Episode 2 District 9 Citizens Express Frustration Amidst Ebola Outbreak-Rep. Youngblood deserts District for Permanent Residence Permit in the U.S As the one week ultimatum given to members of the House of Representative gets expired this week for members who are out of the country to return home amidst the rapid spread of the deadly Ebola virus that has claimed the lives of over 1000 persons in Liberia, residents of District 9, Montserrado County are yet to see their lawmaker (Madam Munah Pelham Youngblood). Madam Youngblood is amongst members of the 53rd National Legislature with fabulous benefits leaving the vast majority of the workers within the Executive underpaid-mainly Health workers in this critical Health crisis. “Madam Youngblood and other lawmakers left this country for their personal braggadocio in the United States of America”, said the Speaker of the House. Several Districts of Montserrado County including district 9 wrote the Speaker (Alex Tyler) complaining their lawmakers for their absent in the various constituencies. Herein are benefits allotted for the House of Representatives 2013/14 fiscal years (approve Budget page 7-8) and breakdown for each lawmaker: Vehicle repair and maintenance-US$:610,192, operational expensive-US$: 19,999, Scholarship US$: 71.000, other specialized materials- US$: 3,255.00, Newspapers and Books-US$: 2,000.00, Printing, Binding and Publication-15, 168.00, Stationery-US$: 44,941, Rep. Machines, Equipments and furniture maintenance- US$: 15,000.00, Foreign Travel DSA-US$: 306,888.00, wearing material services-US$:23,000.00, Foreign Travelling Means-US$: 58,280, foreign travel including allowance US$: 300,000.00, domestic travel allowance DSA US$: 426,000.00, water sewage U$: 14, 582.00, Telecommunication and Internet US$: 361,963.00, Rep. Property rental and lease US$: 644,800.00, Fuel and Lubricant, vehicle U$: 2,908,816.00, Fuel and Lubricant, generator US$: 150, 060.00. Below is the breakdown for each lawmaker: Vehicle repair and maintenance-US$: 8,359.00, operational expensive-US$: 274.00, Scholarship US$: 973.00, other specialized materials- US$: 45.00, Newspapers and Books-US$: 29.00, Printing, Binding and Publication-208.00, Stationery-US$: 616.00, Rep. Machines, Equipments and furniture maintenance- US$: 205.00, Foreign Travel DSA-US$: 4,204.00, wearing material services-US$: 315.00, Foreign Travelling Means-US$: 798.00, foreign travel including allowance US$: 4,113.00, domestic travel allowance DSA US$: 5,836.00, water sewage U$: 200.00, Telecommunication and Internet US$: 4,958.00, Rep. property rental and lease US$: 8,833.00, Fuel and Lubricant, vehicle U$: 39,847.00, Fuel and Lubricant, generator US$: 2,056.00. Amounting to US$: 77,665.00 for the fiscal yrs and US$: 6, 472.00 monthly exclusive of their undefined salary; but a close source to Honorable Youngblood who refused to be named hinted this paper that Representative makes more than US$: 10,000 monthly. With this huge benefits received by Madam Youngblood why is it that she abandoned the district in the quest of Permanent Residence Permit in the U.S. Nearly one month since the State of Emergency was declared after the virus intensifies its spread, the President of the United States of America (Barrack Obama) accepted the request from Congressman Reed and his colleagues that the President of the U.S. should see reason to extend the Deferred Enforced Departure policy which allows Non-Immigrants who travel on visiting visa to stay in the U.S when there is an outbreak of disaster in their country (ies). Under this arrangement, two-year extension was given to Liberians who travelled/expected to travel on visiting visa to the U.S. during the outbreak of the virus in Liberia. With this call from President Obama, most government officials intentionally and shamelessly fled the country for such opportunity; among those officials are: Rep. Youngblood of Monsterrado, Garya Karmo of Bomi amongst others. WATCH OUT FOR EPISODE 3 NEXT WEEK……..
Posted on: Sat, 13 Sep 2014 16:09:54 +0000
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