By Bill W. Cooper
Finance and Development Planning Minister, Samuel Tweah has boasted that the government of President George M. Weah has made significant strides aim at improving the livelihood of Liberians over the last five years of his presidency.
Cataloging the Weah led-administration deliverables, Minister Tweah, named the economy, massive roads infrastructure, education, grassroots’ sport development, health and agriculture as key sectors that the Weah’s government has improved since its ascendency.
The finance minister bragged that the economy under the leadership of the President Weah has been restored to a high level despite the economic shortfalls inherited from the regime of former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
He maintained that the government has not only remodeled the country’s economy but has also develop a stronger and logical macroeconomic policy to enable the economy perform well and effective.
Quoting the Microeconomic Indicators and the World Bank latest report, Tweah asserted that it further reveals that the Liberian economy has performed exceptionally well since the inception of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) led-government.
“So, what this President has done is that he has rebased the Liberian economy on sound structural fundamental and real values. The air that was in the economy has been shut out because we were sitting on that air and then the balloon burst and with George Weah in power, there is no bobbles right now,” he emphasized.
However, opposition political parties leaders are blaming the Weah-Taylor administration for doing little or nothing to address the ‘bread and butter’ issues of the country, which they described as poor economic strategy being put in place by the government.
Opposition political parties have attributed the hardship of the common people, skyrocketing exchange rate including the abrupt increase in the price of rice, petroleum and other basic commodities on the Liberian market to the failure to institute and outlined clear economic policy to revamp the country’s economy.
But in a special interview with ELBC yesterday in Paynesville, Minister Tweah explained that at least almost 24,000 out of two million Liberians have now been lifted out of extreme poverty as recorded in the World Bank report contrary to speculation that the government has failed to alleviate Liberians from poverty.
He asserted, “That demonstrates that the government of President George Weah agenda is committed to prioritize the wellbeing of the Liberians, bring transparency to Liberia’s domestic strategic.”
Meanwhile, Minister Tweah disclosed that more than 1,000 kilometer of roads constituting 60 percent of roads infrastructure have been carried out under the CDC led-government, adding that in the last three years, the Liberian government focused on connecting feeder roads to boost trade, commerce and development across the country.
He stressed that the government has committed more funding towards roads connectivity on the government Pro-poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD) since the inception of President George Weah to the country’s presidency.
