The Liberia Refugee Repartition and Resettlement Commission (LRRRC) has ended a two-day retreat for staff of the Commission.
Speaking in an interview shortly after the end of the retreat, LRRRC Executive Director, Patrick Worzie, recounted the importance of the retreat.
He added that he has requested the Civil Service Agency, the General Services Agency, and the General Auditing Commission, to conduct a system audit with emphasis on assets, personnel, and finance.
Worzie stressed that the exercise is intended to fill the gaps in order to propel the institution on the right trajectory for the full implementation of the government’s ARREST agenda, in consonance with the institution’s mandate.
He said the retreat brought together current and volunteer staff of the Commission, and the discussion centered on the mandate of the LRRRC, the role of the Commission in assisting people who may be affected by disaster such as rain and storm.
“The retreat also focused on former Ivorian and Sierra Leonean refugees who have chosen to settle in Liberia. There is a need to seek passports for most of them. We have also taken into consideration the plight of people who appeared to be stateless as a result of their failure to show any identification cards to claim the Liberian nationality,” he stated.
He stressed, “The retreat has prompted the Commission to begin developing a contingency plan that will respond to the vulnerable, including fire and flood victims. It will also provide the critical path analysis that will be used to launch and implement the operation ‘Bring back our people from Ghana’.”
According to ED Worzie, the participants resolved that the Commission needs to be rebranded, be reconfigured, as well as reviewing some of the work of the previous leadership of the institution.
Concluding, Worzie made it clear that these activities are expected to be carried out in close collaboration with the President’s Delivery Unit, Ministry of State, and other relevant government ministries and agencies.
