Grand Bassa County Assistant Superintendent for Development, Mr. Bailey K. Togba, has assured citizens of the county of government's continuous commitment, to economically empower the local people in the country.
Mr. Togba made the statement recently during the presentation of a quantity of agricultural tools to citizens to empower them for self-sustainability.
The materials including wheelbarrows, rakes, shovels, diggers, cutlasses, rain boots, as well as tarpaulin, totaling US$5,000, were presented to inhabitants of Desoe Town Community in Nyuiwein Administrative District in Wee Statutory District.
Mr. Togba disclosed that the tools were donated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, under the Liberia Decentralization and Local Development program, as a way of providing technical assistance to the inhabitants for sustainable developmental projects to transform their war-torn lives.
The Ministry's project monitor, Hilary Vomoawood, said 80% of the proceeds from the agricultural project the community would undertake belongs to the workers themselves and the balance 20% goes towards the development of the community.
He informed the inhabitants that in the future, when the project are well implemented, government will provide them with rice and cassava mills and a pick-up vehicle to transport their commodities to the market for sale.
The Desoe Town Community will engage in cassava, pine apples and rice farming.
Responding on behalf of the farmers in that community, Mr. Borbor King commended the government and its partners for the gesture and promised that they would surely utilize the "God-given blessing" they have received to economically empower themselves.
The project is reportedly the dream and vision of the county's Superintendent Julia Duncan Cassell, after assessing and realizing the burning needs of the people in that community.
She has meanwhile urged other communities to emulate the desire of the people of Desoe for the development of their own lives and communities.
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What about US$5,000 value of agricultural tools to implore local development under what the government called its Decentralization and Local Development Program. What it its substantiality that would bring economic empowerment to the people of this locality who had lost everything they ever owned. I thought by now a decentralization law or local government code would be in place to speed up development and reduce poverty instead of imperial Monrovia still dominating the political, social and economic fabrics of under developed Libeira. The government must move quickly to do something about this so that the country can be developed fast like other countries that took the same direction in the devolution process and today they are developing fast Liberia should be of no exception. What is whellbarrow, cutlasses, shovels and others that the Ministry of Internal Affairs must make big news out of. God bless Liberia.