Monrovia-MCSS and the government of Liberia Clarified MCSS Teachers Payment Issue, say salaries of MCSS teachers have now been processed and teachers have started to receive their salaries.

In a Facebook post, The Monrovia Consolidated School System (MCSS) Clarified that Hon. Adolphus Benjamin Jacobs, superintendent of MCSS, Professor Ansu Sonii, Minister of Education, Amb. Latim Dathong, Deputy minister for Administration, Mr. Sneh Jonhson, partisan of the Congress for Democratic Change, (CDC) including other stakeholders held a meeting with the leadership of the MCSS Teachers’ Association in the library of the William V.S Tubman High school on Sunday, Oct. 13, 2019 and pleaded with the teachers to abandon their Go-Slow Action in demand of their salaries as government has already disbursed their salaries for the month of August at the various banks while September was already processed.

While in the meeting, Hon. Jacobs placed a call to Mr. Cletus Nah, chief of office staff to Hon. Samuel Tweah, Minister of Finance & Development Planning who on speaker assured the teachers that they will be paid their salaries for August beginning 12noon on Monday Oct 14 and thereafter 3 days receive their salaries for the month of September.

The Teachers agreed to abandon their Go-Slow Action based on the information of Mr. Nah. And, because the teachers agreed to abandon their Go-Slow Action, Hon. Adolphus Benjamin Jacobs provided transportation fare for some teachers to get home, drove some home, while Mr. Sneh Johnson drove other teachers at their various destinations.

Prior to the above mentioned meeting, Hon. Jacobs held several meetings with the Teachers and pleaded with them to let go their Go-Slow Action for the sake of the country as government was working on modalities to addressing their issues.

It’s sadly, unimaginably, unthinkable that teachers deliberately chose to abandon work after receiving their salaries for August, waiting to be paid for September in 3 days.

It’s unfair to imagine that Hon. Adolphus Benjamin Jacobs is the mastermind behind the MCSS students protest that led to the crisis in Central Monrovia today.

Hon. Jacobs has effectively and professionally managed MCSS for the past 7 years and still is..

MCSS wishes to inform the general public that salaries for the month of August have already been paid by the government while salaries for September have already been disbursed to the various banks.

Out of 1,223 MCSS’s teachers, 995 teachers with only Liberian Dollars Accounts have been paid their total salaries for the month of September in Liberian Dollars.

The balance of 228 teachers with both Liberian Dollars and United States Dollars Accounts, constituting 80% and 20% percent respectively, have already been disbursed to the Banks for onward payment.

The Liberian Dollars component of 20% for the 228 employees has already been credited by the Banks while the USD component already disbursed by the Ministry of Finance & Development Planning is being processed for crediting to teachers’ accounts by the Banks.

Now that the teachers’ salaries demands are met by the government, it’s our anticipation that the teachers will return to work effective immediately to avoid being dismissed for violation of Chapter 4, Section 4.2.2.b of the Civil Service Standing Orders.

In another a development, the government of Liberia wishes to clarify that it has fully paid salaries to the faculty and staff of the University of Liberia for the month of August, 2019.

The new claim that is reportedly being made pertains to September 2019, for which the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning has incessantly asked the university authorities to present their payment details.

That request was only adhered to on Tuesday evening, when the University’s Vice President for Fiscal Affairs, Garswa Jackson, presented the institution’s payroll to the Acting Comptroller General of the Republic of Liberia, Prince Lighe.

The government assures the general public that in spite of some technical and processing problems attending the wage harmonization effort, it is working to ensure salaries for all civil servants are made current.

The authorities at MFDP processed and sent to banks the salaries of UL staff as soon as the payroll was received from the school’s finance officers.

The staff therefore can expect to receive notifications of payment beginning Wednesday. The processing of salaries for all other civil servants is ongoing.

The government urges all civil servants to exercise restraint and cooperation as the pay structuring and other measures are part of a comprehensive fiscal and monetary overhaul aimed at bringing long-term economic stability and growth to the country.