Liberia: 'Toothless' Commerce Ministry Or....?

26 September 2012
editorial

Except for a few in the public service, life in Liberia continues to be unbearable day-by-day for ordinary Liberians due to the high cost of living. Least to think about other parts of the country, most Liberians residing in Monrovia and its environs hardly afford a meal a day, and if there should be one, it is either plain rice without any nutritional ingredients or bugger wheat with salt and palm oil.

Interestingly, in most neighborhoods characterized by abject poverty, cordiality between the have and have-not is plagued with the highest degree of selfishness and high borders and fences. Further exacerbating such poverty-stricken situation are the inflated prices of goods and services, of course not only in Monrovia and its environs, but across the entire country. Probably owing to the weakness and inability of the Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, trade and commerce have become so exploitative and to certain extent, criminal.

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