DR. SETON TAKES OVER ULAA

DR. SETON TAKES OVER ULAA

Reports reaching the People-to-People News desk indicate that Dr. Mariah Seton will be taking over the leadership of ULAA.

Our source said that the decision was reached following the failure of Mr. Anthony Kesseley to honor a proposal advanced by the Liberian Embassy. The proposal provides for a power sharing administration pending election. The report said all parties to the conflict in ULAA have accepted the proposal except Anthony Kesseley.

Recently, the Liberian Embassy under the leadership of Ambassador Nathaniel Barnes attempted a mediation effort to restore peace and harmony to ULAA.

The composition of the proposed UNITED ULAA National Administration as discussed was as follows: Anthony V. Kesselly, National President; Dr. Mariah Y. Seton, National Executive Vice President; Abraham G. Massaley, National Secretary General; James Tamba, National Treasurer; Margaret Jones, Vice President, Eastern Region; J. Siaka Konneh, Vice President, Western Region; Kla Wilson, Vice President, Northern Region and Robert Gledegbem Garguah, Sr., Vice President, Southern Region.

At the mediation meeting, the participants including Anthony Kesseley, also unanimously agreed that the ULAA Board of Directors as constituted as of September 30, 2008 and leaders of ULAA Chapters as well as other key players would meet in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on March 14, 2009 to formally endorse and install the officials.

Our source also says, the ULAA National Administration is calling upon the ULAA eminent council and all peace loving Liberians to prevail on Anthony Kesseley to cease and desist from further operations that continues to

divide and undermine the Union.

Since the mediation efforts, all the parties have written the Ambassador accepting his proposal. Ih his acceptance statement, Mr. Abraham Masseley said, "Since our return from Washington DC, I have had extensive consultations within my constituency regarding the proposal and the composition of the leadership structure as discussed by the participants.

As a result of these consultations, I am pleased to inform you that our constituency has accepted without any precondition your proposal as well as the structure and composition of the proposed UNITED ULAA National Administration. This has been one of the most difficult concessions to make but the greater good supercedes our individual considerations and interest. Hence, we wish to assure you of our total commitment to do our part in ending this current conflict within the framework that has been provided."

However, Anthony Kesseley who decided to put self before the interest of the Union unceremoniously walked away from the initiative of the Embassy.

Accordingly, the parties to the conflict in ULAA have been holding extensive consultations amongst them selves and have resolved to implement the proposal. Several efforts to get Mr. Kesseley to the table failed. Mr. Kesseley has remained intransigent, recalcitrant, and contumacious to the process