By Lewis S. Teh
Monrovia, December 1, 2025: Finance and Improvement Planning Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan has introduced a 60 % enhance within the 2026 draft funds allotment for the Monrovia Consolidated Faculty System (MCSS).
The announcement was made right here in the course of the ninth Commencement Workout routines of Boatswain Junior & Senior Excessive Faculty on Bushrod Island, the place the minister delivered a keynote tackle emphasizing the administration’s dedication to structural enhancements and the well-being of scholars and academics.
In line with Minister Ngafuan, the elevated allocation will immediately goal long-standing infrastructure challenges throughout MCSS colleges.
“One of many major drivers of that enhance is a US$2 million allocation for renovation and refurbishing,” he informed attendees. “We have now additionally supplied funds to include volunteer academics into the MCSS system.”
He assured the varsity neighborhood that the extra cash could be used responsibly, noting that the Finance Ministry will work carefully with MCSS leaders to make sure “worth for cash” and “integrity within the building course of.”
Minister Ngafuan emphasised that the federal government’s dedication to schooling will proceed to develop yr after yr.
“This yr is best than final yr. Subsequent yr will likely be higher than this yr, and the yr after will likely be higher than subsequent yr,” he mentioned. “We is not going to reverse. We’re on the trail of progress, and we is not going to take again steps.”
The minister described the elevated schooling funding as a part of a broader nationwide dedication to improvement.
“This nation deserves improvement,” he declared. “And I can guarantee you, as a son of this soil, that God loves Liberia. From what I see, and from the sweat that we’re sweating, Liberia is transferring ahead.”
The commencement ceremony introduced collectively MCSS management, educators, mother and father, and neighborhood members who praised the federal government’s renewed deal with bettering public colleges.
Boatswain Senior Excessive Faculty Principal, Mr. Deeds. G. Peabody welcomed the information, calling the announcement a well timed increase for a system that has lengthy confronted useful resource constraints.
The Class of 2025 has ended their educational journey with cheers from household and pals, inspired by a message of progress and renewed funding within the instructional way forward for Liberia’s youth.
