GANTA, Nimba – Pastor Roger S. W. Y. Domah, a Methodist clergyman at the Miller McAllister United Methodist Church in Nimba, has emerged as the top candidate to assume the representative seat of Nimba’s seventh electoral district.
After all polling station results were in, Domah won 17 percent of the votes. The pastor, who is also the assigned principal at the Ganta United Methodist School, called it a privilege that the people of the seventh district elected him to serve them as their lawmaker.
“We want to give God the glory for his favor that has been upon us, even though it was unmerited, but we received that favor throughout the process,” Domah said.
“The challenges were many… but we had a good team that could carry the message the right way… and our involvement with the people since we lost the election in 2011 this time gives us the opportunity to serve.”
Domah had lost during the 2011 elections, an outcome he blamed on the re-demarcation of Nimba that subsequently increased the number of electoral district from seven to nine.
“That was the major reason that led to our defeat in 2011, but after that, we were able to go back to the drawing board to re-strategize our plans. Instead of depending on our clan alone for the support this time, we did it inclusively by sending our men all over the district,” he stated.
Now that the Methodist preacher is best seated to become the next lawmaker of the district, he is making key the process to reunite the district as part of his 100-day plan of action.
“We are taking highly the process of uniting our people… especially coming from a religious background. I know that we are going to use the churches; we are going to our elders and being a youth focus person, we also going to use the young people and our mothers in the district to unite all of us,” Domah noted.
Domah is also considering in his 100-day plan of action to complete the expansion and construction of both city hall projects in Saclepea and Bahn, the two major cities of the district.
“Another project we intend to work on in our 100-day period is the age-old guest house project in Saclepea for guests coming to the district to use,” he said.
“Also, there is a school building that is not completed in Bahn, and we are going to make sure to complete it and lots of other projects in the district. We are going to do a massive assessment of our needs within the first 100 days.”
Domah promised to work with fellow lawmakers to ratify and pass a number of outstanding bills currently at the capitol.
“One of the areas [we’re] going to look at is strengthening the anti-corruption law of this country. We are also intending to pass a law that can further improve our educational system where the government will be compelled to extend the subsidy to private and mission schools in the country and so many laws we intend to ratify currently at the capitol,” he added.
He called on all citizens, including candidates to see the process of reconciliation and unity as a fulcrum for the district’s development despite the intense competition amongst candidates and supporters experienced during the electoral process, maintaining that it would drive the developmental agenda of the district.
Featured photo by Arrington Ballah
