Monrovia – Finance and Development Planning Minister Samuel Tweah, has threatened to find another commission to conduct the pending senatorial by-elections if the National Elections Commission (NEC) is incapable of conducting the by-elections with US$1.5 million. He also slammed the US$1.5 million being imposed by the Finance Minister, noting that it would only be possible if government partners help meaningfully. "This is strange that we have written the Finance Minister and he hasn’t even given us the courtesy of acknowledgement,” the Elections Commission Chairman said. According to the National Elections Commission, Bong and Montserrado Counties constitute about 45 percent of the country’s voting population. In the 2017 presidential elections, President Weah attained 314,594 votes representing 62.9 percent of the valid votes in the elections.

Source: Front Page Africa March 22, 2018 00:56 UTC