By: J. Mason Kollie I Lofa County Correspondent
About 200 volunteer teachers in Lofa County, say they will not go back to classrooms effective December 8, 2025 if the Government of Liberia failed to place them on its payroll.
The volunteer teachers at a mass meeting on, Monday, November 24, 1025 at the Kolahun Central High School, said they are no longer waiting for “sweet talk” from Government but instead they want to be employ.
According to most of the participants’ volunteer teachers in the meeting, they been in the classroom for more than 10 years and some of them for 20 but cannot be employed by the Government.
The volunteer teachers from both education district #1 and district #2 in Kolahun District complained that only three persons have been employed by the government for the last few months of the total of 218 volunteer teachers’ resident within the district.
The volunteer teachers disclosed that beginning December 8, 2025, they are going to lay down their chalk and retreat into different lines of activities in order to be able to sustain they and their respective families.
The Volunteer teachers spoke at the mass meeting held on Monday, November 24, 2025 in Kolahun city Lofa County.
” I been in the classroom for 20 years as a volunteer teacher at the Bolahun Public High School in Wanhassa district, with “AA” Degree in Biology and General Science from the Lofa County community college, but up to present my name is not on Government payroll; so effective December 8, 2025, we will engage ‘Go slow’ action to let central government know that we are no fools at all,” Mr. Joseph S. Momoh; a volunteer teacher at the Bolahun Public High School who has served for 20years in the classroom told our reporter.
