The Consortium of Public Sector Workers (CPSWL) of Liberia has raised concern over the thirty thousand United State Dollars (US$30,000) being distributed to each lawmaker as Legislative Engagement Fund.
The Consortium comprising of the National Teachers’ Association of Liberia, the National Health Workers’ Union of Liberia, the Civil Servant Association of Liberia and the National Pensioners’ Union of Liberia in separate remarks recently lamented that it was disheartening for lawmakers to distribute such huge money among themselves when the nation is plagued with a perennial pandemic.
The Consortium stressed that while it acknowledged that the money being distributed is lawful as it was earlier budgeted for, the group maintained that it was troubled with the timing of such distribution amidst the ranging COVIC-19 pandemic when several Liberians and other residents are being killed by the disease; while local health centers are overwhelmed with patients struck by the disease.