River Cess County has received the first consignment of materials to begin the two projects recently announced by National Port Authority (NPA) Managing Director, Dr. Bill Twehway.
The consignment to jumpstart the initiatives which contain bricks molding machines and 100 bags of cement each for the construction of teacher quarters at Cestos High School and the reconstruction of Barblozohn Town Public School arrived in the county on Monday August 2, 2021.
Barblozohn Town, situated in River Cess’ Timbo District, is the home of Madam Anna Weah, the late mother of President George Manneh Weah.
The school, which has almost fallen to the ground, has not experienced renovation since its construction more than a decade now and learning under the dilapidated structure experiences interruptions by heavy downpour of rain or during windstorms.
The NPA managing director’s intervention is in response to a request by concerned residents of the town for the reconstruction of the school and Twehway had promised to do what it takes to contribute to the improvement of educational infrastructures in the country.
“The pictures I’m seeing here do not really represent a school in modern day Liberia. Remember we’re talking about the home of the president’s late mother. We’ll intervene now”, Twehway said while making his initial contribution towards the reconstruction efforts of the school.
Sometime in June, a dinner was hosted in the port city of Buchanan, Grand Bassa County, to generate funding for the construction of additional housing units in River Cess and Grand Bassa Counties.
The fundraising dinner attended by friends of the NPA managing director, generated nearly half a million United States dollars though it had targeted US$2 million dollars for 200 homes, and the optimism was that the balance would have been generated from good friends who see said interventions as a bold step towards improving lives.
In a post-dinner chat with journalists in Buchanan, Managing Director Twehway promised to start the construction of the additional housing units at the start of the next dry season.
According to him, the additional units and the ones previously built would be powered by solar energy and that his long running desire for teacher quarters for instructors assigned at the Cestos High School would form part of the first sets of 200 housing units stressing that accommodation for teachers has been one problem facing the only high school in the county.
As part of his plans to transform the county, Twehway said five of the housing units will be built at the River Cess side of the Timbo Bridge to give it a facelift adding, “I’m pleased to inform you that we will use portion of the money raised from this dinner to construct some five units for teachers of the Cestos High School. This has been one of my desires. You all know I’m a classroom teacher. I feel strongly the welfare of teachers matters most to this government.”
Managing Director Twehway is confident that President Weah will dedicate those housing units during his next nationwide tour assuring, “I can tell you that His Excellency Dr. George Manneh Weah will dedicate the new housing units during his next visit to my county. With the help of God we’ll finish them before 2023.”
MD Twehway also promised to build five units each to the five electoral districts of Grand Bassa while bricks molding for the projects in Bassa has begun in two of the districts, but pointed out that bad road condition could cause delay.
Mr. Twehway informed journalists that some of the cements needed for the project have been procured, but getting it to the two project destinations has been challenging owing to the deplorable road condition.