Society-Politics-MCC Scorecard
GoL Welcomes MCC Scorecard, Vows To Increase Governance Credential
By Wilfred S. Gortor & Lloydson G. Flomo
MONROVIA, Nov.8 (LINA) – Having scored high on the scorecard of the Millenium Challenge Corporation (MCC) as indicated in the MCC 2024 report, the Government of Liberia has welcomed the report and promised to do more to impress by passing additional indicators in the coming year.
Information Minister Ledgerhood J. Rennie expressed optimism that the country will continue to make significant progress under the leadership of President George Manneh Weah as a means of responding and debunking the lies and negative propagandas being orchestrated by critics of the Weah regime.
Liberia, he said, is heading in the right direction under President Weah’s leadership, adding that the President remains committed to all the development promises he made to the people of Liberia.
Addressing a press conference in Monrovia Wednesday, Minister Rennie indicated that the results from the MCC scorecard brings to an end all of the naysaying about the direction in which Liberia is headed.
“Today, for us and the government of Liberia, represents a milestone, a day of reckoning, a day that has brought to an end for me and all of us in the government, all of the naysaying about the direction in which our country is heading”, Minister Rennie emphasized.
According to the Government spokesman, just the fact that Liberia is admitted to the program tells of the commitment of President Weah and his leadership to ensure that he brings meaningful developments and life changing systems to the people of Liberia.
Liberia passed 14 out of 20 indicators on the MCC scorecard as contained in the 2024 report released Tuesday by the MCC. This is the first time for the country to score high on the MCC scorecard; the last was in the 2023 report in which the Liberian Government passed 12 out of 20 indicators.
Commenting on the generality of the MCC report, Minister Rennie stated that over the last five years and even before President Weah could assume political office there has been this argument on whether he has the skills to lead the country.
However, the tough-talking Minister maintained that today that argument has been debunked, debased, decapitated, and rubbished as a result of the credential presented by the MCC scorecard.
The result, he said, also trashes the assertion by his critics that he (Pres. Weah) is leading the country in the wrong direction.
He also stated that the results show that President Weah “is capable of leading and leading in a positive and enviable way, that Liberia under his stewardship is going in the right direction and the future of our country and the young people therein and the poor of our poorest can now look up to the horizon and say their lives will be better.”
The MCC results, said Minister Rennie, highlights that through President Weah’s exemplary leadership Liberia is turning the corner from the dark years of misrule, economic deprivation, social decadents, and exclusion.
He said the MCC report did not come from the clear blue sky, adding, “you can see for yourself that the story has changed especially in the Rehab community where the standard-bearer of Unity party lives all the neighborhood roads have been paved adding that all the naysayer and warmongers want you to believe that the country is thrived on chaos”.
“Don’t mind them, don’t listen to them, you have every reason to hold your head high and say we are making progress, Liberia under the leadership of president Weah is in the positive direction”, we will continue to do more and make progress and our people will live a better life”, Minister Rennie noted.
The MCC Scorecards consist of a collection of 20 independent, third-party indicators that measure a country’s policy performance in the areas of economic freedom, ruling justly, and investing in people and that the FY24 scorecards included two changes to the education indicators related to the way MCC assesses a country’s commitment to strengthening its education system.
Of the 20 indicators, Liberia made a significant pass in 14, indicating a steady growth and progress in some major sectors such as Inflation Control, Control of Corruption, Rule of Law, Freedom of Information, Political Rights, Employment Opportunity, Trade Policy, Land Rights Access, Trade Policy, Fiscal Policy, Civil Rights, Health Expenditure, and Immunization Rates among others.
The Millennium Challenge Corporation is an independent U.S. government agency working to reduce global poverty through economic growth. Created in 2004, MCC provides time-limited grants and assistance to countries that meet rigorous standards for good governance, fighting corruption and respecting democratic rights.
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