Madam Cooper maintained that government has a responsibility of ensuring that the business climate in Liberia is more “investment friendly”. Red gatesMadam Cooper claimed that too many “red tapes” are being created in the country, to prevent foreign investors from doing businesses in Liberia. According to her, the situation has compelled most foreign investors to neglect Liberia and go to neighboring countries, including Guinea, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Ghana to do their businesses. “Corruption is too much; the lack of trust in a lot of people that are currently holding positions-a lot of them cannot be trusted; they don’t understand how to deal with foreign investors and so, foreign investors just do not want to deal with them. They (foreign investors) go to other countries across the region.
