Liberia: U.S.$27 Million Missing At Public Works?

Information disclosed to the joint committee of the Liberian Senate and the House of Representatives on Ways, Means and Finance and Budget at the ongoing hearing of the draft national budget for FY 2019/2020 indicates that the Ministry of Public Works terribly failed to account for US$27 million allotted for road construction and rehabilitation in the country.

Appearing before the committee in the conference room of the House of Representatives at the Capitol on Monday, August 26, Montserrado County Electoral District #5 Representative and committee chairman, Thomas Fallah notes that it is disappointing and embarrassing that the Public Works Ministry, which heads the main pillar of the Pro Poor Agenda not to account for such amount, terming it as unacceptable.

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