Monrovia, Liberia – Through a personal humanitarian endeavor, Liberia’s Minister of Agriculture, Dr. J. Alexander Nuetah, has shown incredible compassion and leadership by transforming the lives of two young Liberians who were formerly trapped in heroin addiction.
Dr. Nuetah made a significant contribution to the national effort to combat drug consumption earlier this year when he saved five underprivileged young people from Monrovia’s streets. Following their rescue, he paid for their housing and rehabilitation at the New Life Recovery Center in Lower Margibi County.
Two of the young men successfully finished the program and have since been reintegrated into society with a restored sense of purpose and dignity, despite the fact that three of them eventually ran away.
The Minister met with two rehabilitated youths, Alphonso Sackor Buegar and Mark M. Morris, at the Ministry of Agriculture in Congo Town on October 9, 2025, and promised to continue supporting them to ensure their full reintegration into society and success in school.
“Now that you have received rehabilitation, it is your responsibility to maintain your focus and abstain from drugs so that you can contribute in the way that society expects of you. Go to any technical or high school school and take the entrance exams and bring the results,” he advised.
The Minister reaffirmed this pledge by announcing that he will personally finance their academic endeavors, paying for their tuition at secondary and vocational schools and offering US$720 to help with their living expenses.
Buegar, a 2017 graduate of Worldwide Mission School on Newport Street, expressed his ambition to pursue higher education at the University of Liberia, while Morris, a high school dropout, plans to complete high school and later enroll at the same university.
The generosity of Dr. Nuetah goes beyond personal recovery. Aware of the value of sustainability, he donated agricultural supplies to the New Life Recovery Center, helping them to start a farm and produce food to help fund its recovery program.
According to Dr. Nuetah, the Ministry of Agriculture will provide the resources required to enable the center to grow its own food. “These young people will receive useful agricultural skills that they may utilize to reconstruct their life in addition to aiding with feeding.”
The Government of Liberia’s overarching goal of enabling all citizens, regardless of background or situation, to become productive, independent, and contributing members of society is in line with this humanitarian act.
The New Life Recovery Center’s management and the recovered young people commended the Minister’s transformative intervention, calling it an example of compassionate and proactive leadership.
Reported by: Prince Saah
