Mary Broh

Mary Tanyonoh Broh ( born September 15, 1951 in Takoradi, Ghana ) is a Liberian politician and incumbent municipal mayor of the capital, Monrovia.

Life

Mary Broh Tanyonoh belongs to the people of the Kru, she was born on September 15, 1951 in the coastal city of Takoradi in Ghana, where her mother Esther N. Goe was staying since 1950. The name " Tanyonoh " means in the Kru language, " a woman who leads a fight ." As her mother returned to Liberia in 1959 and first lived for a time at Cape Palmas, she attended elementary school. In the 1960s, the single mother lived with no fixed abode of casual work. Mary Broh had a very privation childhood and was in 1967 a place in a Methodist school camp in Gbarnga, where she earned a scholarship to attend in Monrovia in 1968, the College of West Africa ( CWA) can. In Logan Town she also worked as a domestic help and graduated in 1970 from the study. Your first job was at the Bank of Liberia in Monrovia. When ground personnel of the Nigeria Airways at the airport Monrovia, she received a very good pay and later traveled to the United States, where she completed several vocational courses and in New York City career in a Jewish textile company made ​​, where she spent 14 years. The work was connected with foreign travel to Asia, she completed additional courses as textile clerk and accounting.

Career in Liberia

Broh returned in 2006 from exile in the United States back to Liberia to assist the Liberian President Ellen Johnson -Sirleaf. In Monrovia, she first took over the job as " Special Projects Coordinator" to provide for the beautification of the Capital Boulevard Broad Street, also known as Ellen 's Garden is called today.

In the port and passport management

Your second stop was the passport office in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Here they ended the lucrative business for some officials the grant of visas and passports and create certifications. This was followed by the office of the Deputy Director of the State Port Authority at Freeport Monrovia. She had far-reaching powers of attorney in both positions and reformed the authority structure, in Freeport, she worked on the modernization of port logistics and successfully fought against the corruption.

Mayor of Monrovia

Thanks to this success, it was in 2009 at the request of President Johnson- Sirleaf mayor of the capital, Monrovia. They took over the office of Ophelia Hoff - Saytumah, which was released in the summer of 2009 because of its demonstrated corruption. In this new function again are the problems of corruption and nepotism on their agenda, as mayor she would like to have appropriate visible success in the urban landscape of the metropolis. You already ordered a crackdown on the problems of the homeless quarters and squatting, and relies on the expulsion of the petty criminals and drug dealers from the city center. Among the first projects as mayor include the reorganization of the garbage collection and street cleaning and checking the hygienic conditions in the street markets and the enforcement of licensing for commercial activity. You personally checked by weekly inspections progress in the city. In the city administration brought her a dismissal of the Polizeicheffs of " Greater Monrovia " great respect.

In support of the Mayor, the President of the Republic ordered the creation of a "Task Force Greater Monrovia for cleaning and urban renewal" of these is led by Daniel G. Johnson, the residents as members, in Monrovia businessmen ( Lebanese and Indians ), and the mayor, commissioners and belong to governors of the Greater Monrovia. With the introduced by Broh monthly " Monrovia Clean Up Day" a four-hour closure of all private and public institutions is connected. During this time, additional cleaning and beautification works to be carried out in the city and on the beach. Been the lack of opportunities a parent, peri-urban waste disposal are considered problematic by critics.

Other Features

As Mayor of Monrovia Mary Broh is also Supreme Head of the Police Department of " Greater Monrovia ", member of the " Liberia Marketing Association " (LMA ) and the " General Services Agency" ( GSA).