Monrovia, July 8 -- A FrontPage Africa investigation has uncovered that a portion of the remaining funds from Liberia's COVID-19 Household Food Support Programme (COHFSP) has been redirected to the government's consolidated account to support the national Homegrown School Feeding Program.

The COHFSP was originally designed to provide emergency food assistance to Liberia's most vulnerable populations during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, questions surrounding the expenditure of the fund resurfaced after former Finance Minister Samuel D. Tweah recently addressed allegations made by Stanton Witherspoon, CEO of the Spoon Network.

At a press conference in Monrovia last week, Tweah explained that the Liberian government, throu...