Follow the Money LIB

Making Liberia's public finances public, live-tracked, and accountable — from the national budget down to every county. This is THEIR MONEY. Every figure here is sourced from Liberia's own published government and audit records.

BUILT FROM PUBLIC RECORDS ONLY · SUBMISSIONS LABELED SEPARATELY FROM CONFIRMED FACTS

National Budget Snapshot — FY2026

Figures below are the most recent published totals. Re-verify "approved" status against the official PDF as it moves through final signature.

$1.2B
Total FY2026 national budget — the Legislature has approved with Senate concurrence
Source: Liberian Observer · MFDP official budget page
$101.7M
Health sector allocation
$132.9M
Education sector allocation
$151.8M
Security sector allocation
$51.7M
Legislature budget — up 25% since 2024, nearly half the health budget
$1.08B
Gap between government's own AAID development-need estimate ($1.68B) and what was allocated ($594M)

🚩 Red Flags — Sourced From Liberia's Own Auditors

Not our allegations. Every flag below restates a finding already published by the General Auditing Commission (GAC), Liberia's constitutionally independent supreme audit institution — 61 audit reports published in the first half of 2026 alone.

$373.9 Million in Unreconciled Government Revenue (2018–2024)

A GAC compliance audit found hundreds of millions of dollars that could not be traced between the Tax Administration System, transitory accounts, and General Revenue Accounts. Post-period reconciliation still left $91.8M and L$12.67B unresolved.

Liberia Revenue Authority Ministry of Finance & Dev. Planning Central Bank of Liberia Government disputes characterization
Source: GAC audit, via allAfrica · Full archive: gac.gov.lr/audit-reports

Teachers Went Unpaid or Underpaid — Confirmed by MFDP Itself

The Ministry of Finance publicly confirmed 2,000 non-MCSS teachers had account issues blocking payment, and 200 MCSS teachers received only 20% of their salary — the remaining 80% hadn't been posted by their bank.

Ministry of Finance & Dev. Planning
Source: MFDP official press release

$1.2M/Year Lobbying Contract, Procurement Questions Raised

Government committed $100,000/month to a Washington lobbying firm (Ballard Partners). Reports suggest it was executed without documented competitive bidding or Ministry of Finance involvement — a potential procurement framework violation.

Ministry of State for Presidential Affairs
Source: The Liberian Investigator

County Watch — Is the Money Reaching You?

Liberia's Local Government Act promises every county a share of concession revenue. Here's the law, and here's what the Senate is currently investigating.

60%
Central Government
25%
Split across all 15 counties
10%
Directly affected county
5%
Impacted communities

Senate Probe: Concession Funds Not Reaching Counties

The Senate Joint Committee on Lands & Mines and Concession & Investment opened a formal probe July 14, 2026, into reports that concession funds reached government accounts but never reached the counties owed them — Grand Cape Mount cited as one example. MFDP, Ministry of Local Government, and LRA were summoned. Finance officials say the Local Government Fiscal Council, required to actually distribute the funds, still hasn't been formed.

Sen. Simeon B. Taylor Sen. Numene T.H. Bartekwa Open question — not yet resolved
Source: allAfrica · The New Dawn Liberia · Liberian Observer (MFDP response)

Track by Branch & County

Most branches show "data collection in progress" honestly — granular county- and legislator-level disbursement data isn't published anywhere yet. That absence is itself tracked, not hidden.

Executive / Ministries

Budget-level data available (MFDP) · disbursement detail pending

Senate

Data collection in progress

House of Representatives

Data collection in progress

15 Counties & Concession Revenue

LEITI + Senate probe records available

Mayors / Municipal

Data collection in progress

State-Owned Enterprises

GAC financial statement audits available per-entity

Transparency Gap Tracker

Liberia committed internationally, via the Open Government Partnership, to publish specific documents and databases. Here's promised versus delivered — the gap is itself a transparency product.

CommitmentStatus
Executive Budget ProposalPublished
Citizens Budget (simplified)Published
Quarterly expenditure by ministryPublished
Annual audit reports (GAC)Published
Interactive citizen budget portalPromised, never built
Legislative Monitoring DatabasePromised, never started — civil society (IREDD) built "Liberian Lawmakers Watch" instead
Mid-Year / End-Year execution reportsNot published
Monthly disbursement data, county-levelNot published anywhere found

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