Ramsey N. Singbeh, Jr
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Residents of districts 4 and 5 in Margibi County are seriously challenged with strenuous living conditions as they decry the situation.
Some of them also made recommendations to the government through the superintendent, hoping their issues are resolved.
The upper Margibi Residents including local chiefs, teachers, students school administrators, health workers, community watch forum members, youths, women, elders and others from Weala, so many different towns and villages in the two districts made their cases at the Weala Public School over the weekend during a called meeting by the Cinta Township Commissioner, Samuel Ketteh.
The meeting was also attended by the Margibi County Administration represented by superintendent O Jay Morris, Jr., county administrative officer, Samu Togea Gaywea and county development officer, B. Lewis N. Kaine.
Others are the immediate past commissioner of Cinta, Roland Sackie Johnson, clan chiefs, general chiefs, and many others in attendance.
Cinta Township is geographically situated in both Margibi County Districts 4 and 5 where a majority of the meeting attendants came from.
The meeting was mainly organized for Supt Morris and his deputies to hear from the houses’ own mouth regarding the issues confronting them, which they have also been channeling through the office of commissioner Ketteh.
Key amongst the issues they lamented are teaching at public school without salary, lack of schools in many of their regions, the absence of dependable health facilities in some of the most populated areas, inaccessibility to safe drinking water in many of their towns and villages, lack of road connectivity, deficiency of jobs, and empowerment amongst others.
Mrs. Hawa Kiango Kamara, resident of Weala said they do not have anywhere favorable to meet and discuss as a people. According to her, the town hall project initiated by former President Weah is incomplete and needs completion.
Madam Kamara expressed fear that something may go wrong with that building if nothing is done now and also noted that, “The boys them already na start like doing scraping.”
In addition, she disclosed that she met a senator from the county and told him about the situation regarding the project.
“So I am appealing to our superintendent for your to please look that direction because if that place was favorable for us, I don’t think we will come all the way here, we will just stop there,” she maintained.
She then recommended the completion of the project in order to benefit the residents of Weala.
Joe Kortuma of another town known as Cinta stressed the need for teachers for the Cinta Public School, something he said the Ministry of Education or MOE is informed about as they look up to a solution.
Another thing he emphasized has to do with the legitimacy of the land that the school occupies. According to him, during Mr. William B. S. Julye’s tenure as commissioner of Cinta, the land was surveyed, with the document being kept by the former commissioner but government up to presence requests a document for the school land before any development is carried on at the school.
He pleaded with the superintendent to help them in the resolving the issue to give them relief.
A resident of Section #:4 Upper Wiah Clan in district #:4, George Vakalah Siaffa asserted that he believes that part of the county is not on the map of Margibi because there is nothing about benefit and development from government that they know of as a people.
He complained that during elections, they normally leave their towns and villages to travel far distances waking for hours and some times getting in car to go to Bullorquelleh, Sections 3 & 2, and many other places to vote.
He said they have no pulling center in their area despite their high voting population.
The issues about school, health center, safe drinking water, road connectivity and many other things are all nightmares for them, he narrated.
As a result, they have decided not to form a part of any voting process until a voting center is established in their area and developments are also carried there.
A man claiming to be be one of the volunteer teachers of the Weala Public School or WPS, Amos K. Mulbah explained that they are about eleven teachers who have been volunteering for three years without pay.
He stated that they were engaged by the administration of WPS due to the lack of teachers to teach.
He says he has an ‘A’ Certificate from LICOSESS and a ‘C’ Certificate from the KRTTI and he teaches Math and Science from the 3rd grade to 6th grade classes in the school.
He called on the Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Education or MOE to put them on payroll to enable them take care of their family.
Wiah Clan Chief, Musu Yango said for about so many years ago, a clinic project was implemented during former Representative Ben A. Fofana ‘s who is the National Vice Chair For Governmental Affairs and International Relations of the Unity Party or UP leadership but the building has never been opened and used for its intended purpose, it remains closed up to now as it is already getting very dilapidated.
In response, Margibi Superintendent, O Jay Morris, Jr assured of his leadership’s commitment to forward their issues to the offices of the minister of Internal Affairs and President Joseph Nyumah Boakai.
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