Fact-check! Liberia’s Public Works Minister, Madam Ruth Coker-Collins, in a televised interview said photos circulating on social media about bad roads in the southeastern region of the country are “recycled photos taken at a particular location between Zwedru and Putuken” in Grand Gedeh County.

Liberia’s Public Works Minister, Madam Ruth Coker-Collins, in a televised interview on May 18, 2023 on Monrovia-based radio station Freedom FM 87.9MHZ claimed that photos circulating on social media about bad roads in the southeastern region of the country are “recycled photos taken at a particular location between Zwedru and Putuken” in Grand Gedeh County.

Local Voices Liberia checked and established that the claim by Public Works Minister, Madam Ruth Coker-Collins, is misleading.

Apart from the images of the corridor between ‘Putuken’ and Zwedru, there are also several images of bad roads from different routes in four of the six counties – Grand Gedeh, Grand Kru, River Gee and Sinoe Counties in the Southeastern region.

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