MONROVIA – Just two days after members of the opposition bloc staged a rally against the government, President George Weah received a rousing welcome from a multitude of supporters despite being heavily criticized for being out of the country for more than a month.

Thousands of Liberians on Monday turnout at the Roberts International Airport (RIA) to welcome and escort President Weah to the Coalition for Democratic Change headquarters.Monday’s turnout for the President outnumbered that of Saturday’s ‘We Tiya Suffering’ rally which was intended to draw the world’s attention to the ‘misrule’ and the ‘sufferings’ Liberians are enduring under the regime of President Weah. The rally was led by Alexander Cummings, standard-bearer of the new Collaborating Political Parties (CPP) and the Alternative National Congress.

However, the ‘We Tiya Suffering’ rally was largely boycotted by other members of the opposition bloc who criticized the CPP’s Lewis Brown for “lacking the moral ground” to organize such a protest against the government.

In his return remarks, President Weah urged members of the opposition bloc to refrain from devising means of destroying the country. He said the opposition community must stop buying sympathy from the disenchanted youth in the country.

“Do not break down the country with your too many protests, it is the common people you are harming; if you feel we are not doing well go to the ballot box and not the streets,” Pres. Weah said.

The Liberian leader said it is unfortunate for those who destroyed the country in the past to be calling for protest.

“They’ve been serving government since 1979 and they have not changed anything, they served as government officials in the past, they served as Agriculture Minister, they served as Vice President and still they didn’t fix it, we are the ones fixing it and they want to destroy the country,” he said