The beaches and water ways project under the supervision of the Ministry of Youth and Sports will be suspended as of March 1, 2020.
The project was government-focus program introduced to clean the beaches, prevent diseases associated with lack of proper sanitation and create jobs for young people in slum communities.
State Radio, ELBC quoted Youth and Sports Minister Zeogar Wilson as saying he received complaints from concerned communities alleging that the two regional coordinators of the project were engaged with malpractices.
The communities alleged that Region One Coordinator John Young and Edwin Kanneh were flooding the pay-roll with ghost names and ghost communities on the program.
The Minister said the complaints led to the suspension of the two coordinators.
Minister Wilson quotes one of the suspended coordinators, John Young as admitting to adding people on the project without prior instruction from the Ministry of Youth and Sports.
Announcing the decision last weekend, Youth and Sports Minister Wilson said the suspension was triggered after investigation revealed the authenticity of the improprieties in the program.
He added that an investigation revealed that more than 651 ghost names and nine ghost communities were infused in the program.
He said investigation discovered that the Commissioner of Virginia Tarh Weah submitted about ninety-two persons on the list not from his community.
The Ministry also found that many people on the program were recruited in 2019 but they were paid for 2018, something Minister Wilson found almost impossible.
He noted that the project had five hundred thousand allotted in the budget, but such amount was used even before the year came to an end.
The beach cleaning project was launched during the administration of former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf to give beaches across Montserrado County and Monrovia a facelift.
