IPNews-Capitol Hill: The House’s Committee on Ways, Means, Finance and Development Planning of the Liberian Legislature, has setup an ad-hoc Committee to further probe the Ministry of Public Works unaccounted for US$27 Million.

The unaccounted for US$27Million, is part of a US$40Million allotted to the Ministry of Public Works during the fiscal budget of 2018/2019, National Budget which ended June 2019.

It may be recorded, Deputy Minister for Administration at the Ministry of Public Works, Joseph Todd, during his appearance before the Joint Committee of the Legislature, on Monday, could not clearly justify the expenditure of the alleged missing US$27million.

Ironically, Deputy Minister Todd, pleaded with members of the Joint Committee to allot an additional US$29million in the forthcoming Fiscal National Budget of 2019-2020, for road construction.

The Joint Committee Chairman, Thomas Fallah, expressed serious dissatisfaction over Minister Todd’s failure to adequately defend previous budgets of the Public Works which is now sending a very negative signal.

It may be recorded, the National Legislature allotted US$40million dollars to the Ministry for Public Works for the construction of a 48 kilometer road across the country.

With this renew report of another missing 27 million amidst condemnation by Liberians and its international partners on previous missing monies, political observers foresee an imminent international economic sanction of Liberia, which will drastically hurt a struggling economy.

Already, Civil Servants are continuing their lamentation over recent salary cuts which send sharp waves of protest from government employees, including Bomi County Edwin Melvin Snowe, calling on the government to put an immediate stop to its so-called harmonization exercise.

Representative Snowe, warned that there was huge consequences if the government did not ahead to the warning, stressing that the government needed to cut down its travel expenses rather than Civil Servants Salary.