-‘CDC gov’t will not be Liberia’s largest employer’
By Augustine Octavius
Those expecting the incoming government of President-elect George Weah’s Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) to have a bloated public bureaucracy may well be disappointed, as the party over the weekend said it “will form a small but very efficient government.”
Since the CDC was declared victorious in the December 26, 2017 presidential runoff elections, party supporters and other job hunters have reportedly thronged the CDC’s headquarters in Monrovia’s Congo Town suburb to lobby for jobs in the incoming government.
Some are said to be literally camping out on the party’s compound late into the night with CVs and the like, as government has over the years served as the biggest employer in Liberia.
But the Chairman of the CDC, Nathaniel McGill told www.newspublictrust.com in Monrovia over the weekend that the CDC-led government will ensure that employment is created in the private sector where more people will be employed.
McGill added that the CDC will go down in history after more than 70 years that the private sector will be the highest employer in this country.
McGill maintained that the CDC-led government will also encourage farmers by buying their products for school feeding programs throughout the country.
The CDC National Chairman made it unequivocally clear that the government will ensure that “power will be invested in the people by decentralization of governance.”
He noted that the victory of the CDC is the first time in 73 years since the True Wing Party took over from the Republican Party in 1944.
According to him, the CDC has been given a clear mandate to reform the economy by ensuring that Liberians take custody of their wealth.
Commenting on the scramble for jobs, McGill said the rush for jobs by the different stakeholders will not bring split among the political parties that formed the CDC.
The CDC is a tripartite coalition bringing together Weah’s Congress for Democratic Change that first took part in the 2005 post-war elections, the former ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP) of ex-President Charles Taylor whose former wife (Jewel Howard-Taylor) is now Liberia’s first elected female Vice President and the LPDP of former House Speaker Alex Tyler.