Grand Cape Mount, Liberia – At the groundbreaking Ceremony of the western corridor of Liberia, President Julius Maada Bio of Sierra Leone has cautioned sister countries that the colonial-era boundaries should no longer serve as barriers to progress as such, he stressed the need for regional unity.
President Maada Bio speaking at the groundbreaking ceremony of the western corridor stated that the lines seperating Liberia- Sierra Leone imaginery and should function as bridges cooperation, trade, and shared prosperity.
“We should not be fighting over these borders that were not created by us. We should not use tanks to solve our border problems. We should use our heads and our pens to write a new history,” he said.
According to President Bio, the ceremony signals the beginning of an important cross- bordor road project aimed at increasing trade and communication within the Mano River basin.
As the current chair of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government, he stated that the road construction is more than just infrastructure, it is an integral part of a larger effort to improve regional integration within the framework of the Economic Community of West African States.
โThis corridor is not just between Sierra Leone and Liberia. If you are traveling from Guinea to Monrovia, or from Abidjan to Conakry, this is the path. This is what real integration looks like,โ he said.
He claims that initiatives like this signify a change from words to deeds, pointing out that both Sierra Leone and Liberia have a terrible history of civil war that destroyed infrastructure and forced millions of people to flee their homes. Once considered hotspots for instability, border regions are now being rethought as growth engines.
