Monrovia — Intense, high-level deliberations are underway at the Executive Mansion as President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. weighs whether to veto—again—the re-enacted Liberia Sea and Inland Ports Regulatory Act, exposing a sharp divide within his inner circle and placing the administration in a state of political and legal ambivalence. Oswald Tweh, has again advised President Boakai to reject the bill, maintaining that lawmakers failed to cure the defects outlined in the President’s original veto message. What’s at StakeThe disputed legislation comprises two interrelated measures: the Liberia Sea and Inland Ports Regulatory Authority Act of 2025 and the Liberia Sea and Inland Ports Decentralization and Modernization Act of 2025. Tweh warned that the Regulatory Authority Act departs sharply from domestic governance norms and international best practices by concentrating regulatory, oversight, and operational functions within a single institution—an arrangement he said undermines regulatory independence and creates inherent conflicts of interest. For now, the re-enacted ports law has left the Boakai administration squarely in ambivalence, with implications that reach far beyond Liberia’s docks and harbors.

Source: Front Page Africa January 20, 2026 19:10 UTC