MONROVIA – There seems to be a serious controversy over staffers’ pay at the Liberian legislature, specifically the Senate. In recent days, members of the legislative staff have been protesting against salary cuts. They accused the Senate of extorting money from them under the government’s salary harmonization scheme carried out by the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning. The Monday protest drew the attention of Vice President Jewel Howard Taylor who called on leaders of protesting staff for a meeting. There are no two different payrolls as far as I am concern, the payroll we are using is the payroll after harmonization.”

Source: Front Page Africa July 22, 2020 06:45 UTC