Liberia: In Midst of Ebola, Lawmakers Eye U.S.$25m Million Oil Cash

Nov 24, 2014 | allAfrica
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Under the draft Legislative budget 2014/2015, Lawmakers, knowing fully-well that appropriations were already allotted for institutions within the national budget, went ahead and re-appropriated the US$25 million to be realized from oil blocks sale signature fees to those same institutions, a FrontPageAfrica analysis of the budget has revealed

Monrovia - Whatever lessons on fiscal commonsense that the Ebola crisis may have taught Liberians, in the face of a hyper-declining Gross National Product and an increased deficit spurred mainly by the Ebola Virus Disease, seem completely lost on national government.