IPNews-Monrovia: Grand Bassa Senator Nyonblee Karnga Lawrence has questioned statement made by President George Manneh Weah, in his third Annual Message that the government received several loans and grants, during the year under review.

Senator Karnga-Lawrence stated minutes after the president nearly two hours address, that she’s yet to remember these loans and Grants forming part of the draft national budget of 2019/2020.

The Chair of the Senate Committee on Rules, Order and Administration says she takes exception to President George Manneh Weah’s assertion that his government has received several loans and grants.

“I am the co-chairperson on Appropriation, Ways, Means and Finance of the Liberian Senate; the President spoke about several loans and grants, and I don’t recall those loans and grants coming through the Liberian budget, and I think investigation is needed to know how those appropriations were made,” “Liberty Party will react to the President’s message starting today, “But I just decided to stress those key points, because when it comes to the state of our economy there are still lapses that we need to look at.” Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence stated

It may be recalled, the Chairman of the ruling Coalition for Democratic Change-CDC, Molubah K. Morlu, stated in a leaked recording that ‘usually president Weah seeks international good will from international friends and pocket them as personal gift to him.

Even though, president Weah has since rubbished such claims, terming Molubah Morlu’s comments as ‘drunk talk’, there remains uncertainties on the authenticity of Chairman Morlu’s leaked recording.

Another critic of president George M. Weah, For his part, Montserrado County Senator Abraham Darius Dillon, commenting on the President’s Annual Massage to the 3rd Session of the 54th Legislature, said he was more concerned about the serious seeming shortage of petroleum products on the market, and the emerging report of a new virus known as “coronavirus”, which is fast spreading globally.

Touching on the President’s reconciliatory message during yesterday’s address, Senator Dillon stressed that in order to display honesty and sincerity as a true reconciler, the President must first reconcile with his Vice President, Jewel Howard Taylor, who attended yesterday’s annual message program, arriving in a very limited vehicle convoy.