President Joseph Nyuma Boakia, while addressing members of the legislature, key government officials earlier this year, named several completed as well as ongoing projects basically, including roads connectivity as core to development. He says those are things that remain the heart of his government ARREST agenda.
Boakai meanwhile, promised that his government intends to take a robust step going forward to ensure that the expectations of the 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 the government, and that the fight to liberate the nation from the snare of corruption goes on unabated.
He used the occasion to state how his government intends to refurbish all decayed public infrastructures in addition to the pavement of streets in major cities so as to give them renewed and amazing look since they were constructed through state funds.
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 across the country, which have lost beauty and this looking grotesque require rehabilitation.
There’re many, many delayed public buildings, which when made to go through renewal processes, will become useful public assets once again.
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.