By: Peter Dennis
dennisrealone@gmail.com

IPNews-Monrovia: Scores of citizens of Gbarpolu County have extended commendations to Sen. Armah Z. Jallah for his developmental initiatives in the county.

The citizens named road connectivity, several donations, Infrastructure, scholarships, provision of village saving loans, provision of rice mill machines across the county, among others as initiatives undertaken by the Gbarpolu County senator.

According to the citizens, Gbarpolu being an embryonic county with so much developmental needs, it was important for the senator to consider the issue of road connectivity as a priority.

The citizens pointed out the annual reconditioning of the Sawmill to Compusue, the building of a long stretch road from Mulbahta to Nyenforta; reconditioning of road from White flowers town to Sando Village, and the building of a fifteen kilometer road from White Flowers town to Gbalasuah among others, as roads that are providing entries to the county.

Also speaking to our correspondent, the citizens named the donation of rice mills, generators, provision of micro loans in Bopolu district; donation of rice mills to Gbayama town along with 5kva generator and the empowerment of women as initiatives the senator should be commended for.

Counting on the senator’s involvement in infrastructure development, the citizens named the construction of an elementary school that is currently operating in Sawmill, the construction of additional 12 classroom school between Tawallata and Gbaleta and the construction of a modern town hall in Henry’s town as facilities that are providing relief to them in the county.

Commenting on the senator’s quest for women empowerment, the citizens mentioned that in 2013, Sen. Armah Zulu Jallah provided Micro finance in the sum of one million to women in Beatoe, Zuo, Gbarma vaye town, Parker’s town, Maboi town and many others, a gesture that they are still benefiting.

“Sen. Jallah in 2016 and 2018, donated rice mills to Yarngaya and Dewah clan, to ease the tension of processing rice in these areas. In 2017, Sen. Jallah constructed a road from former VP farm to Macca town in Gbarma district and also rehabilitated Gbinie village to Yarngaya road” they told this paper.

The citizens told an Independent Probe survey in the county that Senator Dr. Armah Zulu Jallah in 2012 donated a Radio transmitter that cost (11,000 USD) to Gbarma district for use by Radio Kongba.

Investigation conducted by our correspondent has established that the former President Pro Tempore of the Liberian Senate has the largest private investment in the county that is providing job opportunities for nearly 600 citizens of the county.

According to them, the senator has a rubber farm that is providing job for over 150 workers; a palm farm that is providing jobs for over 400 workers; a two hundred bed room hotel in Bopolu City that has over 100 workers; a water factory that has over 20 workers; and a radio station that is providing job for over 10 persons, among others.

The citizens believe these different developmental undertakings of Senator Jallah can’t go unnoticed adding that it has already paved his way for his second term senatorial bid comes December 8.

Gbarpolu County has three electoral districts (Bopolu, Gouwolalai, and Gbarma), with six administrative districts (Bopolu, Gouwolalai, Gbarma, Kongba, Bokomu and Belle).

Gbarpolu is a county created in 2001 from the territory previously known as Lower Lofa County.

The county is one of the newest of Liberia’s fifteen political sub-divisions. The Seat, Bopolu City is famous as the home and final resting place of King Sao Boso of the kingdom of Suehn-Bopolu, who resolved the conflict between the settlers of the Mississippi Colonization Society and the natives paving the way for their co-existence in the coastal areas.

Prior to the creation of Gbarpolu as a county, Armah Jallah was a politician and member of the National Patriotic Party (NPP) in lower Lofa County.

He contested and replaced Cllr. Eddington Varmah as Senator of Lower Lofa in a by-election where he won by about 70%.

The creation of Gbarpolu was the result of a pledge he made in the by-election to replace Eddington Varmah.
Senator Armah Z. Jallah is an advocate of social Justice.

He specifically opposed the Strategic Commodity Bill intended to nationalize all private rights in the country and the new Forestry reform Law of Liberia, intended to expropriate private property rights to logging companies.

He also supported the bill for the establishment of a National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) intended to bring experienced personnel into the security sector of the country. Senator Armah Z.

Jallah advocated for reform to the act creating the National Commission on Human Rights to conform to international standards, and advocated for a small regulatory government with a large market economy.