IPNews-Monrovia: Public Works Minister, Mobutu Viah Nyenpan, is expected to appear before the House of Representative tomorrow Thursday, September 5th, 2019, over continued bad roads condition across Liberia, especially Montserrado County.
The House of Representative, decision to cite Minister Mobutu Viah Nyenpan, on Thursday, September 5, 2019 at 11:00 a.m., follows continued reports of bad roads and damaged bridges in most rural parts of Liberia, mainly Montserrado County, Electoral District #1.
The House of Representative in its communication to Minister Nyenpan, required he come along with his principal deputies.
The decision by members of the House follows a communication from Montserrado County District #1 Representative, Lawrence Morris, over the refusal of Minister Nyenpan to repair roads and bridges in Crozierville, Havephaet, Boiny, Bensonville/Nyehn and Koon towns, after conducting assessment over seven months ago.
Ministry Nyenpan is also expected to clarify reports of alleged misappropriated US$27 million out of the US$48.0 million the government provided in the fiscal year 2018/2019, as insinuated by some segments of the media.
The US$27 million was allegedly the additional appropriation for infrastructural development, which should have formed the bedrock for sustainable economic growth and development.
It can be recalled that during the Joint Budget Committee of the House of Representatives and the Senate at the ongoing hearing on the draft national budget for FY 2019/2020, the Ministry of Public Works failed to account for US$27 million allotted for road construction and rehabilitation.
Thomas Fallah, Montserrado County Electoral District #5 Representative and chair of the Joint Committee, who appeared before members of the Committee on Monday, August 25, said it is “disappointing and embarrassing” for the Public Works Ministry, which heads the main pillar of the Pro-poor Agenda not to detail its expenditures.
