Liberia: Reinvigorating Site-Searching

editorial

Efforts by the Government of Liberia to ensure a site for the construction of a Sixty-Million Dollar a ministerial complex under the auspices of the Government of the People's Republic of China may just be moving at a 'snail pace'. For weeks now following two unsuccessful attempts to secure a site, the government is still giving the public the impression that it is still in search for another site for the construction while the Chinese continue to wait impatiently.

Its attempt to demolish the incomplete Israeli-built Defense Ministry building in Congo Town, outside Monrovia following its previous decision not to utilize the ELWA land on the Robertsfield Road for the project, met stiff resistance from Liberians across the country. The government had planned the demolition exercise at the cost of Four-Million United States Dollars, while at the same time requesting all legitimate residents, excluding squatters of the community and Peace Island to proceed to the Ministry of Public Works with their property deeds for evaluation, compensation and relocation. It rescinded its decision on the demolition and eviction exercises following a court action by Human rights Lawyer Dempster Brown more than a week ago, submitting before the Supreme Court of Liberia that it had no plans to pursue to action for which it was dragged to court by the Human Rights Lawyer.

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