By Zoe Horace
Ministry of Finance Development Planning (MFDP) Deputy Minister for Fiscal Affairs Samora P. Z. Wolokollie has said the Government of Liberia (GoL) remains focus on implementing the Pro-poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development (PAPD) aimed at transforming citizen’s livelihood.
Wolokollie, a senior member of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) added that no amount of protest will shift the government focus from its six years agenda.
“They can protest all they want, we will continue to do the Liberian people work, attract investors, build more roads, increase domestic revenue generation, improve our universities and health centers across the country”, he stated.
Deputy Minister Wolokollie was speaking Thursday when he served as chief launcher at a ceremony marking the official Membership Drive launch of the Center for the Exchange of Intellectual Opinions (CEIO) on Carey Street in Central Monrovia.
Contrary to widespread speculations that the GoL is sitting loosely and doing little while the country’s economy remains in a dire situation, Wolokollie told his audience that the fiscal regulating arm of government is putting mechanism into ‘motion that would ensure fiscal probity’. He pointed; such result will have an improved fiscal cushion, more realistic budget, and streamline expenditure consistent with approved allocations.
Wolokollie did not fall short in acknowledging the many challenges government is faced with in addressing the current terrible economy state of the country, but was quick to declare saying that with the determination of President George Weah to confront these challenges and provide remedies there is light at the end of the tunnel.
He bragged of the government vision, mindset, capabilities and abilities to confront these challenges and subsequently improve the living standards of the ordinary people adding; “You can rest assured the CDC led government, whose ascendency is credited to the ordinary masses of our people will never forget those who propelled them to power”, Wolokollie noted.
The Deputy Finance boss termed as ‘hypocrisy’ to the uppermost peak when government critics parade with gossips and fake claims painting a negative picture that the country is on the verge of explosion all intended to undermine the will of the majority in making them to succumb thinking they were wrong to have elected President Weah as their leader.
Slow economic growth
Liberia’s economy currently lies in a depraved state evidenced by the skyrocketing prices of consumable commodities on the local market.
According to a World Bank 2019 country overview, momentous inflation reached an all-time high of 28.5% by end December 2018, fuelled by significant depreciation of the Liberian dollar against the US dollar (20.3% y-o-y) and monetary expansion.
The bad state of the country’s economy has prompted some members of the opposition community and ordinary aggrieved Liberians have scheduled June 7 for a massive protest in an attempt to draw the government attention.
But this Wolokollie said: “For me, this is hypocrisy at its highest level and only intended to undermine the people’s power and make the masses to believe that they were wrong when they overwhelmingly voted President George Weah”.
Wolokollie has assured that the transformative venture of the country’s economy intended for the betterment of all citizens remains the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) led government ultimate objective.
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