I supported President Joseph Nyuma Boakai in the second round of the 2023 presidential election because I believed Liberia needed decent, restrained, and service-oriented leadership. Against that standard, Liberia must ask whether we are content with incremental improvement—or whether we are prepared for genuine transformation. Liberia must consciously link infrastructure spending to productivity rather than treat road construction as development in itself. Liberia must do the same, particularly in a country where most of the poor live in rural areas. This commentary identifies missteps not to undermine the Government, but to help redirect Liberia toward a deliberate, people-centered development path like Botswana’s.