The center is based in Sanniquillie City [photo: Daniel Garteh]
By Daniel Garteh|LPR News, Sanniquillie
Nimba County Service Center Coordinator F. Moham Kormah has disclosed several challenges facing the center threatening short down if nothing is done by Central Government in the nearest future.
Speaking to LPR reporter in Sanniquellie on Monday, March 31, 2020 Mr. Kromah said that the center has deliver services to the people of Nimba for the past 15 months without receiving stationary supply from the central government, something he said is hampering the smooth running of the center.
He revealed that the center in 2019 delivered a little over 17,000 services including issuing of Birth certificate, Business registration, Marriage certificates, Driver Licenses among others and raised a revenue of about Fifteen Million, three hundred thirty-nine thousand one hundred thirty-five Liberian Dollars ($ 15,339,135.07) and about Thirty-three thousand, five hundred eighty-three dollars seventy-eight cent United States Dollars ($ 33,583.78).
Mr. Kormah maintained that they have been in providing to ensure that the center is open and active for the common people to be serve at all time.
The Nimba County Service Center Coordinator explained that they sometimes delay in issuing some services to the people due to lack of electricity.
“Sometimes we have to tell the people to go come after one or two weeks when we don’t have finance to purchase pre pay current to keep the computers in the various offices on to print out documents”.
He lamented that lack of basic materials needed to effectively up keep an office running is not forth coming from the central government like before.
Nimba county service center is one of the first four service center that was opened in rural Liberia during the administration of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as part of Government decentralization process to provide services to its citizens.
Mr. Kormah further disclosed that the Nimba County Service center is one of the services centers that contribute more revenue to government coffers.
He also claimed that the center is not mobile, as such movement is one of their major challenges in providing services to the people, adding that they have intentions of taking services to the people because the only center is far from some places in the county.
Then Nimba Coordinator asserted that some process like marriage certificate can begin with them and ends in Monrovia, something he said they are recommending that should be done in Nimba.
