To fulfil the parlance, “No place is like home,” President Joseph N. Boakai over the weekend told Liberians residing in the diaspora to do massive investment in their country.
President Boakai made the disclosure during the farewell program of Diaspora Liberians, held at the Executive Mansion Parlor recently.
“Arrange investment, create opportunity; government cannot create all the jobs,” President Boakai told Liberians residing in the diaspora.
The program brought together Liberians from the United States of America, Australia, Europe, Africa, and so on, who have great interaction with the Government of Liberia (GOL) and others.
Courageously, the President said Liberia is on record of being the first country in Africa to introduce movie production, but Nigerians, Ghanaians, and so on, have overshadowed Liberia, due to inconsistency.
“We are pioneers in all of these things; Sierra Leoneans testified during the war where we were,” President Boakai stated. “Nigerian movies have over taken ‘Mala-Wala, Bala-Wala’”.
For more investment, the President told Diaspora Liberians to start moving to the next stage of development, noting that some of them already have foundations, educating people, have businesses, among others, here.
He quoted Russian President, Vladimar Putin, as saying. “Africans have all the engineers, but to build road they get to China; then why they have them for?”
However, the diaspora Liberians are getting recognition by the Government of Liberia (GOL) and others, according to Erasmus Williams, President of the Diaspora.
Williams revealed that since the organization was launched, it has made great progress, citing investment and health summit, peace and reconciliation dialogue; charity work which served over 500 children, and so on.
Restoring dignity to Liberia’s cultural heritage, Williams said 2025 December the cultural troupe was assigned at the Roberts International Airport welcoming guests that came during the festive season. He added that it will be done yearly.
For Diaspora Liberians voting, he said the National Election Commission (NEC) assured them that they will have the right to vote for the presidency only.
