President George Manneh Weah has disclosed that his administration has put in place some systems to audit the past government.
“We inherited a country with a broken economy. We don’t want to go back to complain saying previous government did this and did that, and this is why we have put some systems into place to audit those past government officials. On our list, we have to audit them to know what happened, because there are audit reports that are just sitting on the desks. I told the Justice Minister to go through that, and to fix or revive the economy, we have to put in all these measures,” the Liberian leader said.
He made the disclosure during his meeting with the “Council of Patriots”, organizers of the June 7 planned protest, vowing to leave no stone unturned in auditing past government officials.
The meeting, which took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Monrovia where the seat of the presidency is currently located, was attended by national and international stakeholders.
Prior to the President’s latest pronouncement, there had been persistent calls for the Coalition for Democratic Change-led government to audit past government officials, especially those who allegedly abused their offices and enriched themselves at the detriment of the Liberian people, many of whom are poor.
Recently, the organizers of the June 7 planned protest agreed to honor President Weah’s invitation extended them for a dialogue, but on condition that the media would be allowed to cover the entire meeting.
As part of their conditions to attend the meeting, the group requested that only the President, Vice President, Speaker of the House of Representatives, President Pro-Tempore of the Liberian Senate, the Minister of State for Presidential Affairs and the Minister of Justice should form part of the dialogue.
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