Ministry Kruah is a former Minister of Posts and Telecommunications during the Weah’s Administration, where he served from 2018 to 2023. On February 22, 2024, he was named by President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., as Minister of Labour, Republic of Liberia.


 Prior to Minister Kruah’s appointment both as Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, and now Minister of Labour, he served the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning in several capacities.

 

• He served as Deputy Collector of Customs, Freeport of Monrovia
• Chief Inspector of Customer and Excise, at the erstwhile Ministry of Finance, now the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning.
• Deputy Commissioner of Customs and Excise for Planning and Research
• Deputy Commissioner for Internal Revenue for Real Estate Tax.

ACHIEVEMENTS:
Since his incumbency as the Minister of Labour, Minister Kruah has been able to achieve the following:

• He re-ignited Liberia’s representation at the International Labor Organization, (ILO), the United Nations’ Social & Economic Justice Organ, ensuring Liberia’s robust participation and immense contributions towards the re-activation of the country’s tripartitite regime, which includes the Government, through the Ministry of Labor; the Employers, through the Liberia Chamber of Commerce (LCC) and workers, through the Liberia Labor Congress (LCC); ensuring that all conventions, protocols and regulations of the ILO are not only instilled and practiced, but re-enforced in the Labor Sector of Liberia;

• In the area of Social Innovation and Economic Freedom, he has been involved with harnessing Liberia’s position not just on the African continent, but on the international stage in relations to social innovation and economic freedom, which encompasses the re-introduction of new ideas, approaches and practices that address most societal needs in a more effective, efficient or sustainable way than currently existing solutions. It involves creating and implementing changes in concepts, technologies, processes, products or organizational structures with the goal of improving the welfare and well-being of individuals and communities. Social innovation is not limited to any specific sector, and often involves collaboration between different actors, including businesses, non-profits and governments. It is about finding novel solutions to social problems, like poverty, inequality or environmental issues that are more effective, efficient and sustainable than current or previous ones. He attended and made tremendous participatory contributions at the recently held Global Government Summit on Social Innovation, which took place in April, 2024, in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, and resulted in the Luxembourg Declaration, outlining a rights based approach to social innovation. At that conference, Luxembourg hosted more than a hundred government representatives, ministers of labor and other official delegation from Europe, Africa, North & Latin America, Asia. Also present were officials and experts from leading international institutions, including the International Labor Organization (ILO), the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the World Bank, among others.

• In the Labor Union and Social Dialogue fronts, he has resolved several issues and spearheading negotiations and finalized collective bargaining agreements between and amongst employers and employees and their representatives, addressing issues of mutual interests, workers benefits, and has fostered moe harmonious and productive work environments within major concessions and mining entities, including Firestone Liberia, Arcelor Mitttal Liberia, Tiba Biscuits Factory, Bea Mountain Mining Co., etc.

• He has instituted various enforcement actions of labor standards, involving various forms of interactions, including negotiations, and settlemnt of labor issues, where possible, to ensure employment and or promotion of Liberian employees, and has worked to ensure the establishment or improvement of fair working environment, decent work conditions, and he has also promoted social and economic progress in the work places.

• He has worked and successfully attained, by collective bargaining and negotiation, retirement handshakes and benefits for pensioned employees of major companies, in addition to social security benefits. Through his far-sighted initiatives, Companies that now give additional retirement handshakes to pensioned employees include the AML, Firestone, Tiba, etc., where pensioned employees now receive financial payment benefits in the form of handshakes, besides the NASSCORP retirement benefits.

• Reactivation of the Trafficking in Persons’ Division (TIP) for the past years.

• Revamping and reorganizing the Inspectorate Division of the Ministry, making it a strong arm of the Ministry of Labour.

• The Minister has also been able to revitalize the Gender Inclusion Division of the Ministry, and the Division has since become the bridge between the Ministry and other agencies of government that deal with gender inclusion.

• Most recently, the Minister launched a vacation job scheme which attracted at most a thousand students in 2025, allowing the students to work for one or two months to earn US$150 or US$300 to help needy students get back to school.

• For the first time, about ten visually impaired students (from the blind school) were incorporated into the vacation job scheme.

Other achievements of the Minister during the year and a half that he has served as the Minister of Labour include:

1. The introduction of work permit audits for foreign workers in Liberia. As a result of this audit, 27 foreign workers’ work permits have been revoked.

2. The reinforcement of chapter 45 of the Decent Work Act of 2015, which requires that requests for work permits for workers in the former sector should be publicized in the papers for a period of 30 days, which is currently being reinforced.

3. To cut down impersonation by individuals who are not employees of the Ministry’s Inspectorate Division, the Minister has introduced uniforms for the Ministry’s Inspectors. The introduction of the uniforms has greatly reduced impersonation by individuals who are not part of the inspectorate division or employees of the Ministry.

4. The Ministry has just validated a five-year strategy plan to be launched before the end of August 2025.

5. The Ministry has also launched, as in keeping with Chapter 24 of the Decent Work Act, health and safety programs at the Ministry to be observed by all industrial sites and businesses in Liberia.

6. The Ministry is also working with RISE Talent-Liberia Incorporated to introduce internships to train young Liberians in strategic areas to help the development of the Liberian workforce.