01/08/2025
The Executive Order #151 Means Three Big Things for Liberia and Liberians â Please Read.
Fuad Alieu C Nyei Jr.âŠâŠâïžâïž
On August 1, 2025, President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr picked up his pen to make a decision, and what he did is what his predecessors failed to do. This was not just a policy, it was a quiet revolution wrapped in ink. He signed Executive Order No. 151 and just like that, Liberia finally stood up from the export table of shame.
No more exporting UNPROCESSED RUBBER!
Yes, absolutely no more unprocessed rubbber exportation. Liberia will no longer be the dumping ground of opportunity where raw materials leave the country rich, while the people who live on the land remain poor. Hell no!
So What Does This Really Mean? Letâs break it down:
For too long, Liberia has been digging, cutting, tapping, and harvesting natural resources only to ship them away in raw form. Rubber has been no exception. Cup lumps, natural latex, tree lace, bark scrap are all tapped from our trees have been and leaving our ports like orphans with no future. And where do they go? To other countries where they are processed, refined, and transformed into tires, gloves, mattresses, shoes, machines, and more.
But hereâs the real kicker: we end up buying back those finished products at ten times the price.
President Boakai has had enough of that nonsense.
And finally responded with a big NO.
This Executive Order Means Three Big Things for Liberia: Here are the three things we should cheers:
1. Jobs, Jobs, and More Jobs:
Rubber factories donât build themselves.
If companies want to export rubber, they now have to process it here in Liberia first. That means they will need workers, technicians, engineers, drivers, cleaners, and accountants. And guess who benefits? You. Me. Our youth. Our graduates. Etc.
2. Keep the Money Home:
When we export unprocessed rubber, we earn crumbs. But when we process it into finished goods or semi-finished products, we multiply the value. Thatâs more mo