By Martin K. N. Kollie |In this second edition of our series “The Red Rooster from Ducor”, we are spotlighting:Foreign Missions and Embassies of Liberia The arbitrary arrest and despotic imprisonment of Central Bank employee Alfred Cheeks. What have we got as a nation and people for spending millions on all these foreign missions and embassies? This is a budgetary summary for fiscal year 2017-2018:Permanent Mission, United Nations – US$322,412 Liberian Embassy, Washington DC – US$328,772 Consulate General, New York – US$230,892 Liberian Embassy, Paris – US$265,289 Liberian Embassy, Brussels – US$205,728 Liberian Embassy, London – US$244,720 Liberian Embassy, Rome – US$138,540 Liberian Embassy, Berlin – US$223,461 Liberian Embassy, Beijing – US$248,628 Liberian Embassy, Tokyo – US$348,672 Liberian Embassy, Rabat – US$131,808 Liberian Embassy, Tripoli – US$36,960 Liberian Embassy, Cairo – US$138,036 Liberian Embassy, Addis Ababa – US$186,720 Liberian Embassy, Pretoria – US$140,640 Liberian Embassy, Abuja – US$184,272 Liberian Embassy, Accra – US$130,776 Liberian Embassy, Abidjan – US$160,760 Liberian Embassy, Conakry – US$134,772 Consulate General, N’Zerek – US$67,764 Liberian Embassy, Freetown – US$135,084 Liberian Embassy, Dakar – US$137,580 Liberian Embassy, Yaoundé – US$87,004 Liberian Embassy, Kuwait – US$69,984 Liberian Embassy, Qatar – US$105,027 Liberian Embassy, Geneva – US$90,142 Liberian Embassy, Brazil – US$94,140 Total: US$4,588,547The total amount stated above is excluding donors’ funding/support. The ‘Right to Know’ and have ‘access to public information’ is inescapably essential to ensuring public accountability, integrity, trustworthiness, openness and transparency. The sustainability of democracy and peace is anchored to the right to access public information, especially information on public finances and assets.

Source: GNN Liberia March 07, 2018 07:41 UTC