Liberia, July 29 -- The Vanguard Student Unification Party (SUP) of the University of Liberia(UL) has submitted a sweeping petition to the Government of Liberia(GoL), demanding immediate action to address what it described as the country's "rampant and unbearable crises of jobs and justice."

By Francis G. Boayue

Addressed to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung, House Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon, Senate Pro Tempore Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence and Chief Justice Yamie Quiqui Gbeisay, the petition outlines a series of economic, governance and judicial reforms that the student movement says are necessary to rescue Liberia from deepening poverty, unemployment and institutional failure.

SUP in a major July 26, Liberi...