Breaking News: NPP Youth Wing Storms PYJ’s Church, Disrupts Normal Activities – Latest Liberian News
PAYNESVILLE A group claiming to be the youth wing of the National Patriotic Party (NPP) Sunday stormed the Christ Chapel of Faith Church of Senator Prince Y. Johnson, disrupting normal activities.
The NPP of jailed ex-Liberian president Charles Ghankay Taylor, is a constituent party of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC).
It is currently headed by Taylor’s former wife and current Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor.
On Sunday during the Church’s normal worship service, members of the “NPP Youth Wing’, dressed in their NPP and CDC regalia, holding banners and placards and chanting anti-PYJ slogans, stormed the Church’s compound and disrupted normal service.
They chanted war crimes court slogan, and left Senator Johnson and his wife stranded for sometimes in the Church’s compound before leaving.
Senator Johnson, left the pulpit and came out, but after an attempt to calm the crowd down failed, he was asked by Church members to go back to service.
The group said they had gathered to protest against Senator Johnson’s “planned outburst against Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor, as well as his continued misuse of the pulpit to denigrate President Weah and his officials.”
VP Howard-Taylor recently warned Liberians that a victory for the Unity Party’s standard bearer Amb. Joseph Nyumah Boakai and his running mate Senator Jeremiah Koung in the October polls might land Senator Johnson the presidency.
VP. Howard-Taylor said it is an open secret that the former Vice President has a fragile health condition, and if elected president, he might die in office. And when that happens, Senator Prince Johnson will run the show, instead of Senator Koung, who is being dubbed as Johnson’s “political godson.”
Senator Johnson is yet to respond, but a Facebook message from an unverified account on Saturday, invited the public to the Christ Chapel of Faith service today, Sunday for the Senator’s response to the Vice President’s outburst against him.
This news is breaking and details to follow.
