Liberia: 'GOL Needs U.S.$2.3 Billion to Connect County Capitals'

The Minister of Public Works, Gyude Moore, has told the Senate Committee on Public Works that it would cost US$2.3 billion to connect all the counties' capitals by good road networks, and that the country will need to spend at least US$100 million a year on roads over the next 20 years.

"This year Public Works has US$18 million, and every year we fall back. At some point, we have to think about it that no country has been able to build its road infrastructure from the revenue raised; everybody does it through debt financing. So we might have to look back at our whole debt thing and how we do it," Moore told a joint Senate committee hearing last week.

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