Many hours earlier, the Liberian leader Ambassador George Manneh Weah had the unpleasant experience of his Presidential convoy making its way through the flooded Doe Community Road on the Bushrod Island close to the Freeport of Monrovia.
Residents of this slum settlement, which is adjacent to another slum community—Clara Town, had been making a series of appeals for government to come to their assistance by reconditioning the road.
But developments hours later would attest to the importance of President Weah’s visit to the area as it provided an eye-opener to the extent of the problem, for there is an old adage—“seeing is believing”.
And so this ride in the flooded the dilapidated and flooded road would pay off for the Doe Community residents later, as President Weah would demonstrate the kind of “action leader” he is gradually being seen as in getting things done.