Liberia: West Point Gets US$25M Coastal Defense
“We can safely announce to you that we now have a total of US$40 million to address climate change issues in communities in Monrovia. And US$25 million of that money is for West Point,” Jeremiah Sokan, of the National Climate Change Secretariat
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has disclosed that about US$40 million is currently at hand to address climate change-related issues in the country as a way of bringing relief to thousands of Liberians who are currently experiencing the excruciating impacts of the global menace.
The fund, which the agency said is being channeled through the Monrovia Metropolitan Climate Resilient Project (MMCRP), will see interventions in erosion-prone communities in Monrovia and its environs, especially the nation’s largest slum community, West Point.
A total of US$25 million has been earmarked by the EPA and its partners to construct a sea wall in that township.