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The National Chairman of Commerce and Trade at the Liberia Business Association and President of Liberia Used Cars Dealership Association, Mr. Dominic Nimely has alarmed the government abandonment of Liberian own businesses under President Weah administration despite his pronouncement of not letting Liberian own businesses be spectators in the Liberian economy.
“I remember President Weah told us that we will not be spectators. Before President Weah made that statement, he understood that we have been spectators for the past 12 years, and the story needed to be changed,” Nimely said.
Addressing the media conference during the week, Nimely claimed that the Liberian own businesses have been marginalized after so many calls to both the President and the Legislature.
He added: “We met President Weah two different times after his inauguration in 2018. He gave an executive order but then his door has been shut in front of Liberian businesses and we are not given the time to talk to the President.”
“When we take complaints to the Legislature who have the oversight responsibility -they don’t listen to us. When we take complaints against foreign companies like the APM Terminal, and foreign business nationals in our country and call them while we are being seated with the legislature, they don’t come.
“We have carried our documents to members of the Legislature, and share the documents from office to office. They read the documents with us and promised to put the documents on the floor for discussion but once we turn our backs they will trash the documents.
“If they don’t trash the documents they will not be friendly with those foreign business people. Because they will be doing the right thing and those foreign business people will cut off their friendship with them (Lawmakers). They prefer to be friends with foreign business people and not to do the right things,”he explained.
Meanwhile, he said his institution has written the government through the Legislature to provide a 50 million dollars loan for Liberian own businesses but to no avail.
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