On Monday, January 26, 2026 President Joseph Nyuma Boakia delivered a one- hour twenty-five minutes State of the Nation Address (SONA) before members of the legislature, key government officials and a number of representatives from the diplomatic circle, consistent with constitutional requirement.
In his address the president named several completed, as well ongoing projects basically, including roads connectivity, which remains the heart of his government’s ARREST agenda, and promised to that his government intends to take a robust step going forward to ensure that the expectations of the Liberian people are met.
He told the Liberian people that the interest of the state and people as opposed to the interest of a few greedy individuals is the focus of his government, and that the fight to liberate the nation from the snare of corruption goes on unabated.
He used the occasion to state that his government’s intention of refurbishing all decayed public infrastructures across the country is in addition to the pavement of streets in big cities.
This is to give them renewed and kempt look since they were constructed through state funds; not by any individual(s).
Such determination is highly commendable, because it obviously shows that the forgotten are being, not only remembered, but they’re to be made brand new, admirable and desirable for public use once again.
This move will certainly represent the dignity and beauty of the state.
Indeed, buildings such as the Hotel Africa, True Whig Party building, Ducor Hotel and many others, which have lost beauty; looking grotesque require rehabilitation.
There are many, many delayed public buildings, which when made to go through renewal processes, will become useful public assets once again without any individual forcefully taking the credit.
This proves a mark of wisdom. This marks a point of maturity. Maturity in general is to make old things new and useful given that these public buildings that lay in ruins were built through the instrumentality of past administrations.
By renewing and giving them amazing faces, equally means rescuing the legacies of those who constructed them and rewriting their names in history.