By O’Neill A.R. Philips
Royesville Township in Montserrado County is without a health facility, police depot or a properly functioning grade school despite a huge investment by a Chinese company, Bio – Chico.
Bio Chico is constructing a huge and modern port facility in the township of Royesville along the Atlantic Ocean.
But basic social facilities are lacking in the area.
Due to the lack of such basic social facilities, the new Commissioner of the township is appealing to the Montserrado caucus to grant relief to the community by allocating significant portion of the corporate social development fund from Bio – Chico to the township for development purposes.
Speaking recently with journalists in the township when President Joseph Nyuma Boakai paid an official visit to Bio – Chico port construction site in Roseville, Commissioner Bendu Williams said Bio – Chico has agreed to make payment of its corporate social development fund to Montserrado, Bomi and Gbarpolu counties dating back to three years.
Madam Williams appealed to the caucus of Montserrado to see reasons to allocate funding from the company in order to equip the only school in area.
She also wants the funding to go towards building a health center and a police depot.
” We are asking the caucus of Montserrado to use the social corporate development fund from Bio – Chico to be used for the affected community,” she said. ” The affected community is the Township of Royesville,” Commissioner Williams stressed.
She emphasized that the police depot with police officers stationed there will curtail growing crimes rate including drug trafficking and abuse in the township.
Commissioner Williams also wants a health center in the township. She said pregnant women and sick children are rushed either to Bomi county or Monrovia for treatment.
” We are appealing to the caucus so that Royesville can show something that the port facility is in Royesville,” Commissioner Williams appealed.
She decried the poor health status in the township, and warned that if nothing is urgently done to remedy the situation, major health hazard might consume hundreds of Royesville citizens due to pollution from the construction of the port facility in the township.
However, she praised Representative Bernard Benson of District # 17 in Montserrado county for working with the township in seeking redress to their concerns.
Madam Williams was inaugurated as Commissioner of the Township of Royesville in August 2025, and promised to deliver basic social services to the township.
Five months on, due to structured administrative practices from the Ministry of Internal Affairs through the Superintendent office of Montserrado county, and its legislative caucus, Royesvile still lagged behind in basic social services despite not being far from Monrovia, Liberia’s capital.
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