Liberian Senate calls for more transparency over Ebola funds

From Aid | The Guardian Fri Sep 26 2014, 15:01:49

Full disclosure demanded over how $5m of government funding allocated for fighting outbreak has vanished so quickly

Stately and unassuming, Liberias national Ebola taskforce coordinator James Dorbor Jallah announced at a press conference in late August that the governments initial $5m (£3m) contribution to contain the disease had been spent.

As he fumbled with the numbers in his expenditures report, the blogosphere exploded with queries about how all that money could vanish so quickly. Now, the Liberian Senate is demanding full disclosure of the Ebola funds whereabouts. To his credit, however, Jallah was attempting something that donors have yet to do: answer to the people in whose name the war on Ebola is being fought in west Africa. As we have seen all too often in international emergency response operations, the stakes are too high to forgo systems of accountability.

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