…Minister Karnwea Warns ‘Economic Vampires’
Internal Affairs Minister Harrison Karnwea has sworn to fight corruption at the internal Affairs Minister. Mr. Karnwea promised when he took over the Ministry Wednesday that no economic vampire or corrupt official or person will be allowed an inch to siphon money or funnel into their personal accounts and uses any money intended for an item or project intended to meaningfully impact the lives of our people.
County Development Funds, Mr. Karnwea said, must and needs to be used for their intended purposes. “Anyone who touches any money or any thing not intended for you but for projects will be touched remorselessly by our leadership,” he warned.
“ To the staffers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs beginning with deputies to janitors or least persons in this ministry, let us inform you that true to our confirmation statement, under our leadership as Minister of Internal affairs of the Republic of Liberia, who need more from us,” Minister Karnwea warned.
Mr. Karnwea indicated that to show a sign of his seriousness to tackle the problem of corruption of corruption at the Ministry, “I have recommended to the president the immediate suspension without pay the Assistant Development Superintendent for River Gee County in person of Mr. Alexander Yeaher and have asked Mr. Yeaher to cooperate with and turn himself over to the County Attorney of Margibi County to answer to allegation levied against him by the Margibi County Administration’.
The Internal Affairs Minister further stated that doing so would ensure that the suspended Development Superintendent exonerate from the allegations levied against him by the County Administration of Montserrado County concerning a project in New Kru Town.
Stating that his leadership will reinforce vigorous monitoring and evaluation mechanism to ensure that monies spent commensurate with work done, he added that to this “… we will beef up and strengthen effective monitoring and evaluation machinery of the Ministry in order to achieve much in this limited time.”
He also warned against laziness and sluggishness on the job. “Let me also say quite clearly that lazy people who think that they will come to work and sleep on job instead of working will not be my friends and they need to rethink and readjust now and not later. Let me also say that those who will be given instructions and will not ensure that those instructions are executed should also rethink seriously,” the Superintendent added.
Superintendent Karnwea then thanked the Deputy Minister for Planning and Research of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mr. Peter Kamei, who he said has steered the ship of this Ministry during difficult period when Maryland and Lofa were in turmoil. We will work with you and all stakeholders to ensure that these matters are peacefully resolved.
Earlier, he started his expose’ by acknowledging that purpose of the gathering, which was to commemorate the official turning over of the mantle of authority to him to preside over the administration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
“We would love to use this opportunity to call on our partners who have been quite helpful in these challenging times to please redouble their efforts, put their assistance gear to an overdrive and ensure that those much needed assistances are made available and importantly aligned properly with our PRS deliverables,” he said saying he knows partners have been quite helpful and we believe that they are even prepared now to be even more helpful than ever before.
The turning over ceremony was graced by local chiefs, elders, zoes, traditional leaders among others, as the atmosphere was characterized by sounds of drums and traditional folksongs that filled the air the open of the vicinity of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Amidst the pomp and pageantry, the Senate Committee Chairman on Internal affairs, Nimba County Senator Adolphus Dolo implored the newly inducted Minister of Internal to take advantage of his experience as former Superintendent of Nimba County to unite the people of Nimba and Grand Gedeh Counties.
“If you are successful at reconciling the people of Nimba and Gedeh, your ministerial administration at the Internal Affairs would be most definitely successful in reconciling the people of the entire country,” Senator Dolo zealously exclaimed. The Nimba County Senator then challenge the Minister of Internal Affairs to raise high the cultural heritage and tradition of Liberians, which he added was gradually sinking to nothingness.
Speaking on behalf of the traditional governors of Liberia, the Dei Governor who chairs the Traditional Governor’s Association of Liberia decried the government’s down playing of traditional governors when it comes to decision making on internal affairs.
Dei Governor Blama Gaye said the Ellen Sirleaf Government was neglecting traditional governors while at the same time prioritizing the council of traditional chiefs and elders headed by Chief Zanzan Kawah, assuring the Minister of Internal Affairs that they were willing to work with the newly inducted Internal Affairs Administration of Minister Karnwea to bring to the country people the government so as to ensure that the ordinary traditional and country benefit from the government the necessary incentives befitting their welfare.
The traditional governors further assure the cooperation of governors and their people to help forge the development agenda of the government.
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