What You Need To Know About Margibi County Approved 2025 National Budget

 By Patrick Moryor-Margibi Fellow

 

Established on December 13, 1985, Margibi was created by an interim National Assembly decree, merging parts of the Marshall and Gibi territories.

 

Montserrado, Grand Bassa, and Bong Counties surround it. Margibi County is annually captured in the country's national budget every fiscal year. However, during the preparation of the Liberia National Budget, every county leadership submits a proposed budget of what they want financially through various government agencies and ministries' local branches across the 15 counties in Liberia.

 

Margibi County leadership drafted a proposed budget of US$4,497,174 that would be shared across key sectors in the county.

 

The following areas were captured in the draft budget, and below are the various spending.

Municipal & Local Government, Health and Education.

 

 

No, the proposed amount was not approved, and the spending per sector changed. Also, there was an addition of sectors according to the approved budget. The said amount was increased from $4,497,174 to $4,933,084, an increment of $435,910. Also, there was an addition to the Social Development Service.

 

In the approved budget, there was an increment in cash and sectors, and financial changes were also made per sector.

Below is an overview and analysis of Margibi County's approved budget.

During a daylong Anti-corruption Dialogue in Margibi County under the auspices of the Center for Transparency and Accountability in Liberia, participants noted that the said amount is not sufficient to cover all the sectors and major institutions in the county. 

 

Citizens said with the growing population and huge demand for service deliveries, the amount allocated by sectors is not enough to sustain the various sectors for even a quarter, let alone a year.

 

They made a special emphasis on the C.H. Rennie Hospital, expressing doubt whether US$ 100,000 can sustain the hospital and buy every necessary operational material, including medical supplies for the year.

  

The participants at the Dialogue used the medium to call on the national government to see reason and increase the county budget for 2026.

 

Conclusion: TSM observed that the Margibi County-approved 2025 budget was increased with the addition of the County Social Development Service, which the Margibi County Orphanage Home was captured by. Our team also noticed that people living with disabilities were not captured in the budget for the county.