Player Tells Fighters To Disarm

Frank Seator

By Julu M. Johnson, Jr.
 12-08-2003 (Monrovia)     Liberian international striker Frank Seator has told fighters to disarm and get back into society for development and progress.

     Seator said the Liberian society is one of the most freed and opened in Africa, and thus fighters of the three warring parties should return to society in order to rebuild their respective lives. "If you have to go back to school, go there; if it is trade, take it up and if it is sports, get busy once again," Seator stated.

     Seator said he was grateful to God, through whose mercy the warring parties decided to stop killing one another. "We were not fighting foreigners, but were killing our own selves. We should stop doing this to one another. Thank God this madness and carnage have stopped," he stressed.

    The player, based in Malaysia, averred that while the foreign-based players are out there trying to paint a positive image of the country, there is no need for their brothers and sisters to fight.

     "Liberia belongs to all Liberians and that its wealth is for all and not one group of people." Seator then lauded ECOWAS and the United Nations for committing troops aimed at restoring peace to his beloved country.

    The Lone Star player also congratulated Chairman Charles Gyude Bryant for his effort to work with UN in restoring peace to Liberia. Seator recommended to Chairman Bryant that after disarmament, sports be used to bring youths of the various warring parties together, because, he said, sports could help with the integration process.

    "Sports is needed for the youths to avoid them behaving like adults." Seator added, " a society with only adults is catastrophic. You cannot have a society with youths behaving like adults."

     Seator expressed gratitude to the warring factions for coming to the table to talk peace. "For the sake of peace, I say thank you to the former GOL, LURD and MODEL for agreeing to stop fighting and allow sanity to once more be restored in our beloved country," he noted.