MONROVIA, December 24(LINA)- Public Works Minister and former head of the President’s Program Delivery Unit (PDU) at the Ministry of State, Mr. Gyude Moore, has formally turned over the affairs of the PDU to its newly appointed head, Dr. Clarence Moniba.
Mr. Moore was recently named and confirmed as the Minister of Public Works.
Dr. Moniba, a son of Liberia’s former Vice President, Harry Moniba, recently returned from the United States of America with a Doctorate in Rhetoric and Professional Communication. He earlier worked as Country Program Manager of the High Level Panel on Fragile States and earlier Operations Manager for High Level Panel Post-2015 (United Nations) before his return to the United States.
According to an Executive Mansion press release, Dr. Moniba earlier worked at the Liberian Embassy in Washington, D.C., USA as well as Liberia’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York, USA.
According to the release, Dr. Moniba thanked President Sirleaf for affording him the opportunity to serve the Liberian people and pledged to support the Presidency meet the infrastructural goals of the government.
“I know that it is our responsibility to trouble-shoot the scrupulous implementation of the government’s infrastructural agenda for the good of the nation and its people. I am certainly committed to this objective and will seek to improve the workings of the PDU,” Dr. Moniba pledged.
He praised Mr. Moore for laying a solid foundation upon which he and his team will help the President meet her promise to the people. He named roads, power, and ports as key projects that must be tracked properly to ensure maximum delivery.
Also speaking, Public Works Minister and former head of the PDU, Gyude Moore, expressed satisfaction with the performance of the PDU under his leadership.
He pointed out that the PDU under his leadership was different from the past and is hopeful that the PDU under Dr. Moniba will be even better.
“This concept of the President’s Program Delivery Unit was advanced by former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair who ran similar unit during his reign as Prime Minister. Blair’s African Governance Initiative (AGI) laid the foundation and helped the unit in its beginning,” Min Moore said.
Minister Moore pledged to always be of help to the PDU and re-emphasized his confidence in the ability of Dr. Moniba to effectively run the affairs of the unit.
LINA