The management of the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC) has launched a one-hundred-day action plan strategy with the World Bank Group in Monrovia.
The aim of the strategic plan is to revive, generate and review more revenue collection for the corporation.
The strategic plan was launched on Tuesday, December 7, with employees of the institution, including the World Bank Liberia Senior Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, Gerhardus Nicholas Albertus Soppe and LWSC Board Chairman, Bishop George D. Harris, all in attendance.
LWSC Managing Director, Duannah A. Kamara, in his welcome remarks cautioned employees that there’s no room for laziness, and if anyone is caught undermining the progress of the institution during this period to get him dismissed he will be the first to dismiss the individual.
Kamara said he believes that there is no time to shift blame but rather contribute to make the LWSC a vibrant institution.
He acknowledged scores of challenges his institution is faced with, and in order to revive and sustain the corporation they must get involved and be more robust in order to provide water across the country.
Kamara said, “Today is the great day in the history of the LWSC, we are trying to make the ultimate change in our hundred days’ action plan, so that this institution can be able to take care of itself. This is why we need the collective effort of every staff in this corporation.
“There are measures that we will be taking here, and it is immediate to ensuring that we change the atmosphere of this institution,” he stated.
He further told his partner and employees that they are starting a new regime to ensure that those in the field do their job freely and without any interference, and this is what the bank wants to see.
“We are also going to ensure that our water treatment plant pumps the water for us for 24/7. Before I get dismissed, you will be the first. So I’m appealing to all in this room, especially my workers, that the launch of this 100 days’ plan should be a change day for us. What happened yesterday is yesterday, let change water and sewer now!” LWSC boss said.
With zest, Kamara said, “We can do it without you. Yesterdayy is gone—they say go and sin no more. Yesterday is over; let’s create a new space, work for the institution. Let’s change it—our attitude, minds and the way we engage each other here.”
He added, “If we fail the hundred days’ action plan, it would not be good for us here, and that is why we will commit ourselves to the process so that we can succeed within this period.”
Making a brief remark, LWSC Board Chairman, Bishop George D. Harris, lauded the efforts of all employees, and admonished them to do more to meet a remarkable 100 days’ achievement in generating revenue for the corporation.
Bishop Harris further underscored that there are a number of positions that are temporary, and if they do the right thing it will determine their stay or relief.
For his part, World Bank Liberia Senior Water Supply and Sanitation Specialist, Gerhardus Nicholas Albertus Soppe, committed the bank’s full support to the management team of LWSC, but also made it clear that their support will only make sense if the LWSC proves them positive.
Meanwhile, the launch of the hundred days’ action plan strategy was marked by a signing ceremony between LWSC and one of her partners to keep the bole holes registration management.