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Gbarnga, Bong Countyignals emanating from a weekend collaborative meeting of

political minds under the guise of the Rainbow Assembly
comprising George Weahs Congress for Democratic
Change, House Speaker Alex Tylers still-in-the-making
Peoples Unification Party and Independent Prince Y. Johnson
appear to have ruled out any possibility that football legend, Weah
would be playing second fiddle to a more experienced candidate
in the 2017 presidential elections.
The CDC last Friday assembled some of Liberias key political
actors in Gbarnga in a bid to forge a common political front ahead
of the 2017 general and presidential elections.
Besides Weah, those in attendance at Friday meeting were
Senate Pro tempore, Armah Jallah(NPP, Gbarpolu), House
Speaker Alex Tyler(Unity Party, Bomi); Deputy House Speaker
Hans Barchue(Independent, Grand Bassa): Senator Prince
Johnson(Independent, Nimba); Emmanuel Nuquay(Unity Party,
Margibi) and Senator Henry Yallah(Bong County, New Deal
Movement).
Others were Henry Fahnbulleh(Unity Party, Montserrado County)
and Bill Twehway(Unity Party, Montserrado County);Mariama
Fofana(Unity Party, Lofa) and Moses Kollie(Unity Party, Lofa).
Our presence here is in the interest of Liberia that is all I can
say, Weah told reporters shortly after the meeting.
The meeting, according to Mulbah Morlu, Public Relations
Officer of the rainbow assembly, the rainbow meeting is a
first of a series of meetings to be held by the CDC with an aim to
consummate the outcome into a unliterary agreement about what
will be transpiring in 2017. He added: The rainbow meeting is
the first of series of meetings and any decision from the outcome
of these meetings will protect the mass driven interest of the
citizenry.
Morlu also said the meeting was also aimed at driving a
collaborative agenda determined to bring about a successive
governance process that will be lead Liberias economic
revitalization process.
The CDC stalwart also said the rainbow meeting was to respond
to growing perceptions about the CDCs incapability to provide
leadership for Liberia in 2017. He said: The perceptions about
the CDC had been that the party is not capable of providing
leadership for Liberia and the presence in Gbarnga of over seven
key political actors of Liberia speaks volumes and defeats the
growing perceptions against the party.
Asked whether he trusts the sincerity of the forum, Morlu said:
This is the first time we had the conglomeration of political
parties converging for a specific cause bringing about discussions
concerning presidential election. I have no doubts about the
honesty. Those who have assembled here are people with honesty
and respectability. They are people who are concerned about
Liberias future. I believe these political actors will at the end of
the day discuss issues that will be workable for Liberias future.
Brumskine, Jones snubbed?
At the CDC meeting Friday, the absence of some key political

actors and presidential hopefuls was glaring. FrontPage Africa
gathered from a reliable CDC source that the meeting convened
by the party was aimed at soliciting a political pair that would
contest as a vice running mate to George Weah.
Our source said that the party snubbed Brumskine and Jones
because of the duos unbending presidential ambitions. We
chose to invite the Speaker, Deputy Speaker and the Pro tempore
because we believe they are not so keen on their presidential
ambitions as compared to Brumskine and Jones. It is easy to
convince them to align with you as compare to Brumskine and
Jones, the source said.
The decision to snub Brumskine from the meeting was further
manifested by the absence of Liberty Party lawmakers.
Meanwhile CDC Standard Bearer George Weah when quizzed by
reporters refused to give any account of the meeting.
Weah, who recently contested and won the Montserrado County
senatorial elections has not yet declared his intentions for 2017
but the partys national chairman Nathaniel Farlo McGill told the
Voice of America recently that theres a strong possibility that
Weah may consider another run.
Weah came second to Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the 2005 and 2011
presidential elections and many of his supporters say his senate
victory and recent educational advancements has bolstered his

political experience and put him in ready mode for 2017.
Only vice presidential slot up for grabs Morlu

What many political observers see as complex for the CDC is the
partys unwavering decision to usurp Weahs presidential bid for
any of the invitees who are rumored to be harboring presidential
ambitions.
Addressing a team of reporters Friday, Morlu said: We like to be
very clear as we have been cleared to most of our stakeholders
converging here at this rainbow assembly that any process
ensuing whether now or in the future will work with what we
have (Senator George Weah).
Continued Morlu: When you are going to the warfront you select
your best general to lead you and concerning the current political
realities in the Liberia we believe Senator George Weah remains
the more viable alternative to Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and
we will be supporting that all the way.
Morlu said Weahs presidential bid remains uncompromising
adding that the Montserrado County Senator has all it takes to
lead Liberia. The mandate of the CDC is that in any process or
collaboration will draw around Senator George Weah, he added.
But political observers say CDC hopes of enticing any of the
invitees at Friday assembly rumored to be having presidential
ambitions Speaker Tyler, Pro tempore Jallah and Senator Prince
Johnson as running mate to Weah in 2017 remains a litmus test
for the party and an impossible political bargaining.
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FrontPage COMMENTARY
EDITORIAL VICTORIOUS LIBERIA!
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WE EXTOL THE
ECONOMIC
RECOVERY
BUT MORE IS
REQUIRED
AS LIBERIA CELEBRATES the official announcement

by the World Health Organization that the country is
now Ebola Free effective May 9, 2015, the damaging
legacies left in the wake of a crisis that threatened the
entire gamut of the socio-economic fabric of this warravaged country must now be overcome. With the crisis
at its peak, an economy already struggling for traction
was totally rattled and edged on the brink of collapse.
It is therefore prudent at this stage of the recovery to
ensure attention is fixed on resuscitating the economy
and focusing more efforts on job creation.
A RECENT SURVEY commission by the World Bank in
collaboration with the Liberian Institute of Statistics and
Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) and Gallup shows
Liberia has made appreciable economic progress since
the crisis started in March 2014.
WHEN COMPARED with Sierra Leone and Guinea, Liberia
has shown impressive signs of recovery, while growth in
Guinea has stagnated and Sierra Leone has receded.
OVERALL, THE WORLD BANK survey found that
employment situation in Liberia continues to improve.
A return in wage work and rural self-employment was
offset by a typical seasonal stillness in agricultural work,
so the overall percentage out of work remains similar
to January. Women continue to experience the worst
job losses they are typically self-employed, working
as traders or in markets, the type of jobs that have been
most impacted.
THE REPORT indicates that even with improvements in
the health situation, the economy continues to shed jobs
faster than they are replaced.
OFFICIAL STATISTICS from the Ministry of Finance and
Development Planning seem to corroborate the survey
findings. The report findings point in the direction of
positive budget performance with tax revenue collection
through April 2015 exceeding the budget target by
about 9 per cent, even though the Ebola epidemic had a
significant impact on tax revenue collection from mineral
mining and telecommunications, while the execution of
the public investment program has been impaired by
the late approval of the FY 2015 budget, and the impact
of the crisis which further constrained implementation
capacity.
OVERALL FISCAL balance through end-March 2015
recorded surplus of US$ 27 million (1.3 percent of
projected FY 2015 GDP), a very impressive outcome,
especially giving the dire predictions of negative one
percent GDP growth in the second quarter of 2014-2015
fiscal year.
BUT PROGRESS notwithstanding, gross domestic
product is still projected to be less than 1% in 2015, a
far cry from the outstanding 8.9% recorded in 2013.
Challenges remain, notably amongst which is the
declining balance of payment, with exports still low as
Iron Ore and Rubber exports have been constrained due
to falling global demands.
AT THIS STAGE, efforts must now be placed on investing
Commentary
How A Resilient Nation Overcame The Worlds Deadliest Ebola Virus

By: Nat Bayjay (nbayjay2010@gmail.com/ +234 818 179 9737 & +234 813 074 8979)
T
Abuja-
he number 14 is probably that number that Liberians

should always look forward to in times of turmoil:
14 years of civil upheaval and now 14 months of
experiencing the worlds deadliest outbreak of the Ebola
Virus Disease. That is why two sets of dates will remain deeply
chronicled in Liberias modern history: December 24, 1989 to
August 11, 2003 and March 23, 2014 to May 9, 2015.
While the former reflects 14 years of civil war that carried with
it over 230,000 Liberians, its the latter that will remain on the
minds of Liberians in and out of the country as it has a tag of a
14-month relatively short but deadly journey that brought our
nation to its knees, claiming the lives of over 4,000 compatriots.
The two periods resemble a movie series of two seasons (Parts
I & II), probably to be dubbed The Number 14 Vs Resilience.
Sounds of sirens throughout the streets replaced the sounds of
bullets in a seeming sequel of the Ebola crisis to the civil crisis.
Both nationally and internationally built structures and tents
as Ebola Treatment Units (ETUs) throughout the capital and
other parts of the country replaced those of camps for internally
displaced persons (IDPs) and refugee camps built in Liberia
and host countries respectively. Fears of bullets and armed men
were replaced in the Second Season with much more fears of an
invisible enemy-an enemy that made every living soul a suspicion
of carrying the virus to the extent that wives avoided husbands
as much as possible as were sisters and brothers avoiding each
other. Worst of all, even the most-caring mother couldnt afford
to cater to a dying child! This even made most Liberians to have
a little bit of positive grading of the 14 years civil war over the
14-month health crisis.
But resilience is that key word that matters in ending the scourge
of what would have been worst, thanks to God Almighty! The
resilience of the national government took no time in replicating
itself in a group of people who were determined in ensuring that
what seemed like a pre-determined climax (to borrow the words
of Foreign Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan) to our national
tragedy was not shot for whatever movie that was being filmed.
When the US-based Center for Disease Control (CDC) in
September of 2014 predicted in a report that the combined
cases of Liberia and Sierra Leone would hit a record high of 1.4
million in four months, given the pace of the transmission, it was
Liberians, inspired by the motivational leadership of President
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who didnt only say a big NO to that predetermined climax of a movie in motion, but also showed in all
aspects of strength, unity and focus that we were tired of losing
more of our compatriots.
Ranging from various mechanisms put in place by the Government
including the declaration of a three-month State of Emergency
which followed the declaration of a Public Health Emergency
by the President, to the compulsory closure of all schools, the
quarantining of worst affected areas to the institution of a
compulsory sanitized hand-washing and temperature taking of
everyone at private and public buildings, checkpoints and homes,
it was the Presidents decision of ensuring that she was not
only grounded at home to personally oversee the fight but also
made it a policy for all officials of the Executive to also remain
on the battlefront with a few exempts that helped to propel that
resilience among her compatriots.
That resilience resulted into a nation greatly unified, probably for
the first time in some many years where politics and selfishness
were replaced with unity among politicians and those from the
political divides while deep patriotic concern resonated among
the citizenship.
Now, the Government and people of our great nation can once
v
in long term economic recovery programs, particularly in

the productive sectors of the economy. There has to be a
new paradigm shift in how we deal with the agriculture
sector, particularly in cash crop production and agroprocessing initiatives.
LOCAL COMMUNITIES must be empowered to make their
lands productive and a national strategy for domestic
agriculture production must be central to the long term
recovery program.
CURBING THE IMPACT of the crisis requires shrewd
strategic interventions and regimented austerity measures
to keep the economy stabilized. While we reserve some
commendation for the job done by the fiscal management
team of the country, we still believe lot more is required to
again smile and thank God for ending the transmission of the
virus that also affected the countrys economy greatly.
Its obvious that the commemoration of the event brings about
mixed feelings: those of joy and grieve as lots more of our
compatriots will reflect on the loss of their loved ones either
directly or indirectly to the virus. The World Health Organization
(WHO)s latest report put the number of persons who died from
the virus from Liberia and her two Mano River Union (MRU)
neighbors of Sierra Leone and Guinea at 11,005 out of which
over 4,000 of this number were our compatriots for whom we
inevitably have to dedicate our celebration in their memorial.
Everyone is aware of the laundry list of sacrifices made to get
to this point: losing medical personnel (almost 200 of Liberias
health workers account for about 40% of the total of 507 that
died in the three worst affected countries), missed opportunities
for Liberian students to study abroad and Liberian professionals
missing out on lucrative international contracts, mass exodus and
or closure of companies leading to job loses, the entrapment of
Liberian travellers at international airports and stigmatization
of Liberians in some parts of the world, a huge societal burden
of a large number of Ebola-made orphans (authorities say 4,500
Liberian kids were orphaned by the virus of whom, 3,000 lost
either one or both parents ), economic loss, and so forth.
Yes, its true that the battle was initially met with a challenge of
denial. But when Government stepped up its publicity, backed
by its international partners, the battle continued unhindered.
Thus, the HipCo group, SoFreshs ever popular Health Ministry
sponsored anti-Ebola song The Tin Na Com, The Tin Na Show
FaceEbola in Town which sent strong preventive messages
even played on international radio stations and networks which
the VOA continues to play to date.
While we even grapple to complete the compilation of a
comprehensive list of Ebola-heroes and heroines, led by
Montserrado County Saah Joseph, Mr. Tolbert Nyensweah and
his team, national and foreign health workers (alive and dead),
Liberian musicians and comedians use of various platforms to
carry messages, Ebola survivors who returned to aid in the fight,
and others, we will never forget the international communitys
contribution to arriving at this point.
Though fewer than 20 new cases were reported from Sierra
Leone and Guinea from the last week, according to the UN Special
Envoy on Ebola David Nabarro, our resilience must remain intact,
saying no to complacency and keeping an eye on our neighbors
Ebola freedom which the WHO hopes will be latest June.
True to the Presidents defiance against a projected 1.4 million
transmissions, true to her strong leadership (which the WHO in
her declaration of Liberias Ebola Freedom describes as the first
decisive factor), and true to us Liberians determination to follow
the instructions of a leader very much resolved on ensuring
that the worst affected Ebola nation became the first Ebola-free
nation, resilience, like the Love of Liberty, brought us here with
God above.
About the Author: Nat Bayjay is a Media Consultant/
Communication specialist. Doubling as a PUL Best Investigative
& Best Environmental Journalist in 2011, Bayjay uses his
journalistic profession to always highlight issues in the country
including political, economic and socio issues through in-depth
articles and news analyses. He was recently appointed as the
Minister Counselor For Press & Public Affairs at the Liberian
Embassy accredited to the Federal Republic of Nigeria in Abuja.
Hes reachable on: nbayjay2010@gmail.com/ (+234) 818 179
9737 & (+234 ) 813 074 8979.
change the way the economy is run.

GOVERNMENT INVESTMENT must begin to target small
and medium enterprises and Liberia entrepreneurs must
be empowered to drive local industries, most of which are
owned by foreigners.
IF NO LESSON WAS learned, Ebola taught us that if we fail
to make the required investment choices in the things that
matter most- decent health care, sound education, better
roads and access to opportunities- a single moment of
mishap can ruin an entire nation.
WE CANNOT FAIL to maximize the windfall of goodwill
brought by this crisis, as doing so would effectively
dispatch all the gains that were made in handling the crisis
and the recovery to lost memory.
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LIBERIAS ANTI-GRAFT
BODY DISOWNS US$800K
PROBE REPORT
J WESLEY JOHNSON TOP COMMENTER UNIVERSITY OF

LIBERIA
If the "report" wasn't authentic why where the two ladies
"suspended"?
SYLVESTER MOSES TOP COMMENTER WORKS AT SELFEMPLOYED

Until we demistify the presidency, and make the vast majority
understands that it is just a job, and the performance of the
occupants ought to be evaluated, quacks would think that they
have divine rights. EJS can't be trusted, period. No God gave her
the chair, she lied, begged, and bribed for the people to ensure
that, and she failed shamefully. Nothing surprises many about her
chameleon ways.
LIGORI MUSIOH SEKAJIPO TOP COMMENTER WORKS AT
FIRESTONE - LIBERIA
Like we say in Liberia, "what money can't do?"
SYLVESTER MOSES TOP COMMENTER WORKS AT SELFEMPLOYED
Mr. Emmanuel Jackson, I concur with you that fanning a Congau Country divide is counter - productive to our collective aspiration
for reconciliation, stability, and long term peace. We don't have an
hegemony of Congua in Liberia, we have the domination of selfish
and greedy elites. Former Senator Wortorson, Beyan Kesselly,
Amara Konneh, Tyler, Nyeahbo and the other liars can't be called
Congua.
SHANA IER TOP COMMENTER
Very, Very true!!! I do not agree with this congau/country divide. It
makes no sense and it perpetuates division.
JESSE FAHNGON TOP COMMENTER METROPOLITAN STATE

UNIVERSITY
Why conduct an investigation when you said FPA publication is not
LACC's report? Just move on once it is not your report Cllr. Verdier.
We know you find yourself in a hot spot with all the overnights
phone calls and visits.
ROBERT O. DAVIS TOP COMMENTER PRESIDENT & CHIEF
EXECUTIVE OFFICER AT LIBUSA
SMH in disgust. Just thought he was a man of principle. After all,
this too is EJS's Liberia.
EMMANUEL JACKSON TOP COMMENTER KNOXVILLE

BUSINESS COLLEGE
This congau connection syndicate, is the problem to this land
freedom and development. Sorry, to say but troubles are
culminating, for next instability. God, is interested in kindness,
justice, and righteousness. If these tenets are not practice in any
nation, God withdraw his support.it is sad this land call Liberia fails
to live up to these expectations. The secret sensitive nature over
God's people is an abomination. Sorry for being harsh but its the
truth.
MICHAEL PAH FORSTHER WORKS AT FROGN KOMMUNE
Oh! Yeah ba! This Oldma na hauled this guy ears too and spoke
those corrupt words in them instead of anti-corruption words.
So nobody can really stand against corruption in Liberia without
being corrupted? What a shame mehn!
MENKER CASEY TOP COMMENTER WORKS AT
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
Working in the lion's den isn't fun at all because it's remotely
controlled by the Lion king
SHANA IER TOP COMMENTER
hehehe! TRUE!
ANSU OPA DUALU TOP COMMENTER COALITION OF

CONCERNED LIBERIANS
LIB, it's not for children! Anything is possible. you thought Parker
's House USA house was worth $750k before. Her next will cost
nothing less than $12m
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SENATE MUST SPEEDILY CONFIRM PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEES AT HEALTH

The Editor,
he World Health Organization (WHO) declared Liberia Ebolafree on May 9, 2015. This means that Liberians have once
again triumphed over a major national threat that destroyed
the countrys economic fabric and took away many lives. It is
a gain that every Liberian should take credit for, especially those Health
workers and officials who sacrificed all that they had to keep the rest of
the citizenry safe from the scourge of Ebola.
Now that the menace is history, it is time for every Liberian to institute
the necessary mechanisms to sustain the imminent Departure of Ebola
from the motherland. In this light, President Sirleaf has demonstrated her
unflinching commitment to closing the gloomy chapter of the pandemic
as well as strengthening the Health Sector by appointing highly venerated
professionals at the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, whose
nominations have been described as very timely, taking into consideration
their immense contributions to the Liberian society.
What is needed now is to bring on board patriotic citizens whose expertise
can help improve the countrys Healthcare delivery system which was
earlier berated as dysfunctional. The selections of these professionals to
manage, expand, and strengthen Liberias health sector is being welcomed
with glee by well-meaning Liberians.
As for Dr. Bernice Dahn, during her stint as Liberias Chief Medical Officer,
made some significant improvement for which she is highly respected
both locally and internationally. Under her administration as Chief Medical
Officer, the modern multi-medical facility in Tappita, Nimba County was
constructed. She was one of the forerunners in the fight against Ebola.
Moreover, she has been collaborating with other stakeholders in setting
policies and standards to guide and regulate healthcare provisions
and health program management in the country. Her unquestioned
qualification as a renowned Medical Doctor, coupled with her rich
professional experience, is a clear manifestation that she will add
immense value to the countrys health sector.
She is a 1996 graduate of the A.M. Dogliotti College of medicine, University
of Liberia and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology in 1987
from the T.J. Faulkner College of Science and Technology, University of
Liberia. This erudite Medical Doctor also earned a Master of Public Health
and Community Medicine at the University of Washington, USA.
With the presence of Mr. Edward B. Tolbert on the team, transparency
and accountability will be the hallmark of the institutions operations. A
consummate Auditor and Financial Management Expert, Mr. Tolbert cut
his teeth in Public Financial Management at a very earlier age; a career
he has maintained for the past Twenty Six years with distinction. With
his professional qualification as a licensed Certified Public Accountant
(CPA), he is poised to be the right choice for the post of Deputy Minister
for Administration where donors partners contributions and confidence
in the rebuilding of our resilience healthcare system is pivotal.
The decision to appoint this topnotch Financial Management Expert to
such a crucial position at the Ministry of Health is considered as one of the
best, especially at a time when the country is transitioning from a major
health hazard and that donors are demanding proper accountability,
transparency and integrity in the administration of resources.
Prior to his nomination for the post of Deputy Minister for Administration,
Mr. Tolbert served as Director of Government and Donor Funds Audits at
the General Auditing Commission (GAC), at which time he managed over
15 Audit Units and supervised more than forty audits of Government
Ministries and Agencies; including the Consolidated Funds Audit of the
Government of Liberia for the Fiscal Years 2010/2011 and 2011/2012
and the Financial Audit of the MOHSW for the fiscal period ended June
30, 2012.
Mr. Tolbert obtained a Master of Business Administration degree in
Accounting from the University of Nebraska and a Bachelor of Science
degree in Economics from the University of Liberia. He is a seasoned
Certified Public Accountant (CPA), licensed to practice in Washington
DC, and is an active member of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants (AICPA).
Mr. Tolbert has over 12 years work experience in Healthcare institutions
in different portfolios, including the American Postal Workers Union
(APWU) Health Plan where he served as Finance Manager, The George
Washington University Healthcare Plan where he served as Accounting
Manager and the Greater Southeast Healthcare System (GSCH) where he
last served as Director of Accounting for a period of 10 years.
He has over 14 years of experience in managerial functions to include
Auditing, Assurance & Attestation engagements, Financial Management

and Advisory Services. Performance areas include; Financial Statement
Audits (in accordance with OMB circular A-123,133, 136, CFO Act, GAO
FAM & GAGAS Yellow Books), Regularity Audits(in accordance with
the INTOSAI and AFROSAI-E Standards), Financial Reporting, Financial
Analyses, Accounting, Budgeting, Accounting Policy, Reconciliations,
Audit Readiness and Business Process Improvements.
With this enviable credential that this man carries, the president did not
make any mistake to hire this fine son of the soil to manage the financial
and human resource operations of the Ministry of Health.
The appointed Deputy Minister of Health and Chief Medical Officer, Dr.
Francis Kateh currently serves as the Chief Medical Officer of the Jackson
F. Doe Memorial Hospital in Tappita, Nimba County. His contribution to
Liberias health sector is enormous; giving the fact that he truly sacrificed
to have taken assignment in a remote county, where he denied himself of
the luxury of life to serve humanity.
Dr. Kateh is a Liberian Doctor trained in Liberia and the United States
of America. He earned a doctoral degree in Medicine and a Master of
Health Administration degree from Governors States University in
the United States. He also earned a Master of Professional Studies in
Homeland Security Leadership with emphasis in Public Health Disaster
Preparedness.
In addition to his recent portfolio, Dr. Kateh served as Head of Surgery at
the Ganta United Methodist Hospital, Public Health Director at the Anson
County in North Carolina, Adjunct Professor of Healthcare Law & Ethics
and International Healthcare Issues and Policy at Pfeiffer University
graduate program in Health Administration in Charlotte, North Carolina.
He also served as Surgical Assistant at the Sacred Heart Hospital in
Chicago, as well as Adjunct Instructor of Anatomy and Physiology at the
Prairie State College in Chicago.
The head of the Incident Management System (IMS) and the Current
Assistant Minister for Preventive Services, who is the presidential nominee
for the post of Deputy Minister of Health for Incident Management,
Mr. Tolbert Nyenswah is considered in many quarters as the frontline
commander in the fight against the Ebola Virus Disease. His commitment
to strengthen the health sector through disease control and prevention
is unquestionable as was manifested in the Presidents State of the Nation
Address, in which this national hero was showered with praises.
He serves as Deputy Chief Medical Officer for Preventive Services and
oversaw the coordination of Malaria Control, Prevention, Policy and
Strategy when he served as Program Director of the National Malaria
Control Program. He has been credited for being instrumental in the
development of the National Health Plan and Policy of Liberia. He holds
a Master in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins University in the US.
With all the eye-catching qualities in these nominees, it is indeed no doubt
true that they will prove their mettle and therefore, the nowness of their
appointments is plausible. In the context of the doctrine of separation of
powers, the honorable Senate should have no option and should waste
no time to speedily endorse these nominees by expeditiously proceeding
with their confirmation process.
This will go a long way to help strengthen the ministrys operations
and facilitate a robust system of control that will be responsive to
the healthcare needs of our people. The President has led the way by
recruiting these best minds to serve in their capacities of distinction and
that it will only be prudent for our distinguished Senators to confirm
these high caliber personalities and achievers to their various posts to
avoid another breakdown in the blood strain of our countrys struggling
health sector.
The Senate inaction or slowness to confirm may be detrimental or
harmful to the countrys healthcare recovery agenda, due to the fact that
we have just come out of a major health crisis that took away many lives
and that our donor partners will set as prerequisite the recruitment and
retention of seasoned professionals that will instill some level of integrity
in the administration of donors resources. This will guarantee donors
assurance in releasing funds intended to strengthen our health system.
Therefore, it is highly urgent for the Senate Committee on Health to
support the effort of the President by unconditionally confirming these
sons and daughter of the soil.
Varfolay John
Heritage Forum
EDITORIAL TEAM
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Page 5
SEVERAL CHILDREN LACK MEDICAL CARE IN RURAL GRAND BASSA
AFTER EBOLA, MEASLES OUTBREAK

I have been sick for more than five days and nobody has come to help give me treatment. The only thing I want say is that we just want the hospital people
to come and give us medicine for me and the children that are sick in this town. - Felecia Klamee, a pregnant woman and mother of three
ALPHA DAFFAE SENKPENI, alpha.senkpeni@frontpageafricaonline.com
center is an hour walk away

from the town at a local rubber
plantation owned by the
district representative, Hon.
Robertson Siaway. Residents
in the town say, the only health
worker at the mini-clinic has
been trying to help them.
Patrick Myers often carries
antibiotics to treat the children,
but he says he is afraid that his
clinic is incapable of treating
all the sick and that the disease
may spread in the next couple
of weeks if nothing is done.
Myers says he has informed
the health officer of the district
but all to no avail.
I want to say that the situation
is very serious and the people
are not even able to access a
fully run health facility in the
area, Myers said.
He continued: The best the
MoH or the County Health
Team can do is to come in
because as I speak to you we
are having measles cases here
every day, if this is not done
this outbreak will be very
dangerous here.
VACCINATION
CHALLENGES
Kpogblem Clan, District Four Grand Bassa Countyore

than
20
children
are
seriously infected
with
measles
in what is feared to be an
alarming outbreak of the
disease in Kpogblem Clan,
District Four - Grand Bassa
County. The measles outbreak
in the town, according to locals
in the area, started more than
three weeks ago when a lady
traveled from Sanmlah Town
along with her child who was
infected to Guahs Town the
epic center of the outbreak in
the area.
During a visit to the affected

area, FrontPageAfrica gathered
from people in Guahs Town
that they have informed the
District Health Officer (DHO)
about the outbreak but there
has been no intervention. More
than five children were seen
lying on mats helplessly while
a pregnant woman who also
appears infected with measles
bagged for help.
I have been sick for more than
five days and nobody has come
to help give me treatment,
Felecia Klamee, a pregnant
woman and mother of three
said. The only thing I want
say is that we just want the
hospital people to come and

give us medicine for me and
the children that are sick in
this town, she pleaded as she
shivers with burning fever.
Another female resident, Betty
Paypay said a lot of children in
the town are getting sick with
measles and that they fear the
disease might spread if the
county health team continues
to ignore their plight.
We have tried to tell the people
(health workers or authority)
but nobody has come here
to look at the children and
maybe this thing will spread all
around like Ebola before they
come, she said.
When FPA contacted, Chris

Quioh, the District Health
Officer via cellphone denied
that he was informed about the
outbreak and said that the sick
people will have to find their
way to the health center which
is three hours away.
The people should find their
way to the clinic but we will
go there and collect blood
sample to find out whether it
is measles or not before we can
do anything, said Quioh. He
also assured that a vaccination
team will be in the area before
the process ends on the 14th of
May.
The news of the measles
outbreak in that part of Grand
Bassa County alarms just as
the county health team along
with its partners launched the
integrated measles campaign
for children below five years in
the county.
The campaign is a nationwide
exercise which coincides with
Liberias success against the
Ebola virus disease when the
WHO on Saturday announced
that the country is now Ebola
free.
The county health teams
director of community health
services, Steven E. James told
a community radio that there
are several cases of measles in
the county and did not explain
what is being done to treat
some of these several cases
that are found in rural areas in
the county.
For Guehs Town, the outbreak
is alarming; theres no public
health center in the Kpogblem
Clan. Residents have to walk
three hours to Larkpasee
Town, Rivercess County where
the nearest public health
center is located.
The only alternative health
MAY
FACE
There are fears that the

immunization
exercise
launched over the weekend
may face some challenges
especially in very rural areas
where misconceptions about
the vaccine are well noticeable.
The county health team says it
is working with UNICEF, Red
Cross and Concern World Wide
amongst others partners to
carryout massive awareness
in the communities although
some residents of these

communities are claiming
they are not aware and dont
understand the process. Some
are mistaking the measles
vaccine for the Ebola trail
vaccine.
You see, we have a problem
with the measles vaccine
because we just came from
Ebola and most of the towns
in this area are not informed
about the measles vaccine so
most of them think that the
measles vaccine is the Ebola
trail vaccine, Myers said.
But the health team director
of community health services,
Steven E. James says despite
the misconception they are
making progress by carrying
out social mobilization and
at the same time using the
community radio stations
to play jingles about the
vaccination campaign.
Some of the residents in
rural Grand Bassa who are
willing to take their children
for the measles vaccine
are complaining that the
vaccination teams are based
in areas that are very far from
them. On Saturday, one man
travelled with his three year
old sick son for over two hours
only to get frustrated because
the team didnt show up.
Myers said they have trained
several community social
mobilizers including town
chiefs to help create awareness
for
the
immunization
campaign against measles
and he also said there have
been misconception about the
vaccine.
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Monroviaesidents of the
slum
community
of West Point one
of the communities
that made the headlines
during the Ebola outbreak
when quarantining of the
community led to fracas
between civilians and state
security forces has have
expressed
dissatisfaction
over the manner in which the
community was neglected
mainly the late reopening of
the school by the government
of Liberia.
On Friday, several gathered
for the reopening of the MV
Massaquoi School which was
notorious during the Ebola
outbreak when West Point
residents vandalized the
school resulting to the escape
of several people who were
kept under surveillance.
Mama and Papa send our
Children to school, dont force
them to marry give them
education as they are the
future leaders of Liberia, a
traditional song by musicians
in the West Point community
graced the occasion,
It was a great scene as
several students of the N.V
Massaquoi and partners
including the Armed Forces
of Liberia, UNMEER, UNMIL,
and Right to Play, among
others gathered to grace the
occasion of the reopening
of Government only run
school in slum community
of WestPoint after it was
demolished by residents
when
the
Government
through the Ministry of
Health tried to establish an
Ebola holding center.
Many speeches were made
praising the Government and
partners for the renovation of
the school from Government
officials,
international
partners and residents of
WestPoint.
But counter to the praises,
an official of the School, and
chairman of the PTA said he
was discouraged on the delay
in the school renovation.
In a rough tone, Mr. Alaowei
Warri added that the
Government has shown more
interest in private schools
than Public Schools.
We feel neglected, betrayed,
because I don t think the
school situation is well
known, the decision affecting
the school came from the
government and not the
school, because if they did
not think on bringing in dead
bodies to this community
the school was not going to
experience this problem, he
said
Mr. Warri continued: you
know why I mentioned the
burning of the William Booth
school, it is that you get a
child and you are able to pay
your child school fees but
another man next door who
has the child and that child
is not in school and you have
to assist the mans child what
becomes of yours?
He
also
added
The
Government have us here and
initially the cost of the project
was 50,000 USD and the
Government said they never
had money but they gave
NEGLECTED
West Point NV Massaquoi Disappointed in GOL

Bettie Johnson/betty.johnson@frontpageafricaonline.com
William Booth 150.000 USD

for a school that got burned
what was their interest? Are
those people better than us
or because their children can
go William Booth or because
its a private school and
they have the best facilities
and the children cant come
WestPoint to attend NV
Massaquoi neither they can
go to Rivercess and attend the
Public School that in the last
three years there has been no
renovation or attention given
to this school.
Warri also said We have some
of the children who sit today
in classes without chairs
neither black board. You have
150,000 USD and you know
what it can do, I am just
surprised and disappointed
in the Government. If the
learning environment is
not feasible for the children
they wouldnt learn, let it be
clear that I dont hate them
but for the government to
abandon this school after an
announcement was made
without the Government
noticing the bad condition of
our school and making sure
that it starts to operate, make
us to feel bad.
Satisfied with renovation
The NV Massaquoi PTA Chair

said though he was pleased
with the renovation done on
the school but it has delayed
the students progress on
grounds that schools were
ordered reopened since the
March 3, 2015, the school
remained closed.
I am pleased with this
project because this has
been the formula that we
told them to establish but all
the engineers have refused
to abide by our suggestion
unless this engineer who
listened to us he said.
Establishing Kindergarten
Mr. Warri in a communication

submitted
through
the
outgoing
Minister
of
Education, Madam Etmonia
Please tell Madam Ellen Johnson Sirleaf that the

west pointers and the PTA of N.V Massaquoi feel
neglected by her action mainly her timing on the
renovation of our school. It makes us to feel that
we have been abandoned Alaowei Warri- PTA
chairman N.V Massaquoi
Tarpeh to Madam President
stated
My
message
through the Ministry of
Education to the President
is the establishment of a
kindergarten school because
in MCSS we have no beginner
and you know Education
dont go like that.
He said in education a child
needs to learn the basics
before moving forward.
The child should first learn
the basics before going to
the top, you cant take a child
from the interior and he is
about 5 years and you just
put in 1st grade. We have no
kindergarten because the
MCSS says they dont have
the instructional staffs and it
has been over 6-7 years, and
it is disappointing because
the Government through
the MCSS cannot put in
proper standard so where
do they expect us to send
our children when we make
100.00 a month? I think they
only want their children to
get everything but it wouldnt
happen, the harsh spoken

PTA Chair expressed.
Unfulfilled promise
Another official Sunny Weah

said I am happy though for
the dedication but we are
discouraged because it is
frustrating for the school
to stay long in a deplorable
state; because when the
School got destroyed, Madam
President assured us that the
school was going to be up to
senior high but over three
years now her promise had
not been fulfilled.
Weah continued: We were
here when Ebola came in but
there was no consultations
done with us before bringing
in dead bodies to this
school and this school was
established in the 1972, it is
just disheartening that her
promise on upgrading it to
high school has not been
fulfilled.
Woods
contractors
program.
I am disappointed that
the entire Program did not
recognize the AFL, though we
were angry with the AFL for
shooting one of our friends,
but we are still friends,
Sedee said.
He continued: I heard all the
praises to the Government
and international partners
but there was no appreciation
given to the AFL, they slept in
Police station to make sure
that this project reached this
far and it is frustrating to
me because they worked to
reunite with this community.
Students express joy
commends
Washington Korkor, a 9th
grade student at the school
Also speaking, former Public

Works Minister Atty. Samuel
Kofi Woods commended the
contractors for the job mainly
the Armed Forces of Liberia
and International Partners.
He urged students and
parents to see Education as
the only guide to changing
Liberia and raising the
countrys flag.
Atty. Woods disclosed that
the renovation of the school
followed the death of Shaki
Kamara who grandmother
requested the School to be
upgraded and renovated.
Though the School has not
be upgraded to Senior high;
the former Public Works
Minister said the Ministry of
Education should assure the
students that he School will
be upgraded.
AFL Omitted
The renovation of the School

is said to mostly be done by
the Armed Forces of Liberia
but the army was omitted
from the program.
Augustine Sedee, a resident
of WestPoint expressed
disappointment over the
omission of the AFL in the
said This program is very

great and I will like to
commend all of the partners,
I believe that the students
will be attentive and the
teachers should be qualified,
I am going out to encourage
them to come and achieve
their future.
Princess Monubah of the 7th
grade said I want to tell the
almighty God thank you for
the school and I want all my
friends to come because the
future depends on us.
Momulu Gray also of the 7th
grade said he was delighted
over the reopening of the
school.
I am delighted for my school
turning over because I never
knew my school could reach
this stage because I thought
after the destruction of our
school we taught it was
going to be the same and the
chairs were the only thing
to be changed but today the
school looks very great and
we promise we the students
are going to make sure that
what is built will not be
destroyed and we will put in
time for better service in this
community and the country
at large, student Gray said.
Frontpage
FROM ADVOCACY TO INSTITUTION

BUILDING, GAY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
ADAPTS NEW STRATEGY
Page 7
Kennedy L. Yangian kennedylyangian@frontpageafricaonline.com 0777296781
Monroviaespite
the
widespread
condemnation
by
many
Liberians
that offering gay rights in the
country is a societal curse, gay
right activist Archie Ponpon
still remains resolute in his
advocacy for the rights of gays.
Ponpon who just returned
to the country from Ghana
after spending a month in
that country though still
tightlipped on the purpose of
his trip in that country told
FrontPageAfrica Friday that he
has adapted a new strategy in
the advocacy for the rights of
gays.
Not deterred by the threats on
his life and humiliation he has
received from the public since
he started his advocacy for the
rights of gays in the country
since 2011 Ponpon says he
is shifting his organizations
attention from advocacy to
office building.
The gay rights activist who
claimed not to be a gay but
sees gay rights as a human
rights issue said that in his
new approach he intends to
open a new office in the swamp
Community of West Point
where he is a resident.
I am not a gay but seeking the
interest of gays though many
Liberians have problem with
it is because it is the matter of
human rights.
Ponpon who is also the Chief
Executive Officer of a newly
certificated local international
organization called Respect
Inc. whose aims and objective
is to promote human rights
says that when the office
is opened the core focus
of his organization will be
community
mobilization,

teamwork.
According to Ponpon other
actions of his new approach is
team building and team work,
recruit, retain and motivate
staff as well as problem solving
and decision.
The gay rights activist said
the important thing for which
this office is been opened in
the West Point Community
to create awareness on the
rights of gays and community
mobilization and participation
is community group and team
work.
When questioned whether
the citizens of West Point
who are among people who
have expressed opposition to
granting rights to gays and
lesbians in the country Ponpon
answered that it was a task he
has ahead to pursue.
Archie Ponpon a student of the
University of Liberia came into
the spot light for the advocacy
of the rights of gays and
lesbians in late 2011 when the
matter of the rights of gays and
lesbians became a debatable
issue in the country.
With a very small number of
Liberians behind the scene
in support of giving rights to
gays and lesbians there are a
vast majority of Liberians who
opposed the idea alluding that
doing so is a taboo.
The opposition of Liberians to
accept gays and lesbians rights
have make it very difficult
for even the lawmakers who
continues to receive lashes as
they make any attempt to hear
bill in support of the rights of
gays and lesbians but whether
Ponpon will succeed in his
quest in support gays and
lesbians rights in the midst
of immense opposition is
everyone guess.
t a vaccine campaign
in Tubmanburg, Bomi
County
Saturday,
health
workers
pleaded with mothers to bring
their children to be vaccinated.
This is not an Ebola vaccine
and it will not kill your child,
so baby ma and baby pa
please bring your children
for the measles vaccine, a
health-worker could be heard
admonishing parents.
The Health workers who
carried
banners
with
inscription
Integrated
Measles, Polio and deworming
campaign, wore yellow and
white T-shirts, as they danced
under traditional drum sound.
Dr. G. Gorbee Logan, County
Health Officer, Bomi County
sought to allay fears from
mothers afraid to bring

their children forward to
be vaccinated. People are
thinking that this measles
vaccine is an Ebola vaccine
and a vaccine to make one
pregnant, but that is not so.
This vaccine is for measles
polio and Deworming. We want
to make sure that our children
under five years are vaccinated
during this epidemic. And the
Countrys target is to vaccinate
over 683,000 children between
the periods of May 8th to May
14. 2015.
Dr. Logan disclosed that
authorities have targeted
16,207
children
to
be
vaccinated, through social
mobilizers, recorders, and
vaccinators to carry on the
work from house to house,
poor economic growth and

stability through partnership
with
value-chain
actors,
specifically
targeting
smallholders' farmers in key
agriculture sectors, including
vegetables, rubber, oil palm
and cocoa.
According to Minister Konneh,
from 2008 to 2010, there was
a significant growth in the
agricultural sector of Liberia
of up to 6%, but since 2011,
the percentage dropped to 2%
and in 2014, the percentage
dropped disappointedly to
1%, which he said is not good
because the country has an
import-based economy.
Minister Konneh said the
government endorses the
Grow-Liberia program, and
further urged institutions
of government that GrowLiberia will be working

with government to avoid
bureaucratic bottlenecks that
will hinder their work.
The Liberian Finance and
Development
Planning
Minister furthered that there
is the need to take a regional
approach
to
agriculture,
mainly through processing and
storage.
Also speaking, the Ambassador
of Sweden to Liberia, Sofia
Strand, said the program
(Grow Liberia), which is a
five-year initiative of the
Swedish Government through
the Swedish International
Development
Agency
(SIDA), was borne out of a
comprehensive process of
assessment and consultations.
According to the ambassador

Grow-Liberia is a long
term program between the
Government
of
Sweden
and Liberia that focuses on
increasing income of poor
Liberian farmers.
She said the program will
also build the capacities of
young
Liberians
through
internship, so as to provide
them knowledge and create
job opportunities.
The Swedish Ambassador
said she looks forward to the
substantive development and
profitability of the program,
as well as the impact,
development and the creation
of jobs.
With US$22million dollars
budget covering five years,
Grow-Liberia's
intervention
THWARTING MEASLES, POLIO

Bomi targets vaccination of 16,207 Children
Mae Azango /mae.azango@frontpageafricaonline.com
using the Jehovah witness

campaign.
Expressing great concern and
warning children mothers to
bring their children for the
vaccine, Dr. Logan said, even
though Bomi is not affected but
it has to be vigilant, in fighting
the Measles epidemic in the
country, in that Gbapolu that is
just a stone throw away from
Bomi is affected.
Even if you have to go to the
farm, bring the child for the
vaccine first, before going
to the farm. Because
this
vaccine is to stop your children
from getting red eyes, hot skin
and rash on the skin and the
measles sickness can even kill
your baby if you do not bring
that baby for vaccine. Since
no mother wants her child to
die, bring your child for the

vaccine.
Dr. Logan said children from
0-59 months will take the
polio vaccine, while children
from 6-59 months will take the
measles vaccine and children
from 12-59 months will take
the deworming vaccines.
Asked what would happen
to children above five years,
who have never taken either
vaccines; Dr. Logan replied: If
a child has the history of not
taking the measles vaccine,
we will vaccinate that child
because we currently have an
epidemic in the country, so it is
better that that child takes the
vaccine than not take it at all.
He added My advice to
children mothers is that, this
vaccine is to protect your
child from measles and it is
not an Ebola vaccine neither a
vaccine for pregnancy, because
people believe that when they
take the vaccine, they will get
pregnant.
At the end of the program,
Bomi County Superintendent
Samuel Browne launched the
campaign by dropping the
polio vaccine in the first childs
mouth as mothers of other
children started bringing their
children for the vaccines.
I want to be the first to bring
my daughter for the vaccine,
so parents, do not be scare to
bring your children for the
vaccine, because it will not kill
your child, Kaymah Kamara, a
young mother said.
FINANCE MINISTER CALLS FOR MECHANIZED AGRICULTURE SECTOR
Monroviaiberia's
Minister
of
Finance
and
Development
Planning,
Amara
Konneh says agriculture is
important to Liberias economy
and development.
Serving as keynote speaker at
program marking the official
launch of Grow-Liberia,
Minister Konneh said for
Liberia to make progress in
its economic development,
there is need to mechanize the
agriculture sector.
Grow-Liberia is a five year
agriculture
development
program
that
promotes
development and creates
economic improvement for
poor farmers.
The program facilitates pro-
By Edwin G. Genoway, Jr (231886458910)-genowayedwin@gmail.com
has the potential to deliver

up to US$46million dollars
additional income to more
than 34,000 farms in key
agricultural enterprises with
5,730 workers.
The program, which is a
Making Market Work for the

Poor or (M4P), is expected to
reduce poverty and increase
stability in Liberia for 230,000
poor women, men and youth in
targeted agriculture markets.
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TERMS OF REFERENCE
LIBERIA USAID GEMS PROJECT
RESEARCH CONSULTANTS
RAPID ASSESSMENT OF IMPACTS OF
DECENTRALIZED TAX PAYMENT WINDOWS
The USAID Governance and Economic Management Support Program

(GEMS) is a five-year technical assistance program to improve
performance through strengthening public sector capacity in Liberia,
utilizing in-depth assessments and performance improvement
methodologies. One of USAID-GEMS objectives is to support the
Government of Liberia to establish tax collection windows through
a process of decentralization. While the benefits of opening more
avenues for tax payment may appear obvious, the actual size of
these benefits needs to be estimated. Further, their performance as
measured by tax payers satisfaction is also important. To determine
the level of performance, satisfaction, current and potential impacts
of decentralized windows, a rapid survey of these decentralized
windows will be conducted.
Three research consultants, working closely with Liberian Revenue
Authority (LRA) and under the direction of the USAID-GEMS
Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Advisor, will be required for the
following tasks;
(i) Conduct structured exit interviews with tax payers at decentralized
windows and at the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning
(MFDP)
(ii) Conduct open-ended key informant interviews on issues,

benefits, and challenges of decentralized windows.
(iii) Work with LRA Tax Information System Department to extract
tax revenue data relevant to the Study indicators.
(iv) Conduct data cleaning.
(v) Participate in quantitative and qualitative statistical data analysis
The period of performance is between May and June 2015, with each
consultant utilizing 15 work days. Most of the work will take place in
Monrovia and nearby areas.
The required consultant should have five years proven experience

in conducting research and undertaking surveys and statistical data
analysis. S/he must have a bachelors degree in statistics, finance,
mathematics, information technology, or related area. A masters
degree in any of these areas will be an advantage.
To Apply: Please send your CV & Application to careers@gemsliberia.

com. Please include information about your availability in your
application. IBI appreciates all applications, but only shortlisted
candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.
For full consideration, please apply no later than: Thursday May 14,
2015 2
For more information about IBI International,
please visit www.ibi-usa.com.
IBI International is an equal opportunity employer.
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Frontpage
Page 9
RENOVATION AND REFURBISHMENT OF

LIBERIA HOUSE IN ACCRA, GHANA
Contract Identification No. IFB No: RL/MFA/FM-ACCRA/RB/001/14/15
1. The Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has apportioned funds for the purpose of renovating and
refurbishing the Liberia House in Accra, Ghana: IFB No. RL/MFA/FM-ACCRA/RB/001/14/15.
2. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs now invites interested applicants to submit sealed bids for the performance of said works
(Renovation and Refurbishment of the Liberia House in Accra). Bidding will be conducted through Restricted Bidding (RB)
Procedures as specified in the Amended and Restated Public Procurement and Concession Act (PPC Act), and is opened to
all eligible and qualified bidders. These applicable procurement procedures are consistent with the REPUBLIC of LIBERIA
Amended and restated PPC Act published and approved: September 18, 2010.
3. Qualification requirements include but not limited to the following:
Current Business Registration Certificate (Registrar General);
Current Tax Clearance Certificate with Tax Identification Number (TIN)) (Internal Revenue Service);
Minimum average turnover of 100,000 USD within the last 2 years of operation;
Be a valid member of the Association of Building and Civil Engineering Contractors of Ghana (ABCECG); and the Engineering
Society of Liberia
Capacity to do at least 30 (thirty) days pre-financing of project;
Experience as a prime contractor in the construction of a similar project within the last three (3) years; and an
Audited financial statements for the last 2 years.
4. A complete set of bidding package including the scope of work may be purchased by qualified and eligible bidders at the
address below upon payment of non-refundable fee of USD$200.00 or equivalent amount in Liberian Dollars). Bid security
must be submitted together with bid document, and must be 10,000.00 USD or its equivalent in Liberian Dollars of the bid
price in Bank Guarantee or Bond.
5. Interested and eligible bidders may obtain further information from 09:00 to 16:30 hours and also inspect bidding documents
at the address specified below beginning May 4, 2015 :
6. Submission must be clearly marked, signed and sealed in an envelope, including other requested information as follows:
Embassy of Liberia, Accra,
7. Ghana, CONFIDENTIAL BID- for the renovation and refurbishment of Liberia House, Year 2015/2016 and addressed
to:
The Deputy Minister for Administration
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Monrovia, Liberia
8. Questions concerning this Project should be submitted in writing and directed to, by E-mail:
Mr. Boakai Kollie
Civil Works Consultant
Ministry of Foreign, Republic of Liberia
E-mail: bokollie@yahoo.com
Phone: +231880636925/+231777339339
9. Bid must be submitted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on or before Monday May 18, 2015 on or before 14:00 GMT
(Electronic Bid would not be accepted). Bid Opening will be done promptly after closing at 14:30 GMT in the Ministrys
Conference room in the presence of bidders representative or those who choose to attend.
10. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reserves the right to reject or accept any bid submitted and to annul the entire process at
any time without incurring any liability and without assigning any reason thereof.
Signed:

Wede Elliott-Brownell, PhD

Deputy Minister for Administration
Approved: Honourable Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan

MINISTER
Page 10 | Frontpage
PPCC ALARMS ABUSE OF PROCUREMENT LAWS BY PUBLIC ENTITIES
Monroviahe
Government
of President Ellen
Johnson
Sirleaf
is one of the
administrations in Liberias
history credited with the
establishment of numerous
anti-graft institutions in an
effort to fight corruption and
other forms of abuse of public
resources but adherence
to the laws governing
these institutions remain a
challenge.
The Public Procurement
and Concession Commission
of Liberia was one of the
institutions
established
to serve as the agency
to monitor and enforce
adherence
to
prudent
procurement processes in
the public sector.
Procurement which accounts
for large percentage of
Government
of
Liberia
spending is one of the
expenditure line items prone
to abuse and corruption.
Consummation of major
contracts for procurement of
goods and services in Liberia
has long been a subject of
massive abuse with conflict
of
interest,
awarding
of
contracts
without
performance and other forms
of corruption prevalent.
The PPCC in a report on the
performance of procuring
entities for the period
2014/2015 released on
march 25, 2015 has indicated
that majority of procuring
MASSIVE VIOLATIONS
In consideration of the fact that about 73.5% of the 2014-15 National Budget of US$635,236,000 is appropriated to these non-compliant entities, these
violations of the PPCA are undermining transparency, accountability, fair play and competition non procurement and exposing the country to corruption and
impeding the attainment of value for money in the conduct of public procurement activities, PPCC report on non-compliant Procuring entities, 2014/2015
entities in Liberia are noncomplaint with the PPCC

rules and regulations.
PPCC indicated in the report
that out of 135 entities
with core budget within

the threshold considered
for the report, 55% (or 74)
are not non procurement
complainant, corresponding
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to which 83.4% of the

total core budget (or
US
$356,078,862)
is
appropriated.
There were 135 entities
with
core
budget
appropriation within the
threshold considered for
this report, of which 55%
(or 74) are not procurement
compliant, corresponding to
which 83.4% of the total core
budget (or US $356,078,862)
is appropriated stated the
PPCC report.
According to the report there
are 19 bigger procurement
entities out of which 12
are
not
procurement
complainant corresponding
to a non-compliance level of
63% with the non-complaint
entities
accounting
for
US$98,856,070.
Further stated the report
of the 19 procuring entities
with PSIP appropriations,
12 are not procurement
compliant corresponding to a
non-complaint level of 63%.
These non-compliant entities
account for US $98,856,070
or 90.5% of the total PSIP
appropriations.
Eleven
percent (11%) of all PSIP
appropriations are allocated
to four SOEs of which tow are
not procurement complaint
corresponding to 80% of
PSIP appropriation to SOEs
(or US$ 9,660,182).
The 19 entities as per the
report include Ministry of
Health, Ministry of Justice,
Ministry of Defense, Ministry
of Internal Affairs, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs, amongst
others.
Amongst the 15 counties
of Liberia, the PPCC report
observed that only Nimba
County
is
procurement
complaint for both its
core budget and Social
development
Fund
appropriations.
The commission frowned
that the non-compliance by
these entities poses risk to
the national interest.
There are three key risks
to the national interest as a
result of the non-compliance
of entities namely: low inflow
of public sector funds into the
economy which will result in
port delivery of social and
public services, expected
high demand for singlesource procurement., the
Commission indicated.
The 74 non-compliance
entities, the Commission
observed
have
already
engaged in procurement
activities for the next fiscal
year in contravention of the
PPCA without submitting
a procurement plan to the
commission for approval.
While
the
commission
has disclosed that it is
investigating the situation
of non-complaint by the 74
entities, it noted that entities
involved are still consuming
recurring procurable items
such as fuel, stationery and
others.
LAST MINUTE REQUEST
In the report, the Commission

also disclosed that most
procuring entities make
request for no objection for
single sole-sourcing close
to the end of the fiscal year
using time limitation as an
excuse for such request.
It is expected that closer
to the end of the fiscal year,
as has been experience

from previous year, there
will be a high influx of
requests for No-Objection
to the Commission from
non-complaint entities for
single-sourcing based on
reasons of time limitation,
emergencies, etc, stated
the PPCC.
Time
limitation
and
emergency conditions, the
commission indicated are
created as a result of the
dilatory actions of the noncompliant entities.
Recently,
an
alleged
procurement of contract
fraud at the National Port
Authority (NPA) led to over
US$800,000
questionable
transactions between the
NPA and a fake company
in which the NPA Managing
Director Matilda Parker
and Comptroller Christiana
Kpabar Paelay, have been
suspended by President
Sirleaf.
The Liberia Anti-Corruption
Commission
investigating

the NPA contract fraud
recommended that Parker
and
her
comptroller,
Pealay be charged with
Misuse of public money,
property or record: 15.81(a
and c) and Theft and/or
illegal disbursement and
expenditure of public money:
15.82(b) for knowingly,
purposely
and
willfully
ignoring all procedures and
processes in disposing of
eight hundred thousand
United
States
Dollars
(US$800,000) of government
money to an individual and a
firm with no proven record
nor expertise in marine
works and no clear evidence
of performance in both the
Wreck removal and ISPS
consultancy contracts as
agreed in the terms of the
contracts.
The LACC recommended:
That Matilda Wokie Parker,
Managing Director of the NPA
and Christiana Kpabar Paelay,
Comptroller of the NPA and
Seneah Martin Flomo be
charged for violation of Fraud
on the Internal Revenue of
Liberia 15.80(a,b and c) for
knowingly,
intentionally
and
purposely
creating
the opportunity to deprive
government of Liberia of its
just revenue in the amount
of fifty thousand United
States Dollars (US$50,000)
by not withholding the 10%
service tax on the Wreck
Removal Contract Valued
at five hundred thousand
(US$500,000) and also failing
to withhold thirty thousand
(US$30,000) on the IPS
Consultancy contract valued
at US$300,000.
Frontpage
Page 11
SPECIAL EBOLA-FREE EDITION
IT BRINGS
US
MORE
JOY
Bomi ETU Officially Closed
T
Tubmanburg, Bomi County

he Ebola Treatment
Unit in Bomi has
been
officially
closed.
The facility was shut down
last weekend and turned
over to the government of
Liberia, shortly after the
World Health Organization
(WHO) declared the country
Ebola free.
The decommissioning of
the Bomi ETU brought
together many players who
fought to eradicate Ebola
from Liberia, including the
International Organization
on Migration, (IOM), WHO,
Bomi County Health Team,
County Authority, survivors
and well-wishers.
Tejani Golafalee, a survivor
from the Bomi community
Care Center recalled that he
had some apprehensions
about the virus when it first
surfaced. I was one of those
living in denial of the Ebola
virus; I said the government
was only trying to put
something together to eat
money. I contracted the virus
from one of my friends who I
visited when he was sick, and
I advise him not to allow any
health worker to take him to
the ETU because they were
going to kill him.
Golafalee further narrated
that while his friend was sick,
Mae Azango/ mae.azango@frontpageafricaonline.com
he visited him constantly,

and catered to him but later
his friend died. And when he
was informed that his friend
had died, he did not take part
in the burial, only because
he arrived late, but had he
not gone late, he would have
taken part in the burial. He

says the twelve people, who
took part in the burial, are all
dead.
Golafalee says when he
started to get sick; he called
his sister who asked if he had
ever touched a sick person.
I lied, and my sister treated

me. And when she started
seeing signs and symptoms,
she decided to call some of
her colleagues. But as soon
as I heard she was calling
her friends, I said to myself
that my sister was joining her
EBOLA FIGHT WAS COLLECTIVE

-ACTION AID LIBERIA OFFICIAL
Mae Azango/ maeazango@frontpageafricaonline.com
A
Monrovia-
s Liberia started
celebrations
for
freedom from the
deadly Ebola virus
on Saturday after the country
was officially declared free by
the World Health Organization
for going 42 days without
any new case of the virus,
several institutions joined the
celebrations.
Action Aid Liberia, one of the
institutions that assisted in
fighting Ebola in the country
commemorated the celebration
at the Myrtle Beach in
Paynesville, bringing together
survivors and other Liberians
who recounted their stories.
The program which brought
together survivors, Action
Aid staffers, well-wishers and

the general public led to sad
memories of Ebola when Ebola
survivors narrated their painful
ordeals.
I lost my children to Ebola
because my oldest daughter,
who was a nurse, came down
with the virus and that affected
everybody. We were all in the
ETU and the children started
dying but I was the only one

who survived, said Shelly
Trawallay, a survivor at the
program.

Action Aid Head, Mrs. Korto
Reeves Williams said fighting
Ebola was collective as it
was not only left with NonGovernmental Organizations.
She
described
as
very
unique the partnership that
friend health workers to kill

me; so I ran away and came
to Bomi. This is how I was
brought to the Community

Care Center, he says.
Mr. Andrew Lind, IOM head in
Bomi ETU, said the program
was a celebration, rather
involved NGOs, civil society
Organizations,
pastors,
politicians, doctors, nurses,
communities and schools to
fight the virus.
Normally you would have
NGO who would come in
and do work in communities,
but this time around, it was
everybody fighting Ebola.
Communities got involved,
because they created their
own task force to know if a
strange person came into their
communities and who they
came to, said Mrs. Williams.
She thanked the youths for
investing change in the country
as she said many youths visited
Action Aid Offices in Congo
Town and volunteered to fight
against Ebola without asking
for salaries.
The Action Aid official
also thanked survivors for
explaining their stories that
taught them how to protect
themselves against Ebola.
I want to thank everybody
including Action Aid staffs for
sacrificing their lives in the
fight against Ebola. This is a
good time for us and I think we
should celebrate because we
deserve it, she said.
During the program, a big
box to put away things that
reminded people of Ebola was
introduced.
Many attending the program
put away photos of their dead
relatives, friends and loved
ones, while others placed
than a sad ceremony that the

ETU is closed because Liberia
is free of Ebola.
When
we
came
last
September to construct
this ETU, we met Dr. Logan
who had been managing
the Community Care Center
when there was nothing; and
we also met Dr. Williametta
Williams, who had worked
at the Island Hospital ETU
and together with the County
Authority and Health Team,
they were trying to contain
the Ebola virus. So when we
leave, we know they will do
what they did before.
Players such as IOM, WHO,
Health workers, County
Authorities, survivors and
other NGOs fighting the Ebola
virus, were all certificated for
a job well done, during the
decommissioning of the ETU
in Bomi.
I am so happy for our county
authorities,
paramount
chiefs and all the traditional
and local people. I am
happy because during the
fight against this deadly
disease, you recognized us
as traditional people and
involved us in the process.
Now that the Ebola Disease
is out of Liberia, it brings us
more joy, Says Bomi County
Deputy Town Chief Varney
Massaley.
hand sanitizers, bracelets,
Ebola awareness T-Shirts,
writing stories, paying tributes,
amongst others.
The Ebola virus killed 4,716
Liberians
and
foreigners
including doctors and Nurses.
The virus entered Liberia in
March 2014 from Guinea
through Lofa County.
The virus was later put under
control at the end of March and
again resurfaced in April from
Sierra Leone, through a lady
who attended the burial of her
sister.
The lady who name is withheld
brought back to the country, her
sisters four year old daughter
and the little girl later fell sick.
The sick child was said to have
been taken to the Redemption
Hospital on the back of the
ladys son.
The child later died, and the
nurse who treated the child also
died, the Ugandan Doctor, who
treated the nurse also died. The
lady, her son and sister all later
died.
Now a year after the first Ebola
outbreak, Liberia was over the
weekend declared Ebola free
Country by the World Health
Organization (WHO).
Citizens have been celebrating,
until
the
government
announced a working holiday
for Monday May 11, 2015,
when official program was held
at the Centennial memorial
pavilion in Monrovia.
OVERNIGHT WEALTH
Page 12 | Frontpage
W
Monrovia -
Citizens demand ACCOUNTABILITYAmid Victory Over Ebola
hile the official

program
to
declare
Liberia Ebola
free was ongoing, youth
groups
and
healthcare
workers gathered in front
of the Centennial memorial
Pavilion holding placards
demanding accountability in
the expenditure of Ebola funds
and hazard benefits, declaring
that some government officials
have amassed wealth overnight
during the health crisis.
Some of the placards had
inscriptions including Ebola
is over but we still need
accountability.
The spokesman for one of the
protesting groups, Darlington
Collins said, their protest is
in demand for accountability
of Ebola funds saying that
accountability should not be
swept under the carpet amid
the end of Ebola.
We here to speak truth to
power, while it true that Ebola
has faced out but corruption is
still here, Ebola and corruption
are twins, Ebola destroys the
country and corruption does the
same, Mr. Tolbert Nyenswah,
Chris Massaquoi, Dorbor
Jallah and Brownie Samukai
should account for the Ebola
money, Collins said.
We will mourn
Collins added that their
gathering was meant to send a
message to the world that while
Liberia is Ebola free but some
government officials have
accumulated wealth over night.
The protestors said while
the government announced
that Liberians wear white
to commemorate the end of
Ebola, they wore black as a
sign of mourning corruption.
while it true we are Ebola
free our hearts are heavy, we
will remained here to tell the
Al-Varney Rogers alvarney.rogersfrontpageafricaonline.com 0886304498
world that accountability is a

problem here, they are wearing
white to celebrate but we will
wear black to mourn the death
of many Liberians, we are
aware that Tolbert Nyenswah
has built colorful houses in
the midst of the Ebola virus,
Collins said.
We need our benefits
A healthcare worker Selekie
Sannoh with many other
healthcare workers was seen
holding placards in demand of
risk benefits.
We are here to ask the
President for our risk benefit,
the celebration they are
carrying out is because of us
and we are the real heroes so
we need our benefits, Sannoh
said.
Sannoh said, that they cannot
celebrate
because
health
workers who have lost their
families are not getting benefits
adding that they have turned to
beggars.
We are feeling sad some of
our friends who died family
members have not received
their benefits, Sannoh added.
Recently the General Auditing
Commission
of
Liberia
published a report linking
several government agencies
to the misapplication of Ebola
funds by violating procurement
and other laws.

The GAC Report called on
the Ministry of Defense to
explain the lack of receipts for
its expenditure something the
Ministry failed to do.
According to the report an
amount
of
US$673,000
was spent on fuel, staff
allowances,
communication
costs and training, according
to the expenditure summary
submitted without supporting
documentation.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
commenting on the GAC
report said the report was
more about procedural errors;
something she said was due to
the emergency situation facing
the country at the time.
I have not read the audit
report, but I got a briefing on it,
and I know that there may have

been procedural errors, but I
believe that if someone says
they had to go and buy a bus
to carry people when a hundred
people are dying on the streets
and they did not go through a
bidding process, I will leave it
to you, to say which was better
for them to have bought the
buses to save the lives or for
them to have taken two weeks
to go through the bidding
process, said President Sirleaf
recently.
However, the GAC statedt
"funds disbursed without
supporting documents could
lead to misappropriation."
The report also accused the
Liberia National Police of
several improprieties. It stated
that allowances were paid for
68 officers during the Ebola

crisis even though they were
never found to be in the areas
they were assigned.
The police responded by
saying those in question
were deployed on "covert
operations" to help contain
further spread of the disease.
All funds received from
government agencies, business
partners of the government and
citizens were to be deposited
into the National Ebola Trust
Fund at the Central Bank of
Liberia and the Fund was
managed by the Information
Management System (IMS).
The IMS dispensed a total
of $10.7 million of the $15.1
million with the following
individuals responsible for
managing the account: Tolbert
EU GIVES LIBERIA $50.8 MILLION SUPPORT

By Edwin G. Genoway, Jr (231886458910) genowayedwin@gmail.com
Monroviahe
Liberian
Government and the
European Union (EU)
have signed a state
building contract valued US$
50.8 Million.
Finance
Minister
Amara
Konneh on Monday signed

the new EUR 45 Million
(approximately 50.8 Million
United
States
Dollars)
state
building
contract
with the European Union,
in the presence of the EU
Ambassador, Tiina Intelmann.
The state building contract

program is part of the EU's
co-operation program with
Liberia, and it will provide
funds to the Liberian national
budget with focus on critical
health services during and
after the Ebola crises, building
up justice and security services

in anticipation of UNMIL's
drawdown and improving
the country's management of
public funds.
Speaking Monday at the
signing ceremony in Monrovia,
Minister Konneh described the
signing as a new beginning
starting from a disastrous end
of the Ebola crises in Liberia.
Minister Konneh said the
money will support the
governing process including
the UNMIL draw down plan
which will place the Liberian
government in the position to
take over the security sector.
"on behalf of the government
of Liberia, I commit today to
make the best possible use
of this money which has so
generously been donated by
European citizens, so it can
benefit those who it is intended
to reach, the Liberian people
and amongst them those most
dependent on basic public
services, the poorest and
weakest like people in need

of health services, protection,
women and including the
people outside of Monrovia,"
Minister Konneh noted.
Speaking on the EU's behalf
at the signing ceremony EU
Ambassador
Intelmann
said the project is first of
the wider EUR 279Million
(approximately 315M USD)
Liberia-EU multiyear program
that was signed in Brussels
in the presence of President
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf earlier in
march during the International
Ebola Recovery conference.
"With this signature today
I am happy to confirm that
the EU has kept its promise
to accelerate the support to
Liberia and to contribute to the
national recovery plan in the
wake of Ebola crisis in order
to achieve peace and stability
and
accelerate
equitable
development," she noted.
Ambassador
Intelmann
however
encouraged
the
Nyenswah - Manager, Dorbor

Jallah - Deputy Manager,
Saah
N'Tow
Deputy
Manager, Andre Pope Special Comptroller and Wede
Elliott-Brownell - Special
Comptroller.
The report indicated that the
IMS made payments for Ebola
awareness to two NGOs, the
Inter-Religious Council of
Liberia and Samaritan's Purse,
in the amounts of US$85,000
and US$89,617 respectively.
The GAC noted that these
payments
were
never
reconciled
with
financial
reports as required by Public
Financial
Management
regulations.
The audit report also added that
the following vendors received
payments for which no
contracts were in place: H&A
Corporation - US$38,220, for
165 KV generators; James N.
Davies & Son - US$19,584,
for 1,200 bags of rice; Africa
Motors - US$31,360, for 15
passenger buses and payments
to
implementing
partner
agencies.
The report observed that
remitting funds from the
government
of
Liberia's
account makes it difficult
to report accurately actual
amounts sent to the following
agencies:
Ministry
of
Internal Affairs, Ministry of
National Defense, Bureau of
Immigration & Naturalization,
and Liberia National Police
The report stated that wages
payment to 52 officers in three
counties appeared to have been
over reported. The difference
in payments sent and received
is stated amounted to LD
94,500 (US$ 1,125)
The auditors found that 68
officers were paid for services
in 10 counties where they were
never assigned.
Collins called on the Ministry
of Justice to prosecute officials
indicted by the General
Auditing Report.
Collins: They must be given
their day in court, the Ebola
money they used to build
beautiful houses could be used
for public schools.
government of Liberia to make
a real difference to the people
of Liberia in the use of the
money.
The EU Ambassador noted
that the Liberian government
needs to make request to the
EU before the the money is
released saying, the money will
come in two phases.
The state building contract
program has been designed and
agreed with the government of
Liberia and those who will have
to contribute to its success,
including the Ministers of
Finance, Justice, and Judiciary.
The program will align
with the government's own
objectives of improved budget
management and contribute
to
increased
budgetary
allocations to health services
after the Ebola outbreak, and
justice and security services
in anticipation of UNMIL's
drawdown.
The fund will also ensure
oversight of proper police
behavior and prosecution
of sexual and gender based
violence.
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Page 13
WHATS NEXT AFTER

10 YEARS OF PEACE?
IN PREVENTING A POTENTIAL CONFLICT AND A RELAPSE TO THE UGLY PAST
Monrovia he Platform for

Dialogue
and
Peace
(P4DP)
has concluded a
daylong validation forum on
the findings of a nationwide
research on assets and
capacities
that
hold
Liberians together.
The forum was the first
phase of a study conducted
by P4DP in partnership with
International Peace Building
Alliance (Interpeace).
It sought to access the
resilience
nature
of
Liberians in overcoming the
traumatic stress of conflict
and their ability to prevent
future relapse in the context
of post-civil conflict and the
recent Ebola crisis.
P4DP said while there
has been no large scale or
systematic violence since
the end of the civil war in
August 2003, the sources of
conflict that contributed to
the war are still very much
present.
Prior to the recent Ebola
epidemic in March 2014,
Liberia celebrated 10 years
of peace but P4DP believes
that the current peace,
made possible through the
collective efforts of Liberians
but heavily reliant on the
support of regional and
international stakeholders,
will be tested with UNMILs
growing drawdown.
Under the Framework for
Accessing Resilience (FAR)
project with funding from
the Swedish International
Development Cooperation
Agency
(Sida),
P4DP
implemented the eightmonth national research as a
partner of Interpeace.
It consists of a first
consultation phase that was
implemented between June
2014 to February 2015 and
a second phase of action
research through a national
working
group
(NWG),
which will begin in June.
FAR,
which
is
an
international study that
is simultaneously being
conducted by Interpeace in
Timor Leste and Guatemala,
endeavors to contribute
to the development of
contextual framework and
assess resilience through the
lenses of local stakeholders
from individuals, household,
institutions and societal
perspective.
The research was designed
with the dual objective of
making Liberians audible
and central to the definition
of resilience in Liberia, and
to engage policy makers
at both national and
international levelson the
development of assessment
frameworks for resilience
as it specifically relates to
peacebuilding.
At the end of the forum, the
participants came-up with
eight resilience mechanisms,
which they believe, have
the greatest potential to
strengthen the peace.
These are the courage
and
determination
of
P4DP concludes one day validation forum on the resilience of Liberians

Danesius Marteh, danesius.marteh@frontpageafricaonline.com
women in their next level

attitude that helps them to
overcome marginalization
and increased vulnerability;
community
dialogue
initiatives that women have
developed and relied on to
discuss and improve their
condition.
Others are the development
of skills among youths as a
means of empowering them
to find solutions to the lack
of public goods provided
by the state; dialogue and
advocacy initiatives at the
community and national
level through which people
can voice their concerns
regarding
governance
deficits and alternative
dispute resolution (ADR)
mechanisms that exist in
communities and through
traditional chiefs.
The rest are initiatives in the
judicial system to integrate
ADR in the formal process,
particularly as it relates
to resolving land related
conflict; the community
cohesion and impetus for
community based networks
that were formed to provide
assistance and awareness
during the Ebola crisis and
demands, as a result of the
Ebola crisis, to strengthen
the health sector.
P4DP believes consolidating
peace is necessary and
should be an ongoing
process for Liberia, which
must identify, understand
and draw conclusions from

the potential assets and
strengths at all levels of
society in order to ensure
that peace is a nationallyowned and contextually
relevant process.
The forum, which took
place at the P. A. Ribhouse
in the Airfield community
on April 29, validated the
views and findings of 1,100
respondents from all sectors
and chief amongst them
were the issues of gender,
land, lack of access to public
goods, governance issues
and recent Ebola outbreak.
The participants outlined
several
historical
and
contemporary factors that
informed their perceptions
of what underpinned peace
and gave concrete examples
of the strategies, resources
and capacities that they
drew on to recover from past
violent conflicts and prevent
its recurrence.
The findings disclosed that
in the midst of these crises,
community initiatives and
traditional customs have
been highly emphasized as
resilience mechanisms.
Internal Affairs Minister
Morris Dukuly was pleased
with the level of the
research
and
admitted
that the difficult past of
Liberians couple with their
determination to grapple
with their realities cant be
overemphasized that they
are resilience people.

One of the interviewees was
Wilfred Gray-Johnson, who
heads the peace building
office at the Ministry of
Internal Affairs.
My optimism [for peace],
certainly, is not based on
our political leaders, or our
politicians or our political
actors. My optimism, as a
peace practitioner and head
of the peacebuilding office,
is based on the grassroot
ordinary citizens. And this
is something we saw, as is
reflected in the document
[executive summary], about
what happened during the
Ebola crisis.
When we looked-up to the
government as an institution
to deliver on our behalf,
when we looked-up to our
political
leaders,
when
we looked-up to foreign
partners, yes, the help of
foreign partners, the help
of the government [and] the
facilitations of the process
of NGOs and CSOs cant be
overemphasized in terms of
what they achieved, but in
the midst of our looking-up
to all of these institutions,
the Ebola Virus Disease
spread.
But when the local people,
when
the
community
people and grassroot people
decided to take the fight in
their hands, we are where
we are today. [The] Ebola
Virus [Disease] declined and
declined in an immeasurable
way that even predictions, by
the international community
in terms of the escalation
of the virus, were proven
wrong, said Johnson at the
forum.
With the conclusion of
the validation, national
stakeholders
will
be
expected to deepen the
outcomes of various findings
through a process called
national group meeting.
The establishment of a NWG,
compromising of national
experts, will guide and
further develop the scope
of the study and resilience
mechanisms in Liberia.
Made-up of eight to 10
members
of
diverse
backgrounds,
the
NWG
will have the task of
developing concrete policy
recommendations and a
programmatic action plan
on ways of strengthening
resilience for peacebuilding,
based on the orientation
provided by the forum.
P4DP executive director
James Shilue said they
want to help Liberia
becomes a society-based
on good governance and
civic
participation
by
strengthening the resilience
of Liberians with UNMILs
eventual drawdown.
It is quite a very tedious task
for this country recognizing
that the eventual drawdown
of UNMIL is something that
we cant prevent. And in the

midst of all of this, there is
a question of what and how
do we strengthen the voids
or gaps that will inevitably
be created as a result of the
UNMIL drawdown.
And there is something in
the whole peace-building
discourse they call the
conflict trap. The conflict
trap is a kind of assertion
that any country that leaves
from conflict, within five
to 10 years, there is a huge
chance that they will slip
back but Liberia have defied
that whole concept. And so
we want to understand what
and how people manage
to withstand those things,
Shilue stressed.
The one dialogue brought
diverse participants from
governmental institutions,
civil society organizations,
private
sector,
foreign
missions,
academia
and
representatives
of
local
communities
that participated in the
consultation process.
Karin Landgren, special
representative of the UN
Secretary-General (SRSG),
briefed the UN Security
Council on May 5 about
Liberias plan to assume full
responsibility of its security
by 30 June 2016.
And much will be expected
from the government and
Liberians, at home and
abroad, to maintain and
improve on the fragile peace
with UNMILs drawdown
resuming on May 13 with the
withdrawal of 80 soldiers
from Toe Town in Grand
Gedeh County and Pleebo in
Maryland County.
A joint implementation
group, chaired by the
minister of justice and cochaired by the SRSG, minister
of finance and development
planning,
minister
of
defense, a Supreme Court
associate justice and the
ambassador of the United
States, will monitor the
planned benchmark.
But it will require a sustained
budgetary support, which
will hopefully not be affected
by budget shortfallsa
perennial
governmental
problem
since
2011,
sustained political will at
the highest levels and the
resilience of Liberians to
keep the peace.
As always, only time will tell
what will happen to Liberia
and P4DPs research when
the last batch of UNMIL
soldiers leaves.
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IN BRIEF
PAGE
RONT
WORLD NEWS
NORTH KOREA SEEN YEARS FROM SUBLAUNCHED MISSILE TO THREATEN THE U.S.
IF CLINTON WINS, FAMILY

FOUNDATION FACES
UNCERTAIN FUTURE
WASHINGTON (AP)
illary
Rodham
Clinton's family
foundation,
already
the
subject of intense scrutiny in
the early days of her White
House campaign, faces an
uncertain future if she is
elected president.
Among
the
unresolved
questions: Who would be
able to raise money for the
Clinton Foundation? Could
it begin new projects, both at
home and overseas? Is there
any way it could operate
unburdened by conflicts of
interest, real or perceived,
while one of its founders sits
in the Oval Office?
ALONG WITH SAUDI KING,

MOST GULF RULERS TO
SKIP US SUMMIT
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates

(AP)
t is not just the Saudi king
who will be skipping the
Camp David summit of U.S.
and allied Arab leaders.
Most Gulf heads of state won't
be there.
The absences will put a damper
on talks that are designed
to reassure key Arab allies,
and almost certainly reflect
dissatisfaction among leaders of
the six-member Gulf Cooperation
Council
with
Washington's
handling of Iran and what they
expect to get out of the meeting.
SEOUL (Reuters) orth Korea made

a key step in its
nuclear weapons
program by testlaunching a ballistic missile
from a submarine, but
remains years away from
developing a missile system
or submarine which could
threaten its sworn enemy the
United States, experts said.
South Korea on Monday
called the test "very serious
and concerning" and urged
Pyongyang to immediately
stop developing submarinelaunched ballistic missiles

(SLBMs), which it said
hindered regional security.
Isolated North Korea, already
slapped with UN sanctions for
its missile and nuclear tests,
is widely believed to be trying
to develop a nuclear device
small enough to be mounted
on a ballistic missile, but it is
not clear whether it has done
so - a crucial step to make
its nuclear missile threat
credible.
And while some North
Korean submarines are

technically
capable
of
coming within range of the
U.S. mainland, they cannot
necessarily carry a missile,
although the North's missileequipped submarines could
reach Japanese waters.
"They need to build a new,
bigger submarine," said Yang
Uk, a senior research fellow
at the Korea Defence and
Security Forum and a policy
adviser to the South Korean
navy.
North Korea is technically
72 DEAD AS SYRIA ARMY BATTLES

TO FREE LOYALISTS: MONITOR
still at war with the South

after their 1950-53 conflict
ended in a truce, not a
peace treaty, and regularly
threatens the United States,
the South's biggest ally, with
destruction.
Both the United States and
Japan reserve rights to
conduct pre-emptive strikes
on North Korean missile sites
if a nuclear attack is viewed
as imminent. Launching
missiles from submarines
could enable Pyongyang to
hide them.
"While
North
Korea's
submarines are not especially
effective, the challenge of
finding even a small number
of specific submarines armed
with missiles would be quite
a challenge," said Jeffrey
Lewis of the Californiabased Monterey Institute of
International Studies.
Like much of North Korea's
arsenal, its fleet of around
70 submarines is based
mainly on ageing, Soviet-era
technology.
North Korea had been
expected to be working
on an SLBM, but the speed
with which it conducted
an
evidently
successful
test launch caught many
observers by surprise.
A South Korean defense
ministry
official
who
declined to be identified
said photographs released
on Saturday by the North
showing a missile launched
from the sea appeared to be
authentic.
The official also said that the
North could be capable of
building a fully-operational
submarine equipped with
ballistic missiles within two
or three years - a shorter time
frame than many analysts say
is needed.
Before it can head toward
its target on an arched
trajectory, an SLBM must be
ejected and travel to the sea's
surface, which is what North
Korea appears to have done.
The missile traveled only
about 150 meters, the South
Korean official said.
Yang said the system was
likely years away from
deployment because North
Korean submarines were
not well enough equipped
to manage the radar and
tracking systems required to
guide a missile to its target.
Lewis said the missile that
North Korea tested probably
has a range of roughly 2,400
km (1,500 miles), which
would require a submarine
to be at sea for 60-90 days.
"That means a journey to
bring the U.S. in range would
be pretty daring."
NIGERIA'S JONATHAN SAYS FRIENDS

ABANDONED HIM AFTER DEFEAT
JIMMY CARTER CUTS

GUYANA TRIP SHORT
AFTER FALLING ILL
Georgetown (Guyana) (AFP) ormer US President

Jimmy
Carter
on
Sunday cancelled plans
to
observe
general
elections in the South American
country of Guyana after falling ill,
his organization said.
The 90-year-old Carter left the
country for the city of Atlanta in
his home state of Georgia, The
Carter Center said.
The nature of his illness was not
disclosed.
"President Carter was not
feeling well and has departed
Guyana to return to Atlanta
today. The Carter Center election
observation mission in Guyana is
continuing its work and will keep
him informed of developments,"
a statement read.
Beirut (AFP) t least 72 fighters

were killed in a
single day as the
Syrian army battled
to relieve some 250 besieged
regime loyalists under rebel
assault, a monitoring group
said Monday.
President Bashar al-Assad
had personally pledged to
rescue the trapped troops
and civilians, who are said
to include senior figures
and have been holed up in a
hospital complex since rebels
captured the northwestern
town of Jisr al-Shughur two
weeks ago.
As the relief column fought
its way to within two
kilometres (just over a mile)
of the complex on Sunday
morning, the rebels launched
an all-out assault, the Syrian

Observatory for Human
Rights said.
At least 40 rebels and
32
government
troops
were killed in the heavy
fighting that erupted inside
the complex and with
the
advancing
column,
Observatory director Rami
Abdel Rahman told AFP.
The clashes continued into
the early hours of Monday
with the rebels retaking some
ground from the advancing
troops before being pushed
back.
Among the 250 people holed
up inside the complex are
around 150 government
troops, including "highranking officers," as well as
their family members and
some civil servants, Abdel
Rahman said.
It is unclear how much food
and ammunition they have
left.
The rebels assaulting the

complex include fighters of
Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra
Front.
They seized the rest of Jisr
al-Shughur on April 25,
extending their gains in Idlib
province, where they have
also captured the provincial
capital and a military base in
recent weeks.
More than 220,000 people
have been killed in Syria since
anti-government
protests
broke out in March 2011
spiralling into civil war in the
face of a bloody crackdown
by security forces.
Lagos (AFP) utgoing

Nigerian
President Goodluck
Jonathan said Sunday
that some of his
friends deserted him shortly
after he conceded defeat to
his rival General Muhammadu
Buhari in the March election.
Jonathan publicly conceded
defeat to Buhari on March
31, a decision which was
commended by local and
foreign commentators and
doused tension in the country.
"Some hard decisions have
their own costs. No doubt
about that. It is a very costly
decision but I must be very
ready to pay for it," Jonathan
said during a farewell church
service in Abuja.
Jonathan's public admission of
defeat in the nail-biting election
came more than six hours after
he rang Buhari to concede,
earning him widespread praise
for statesmanship.
"If you take certain decisions,
you should know that people
close to you will even abandon
you at some point. I tell people
that more of my so-called
friends will disappear."
Many party faithful and
erstwhile loyalists of Jonathan

have either crossed over to
Buhari's
All
Progressives
Congress or made harsh
statements against Jonathan's
party or its leaders.
Jonathan said he was not
surprised by the desertions
or statements by his former
loyalists, adding that former
South
African
president
Frederik de Klerk faced a
similar situation when he
decided to abolish minority
rule in that country.
Jonathan said that de Klerk's
marriage to his wife, Marike,
broke down after he took that
decision.
"But that is the only decision
that made South Africa to still
be a global player. If by this
time w still have minority
rule in South africa, nobody
would have been talking about
South Africa in the present
generation," he said.
He said that ministers who
served under him should brace
themselves for "persecution"
following his loss and his
decision to concede defeat.
Buhari, a former military
leader, is scheduled to be
sworn into office on May 29.
Sports
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BYC ARE CHAMPIONS!

COCA COLA TOURNAMENT
A. Macaulay Sombai, sombai121@gmail.com
Monroviaiberia
Football
Association
Champions
Barrack
Young
Controllers
have started the year on a high
note winning the Coca-Cola
Bottling Company eight teams
tournament.
Van Dave Harmons hat trick
on Sunday in the grand final
of the tournament was enough
for his side BYC in their 3-1
triumph over Nimba United to
lift the trophy.
Harmon who received the
best player of the tournament
award, got the curtain raiser
within the first two minutes
through spacing after receiving
a pass from Trokon Myers from
the left corner of the opponent
goal.
After BYC early goal, the team
maintained hold on the ball
with absolute suppression
against Nimba United and in
the fourth minute Myers came
close to doubling the score
after he received a splendid
cross from goal scorer Harmon
but shot wide over the bar.
Due to BYC persistent pressure

on the defense of Nimba
United, they got two quick
corner kicks in the fourth and
fifth minutes respectively but
the defense of Nimba United
thwarted the threat.
Three minutes after Myers
missed a glorious scoring
chance; Harmon got the
second goal in the ninth minute
through a prolific shot from the
25 yard after taking advantage
of a mistake from Nimba
United defender Barbou Kollie
who gifted him the ball.
Anthony Bugbor came close
to reducing the score line for
Nimba United in the 12th
minute through a well taken
shot but he was denied by the
brilliance of BYC goalkeeper
Nathaniel Sherman.
Mark
Paye
could
have
increased the score to three
for BYC in the 16th minute
after wonderful shot from a
splendid pass from midfielder
Junior Barshell but Goalkeeper
Edmod Borloh was at his best
to keep the match within reach.
Paye again attempted to score
from the 20th yard in the

23rd minute at which time he
disorganized the defense of
Nimba United but sent the ball
over the crossbar.
Sunnyboy Dolo made the
second attempt for Nimba
United in the 26th minute after
he headed the ball outside the
goal and his teammate Joseph
Dennis made another attempt
in the 29th minute from the
half way with a shot but the
ball went over the bar.
Prince Saydee who played
the left forward wing for BYC,
misused a beautiful from Paye
in the 30th minute and took
another fine shot from a free
kick won by scorer Harmon
in the 34th minute and was
denied by the opposing
goalkeeper.
Papie Johnson almost brought
hope for Nimba United in 44th
minute but sent the ball not
too far from the goal line which
ended the first half 2-0 for BYC.
From start to end Nimba
United didnt really play to
expectation,
they
lacked
proper
ball
possession,
accurate passes and finishing

touches.
Nimba United performance
got worse in the second half as
they failed to make use of all of
their chances.
Both teams started the second
half with high concentration
and Franklin Mulbah made
the first attempt in the 57th
minute for Nimba United
through indirect kick after a
teammate was brought down.
Saydee made three good
passes in the 73rd, 75 and 77th
minutes but none could make
the breakthrough
until in
the 78rd minute when scorer
Harmon added the third goal
with classical shot from 20th
yard through a long pass from
a teammate.
Elijah Golo scored Nimba
United consolation goal in the
87th minute from the penalty
spot after a defender of BYC
was booked for committing a
foul against opponent Titus
Cooper of Nimba United in the
penalty box.
Darlington Pailey of Nimba
United received yellow card for
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There were plenty of them coming
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After small hesitation, one of
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Eric, how are you today?

Eric: Not bad, i just came to
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We see plenty people around, it
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a foul he committed against an

opponent during the first half.
BYC made four changes,
Abdullah Conteh replaced
Trokon Myers, Alpha James
went in for Hilton Varney, Chris
Momo replaced goal scorer
Harmon and Molley Gray
replaced Saydee.
Nimba United made two
changes,
Patrick
Singbah
replacing Barbou Kollie, and
Elijah Galo coming in for
George Allison.
The captain of BYC Francis
Jallabah told FrontPage Africa
that his team success in the
tournament is a serious
message to their opponents in
the coming 2015 LFA national
league.
I am very grateful to God for
our success but to be fair with
this victory did not come easily
but through the hard work of
all of us including our head
coach and members of our
technical staff and I am pleased
to say thank you to our officials
for support , said Jallabah.
Nimba
United
captain
attributed his team failure to
capture the trophy to what he
called the poor performance of
the entire team.
Titus Cooper said his side failed
to play against their opponents
according to the game of
football because they lacked
proper ball possession and
complete finishing touches.
These were some of the areas
we lacked and it led to our
failure to capture the trophy
but we are going back to
our drawing board to better
prepare the team for the
national league, he added.
BYC walked away with 2,000
USD as champions and Nimba
United received 1,000 USD as
runners up.
The LFA President Musa Bility
thanked the participating
teams and paid tribute to the
winning side BYC for their
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SPORTS
REAL DISASTER
he Primera Division
looks out of reach
for Los Blancos after
a 2-2 draw at home
to Valencia - confirmation of
a dramatic decline that has
cost the club dearly
By Ben Hayward at the
Santiago Bernabeu
It's all over bar the shouting.
Real Madrid's hopes of
winning La Liga went up in
smoke on a hot and humid
Saturday evening as Carlo
Ancelotti's side were held
at home by Valencia. But it
really shouldn't have come
to this.
Madrid's 2-2 draw against
Valencia last season dashed
dreams of claiming the
Primera Division crown in
Ancelotti's first season at
the club and a repeat result
this time around means
Barcelona now need only one
win from their two remaining
games to claim the title.
'JUVE NEED FRESH LEGS' ALLEGRI CASTS DOUBT ON

POGBA FACING MADRID
espite the France

international
having scored in
the
Bianconeri's
1-1 draw with Cagliari,
his coach admits he must
consider which of his players
will be at their fittest
Massimiliano Allegri has
cast doubt on Paul Pogba
being handed a starting
berth against Real Madrid
by
insisting
Juventus
need fresh legs in their
Champions League decider
on Wednesday.
IVORY COAST GOVERNMENT

INVESTIGATES UNPAID BONUSES
vory Coast's ministry

of interior affairs has
launched an investigation
into unpaid bonuses which
should have been given to the
country's victorious 2015 Africa
Cup of Nations squad.
Players and officials were
promised
a
substantial
financial reward by the Ivorian
government for winning the
tournament in Equatorial Guinea
in February.
There has been a lengthy delay
in the money reaching some
squad members, prompting
both coach Herve Renard and
midfielder Serey Die to question
why.
Monrovia
resident Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
says though the country
has been declared Ebola
free by the World Health
Organization (WHO), the challenge
now in this fight is working with the
two other worse affected countries Sierra Leone and Guinea - to achieve
the position that Liberia has reached.
She said Liberia will begin to
take a regional approach to share
information, talents and experiences
with the other two affected countries;
stressing that in the coming weeks
Liberia will intensify efforts in this
regard as the country is still at risk
once the Ebola virus disease is
still active in the two neighboring
countries.
According to an Executive Mansion
release, the Liberian leader made
the assertion when she addressed a
mammoth crowd at the Centennial
Memorial Pavilion after she was
officially presented the declaration
of the end of the Ebola outbreak in
Liberia by the WHO.
President Sirleaf used the occasion
to pay tribute to all Liberians who
assisted in the fight against this
deadly disease, particularly signaling
out security forces who had not been
mentioned in earlier statements.
Before then, the WHO Representative
Dr. Alex Gasasira had another
opportunity to officially declare the
outbreak of Ebola virus disease in
Liberia over. He said Liberia has
interrupted transmission of the Ebola
virus and 42 days have passed since
the last laboratory-confirmed case
was buried on March 28; the criteria
established by WHO has been met.
The WHO Representative said the
interruption of the transmission is
a monumental achievement for a
country that reported the highest
number of deaths in the largest,
longest and most complex outbreak
since Ebola first emerged in 1976.
Dr. Gasasira warned, however, that
transmission persists in neighboring
Guinea and Sierra Leone creating a
high risk that infected people may
cross into Liberia. The government
is fully aware of the need to remain
on high alert and has the experience,
capacity,
and
support
from
international partners to do so, he reechoed adding, that his organization
is here to support Liberia as the
response transitions from outbreak
control, to vigilance for imported
cases, to recovery of essential health
services.
On behalf of WHO and its DirectorGeneral,
Dr
Margaret
Chan,
and the Regional Director for
Africa, Dr Matshidiso Moeti, Dr.
Gasasira conveyed their heartfelt
congratulations to the people
and government of Liberia on the
monumental success.
He then presented the Ebola- Free
Declaration to the head of the Incident
Management System of the Ministry of
Health, Mr. Tolbert Nyenswah, who in
turn presented it to outgoing Health
Minister, Dr. Walter Gwenigale.
Dr. Gwenigale, in turn, officially
presented it to President Sirleaf
amidst rapturous applauds.
Making
remarks
earlier,
the
President of Togo, His Excellency
Faure Essozimna Gnassingb, who
is also ECOWAS Ebola Coordinator,
congratulated the Government and
people of Liberia for achieving this
milestone.
He paid homage to Ghanaian
President and Chairman of ECOWAS
Authority, Dr. John Mahama, through
his representative, for his personal
level of engagement in the fight
against Ebola.
President
Gnassingb
recalled
his solidarity visit to Monrovia in
February on behalf of ECOWAS and
to reassure the country how ECOWAS
was determined to work along with
Liberia. However, it was a real historic
success, he stressed; but warned that
EJS OFFICIALLY RECEIVES

WHO EBOLA-FREE DECLARATION
Says Challenge Now is to Work with S. Leone, Guinea
Liberians should not ignore the fact

that Ebola is a public health problem
that has a lot of human loss because
health systems were not strong
enough. He said Liberians have
demonstrated that this public health
crisis is not a fatality; but it can be
overcome if all work together as the
people of Liberia demonstrated.
He
expressed
thanks
and
congratulated the people of Liberia,
especially President Sirleaf for her
exceptional leadership demonstrated
during this painful period. He paid
particular tribute to the health
workers who made a lot of sacrifices
in the fight against Ebola.
The Togolese President said the
celebrations going on would not
have been possible without the
participation of the international
partners who mobilized themselves
and resources in order to put logistics
in place.
For her part, Ghanas Minister
of Foreign Affairs and Regional
Integration, Ms. Hanna Serwaa Tetteh,
who represented the President of
Ghana and Chairman of ECOWAS
Authority, Dr. John Mahama, brought
warm greeting and congratulations
for having achieved the remarkable
milestone for eradicating the Ebola
virus from Liberia.
She stressed that it was not only to
congratulate President Sirleaf for
her leadership, but the leadership
of the country at all levels of society
including the health workers around
the country. We are extremely proud
at how you have made it within this
short period of time, she said, adding
that from a distance, they could only

sympathize with the challenge that
Liberia faced.
She stressed that for Liberia, worse
affected by the virus and the first
to come out of it, speaks volumes.
She noted that this shows the kind
of leadership, making reference to
President Sirleaf, that the country has
amidst a standing ovation.
Ms. Tetteh also thanked the
international partners for the
support they have provided to the
Ebola affected countries.
She warned that while Liberians want
to celebrate how far they have come,
it is important to recognize the work
that is left undone. She appealed
to partners of the international
community to help these affected
countries go through the last lap
which is to ensure that the sub-region
has similar celebrations in Guinea
and Sierra Leone. Only when that
happens then we will know that our

sub-region is truly free, Ms. Tetteh
said.
The Ghanaian Foreign Minister,
on behalf of President Mahama,
extended appreciation to all the
health workers and volunteers from
the AU and ECOWAS who came to
assist in the containment of the virus
in the sub-region.
While acknowledging what has been
done, she also raised the issues of
what needs to be done; highlighting
the stringent measures placed on
Liberia. Those countries that up
until now have closed their borders
to Liberia, its time to open them.
Those countries that have stopped
their airlines from flying to Monrovia,
its time to resume the flights, she
urged adding that Liberia will not be
able to achieve the reconstruction if
this semi-isolation continues.
Senior Counsellor at the Nigerian
Embassy near Monrovia, Mrs.

Beatrice Archibong, speaking on
behalf of the President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck
Jonathan congratulated President
Sirleaf and the people of Liberia on
the end of the Ebola virus disease in
Liberia as declared by the WHO.
She assured that Nigeria remains
committed to assisting Liberia in its
rehabilitation and reconstruction
processes.
She warned that though Liberia
is celebrating the end of the virus
disease in Liberia, the sub-region is
not yet free from the virus since two of
the worse affected countries Guinea
and Sierra Leone still report cases
of the transmission. We implore all
West African countries to remain
vigilant and enhance surveillance not
only for the Ebola virus but also other
diseases that constitute public health
emergencies, she urged.
She commended the decision of the
AU to establish an African Centre
for Disease Control and Prevention
(ACDCP) in Nigeria and assured that
the Nigerian Government was ready
and willing to support this institution
and build capacities of health workers
within the sub-region.
She also praised the exemplary
leadership of President Sirleaf with
the support of international partners
that today the country is celebrating
this huge success in the fight against
Ebola and also sympathized with
the Liberian Government as well as
families that have lost loved ones
during the Ebola crisis.

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