By Solomon T. Gaye
Bain -Garr Administrative District Commissioner’s compound in Zuluyee Town, Nimba County is gradually falling apart.
Speaking to this paper in Zuluyee Town over the weekend, Elder Robert Saye frowned at the county administration’s alleged failure to recondition the building since 2018.
According to Elder Saye, US$25,000 was allocated during council county sitting in 2020 by the PMC in Sanniquellie, but whether the money was released or not is not known up to present.
Based on the aforementioned Mary Nyan, also of Zuluyee Town, appealed to the President-elect to make sure that past government officials are audited to account for government funds intended for developments before leaving office.
“Money was allocated for the renovation of the Commissioner’s compound in Zuluyee Town, but the money allocated is nowhere to be found,” Nyan lamented.
Zuluyee Administrative District Commissioner’s compound was constructed during the first term of former President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, by UNDP’s Small Arms Quick Impact Project, but the alleged failure of both past and present government or county administrations to recondition the building has left the government facility in ruins.
The Bain -Garr Administrative District Commissioner, Amos Gbatu, was appointed by President George Weah in 2018, replacing the late Shirley Brown.
However, when this paper contacted Commissioner Amos Gbatu in Zuluyee town, he disclosed that lack of funds from the central government hampered the smooth running of the district.
“Since my appointment in 2018, no funds from the central government or county administrations to even cut the grass around the building,” Commissioner Amos Gbatu disclosed.
“The building is leaking everywhere, in all of the offices the furniture, chairs. The things that we were keeping in the store room, criminals stole everything,” Gbatu added.
