Africa-Press – Liberia. Political Leader of the Liberian People’s Party (LPP), Cllr. Tiawan Saye Gongloe, has urged President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s administration to convert an unused building originally intended to house a Housing Bank into a government-run high school for Central Monrovia.
Gongloe said the move would provide thousands of children in the city’s commercial hub with access to public secondary education, noting that Central Monrovia currently lacks a government high school.
“There is no government high school in Central Monrovia,” Gongloe said on Monday. “The most useful way for the government to use this building is to put a school there.”
The building, located on Ashmun Street opposite the Liberia National Fire Service headquarters and adjacent to the General Auditing Commission (GAC), was constructed with public funds but was never used for its intended purpose.
It is currently occupied by displaced persons, used by marketeers to store goods, and intermittently utilized by the Monrovia City Police. Gongloe said the government should reclaim and repurpose the facility for education, citing the urgent need for public secondary schools in the area.
“The people’s money was used to construct this building,” he said. “The best use of it is to put a government school there so poor people’s children can have access to education.”
Gongloe also referenced the historical Monrovia Central High School, which was first opened during the administration of President William R. Tolbert as Charlotte Tolbert High School, and called for its revival.
“There is a school on the books called Monrovia Central High School,” Gongloe said. “I am calling on the government to re-open it and put it here. This building can hold thousands of poor people’s children.”
He noted that private institutions such as the College of West Africa (CWA), B.W. Harris Episcopal, Cathedral Catholic, St. Teresa’s Convent, and SDA schools currently dominate secondary education in Central Monrovia. Tubman High School in Sinkor, he added, remains the only government-run high school in the greater Monrovia area.
“G.W.A. Gibson is not a high school—it is an elementary school opened in 1968,” Gongloe said. “Newport School is a junior high school. The only government high school in Monrovia, including Sinkor, is Tubman. There is none in Central Monrovia.”
Gongloe said the imbalance underscores the urgency of his proposal and called on Liberians to support the initiative.
“That is what the government should do,” he said. “That is the best way of using this building. I ask all Liberians to support me in putting a government high school in this building.”
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