-A new NAYMOTE report out: “Good start” for some Lawmakers in fulfilling campaign promises, defaulting
By William Selmah,wselmah@gmail.com
The National Youth Movement for Transparent Elections (NAYMOTE) has released its latest report under its Legislative Accountability Project, focusing on the scale at which lawmakers are making good or reneging on campaign promises made during the 2017 elections.
The report, titled: Legislative Accountability—promises made, promises kept, captures only 12 members of the legislature.
“The Legislative Accountability Project is an independent monitoring and tracking tool that enables civil society actors and voters to evaluate the implementation of campaign promises made by elected lawmakers. The report focuses on actions taken from January 2018-January 2019 on promises made by 12 lawmakers (out of 73 lawmakers) during the 2017 legislative election,” the NAYMOTE report says.
Of the 97 promises made, the report says only 10 have so far been completed, with 66 ongoing, nine yet to start and no information on the status of 12 others.
Lawmakers tracked in this report are those representing districts in their project location.
They include Bong County Representatives Prince K. Moye, , Moima Briggs Mensah and Robert F. Womba. Others are Montserrado County Representatives Dixon W. Seboe, Richard N. Koon, Samuel R. Enders and Rustonlyn S. Dennis.
Lawmakers also covered in the Survey are Representatives Dorwohn T. Gleekia, Roger S.W. Y. Domah and Larry Youngquoi of Nimba County, Alexander Poure from Rivergee County and Zoe E. Pennue from Grand Gedeh County.
NAYMOTE noted in its report that the relative progress made by the 12 lawmakers in just one year is a good start.
According to the report, the highest performing lawmaker is Representaive Moima Briggs Mensah, who has so far completes 4 out of 12 r mandate.
The Legislative Accountability Project (LAP), like the President Meter Project, is being used in Liberia for the first time to identify, track, document and rate progress made in the implementation of campaign promises made by elected officials, according to NAYMOTE.