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COUPON
SCANDAL?
Lawmaker Allegedly
Diverted Fuel,
Under Probe
COMMUNITY NEWS
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UNLAWFUL
New Matadi Estate
Tenants Decry NHA
Forced Closure
POLITICS
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RULING REVERSED
The defendants, Moses Wogbeh, John Kantor, Jangar Kamara, David Blayee and Maxwell
Gwee are hereby ordered by this court to restitute the amount of US$6m to government
as of August 25, 2015, fined US$10,000 pay to government within 72 hours and hereby
sentenced to 10-yrs in imprisonment,- Judge Peter Gbeneweleh of Criminal Court C
BUYING
SELLING
L$88.00/US$1
L$89.00/US$1
L$88.00/US$1
L$89.00/US$1
L$88.00/US$1
L$89.00/US$1
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in Monrovia and its environs. The rates are collected from the Forex Bureaux and the
commercials banks. The rates are not set by the Central Bank of Liberia.
Source: Research, Policy and Planning Department, Central Bank Liberia, Monrovia, Liberia
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FrontPage COMMENTARY
WEAH AND HIS PROTEST MOVEMENT:
EDITORIAL WHAT FUTURE EXIST FOR THEM?
LIBERIA: EBOLA
GONE BUT
T
SCARS REMAIN:
v
SURVIVORS
DESERVE BETTER
its population.
WHILE THE GOVERNMENT of Liberia has not
even been able to document the actual number of
survivors, which further proves the disorganize
manner in which the crisis was tackled, something
is urgently required to help Ebola survivors
reintegrate into the society.
THE PLIGHT OF SURVIVORS is awful and needs the
world attention just as the deaths and infections
claimed the attention of the world to act fast.
PLEDGES MADE by the international community
to the three countries needs to be turned into
reality to bring some relief to people who lives
have been shattered by the virus. A promise is a
debt.
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ELECTRICITY
RESTORATION
TOMORROW CHALLENGE
Jesse Fahngon-Metropolitan State University
The provisions of electricity n water supply to its
citizens are not milestones achievements. These are
BASIC and the simply utilities a government can make
available to its citizens. The FORMER n LATTER are not
legacy items, my friends.
Peterson Kortuwah
"President Sirleaf is racing against time to fulfill her
promise to the Liberian people and protect her legacy."
At this point, the question of legacy is off the table;
rather, it is now a matter of investigating, auditing,
and prosecuting this failed administration on charges
of Economic Crimes committed against the Liberian
people.
The Editor,
The Editor,
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MonroviarontPageAfrica has
gathered that the
plenary of the House
of Representatives
has set up a committee to
investigate Representative
Byron Brown (LP-District#4
Grand Bassa County) over
an allegation of diverting
staffers gas coupons.
According to legislative
sources, the Grand Bassa
County
Lawmaker
has
over the past eighteen (18)
months allegedly diverted
gas coupons intended for
political officers working in
the office of the lawmakers
(House of Representatives)
into his personal use.
Multiple sources told FPA
that Representative Brown,
now chairman on the
House of Representatives
Committee
on
Rules,
Orders and Administration
allegedly started this when
he served as co- chairman of
the committee.
The sources also said that
a five (5) man committee
chaired by Representative
Alex Grant (MPC-District#3
Grand Gedeh County) is
currently
investigating
the
lawmaker
but
Representative Grant has
denied the allegation by
replying Not True to a text
message from our reporter
CORRUPTION WATCH
COUPON SCANDAL?
Multiple legislative sources confirmed to FrontPageAfrica that an emergency meeting was called during the weekend
in the office of the Deputy House Speaker Hans Barchue where the committee investigating the scandal was asked to
properly manage the information since the lawmaker under probe is a senior member of the Alex Tyler Block
Representative
Brown
said he is not aware of any
ongoing investigation as
alleged. If it comes to the
issue of coupon, it is not my
job.
I am one of the most
peaceful and free lawmaker
who is always ensuring that
the right things are done,
Representative Brown said.
The Grand Bassa County
lawmaker rose to the
position of chairman of
the Committee on Rules,
Orders and Administration
during the crisis to unseat
Speaker Alex Tyler headed
by Representatives Edwin
Snowe Montserrado and
Emmanuel
Nuquay
of
Margibi Counties.
COMMUNITY NEWS
UNLAWFUL
They have not given us a policy document, but they are asking us to go into an
agreement and if they keep locking and welding our doors to me, the NHA is
intimidating, coercing us and this is unlawful- Isaac Junye, Tenant New Matadi Estate
Monroviaver 10 residents
of the New Matadi
Housing Estate who
homes were locked
by the National Housing
Authority say the action is
illegal.
The NHA according to the
affected tenants moved into
the estate last Thursday and
began locking homes without
prior notice and continued the
action Monday morning when
many of those affected had left
for jobs.
Isaac Junye, owner of RC43,
told
FrontPageAfrica
that a mortgage scheme was
proposed by the NHA but was
not fully explained to them on
how it will be done.
He disclosed that the NHA
requested them to pay 5,000
USD or 6,000 USD on arbitrary
values but wondered what
their benefits will be after
spending 20 to 30 years in
some of these houses and
properly maintaining them.
We are not saying we cant
pay but we need this mortgage
thing to be clarified, though
some of our units owners
have paid but what becomes
of some of us who arent
working who were retired or
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Monroviaarely
a
week
after Mr. Heme
Dennis
claimed
his
US$10,000
prize as the first winner
of Cellcoms Tic Tac Toe
campaign, another lucky
individual has come forward
to claim another cash prize
of US$10,000 won through
the Tic Tac Toe promotion.
The lucky winner, was Mr.
Mamadu Fofana a 21 years
old petite cold water sales
person from the Jamaica
Road area. In addition to
these two winners, hundreds
of other Cellcom subscribers
COUNTY NEWS
Monroviahe
National
Elections
Commission (NEC)
has set Tuesday,
September 29, 2015 as the
date for the re-run of the
Special Senatorial Election
in parts of Bong County,
although the aggrieved
party, Dr. Henrique Tokpa,
has pulled out.
The areas comprise two
precincts and one polling
center and include Sanoyea
Market, Polling Place # 5,
Yarbayeh Public School
Precinct and Beletenda
Palava Hut Precinct, all
of which are in Electoral
District # 7.
The date for the re-run of
the election was announced
Monday at a ceremony held
at the headquarters of the
commission in Monrovia.
During
the
ceremony,
Chairman Jerome Korkoya
mandated the Clerk of Writs,
Antoinette Johnson, to Issue
a Writ for the Re-run of the
Special Senatorial Election
on the Elections Magistrate
STUCK IN TRAFFIC
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
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of
their
corporate-social
responsibilities
to
the
communities.
The Spokesman for the county
administration recently told
FrontPage Africa that bad
road condition is not unique
to Grand Bassa while adding
that the administration has
and
Social
development
funds, several roads will be
rehabilitated in the county.
Responding to the usage of
the countys yellow machine,
Williams argued that the
machines have been parked in
the county superintendents
compound due to the lack
of funds although he later
mentioned that some of the
machines are rented to raise
funds to help keep them
functional.
Many people in the county
often criticized the local
authority for not using
the yellow machines to
rehabilitate the roads and
allege that the administration
is
commercializing
the
equipment to pocket the
money.
Liberias rural road challenge
stretches across all counties
and is considered a factor
impeding agriculture and
health. And Public Works
Minister
William
Gyude
Moore recently said US$1.5
billion will be needed to fulfill
the modernization of the
countrys road network.
With only 19% of the
Liberias 2015/2016 national
fiscal budget going toward
infrastructure
and
basic
services, commuters of Grand
Bassa and elsewhere in rural
Liberia
should
embrace
themselves for more difficult
travels every rainy season.
community,
Dr.
Ronald
Berkman,
President
of
CSU, said even from 5,000
miles away, we can help. He
therefore brought the CSU
community together to aid
institutions and individuals in
the country who were facing
the deadly Ebola virus.
Mr. Rufus Darkortey indicated
that every Liberian felt the
impact of the deadly Ebola
virus, irrespective of their
geographical location at the
moment. This created a
dire desire to do something
to save lives in the country.
That is why LEDI galvanized
the financial resources from
the United States to help the
vital medical institutions that
supported the Ebola fight, he
said.
Though the organization is
based in the United States, its
primary focus is to help reduce
poverty and change lives in
Liberia, he said. He concluded
by thanking the CSU, Margaret
Wong and Associates, the
Board of Directors, staff, and
donors of LEDI, and other
institutions for raising the
needed funds for the medical
institutions here in Liberia.
The LEDI leader also thanked
the people of Liberia and
the stakeholders, including
the government, local and
international
organizations
for helping to eradicate the
virus from the country.
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TARGET
HR
RECRUITMENT
Position
Head,
Human
Capital
Management
Legal Officer
Country Treasurer
Description
Education
Minimum
of
First
degree
in
Law
and
membership
of
relevant
legal
professional
organization/bodies,
Experience
5
years
legal
experience
of
which
a
minimum
of
3
years
are
within
a
banking
environment
with
specific
reference
to
banking
law
&
legislature
within
the
local
operating
environment,
Education
Tertiary
degree
in
any
field,
Relevant
certification
will
be
an
added
advantages,
Experience
Job
holder
must
have
at
least
7
years
working
experience
of
each
7
must
have
been
in
treasury
area
of
the
banking
industry.
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WORLD NEWS
BACK TO WAR
F
PAGE
RONT
HURRICANE HITS
WEST AFRICA
notice.
No hurricane has ever been recorded further east in the tropical
Atlantic.
A hurricane warning has been issued by the US-based National
Hurricane Center (NHC), which predicts coastal flooding due to
strong wind and heavy rains from Monday and overnight into
Tuesday.
The NHC says the last time a hurricane was recorded hitting
Cape Verde was 1892, although it cautions that records were
less exact before the advent of weather satellites in the mid1960s.
Hurricane conditions are occurring in islands in north-eastern
Cape Verde, with northern and north-western islands due to be
hit if the hurricane holds its current course, it adds.
The NHT has warned of flash flooding and mudslides as the
storm moves across the islands.
Hurricane Fred is forecast to gradually weaken from Tuesday
onwards, and will not affect other West African countries, says
BBC Weather's Sarah Keith-Lucas.
Cape Verde consists of 10 significant volcanic islands, nine of
which are inhabited.
ne national guard
member has been
killed and over 100
injured in violent
protests outside Ukraine's
parliament,
the
interior
ministry said.
Clashes between nationalists
and riot police erupted after
MPs gave initial backing to
reforms for more autonomy in
the rebel-held east.
Some in the crowd lobbed
what police said were live
grenades at officers protecting
parliament.
The reforms are part of a peace
plan to end fighting in eastern
Ukraine.
The Ukrainian President, Petro
Poroshenko, said the violence
was "a stab in the back".
Protesters led by the populist
Radical Party and the ultranationalist Svoboda (Freedom)
party - who oppose any
concession to the Russianbacked separatists - gathered
outside parliament early on
Monday.
After a rowdy debate, 265 MPs
out of 450 backed the first
reading of the decentralisation
bill, granting more powers to
areas of Donetsk and Luhansk.
Initially, there were only
minor clashes but a BBC
correspondent then heard
small explosions followed by
a much larger one - apparently
from a grenade.
The demonstrators numbered
barely more than a few dozen
- mainly young men, most of
them masked. They started the
fights with police, but others
supported them.
The protesters tried to pull
the policemen away from their
lines. They beat them and took
their shields and helmets. Soon
about a dozen young men were
almost as well-equipped as the
police.
Several times the atmosphere
near the building seemed to
calm down for a while, with
clashes starting up again. And
then the explosions began.
I saw some people - policemen
and firemen - falling to the
ground, and some running
away from the site, limping.
I saw pools of blood just near
he Monaco forward
has
landed
in
England and arrived
at
Carrington
to
complete the formalities ahead
of his move to Old Trafford that
could be worth a reported 36
million
Anthony Martial has arrived
at Carrington to undergo a
medical and complete his bigmoney move from Monaco to
Manchester United, Goal has
learned.
United agreed a deal with
their French counterparts on
Monday, although while the
British media are reporting
a fee of 36 million (50m),
French outlets claim it is closer
to 50m (68m).
Martial, who was handed his
first international call-up by
Didier Deschamps for the
upcoming fixtures against
Portugal and Serbia, was given
permission by the French
Football Federation to leave
the camp and fly to England.
He landed in Manchester on
Monday afternoon and staff at
the club's training ground were
told to prepare for his arrival
ahead of a medical.
The 19-year-old scored nine
goals in Ligue 1 last season
and has been identified as one
of the hottest properties in
French football.
Following
interest
from
Tottenham back in June he
signed a new contract with
Monaco, and it has been
reported in France that
boss Leonardo Jardim has
threatened to quit if he is sold
Sports
SPORTS
to United.
United's
non-international
players were given the day
he
Belgium
international
announced his
move to the
Bundesliga in a bid for
first-team football after
limited playing time at Old
Trafford
Manchester
United
winger Adnan Januzaj has
completed a season-long
loan move to Borussia
Dortmund.
The 20-year-old has seen
his chances of first-team
football at Old Trafford
restricted under Louis
van Gaal and he has now
joined the Bundesliga
side until the end of the
season, where he will
wear number nine.
DAVID DE GEA: REAL MADRID
AND MAN UTD AGREE 29M
DEAL FOR GOALKEEPER
JAVIER HERNANDEZ
SIGNS FOR BAYER
LEVERKUSEN
he
Mexico
international
has
signed a three year
contract with the
German side after completing
a transfer from Manchester
United
Bayer
Leverkusen
have
completed the signing of Javier
Hernandez from Manchester
United.
The Mexico international, who
spent last season on loan at
Real Madrid, signed a contract
with the Bundesliga side which
ties him to the club until June
2018.
Hernandez had fallen out
of favour at United and had
long been heavily linked to a
move away from Old Trafford
and has been snapped up by
Leverkusen.
Hernandez expressed his
delight at moving to Roger
Schmidt's team, who finished
fourth in the league last term.
"I know the English Premier
League and the Primera
Division in Spain, two of the
three major European leagues.
Now I want to experience the
Bundesliga," the forward said.
"Joining Bayer Leverkusen is
a great opportunity for me,
I want to and can achieve
something here."
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he Brazil international
has traded Bundesliga
teams as he leaves
last term's champions
to join the runners up
Wolfsburg have completed the
signing of centre-back Dante
from Bayern Munich.
Bayern had revealed on
Sunday that the 31-year-old
was set to leave the Bundesliga
champions for last season's
runners-up.
And Wolfsburg have now
revealed that the defender has
joined them on a three-year
deal for an undisclosed fee.
"We are pleased that Dante has
decided to join Wolfsburg," the
club's sporting director Klaus
Allofs said. "In him we have
signed a player who further
increases our capabilities and
quality defensively and who
also has a lot of international
experience, which is important
especially in our goal to
compete in the Bundesliga,
Champions League and DFBPokal."
Head coach Dieter Hecking
added: "Dante is a seasoned
Bundesliga player who will
help us immediately. With his
quality and his character he fits
perfectly into our squad."
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n agreement for
David de Gea to
join Real Madrid
from Manchester
United is believed to have
been reached, with Kayler
Navas moving the other
way.
The deal is yet to be
completed but it will also
involve a cash payment
from the Spanish giants,
taking the overall value to
40m euros (29m).
De Gea, 24, has been
linked with a move to Real
throughout the summer.
United manager Louis
van Gaal opted not to pick
him until the uncertainty
over his future had been
resolved.
helsea
are
set
to sign Senegal
international Papy
Djilobodji
from
Nantes in a 4m deal.
The defender is due for a
medical after agreement was
reached between the clubs for
the transfer of the 26-year-old.
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho
has turned his attention to the
6ft 4in centre-back after failing
to sign England's John Stones
from Everton.
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MONROVIA oreign
Minister
Augustine
Kpehe
Ngafuan has told the
newly graduated 37
young men and women to be
Liberias diplomats wherever
they find themselves and not
just when they were in class at
the Gabriel L. Dennis Foreign
Service Institute (FSI) within
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Foreign Min. Ngafuan, who
is also the Dean of the
Liberian Cabinet, also told the
graduates, he knows that all
of them desire to be placed at
some of Liberias best missions
in places like Washington
D.C., U.S.A.; Pretoria, South
Africa; Paris, France; Brussels,
Belgium;
London,
United
Kingdom; etc., but they dont
necessarily have to be in those
places before they can ably
represent Liberia as good
diplomats.
To be a good diplomat in
Washington, Pretoria or Paris,
firstly try to be a very good
diplomat on Broad Street
and in your present places of
work and your homes, the
Liberian Foreign Minister told
graduates on Friday, August
28, in the C. Cecil Dennis Hall
of the Foreign Ministry.
According to a Foreign Ministry
release, despite saying that, he
assured that there would be
placement for some of them.
However, he reminded them
that its not all milk and
honey at Liberias foreign
missions abroad.
The
Minister
renewed
an earlier promised and
announced that he would
immediately
place
the
Valedictorian and Salutatorian
Misses Christiana Wablo
and
Georgette
Dennis,
respectively on mission.
He, however, announced that
he would include Ms. Wablo
within the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs delegation attending
this years United Nations
General Assembly in New
York in order to gain her first
experience.
Among other things, Minister
Ngafuan disclosed that in
the next FSI academic year
students would be prepared to
do mandatory service within
the Foreign Ministry.
The Institute also, in the same
week of its graduation, hosts
what it calls Ambassadorial
Lecture Forum (ALF).
The Forum highlights Liberias
former ambassadors role
ichel Desaedeleer,
American
and
Belgian
citizen,
was arrested in
Spain this week, pursuant to
an European arrest warrant.
He is suspected of having
participated, with former
Liberian President Charles
Taylor and the Sierra Leonean
rebels of the Revolutionary
United Front (RUF), in
enslavement as a crime against
humanity and pillage of blood
diamonds as a war crime
in the district of Kono in the
Eastern part of Sierra Leone
between 1999 and 2001.
Several citizens of Sierra
Leone, victims of enslavement
during the civil war, filed in
Brussels in January 2011 a
posts of assignment.
I encourage all of you to
engage in economic diplomacy.
This new direction has become
a prominent part of Liberian
diplomacy.
Speaking earlier, FSI DG,
Dr. Konneh, stated that the
students were post-Ebola
graduates,
who
having
survived the deadly Ebola
virus disease (EVD), returned
to the classroom with vigor
to continue their learning
process.
Dr. Konneh stated the two
main objectives of the FSI
include to develop competent
and expertise. However, the
objectives are not only limited
to those two. But to be able
to make inputs into foreign
policy developments, and also
to effectively carry out foreign
policy decisions, wherever one
is posted and representing his/
her country, he added.
Frontpage
Monrovia
ttorney
Samuel
Kofi Woods, II says
the World should
be ashamed of the
Human Tragedy taking place in
Europe.
He has urged the United
Nations and the European
Union
to
convene
an
Emergency Security Council
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MONROVIA
resident Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has described the just
ended 2nd World Assembly for Women (WAW 2015)
held in Tokyo, Japan as a meeting that went very well.
The trip went very well. As you know, I was responding
to the Prime Ministers invitation to give the keynote address at
his program about the empowerment of women. I did that and
we also had bilateral meetings with him and a few of his officials
as well as the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA),
she indicated.
According to an Executive Mansion release, the Liberian leader
made the statement when she addressed journalists at the
Roberts International Airport upon her arrival from Tokyo, Japan
on Sunday, August 30, 2015.
On the bilateral discussions with the Japanese Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe, President Sirleaf indicated that Liberia stands to
benefit from the construction of two additional lanes on Somalia
Drive which will be increased to four lanes from Freeport to Red
Light. The construction of the first two lanes and the bridges
commenced in the dry season of 2014, but was suspended during
the Ebola crisis. Work is expected to resume in October, this year.
She noted that the first thing is to get the Japanese contactors
back to be able to complete the work and other things they have
promised to assist in the health sector.
As regards the Women Assembly for Women held under the
theme: WAW! For All, which brought together over 140
leaders of various fields from more than 40 countries and seven
international organizations, the Liberian leader said it was one
of the efforts to achieve A Society where Women Shine and
continues to be one of the priority issues of the Government of
current Japanese Prime Minister.
Meanwhile, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has taken
responsibility for the current managerial and financial difficulties
that the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) is facing. She
said she takes responsibility for the situation because she is the
head of the government, though she never thought that things
could have turned out this way because she had the belief that
she had an able senior management and Board of Directors at the
entity.
As the head of the country you have to take responsibility
even though you have a very able director and a very able
senior management I entrusted to make decisions on behalf
of the company, she said, adding, As the head of the country
anything that does not work the way we want I ultimately will be
responsible.
NOCAL has begun some structural adjustments at the institution
to avoid its collapse. An interim management team is being put in
place to steer the affairs of the company going forward.
Former public works minister Attorney-at-Law Samuel Kofi
Woods, at a program for group of Liberian women last week,
called on President Sirleaf and her government to take full
responsibility for the financial impropriety at the entity by
suspending the payment of severance and other benefits to
those retired or requested to resign until a full investigation is
conducted.
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