly entered with Mr. Saytumah but through a middleman only identified as Jones, who refused to comment on the matter until being authorized. “We were 110 in number with only a single female. They took us from Old Road and 20th Street in Sinkor with an NTA bus and brought us back in front of the Buchanan Street First AGM School,” one of the aggrieved voters identified as Isaac Kollie claimed. The aggrieved voters, while protesting for ‘their money”, went on to express disappointment over the alleged behavior of Mr. Saytumah. “We left Monrovia at 9:30 am but up to 9:pm, we did not eat anything since Mr. Saytumah took us to Bomi County,” another voter, Joe Bokar, cried. They then vowed that the failure to settle their money will leave them with no other alternative but to campaign vigorously and vote against Mr. Saytumah, come the 2014 Special Senatorial Elections. “Look at the way the other guys were receiving their money from another Senatorial aspirant after they were taken from Monrovia to also register in Bomi County. Our hearts were indeed burning because we could not get ours,” Eugene Browne, one of the voters, lamented. But when contacted to respond to the claims made against him by the voters, Mr. Saytumah denied entering into any deal with voters to have them registered in Bomi County. He, meanwhile, warned: “Be careful how you write your story because I am a lawyer.” Mr. Saytumah is going against the incumbent G. Lahai Lasanah and has the backing of House Speaker J. Alex Tyler.
Posted on: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 20:42:51 +0000
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