The Government of Liberia has called on the Bureau Of State Owned Enterprises to investigate the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) and all other state owned enterprises over reports alleging that the LTA executives and others are receiving high salaries and benefits.
Speaking Tuesday, September 3, 2024 at the Ministry of Information regular press briefing, Deputy Minister for Technical Services Daniel O. Sando stressed that President Joseph Nyumah Boakai is concerned and has instructed the Bureau of State Owned Enterprises to review these reports and recommend to him appropriate measures, to ensure that there is fairness across all government institutions. He said President Boakai is committed to ensuring that no official of government takes home more than others, for a singular piece of work they do for the country.
According to him, as a government, they are not unmindful about the campaign promises they made seven months ago, as they came to rescue a country that was turned into chaos and backwardness.
However, Minister Sando said that the Government of Liberia has instituted no new salary structure across all government agencies, adding nobody has increased their pay; no new salary has been added to anybody as the government is still carrying on structural reforms across all sectors.
“We are not insensitive but have to tell Liberians that for these structural reforms to take shape and form, it is not an overnight process,” he said.
Meanwhile, he said the government is not going to be distracted from its initial platform of change on which it came to power, and there is no attempt that they are going to waver or walk back on their promises.
He said the investigation at the LTA will ensure that there is equality in benefits and salaries, as the current administration has not given anyone high salaries as being wrongfully spread by those who he classified as forces of the opposition and some members of the public.
Sando said the government is committed to make a change and they are not going to walk back on the wrong things, but said there is an attempt to make the government look bad like the past regime. Deputy Minister Sando said the government is making efforts and these individuals are terming it wrong because they do not share the same attributes. According to him, dignity has been restored in government entities since they took office, and they are going to change the narrative, not just by their words, but by their actions.
