MONROVIA, Feb. 13 -- The head of the Alternative National Congress (ANC), Mr. Alexander B. Cummings, has called for the dismissal of the heads of the National Port Authority, the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company (LPRC) and the Minister of Commerce "incompetence" in preventing and handling the prevailing nationwide shortage of gasoline which is now having a toll on citizens.

"No serious government would elect to prioritize politics over the general well-being of its people, to the point of ignoring their pains and leaving them to trek long distances, and or spend considerable portions of their days and night struggling to acquire gas, while officials drive by in their cozy government cars under the comfort of air condition," he said whi...