US to provide $17m for Liberia election

  1. Posted on Sunday 16 August 2009 - 15:30
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    Henry Flomo, AfricaNews reporter in Monrovia, Liberia
    US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has called on lawmakers in Liberia to enact laws to fight against corruption. She said the fight against corruption cannot be won in the absence of regulatory framework that would hold people accountable and bring them to book.
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    Clinton also urged the Lawmakers to put into place an electoral system that will ensure free, fair and democratic elections in 2011. She said due to America’s interest in the pending elections of 2011, the US will provide US$17.5m.

    Clinton is on a tour of Africa which commenced in east Africa. She is currently on the last leg of her tour to the island country of Cape verde having left Liberia Thursday night following a four-hour official visit.

    She also met with Liberian leader Ellen Sirleaf and visited the Police Academy in Paynesville outside the capital Monrovia were she inspected the newly formed special unit of the Liberia National police- Emergency Response Unit (ERU). Is said that the US provided US$5m for the training of t he Unit.

    A row had erupted over the US Monrovia Embassy’s decision to restrict coverage of Madam Clinton’s visit. Some media houses protested over the Embassy release that said only two local journalists would be allowed to ask questions, and that the questions would be subject to screening by the presidential secretary, Cyrus Badio.

    A leading local daily New Democrat protested by boycotting the event. Civil Society Organizations were also excluded from the program probably due to their plan to present a position statement to Madam Clinton in favor of the Liberia Truth Commission report which calls for, among others, the debarment of president Sirleaf for 30 years from public office and the prosecution of former warlords.

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