Monrovia – Political Chief of the Liberian Folks’s Occasion (LPP), Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe, has urged President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s administration to transform an unused constructing initially meant to deal with a Housing Financial institution right into a government-run highschool for Central Monrovia.
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Gongloe stated the transfer would offer hundreds of youngsters within the metropolis’s business hub with entry to public secondary schooling, noting that Central Monrovia presently lacks a authorities highschool.
“There is no such thing as a authorities highschool in Central Monrovia,” Gongloe stated on Monday. “Essentially the most helpful method for the federal government to make use of this constructing is to place a faculty there.”
The constructing, situated on Ashmun Avenue reverse the Liberia Nationwide Hearth Service headquarters and adjoining to the Common Auditing Fee (GAC), was constructed with public funds however was by no means used for its meant objective.
It’s presently occupied by displaced individuals, utilized by marketeers to retailer items, and intermittently utilized by the Monrovia Metropolis Police. Gongloe stated the federal government ought to reclaim and repurpose the power for schooling, citing the pressing want for public secondary colleges within the space.
“The folks’s cash was used to assemble this constructing,” he stated. “The very best use of it’s to place a authorities college there so poor folks’s kids can have entry to schooling.”
Gongloe additionally referenced the historic Monrovia Central Excessive College, which was first opened throughout the administration of President William R. Tolbert as Charlotte Tolbert Excessive College, and known as for its revival.
“There’s a college on the books known as Monrovia Central Excessive College,” Gongloe stated. “I’m calling on the federal government to re-open it and put it right here. This constructing can maintain hundreds of poor folks’s kids.”
He famous that personal establishments such because the School of West Africa (CWA), B.W. Harris Episcopal, Cathedral Catholic, St. Teresa’s Convent, and SDA colleges presently dominate secondary schooling in Central Monrovia. Tubman Excessive College in Sinkor, he added, stays the one government-run highschool within the larger Monrovia space.
“G.W.A. Gibson shouldn’t be a highschool—it’s an elementary college opened in 1968,” Gongloe stated. “Newport College is a junior highschool. The one authorities highschool in Monrovia, together with Sinkor, is Tubman. There’s none in Central Monrovia.”
Gongloe stated the imbalance underscores the urgency of his proposal and known as on Liberians to help the initiative.
“That’s what the federal government ought to do,” he stated. “That’s one of the best ways of utilizing this constructing. I ask all Liberians to help me in placing a authorities highschool on this constructing.”
