The Executive Director of the Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) has congratulated President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on what he called positive actions taken to rebuild the international image of Liberia but said the Liberian leader must focus more on the domestic front.
observed that Liberians are still experiencing excruciating hardship underpinned by massive unemployment thereby making living condition unbearable for ordinary citizens.
Cllr. To wants government place more emphasis on the agricultural sector to improve the Liberian economy, noting that Liberians are in a state of hopelessness as a result of the high rate of unemployment and high cost of living.
“Liberians are living at the mercy of greedy business men and women who are behaving as vampires prepared to suck the last drop of blood from every Liberian and resident in our country”, he said.
Cllr. Toe’s comments were contained in the JPC’s annual situation report on Liberia which was recently released at a news conference held in Monrovia.
Cllr. Toe said the situation report is to alert government, the Liberian people and other state actors on issues that affects the lives of the Liberian people during the period under review and; “in areas we may have fallen short of our respective expectations with the view to make amendments or improvements where necessary”.
He noted that as a tradition and consistent with its institutional mandate, the JPC at the end of every year, gives what the group calls analytical and objective summary report on the general state of affairs of the country and its people, including but not limited to politics, economics, human rights, security, social, military and press freedom amongst others.
The JPC Director said the Ministry of Commerce seems to be a non functional institution when it comes to price control, something that exacerbates the citizens’ woe.
