Drivers, Commuters Decry Impassable Road in Southeast

Published: June 5, 2026

ZWEDRU, Grand Gedeh County — Drivers and passengers traveling between Grand Gedeh and River Gee counties are appealing for urgent government intervention after a section of the road collapsed, leaving vehicles stuck for hours and threatening to cut the southeast off from the rest of the country.

The damaged stretch, at Salee Town in Grand Gedeh, has forced drivers to offload cargo and passengers to climb out and walk, while four-wheel-drive vehicles are used to haul stranded cars across an area travelers describe as terrible.

Esther Konneh, who was traveling with her six-month-old baby, told the Liberian Investigator she was stuck at the site for about eight hours after arriving at 7 a.m.

“This area made me and other travelers stuck in the mud for several hours,” she said, adding that a passing pickup helped pull her vehicle free before passengers walked across the damaged section on foot.

Residents are appealing to the government, through the Ministry of Public Works, to repair the road. A Liberian Investigator reporter who recently returned from the southeast observed that unless the problem is addressed this month, several counties in the region could be cut off from the rest of the country.

Appearing on the Sky FM 50/50 program with T-Max Jlateh, Public Works Minister Roland L. Giddings acknowledged the deteriorating stretch between Grand Gedeh and River Gee and the challenges it poses to drivers and passengers in the southeast.

Giddings said engineers from the ministry are expected to move in to address the situation, but cautioned that ongoing road projects across the country will slow during the rainy season.

The minister tied the work to the road reconstruction component of President Joseph Boakai’s ARREST Agenda, which he said aims to transform the national road network with a focus on farm-to-market roads and better integration of rural and urban Liberia. He said the strategy is meant to drive economic growth, reduce poverty, strengthen food security and improve access to health care.