By Agnes M. Tarr/agnestarrp@gmail.com
Nimba County district 5 Representative Samuel Kogar wants the House of Representatives to divert money budgeted for this year’s July 26 independence Day celebration to priority areas which he termed “other meaningful projects.”
In a communication addressed to speaker Bhofal Chamber on Tuesday, June 16 2020, representative Kogar recommended that funds appropriated in the budget for the celebration should be used to lessen some problems in the country.
According to him, since the COVID-19 pandemic, parents of school-going children have faced financial crisis, and because of that, money budgeted to celebrate this year’s Independence Day should be redirected to projects that improve the livelihood of Liberians.
Representative Samuel Kogar’s communication said he wants his colleagues “to divert whatsoever budgetary appropriation allotted for the July 26,2020 Independent day celebration, that is usually characterized by pomp and pageantry, [to] be redirected in mitigating some of the Compelling problem parents of school going children amid the COVID-19 pandemic adverse financial impact.”
The letter added that the “decision to recommend to the House’s plenary is an outcome of a sober and deep reflection of the touchy problem[s] of perennial economic hardship the ‘masses’ continue to experience, further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.”
The representative called on the Liberian government and its officials to prove that their intent is in the interest of ordinary people.
“If this government must err, it must err on the side of caution since its mandates find legitimacy from the down trodden masses.”
