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President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf says she is disturbed by the premature closure of the US30 milliom African Development Aid (ADA), a private  mechanized rice project supported in Lofa County by the Libyan Government under now assassinated Moammar Gadhafi.

The project, which employed several hundred Liberians in Foya, was prematurely closed due to the uprising that led to the death of Libyan leader, Col. Gadhafi.

“It (the ADA Project) is something we ourselves are disturbed about,” President Sirleaf told citizens of Foya District in Lofa County on Tuesday.

“It disappointed us. We thought it was going to work but it failed,” she lamented.

Nevertheless, she revealed that Vice President

Joseph Boakai is trying to find another company to revive the project, but cautioned the citizens to be patient.

The scheme, she said, was supposed to be a “big project to produce enough rice that was to even feed the entire nation”.