By Kruah Thompson
Monrovia, January 29, 2026: The Authorities of Liberia is going through rising issue defending President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s declare that his administration has created 70,000 jobs, following widespread public skepticism from opposition figures.
President Boakai made the pronouncement throughout his State of the Nation Tackle (SONA) delivered on Monday, January 26, 2026, on the grounds of the Legislature. Since then, the assertion has triggered blended reactions throughout the political spectrum and amongst peculiar Liberians, a lot of whom argue that the fact of youth unemployment contradicts the president’s assertion.
Critics contend that seen financial situations, significantly amongst younger folks, don’t mirror largescale job creation.
They insist that unemployment stays widespread and that the federal government has failed to obviously display how the figures have been derived.
In response, authorities officers have argued that Liberia’s estimated inhabitants of 5 million makes the 70,000 determine comparatively modest and achievable.
The administration maintains that the roles have been created via a number of private and non-private sector interventions.
Over the previous a number of days, the federal government has tried to justify the declare by releasing knowledge on employment by sector and contributions from improvement companions. Nonetheless, opposition leaders stay unconvinced.
Amongst these disputing the declare are the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), led by former President George Manneh Weah, former Chief Justice and Liberty Occasion presidential commonplace bearer Cllr. Tiawan S. Gongloe, and different political actors, who’ve referred to as for better transparency and verifiable proof.
Days after the SONA, Info Minister Jerolinmik Matthew Piah appeared earlier than the press, spending practically an hour responding to questions.
He defined that the roles have been generated via initiatives of the Ministry of Youth and Sports activities, the Ministry of Public Works, and the personal sector, together with ArcelorMittal Liberia and Golden Veroleum Liberia, amongst others.
Nonetheless, controversy deepened on Wednesday when authorities official Mo Ali offered what he described as supporting documentation throughout an look on OK FM’s breakfast present.
Some residents and critics described the presentation as inconsistent with earlier explanations, additional fueling doubts in regards to the authorities’s credibility.
As debate intensifies, analysts say the administration faces mounting strain to publish an in depth, independently verifiable breakdown of the 70,000 jobs declare, as public confidence within the pronouncement continues to waver
