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ULAA's Statement Of Support For The TRC Report
Office Of The National Executive President
Union of Liberian Associations In The Americas
Recognizing the importance of reconciliation as a way forward for the Republic of Liberia after 14 years of violence during which over 250,000 of our fellow compatriots were killed, thousands tortured, thousands raped. We also believed any true reconciliation must come with justice to end the culture of impunity so as to afford the victims of the Liberian crisis time to begin true healing.
Remember how the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Liberia, or TRC, was established as part of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in Accra, Ghana, accepted by Liberians, including all members of the warring factions and their supporters, that it was the true path to peace and reconciliation in the Republic of Liberia. A bill was later passed by the now defunct National Transitional Legislative Assembly, or TLA, to formalized the commission, its functions, and recommendations, within the framework of the Liberian legal system or process to find out the root causes of violence in Liberia from January 1979-August 2003 and make recommendations as to how to resolve our differences and prevent future violence. read more
Chorus Of Hossana Greets ULAA's Inauguration In Philly On Saturday, June 20, 2009
It was an inaugural that received so much attention. It was an inauguration that was threatened with sabotages and distractions. It was an inauguration that some pretended did not exist but yet tried to destroy. But at the end, it became an inauguration that no body could stop. read details
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Seton Declared Inauguration A Success, Says Distractors Failed Big Time
Describing the efforts leading to the June 20, 2009 ULAA inauguration as ones that were filled with challenges and distractions, Dr. Mariah Seton, National Executive President of the Union of Liberian Associations, or ULAA, declared the event a great success and crushing defeat to those who were beating their chests that the event would've never taken place. She said, "the fact that we are here today means we have over come all the distractions and attemped sabotages." Seton who cut short her inaugural address, overwhelmed with emotions and excitement, jumped on the dance floor, still filled with energy, and began dancing the night away. The evening was filled with praises for Dr. Seton, a women who lives in Chicago, to have made such a great event possible in Philadelphia, a city that is hundreds of miles aways. |
ULAA: The Historical Journey
 Then it all started. After the invoking of divine guidance by the clergy, Mr. Mohammed S. Kromah, former president of ULAA, was deployed to take up the task of taking the audience on a historical journey. Kromah wasted no time when he immediately invoked the names of ULAA’s founders, and listed the reasons of their intentions to organize such an important organization. Kromah said many of those who established ULAA, dead or alive, are being disrespected by the current turn of events in ULAA. An organization he said has strayed away from its rightful path.
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A Moment of Silence For The Departed: Dr. Joseph Woahtee
 At the very start of the ULAA inaugural program, the audience was reminded of the lost of ULAA's former president Joseph M. Woahtee, who was recently killed in Baltimore while in a community center runs by him. Garnett Gbomakollie was asked to lead the way. The audience was asked to stand up and observed a moment of silence for the late Mr. Woahtee who's body will be flown to Liberia shortly for interment.
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Swearing In Ceremony: Raising Their Right Hands, They Said I Do
 Following the moment of remembrance, one of the most respectful Liberian women in America, Dr. Margaret Kromah, wife of former ULAA president Mohammed Kromah, came forward to execute the most pivotal task of the evening, which is installing and swearing in the officers. Those to be sworn in were called one by one to the podium. And they included Dr. Mariah Y. Seton, National Executive President, Jesse Philips, National Executive Vice President, Joseph Tehmed, National General Secretary, James Tamba, National Treasurer, and Celia Brown, Regional Vice President for the Eastern Region.
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Gbessagee Speaks On ULAA's Shortcomings And Possible Solutions
 Well, where would an event like this be without a guest or keynote speaker? One who delivers a whole message, not in bits and pieces. For the ULAA inaugural event of June 20, 2009, in Philadelphia, that person was Hon. Nathaniel Gbessagee, a prolific Liberian writer, who is known among supporters, and foes alike, as a straight shooter. Like we say in Liberia, “a man who can look the cat in the eye and burst it.” Mr. Gbessagee began by recounting his own experiences and involvement in ULAA more than 16 years ago in which he said he was involved in two ULAA presidential campaigns and traveled to Philadelphia.
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Koffa Urges ULAA To Get Closer With Liberia's Environmental Issues
 Adding on its program menu something that has been absent from ULAA's activities for a very long time was the issue of Liberia's environmental conditions, and who else was uniquely qualified to dish up this menu, no other but Mr. Morris T. Koffa, Executive Director for the US-based Africa Environmental Watch. In his short message, Koffa admonished the ULAA leadership to bring itself closer to the environmental issues affecting Liberia.
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Things Done Illegally Should Not Be Accepted: Larsah Declares
 In what was seen as a direct aim at the paralysis that has now gipped ULAA which has split the organization in two, ULAA Chairman of the Board, James Larsah lashes out at what he call illegal activities which he said should never be sanctioned and accepted. Larsah, who remains the undisputed Chairman of ULAA Board of Directors, elected at a constitutionally sanctioned meeting continues to resist any attempt for anyone to try to twist the board into club of friends.
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