Liberia drops Foya Polytechnic from 2027 budget
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on The Liberian Investigator
The draft 2027 budget no longer provides funding for Foya Polytechnic, although the 20,000 US dollars approved for 2026 had already been spent by 30 September. The Liberian Investigator, which revealed in June that the school does not exist, notes that nearly 264,000 US dollars have been paid over seven budgets.
The Liberian government has not allocated any funds to Foya Polytechnic in its draft 2027 budget, submitted to the Legislature on 6 November. This subsidy, which had channelled 264,000 US dollars over seven budgets for a school that The Liberian Investigator found in June did not exist, therefore disappears, according to the draft budget.
The line, linked to code 251102 of the Ministry of Education, shows 19,999 US dollars spent in 2025 and 20,000 US dollars approved for 2026. These 20,000 US dollars are recorded as spent as of 30 September 2026. No amount is planned for 2028 or 2029.
The newspaper’s investigation had established that the Foya site remained bare land, without foundations, despite land donated by the town’s elders. It had also traced the line back to a bill introduced by Representative Eugene Fallah Kparkar, who died in 2016, without finding any text creating the institution. The draft 2027 budget also removes a subsidy of 300,000 US dollars for Western University and another of 75,000 US dollars for PYJ University.
