21/05/2022
Fellow CDCIANS. Haven completed our personal assessment of the burning issues that the masses consider fundamental to the acquisition of the votes in 2023, I must say that I rather express it here and lose my job, than to withhold it and lose the elections.
It is of no secret that as a government, we are doing well with the er****on of public infrastructures like roads, ports and energy. Our housing programs and major reforms that are ongoing in the educational sector and recent plans by the President to increase investment in electricity speaks to the fact that we are a listening government and that we are living up to the PRO-POOR TAG that we placed upon ourselves.
Since the President instructed all Senior Government Officials to be quiet and speak through results, most of them haven't taken this instructions and are very selfish to the masses!
Mr President, we will be bold to tell you that the problem we encountering right now are your executives! Completely forgotten the majority and behaving like bamboo worm, eating without looking back!
We are however constrained to speak on this subject because our key policy makers do not have the luxury of time to go to the communities and listen to what our people say to us every day.
Whether we like it or not, we could go down in history as a government that carried out massive infrastructural development but yet got beaten just after one term!!!
This is because we continue to underestimate the BREAD AND BUTTER issues in the country.
Colleagues, salary harmonization was a smart way to cut recurrent spending so as to invest in capital development. In fact, it helped our government repaired or restored it's lost financial credentials with International Financial Institutions like the World Bank and the IMF.
But said harmonization was not intended to take food from the table of already poor people.
I was fortunate to have ridden in a TAXI with a lady who swore repeatedly that she and her entire family will never reelect President Weah because his government reduced their household income, in the name of harmonization. The level of frustration in her face is the same level of bitterness that was expressed to me today when I spoke with employees of the Ministry of Information, who shocked me when they said that people in that Institution are earning as low as USD50.00.
Whether agree or not that the intellectual class of the country did not vote President Weah, their dominance of the entire Civil Service means that we are on our way to loosing massive votes, if we do not consider a relook at the whole harmonization process.
Folks, people are not happy. Liberians in my mind are more concerned about making their families happy with feeding and education.
We opted to say this in here because it is disloyal as a partisan of my stature not to take advantage of my closeness to power brokers.
We need to put smiles on the faces of our people by considering at least a 10% increment in the salaries of low income earners. People are not happy and we seem to be overlooking it.
President Doe was constructing several projects when he was brutally killed. President Tolbert was overthrown on the back of food business.
President Weah, Minister Tweah, this is our candid piece of advice!
