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US$695m Complex For Liberia
A delegation of the Make Group, a South Korean-based investment company specializing in Africa’s development, last week paid a courtesy call on President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Vice President Joseph N. Boakai with a pledge that they will invest US$695 million in the construction and development of a Millennium Village Complex. Read More -
LBS Ghanaian Employee Resigns
Mr. Isaac Laryee-Nii Tetteh, the Ghanaian Sales and Marketing Director of the Liberia Broadcasting System, who has been the subject of intense controversy between the workers and management has resigned following a request from the National Legislature. Read More -
Baccus Matthews’ Foundation Keeps Alive
A foundation named in memory of grassroots’ political conscious leader Gabriel Baccus Matthews will seek audience with heads of government agencies soon to inquire into their activities since President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf assumed power in 2006. Read More -
ECOBANK Sues LIBERCELL for U$3m Debt
Ecobank Liberia Wednesday ran out of patient and issued a lawsuit against the Managing Director of Atlantic Wireless Liberia Limited Azzam Sbaity for over U$3 million debt owed the bank a week after the GSM Company was accused by the Tax Court of owing government over U$1million. Read More -
Prayers For Tom
The St. Augustine Episcopal Church in Bardnesville Sunday had prayer services for the late Tom Kamara, veteran journalist and publisher of the New Democrat Newspaper who died at the St Luc University Hospital in Brussels on June 8, 2012 while en-route to Amsterdam, Holland for urgent medical treatment. Read More
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ECOBANK Sues LIBERCELL for U$3m Debt
US$695m Complex For Liberia
LBS Ghanaian Employee Resigns
Baccus Matthews’ Foundation Keeps Alive
Prayers For Tom
President Off To G8 Summit
LBS Boss Under Fire:Ordered To Account for US$350,000 & Dismiss Ghanaian Employee
Stop Collecting Bond Fees: Chief Justice Warns Magistrates
Peacekeepers Honoured
New Law Against Illicit Drugs
Land Secured For Ministerial Complex
Fire Back When Attacked:Commander Orders Nigerian UNMIL Troops
SG Dashes Ex-Soldiers’ Hopes:For US$48 million Benefits
EU Signs Agreement For Bee Health In Liberia
Ghanaian Firm Takes Over Liberian Company
Gov’t Blasts Global Witness
More Gay Woes Insight
Gold Prospects In Cape Mount
Wife Killer Guilty
National Archives Documents Financial Records
Mother Denies Killing Daughter
Liberia Battles ‘Demons’
Celebrating 10 Years of Peace
Liberia Wants Neighbors Boost Mining
Frontpage Slapped With US$1m Lawsuit
Liberia Suffers Governance Gap
Dangerous Ventures
Free Speech Campaigner
S/Korea To Build Industrial Complex
Putu Restores Hope
Thank You
US Billionaires to Invest in Liberia
Tom Never Died
PYJ Under Probe
Youths Warned
Bishop Francis Dies
Roads linking Gbapolu County to Monrovia and Lofa County are near impassable this rainy season due to the rut of lorries by a logging company known as BOGECO and the scrap dealer firm, VOTRACO, making the county inaccessible to residents visitors.
Transportation fares for basic commodities including rice, petroleum products, cooking oil have skyrocketed due to scarcity of commuter vehicles courageous enough to venture the deplorable roads.
Therefore, vehicle owners who brave the dilapidated roads are now exploiting the situation by heavily charging passengers and their loads.
“My man, what do you expect us to do? Yes, we are charging high because the road is not good. We stay hours on the road paying people to push our jeeps; so what do you expect…we have to overcharge. If you cannot go, you stay,” one commercial driver told New Democrat Saturday in Duala, Bushrod Island said.
Heavily built logging trucks plying the roads bear foreign license plates while their operators speak French with accents of Ivorian dialects, an angry Gbarpolu resident told this paper Saturday.
“These people are just after the money but don’t care about fixing the roads,” remarked one passenger while boarding a jeep headed for Gbarpolu to the county.
Eyewitnesses have expressed fears that if the situation is left unaddressed, the road connecting Gbarpolu County with Lofa County will soon be cut.
Residents of the county as well as leaders of the Federation of Road Transport Union of Liberia in the county have described the situation as alarming, and appealed to government for intervention.
Worst of all, several bridges linking the surrounding villages are damaged, making road networks impassible for farmers to easily sell their produce at nearby markets.
“All our farm products are spoiling every day because we cannot get to Bopolu to sell them,” elderly farmer Momo complained from Gbarpolu to this reporter in a telephone conversation.
Due to the deplorable road condition, transportation fare for a four-hour ride between Bopolu and Henry Town which formerly cost L$500 is now L$1800, according to Ansu S. M. Sherif, deputy secretary general of the FRTUL.
He said at least five vehicles get stuck on the road daily and locals charge L$1500 to L$2000 to remove each stuck vehicle.