We Evaluate To Strengthen National Progress

TODAY, THE NEW VISION is issuing the 2014 Year under review evaluation of performances of senior state actors on the platform of the Unity Party- led government. As the process of evaluation entails, we have matched performances with the overall practical achievements of heads of the government's three Branches that are under scrutiny in today's evaluation. In any case, this process of evaluation may possibly be continued in our subsequent editions.

HONORING STATE FUNCTIONARIES and personalities at the end of the year for works done in the course of the year is a media tradition that is meant to encourage them to do more than the previous years. Some papers for instance carried their evaluations of officials in the form of personalities of the year. For us, however, we have chosen to do ours by grading sectional heads of government looking at what they have achieved during the year under review of this administration.

ACCORDINGLY, THOSE WHOSE performances we see poor are graded poorly while those who stood up to the task of national reconstruction are graded meritoriously. In the past we received quarrels from bigots and officials for grading them and the grading state of actors at the end of the year or about this time for their past outputs in government is to encourage competition at their respective assignments. This, we think is part of the democracy we have yearned for. By so doing we hope that those to whom responsibilities are delegated should rise up and perform to expectation.

WHILE OUR EVALUATION may not be accepted in some quarters as it is always the case, those who believe that they were not properly evaluated and were not done justice should come forward and present to the public what their achievements or accomplishments are. This will be an eye opening venture not only for the NEW VISION editorial staff but it will also expose their hidden achievements to the Liberian people that we all serve. Such will be honorable for them than being uncivilized in responding to this traditional evaluation exercise.

FINALLY, WE HOPE that today's evaluation will provide dynamic and propel progressive and positive stimulation towards service than petty and vicious reactions, encouragement to state actors than discouragement at service, energy than weakness at duty and respect than insolence at reaction . We know that such is not only aimed at redoubling the efforts of state actors towards achieving the national reconstruction objectives, but is also geared towards hard work, enhancing and providing a sustained platform for national development and poverty reduction amongst the people. From where we sit, we will continue to monitor progress in the last quarter of the term of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf administration as we march toward 2014.

ALL WE ARE saying is we evaluate to strengthen progress at your respective agencies of government. We wish everyone a prosperous year.