A Special News Feature
By James Kokulo Fasuekoi|JNB Foundation Comm. Director
Tubmanburg, Bomi-Moved by what he saw Wednesday, April 2, JNB Foundation’s boss Hon. Jackson K. George Jr., said he would speak to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr., to arrange getting a tractor to the charity’s farm soon in order to accelerate work there, now that the farming season has advanced.
In the meantime, the foundation’s current group of workers are engaging in sustainable-type farming while more young and older folks are being recruited to join the team in Tubmanburg as Hon. Jackson George rallies around to get investors involved including securing tractors to carry on the work.
Hon. George has said he intends to open an agronomy-training facility, the first of its kind here, alongside the farm in Tubmanburg that covers 127-acres farmland. Hon. George first visited the site along with a team from his foundation Feb. 20, on an assessment. It had been purchased years ago by H.E. Joseph N. Boakai for his charity’s agricultural projects.
The designated site is presently undergoing clearing which will be followed by the planting of various types of local crops, or vegetables and peanuts, plantains, and cassava, widely consumed here are at the top of the list. Amid a 90 degrees scorching heat from the sun, Wednesday, workers used diggers-making holes in the earth, while women and kids scrambled to toss cassava sticks in dug-holes.
“When we came here the first time, it [farm] was small…today, it’s a whole big farm,” Hon. George, standing in a clearing, (a burnt farm), and surrounded by a group of local villagers, indicated amid broad smiles.
He praised workers at the farm for their hard work. George was accompanied by a team of staffers and his wife, Mrs. Ellena K George, a resident of Minnesota, USA.
“We’ve to develop this farm. I see that we need equipment. We want this farm to be like a [Agro] training place where farmers can come and get their [Agricultural] training, and after that, we will give them seeds, and monitor them.” Hon. George then toured the large clearing, taking a good view of the new farm with some degree of satisfaction.
Presently stationed at the Tubmanburg ranch are two of President Boakai’s designated farm-workers, Mr. Joseph Kundukpaka and Sister Sarta, both of whom closely work with the foundation’s boss, to run the farm. The two have recruited close to 15 or more local farmers who joined them to till the soil, and work started almost after George’s Feb. 20, 2025 visit.
Among the farm workers in Bomi Hills so far are ethnic Kpelles and also Kissi, from President Boakai’s own background who reside in this gold-diamond belt.
Some, like elder Saah Johnson, featured in above photo with his twelve-year old grandson (also named Saah), just feels happy to work and be a part of Pres. Boakai’s efforts at re-building the nation.
