PHOTO; Gbarnga Mayoress Lucia Herbert and a Gbarnga street
By Emmanuel Mafelah, mafelahemmanuel29@gmail.com
BONG, Liberia- The Gbarnga City Corporation (GCC) with support from the United State Agency for International Development (USAID) have lunched a project under the title “Clean City, Healthy People” campaign in Bong County, aimed at giving Gbarnga City a facelift.
Speaking to journalists in Gbarnga recently about the project, City Mayor Lucia Herbert disclosed that the project seeks to revise the 1972 City Ordinance to help develop the City.
As a result of the project according to her, the GCC has revised the City Ordinance in order to better the lives of residents and to also enable dwellers know their rights and responsibilities as business people, as well as ensure that they pay fees on time for the services offered by GCC.
Moreover, Madam Herbert said that the GCC said has revised its city laws, something she believe have changed for the good of all people in Gbarnga.
She said: “The laws since 1972 have not changed, so every fees you used to pay has changed.
This means all clinics, companies, schools, gas stations, hotels, banks, funeral homes, motorbike dealers, radio stations, stores, beauty salons and many more will begin paying the new fees”.
Meanwhile, Madam Herbert is urging Gbarnga City dwellers to take advantage of her office and begin paying the new required city fees.
According to the GCC boss, all clinics, insurance companies, GSM Companies, gas stations, the Liberia Marketing Association (LMA), funeral homes in the city will pay yearly municipal fees as required by the new ordinance.
“Every city in the world is guarded by laws. The big cities and the small ones have rules and these laws are called, ‘city ordinances’. These are the laws everyone in the city is guarded by,” the release explained.
She then commended President George M. Weah for the confident reposed in her in order to help the CDC led government achieve its Pro-poor Agenda for Prosperity and Development.
She at the same time reaffirmed her commitment in giving a befitting face despite the many challenges facing the institution.