By: Julius Konton
The lack of sustaining and maintaining key government projects continues to be a huge challenge for the country.
Despite the government’s support to fund these projects, the failure to sustain and maintain them appears to be a waste of tax payer’s resources.
As the challenge still exists, the need to have such address can’t be overemphasized.
Well, one of the many abandoned projects currently lying in ruins is the Mary’s Broh Monrovia City Beautification project.
The project following its inauguration years ago gave Monrovia City a new and beautiful look with the planting of trees, which helped give the green City a befitting look few years ago.
The project also saw a well design fence colored, Red ,White and Blue in the middle of Monrovia City as the citizens then admired and hailed madam Broh and former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for said meaningful project.
Segment of the fence side, especially the ones facing the main road, is expected to be used as an advertisement site in the city, but it is now useless due to the abandonment of the project or infrastructure.
However and due to abandonment and the lack of maintenance, the project is now history.
Currently, the colors of the former nice fence have faded, while the fence is broken into.
The project is now the home to insane people, while the nice green trees and level grass now appeared to be a mini forest in the center City of Monrovia.
It’s very embarrassing, as the entire project lying in ruins now looks like a dumpsite and a refuge center for At Risk Youth commonly know as Zogos at night.
So disturbing , passers- by are normally seen running with speed to move past the area ,holding their noses due to the bad oder as a result of the huge stockpile of dirt.
The condition of the current abandoned and neglected project is alarming and a cause for concern.
According to some concern citizens, they used the ocassion to call on the Monrovia City Corporation to see the need to make timely and urgent intervention in order to bring back and restore the beautiful image of the city of Monrovia.
