The aggrieved workers recalled that on March 1 this year, Youth and Sports Minister Zoegar Wilson pronounced the immediate closure of the project through “without any written acknowledgement to the workforce”. According to the slum dwellers, the delay in the payment of their salary arrears runs contrary to the pro-poor agenda of President Weah. Speaking in an interview with FrontPageAfrica at his office in Paynesville, outside Monrovia, Minister Wilson admitted that government remains indebted to the aggrieved workers. “There are more to just the 21 months that what the committee we set up is investigating. He, however, urged the aggrieved workers not to stage any peaceful assembly in the country because the move is intended to satisfy the “personal motives” of some of their suspended leaders.

Source: Front Page Africa June 11, 2020 00:11 UTC