Liberia: No Turning Back! -Sirleaf Takes Giant Anti-Corruption Step

24 January 2013

The Sirleaf Administration has done everything in and out of the book to keep corruption at bay. It had strengthened financial laws and institutions; it had dismissed and reshuffled officials suspected of breaching or having the potential to breach public trust; and it had retorted critics' claims of official collusion, arguing one time that corruption is "endemic" in the Liberian society. All of this neither change critics' view nor reduce incidence and report of corruption in post war Liberia as much as most Liberians would like. Now, the Sirleaf Administration appears to be saying, "There is no turning back from the ant-corruption fight," and it is taking extraordinary, nearly foolproof, giant steps to eradicating corruption. The Analyst, reports.

President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf yesterday in Monrovia, using the proverbial 'seven-at-one-blow format', launched the Liberia Development Alliance (LDA) and the Open Government Initiative (OGI) in Monrovia – back to back.

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