In an interview with TheNEWS magazine in its February 2025 edition, the Managing Director of the National Transit Authority, NTA, Edmund Forh Forh, promised to construct a new administrative building soon. The old building was gutted by a mysterious fire.
True to his promise, construction has commenced.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held on 13 June 2025. Present were the Speaker of the House, Hon. Richard Koon. Liberia’s Minister of Transport, Hon. Sirleaf Tyler, India’s Ambassador to Liberia, HE Manoji Bihari Verma, Liberia’s Ambassador to Egypt, HE Henry Fambuleh, NTA’s Board, led by Benedict Harleyson, among other dignitaries.
A one-storey building, targeting a year completion date, has conmmenced by a Liberian company, Yehowa Group. Its General Manager, Blojae David, led a tour on 11 July, 2025. He revealed that construction of foundation works had commenced to wall level.
With a dedicated team of Engineer Maurice Attia, consultant to the NTA Board, Romeo Watson, Head of Safety, Mac Gaye, Site Supervisor and Engineer Leroy Leeleh, Consultant Engineer to NTA, the one-storey building, when completed in a year, will meet all requirements befitting an office complex.
NTA is a revenue spinner, but previous management destroyed its potential. The current management is rapidly regaining the entity’s mission and vision, to provide seamless transportation services to the vast majority of people.
There are plans to commence operations in neighbouring countries and also to start transportation of agricultural commodities from rural to urban areas, to bring down prices of these products, in tandem with the ARREST agenda of the government.
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