Mary Broh
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Born | 1951 (age 72–73) |
Mary Tanyonoh Broh (born in 1951) is the former mayor of
Broh has worked to clean up the capital city with measures that include citywide litter reduction campaigns aimed to increase public awareness of litter, sanitation, and overall public health.
Initiatives
Not long after her appointment as Acting Mayor of Monrovia by President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Mary Broh struggled to gain the confidence of the Legislature as her prolonged "acting" status was called into question on several occasions..
Despite remarkable progress in a short period of time, the Special Presidential Task Force was dissolved to make way for the Monrovia City Corporation to execute such duties.
More progress came to Monrovia in 2010 when Mary Broh enlisted her staff at the MCC to clean polluted beaches, install
Mary Broh's anti-corruption and transparency initiatives in the capital focused the spotlight on Liberian companies that often benefited from their connections to government officials. Mary Broh was accused of steering contracts and business away from "corrupt" Liberian contractors, many of which lobbied the World Bank and the Executive Branch to intervene.[17]
A hallmark of Mary Broh's tenure as mayor is the re-enactment of City Ordinance Number One, originally passed in 1975 under the Tolbert administration and revised in 1988 under the Doe administration. The MCC under Mary Broh revitalized the ordinance in an effort to enforce environmental standards for cleanliness and public health while allocating almost 30% of World Bank funds dedicated to Monrovia's waste management issue.[18]
Controversy and resignation
Controversy followed Mary Broh throughout her tenure and came to the forefront in 2011 and 2012; media reports focused on Mary Broh's destruction of public market places, physical altercations with Senate staff members and heated verbal exchanges with legislators and journalists. In February 2013, Mary Broh came to the aid of another embattled public official, Grace Kpaan,
Omega Village Project
On March 5, 2013, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf tapped Mary Broh to head the Project Implementation Unit of the Omega Village Project. In coordination with the Ministry of Public Works, the Liberian governmental lead on the project, Mary Broh will manage the multimillion-dollar development project for a large-scale community with residential housing, retail and municipal services.
Renomination
In early July 2013, media outlets announced that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf reappointed several mayors to their posts, Mary Broh being chief among these appointments.
See also
References
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- ^ "Broh to hit Chief Compound", InProfile Daily, 8 May 2009. Retrieved on 19 March 2010.
- ^ "The Journey of Mary Tanyonoh Broh: From a Difficult Childhood to Acting Mayor of Monrovia", Nabie's Blog, Posted on August 5, 2012
- ^ "Mary Broh Becomes Monrovia City Mayor". New Liberian. February 9, 2009. Retrieved 3 February 2010.
- ^ "What’s Next For Mayor Broh? Can She Transform Monrovia into a Clean Urban City?"
- ^ "Thousands Clean Up Monrovia Tomorrow", The Informer Online, 5 June 2009. Retrieved on 18 March 2010.
- ^ "City 'Ordinance #1' Takes Effect Today", The Informer Online, 1 October 2009. Retrieved on 18 March 2010.
- ^ "Monrovia", Junior Worldmark Encyclopedia of World Cities, 2000
- ^ "Mary Broh Broadens Somalia Drive", People To People: Liberia Online News,
- ^ "Prolonged Acting Status of Mayor Broh Claims Rep. Smith's Attention" Archived 2012-05-15 at the Wayback Machine, Legislature of Liberia
- ^ "'No One Group Better Than the Other' - President Johnson Sirleaf Assures Liberian Muslims" Executive Mansion Press Release, September 2009
- ^ "IDA at Work in Liberia: Digging out Monrovia from the Waste of War"[permanent dead link] The World Bank, August 2009
- ^ "DIG's support to the city under the Gates Foundation-funded Global Program for Inclusive Municipal Governance (GPIMG)" Development Innovations Group, 2009
- ^ "Don’t Raze Me Broh" John Etherton Blog, July 2009
- ^ "For Liberia’s Other “Iron Lady,” Kudos, Criticism — and Mostly Respect" The DuBois Bunche Center for Public Policy, December 2010
- ^ 'Liberia: Mary Broh Gets Plaudits Urban Renewal Policy"[permanent dead link] The Informer, Posted on allAfrica.com, August 2010
- ^ "Liberian Companies Complain City Mayor, Mary Broh to World Bank" Global News Network Liberia, June 29, 2010
- ^ "What’s Next For Mayor Broh? Can She Transform Monrovia into a Clean Urban City?", New Narratives: Africans Reporting Africa, July 28, 2011
- ^ "Secret Recording Rattles Legislature, County Supt. Kpaan Told to Show Evidence" FrontPage Africa, February 14, 2013
- ^ "'You Eat; I Eat': Court of Public Opinion, Liberia House Split Over Bribery Recording" FrontPage Africa, February 20, 2013
- ^ "Acting Monrovia City Mayor, Mary Broh, Resigns" allAfrica.com, Retrieved on March 3, 2013
- ^ "Embassy Row: Don’t raze me, Broh" washingtontimes.com, Retrieved on July 13, 2013
- ^ "Ambassador Deborah R. Malac" Archived 2013-08-20 at the Wayback Machine monrovia.usembassy.gov, Retrieved on July 13, 2013
- ^ "Liberia: Former Acting City Mayor, Mary Broh, Named to Head Project Implementation Unit of Omega Village Project" allafrica.com, Retrieved on July 12, 2013
- ^ "Liberia: A Second Chance for Mary Broh for Progress" allAfrica.com, Retrieved on July 12, 2013
- ^ "President Sirleaf Nominates 15 City Mayors, including Monrovia’s Mary T. Broh" emansion.gov.lr, Retrieved on July 12, 2013
- ^ "Mountain of Garbage Resurfaces in Monrovia: Mary Broh’s “Hit Squad” Challenged to Sweep our Streets" Archived 2013-06-25 at the Wayback Machine heritageliberia.net, Retrieved on July 12, 2013
- ^ "Liberia: Lawmakers Cry for Mary Broh - Monrovia Sinks in Filth" allafrica.com, Retrieved on July 12, 2013
- ^ "Liberia: Mary Broh Returns to Monrovia City Hall" allafrica.com, Retrieved on July 12, 2013
- ^ "Senate Vote of no Confidence not Hold “General” Broh" Archived 2015-02-16 at the Wayback Machine heritageliberia.net, Retrieved on July 12, 2013