Wants to also abolish “unnecessary by-elections”
Bong County Senator Dr. Henrique Tokpa has promised he will lobby with his colleagues and the Executive to create the Ministry of Higher and Technical Education with the sole responsibilities of managing and supervising higher and tertiary education in Liberia.
Sen. Tokpa, a seasoned Liberian academic and former president of Cuttington University, said the benefits for the creation of this institution will be huge because the traditional Ministry of Education will only supervise and manage early Childhood, Special Education, Teacher Training, primary and secondary education.
According to him, when created, the proposed Ministry of Higher and Technical Education will strive to separate the vocational and technical components of the Ministry of Youth and Sports from the Ministry of Education.
Bong County Senator, Dr. Henrique F. Tokpa
Heavily armed men, believed to be robbers, early Saturday morning, December 5, stormed the home of Bong County Senator, Dr. Henrique Flomo Tokpa, on the Duport Road in Paynesville. Senator Tokpa told reporters Saturday morning, that the men armed with AK-47 rifles, machetes, and other dangerous weapons, entered his residence in a pickup around 3:00 a.m., and forced their way into the house and put the house boy under gunpoint, asking about Dr. Tokpa’s whereabouts.
According to the Senator who is in Bong County, the house boy told the robbers that he (Lawmaker) was in Bong County for his annual legislative break.