Because that highway leading to Liberia’s central, northwestern and southeastern interior was so deplorable that motorists had to snail over very bad roads. We had carried a front page caption story entitled “Bad, Bad, Bad Road,” showing the photograph of two trucks stuck in the mud facing each other on the same side of the road near Kolahun, Lofa County. “You are coming to Greenville to see all those bad roads you’ve been writing about!” the President told the publisher. See how the Observer publisher almost lost his life because of the newspaper’s relentless writing about Liberia’s bad roads. We urge you once again to take seriously this appeal for constant, effective and sustained highway patrol to curtail reckless driving and save lives and property.

Source: Daily Observer February 27, 2017 01:52 UTC