On balance, the current situation is better than the last situation,” Minister Ngafuan said. Liberia’s Finance Minister added: “I’m not telling you that if you go somewhere you would not see challenges, those are legacy issues.”In response to the Finance Minister’s assertion, many Liberians who spoke toFrontPage Africa (FPA) said the statement from the Finance Minister does not suit current day-to-day reality. According to them, the astronomical decrease of the exchange rate while prices of commodities are still skyrocketing is something unbearable. At his home, in the Township of West Point, he told FPA that the statement from the Finance Minister is a highly political statement in nature without the empirical evidence. Mamligar told FPA that the Finance Minister’s assertions about the current state of Liberia’s economy are not true.

Source: Front Page Africa November 22, 2024 20:15 UTC