Against the background that the country stands to benefit immensely from massive development when the citizens identify with the government, a prominent citizen of Grand Gedeh County and a top official in this dispensation has made a passionate call on his compatriots to put aside their differences by rallying their support around the administration of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai for the overall best of the county and its people, underscoring that there is an urgent need to change the development landscape of the county.
The call was made on Wednesday, January 29, 2025 by the Deputy Managing Director for Administration, Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC), T. Wilson Gaye, when he delivered the keynote address at the induction ceremony of the local chapter of the Liberia National Student Union (LINSU), where he told the student to transition from advocacy to a more engaging institution that will ensure a cordial and strategic partnership between the government and the larger student community.
Gaye told the citizens to soberly look inward and do a comparison between Grand Gedeh County, on the one hand, and her other counterparts of Bong, Nimba and Lofa counties, the three other counties that were given county status in 1964, on the other. He asserted that all indexes of development have revealed that the county is at the lowest ebb of the national development ladder, attributing most of the problems to the making of the citizens of the county, which they should work together to collectively correct.
“We cannot correct our legacy errors if we are not ready to leave our exclusive enclaves that only link us loosely with no purposeful direction. Indexes of development in the county are not encouraging as statistics show that there is a rising number of teenage pregnancy, high rate of kids dropping from schools, high number of youths in motorbike riding business, juvenile labor practices in gold mines, high rate of hunger and poverty, near non-existence of infrastructural development, etc.,” Gaye said.
Gaye, who assiduously work for the emergence of President Boakai during the 2023 general elections, said the new era has opened a new vista for the country to begin the rebuilding process, adding that in a relative short time Liberia has accelerated the pace of its acceptance in the international community as “the doors once closed to the country because of bad governance are beginning to re-open, signaling the era of national renewal”.
Enumerating some of the monument achievements made thus far, Gaye said, “The dignity of the civil service has been restored with the elimination of ghost names, which saved the country millions of dollars; there has been a decisive war against drug abuse; development partners have renewed their faith in the government with mind blowing assistance such as the recent qualification of Liberia for the MCC funding. There has been expanded road construction across the country, just as the country has witnessed significant electricity and water surplus across the country.”