Margibi County Representative Ivar K. Jones has outlined several gains made in fulfillment of his campaign promises made to his constituents during the 2017 Presidential and Legislative elections.
Giving an executive summary of his report which covers from 2018 to 2022 over the weekend in his district, Representative Jones said the document hints, references, or details specific activities; including the Passage of Laws and other Legislative Instruments ratified during the fifth Sitting and previous years under his leadership.
He added that the report further cuts across his performance in the three customary Legislative functions: Lawmaking, Oversight, and Representation coupled with his personal interventions across the district.
Under pillar one – ‘Equal opportunity for all’ of the seven pillars that make up his campaign manifesto which is in keeping with Article 11 of the 1986 Liberian Constitution, the District Two Representative said he ensured that in 2018, workers at the Harbel Supermarket Corporation, received prominent employment after they were reportedly denied such right by the company for over two years.
Also in 2019, he stressed that more than one hundred three employees received lunch and overtime payment following the China Harbour’s act of denying them lunch break and overtime pay, adding that the company was in violation of the Decent Work Act of 2015.
Representative Jones added that in the same 2019, Sugar Hill, Cotton Tree citizens benefited from road connectivity to adjacent communities through his office.
He indicated that over six hundred-four students of the Firestone School System were afforded the opportunity to complete the academic year 2018/2019 after their parents or guardians received $75.00 USD as academic compensation from Firestone Management.
Representative Jones said he also partnered with Representative Tibelrosa Summon Tarponweh, and they both were able to appeal to Firestone for the waiver of US$45,300.
Also under pillar two of his manifesto which is ‘Human Resource Development’, the lawmaker spent L$6,465,220 Million (Six Million Four Hundred Sixty-Five Thousand and Two Hundred-Twenty Liberian Dollars) for the payment of 757 students’ school fees from 2016/2017, 2017/2018, 2018/2019, 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022 and 2022/203 academic years respectively.
He further noted that his office has made some interventions value over US$5,000 aimed at buttressing the effort of school administrations across the district.
