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Officers Want Corruption Allegation Probed
The effort to fight corruption by the Ellen-Johnson –Sirleaf led Administration is being frustrated and
constantly undermined by most of her cronies, especially some of those who were imported to help in
the attainment of what she envisages.
But critics of the administration claim, the president is doing little or nothing to deal with corrupt officials,
something they say gives credence to the proliferation of corruption cases in her Administration .
Following receipt of the documents, four LNP officers over the weekend issued a release calling on the
Government through the Ministry of Justice and the General Auditing Commission (GAC) to launch an
immediate investigation to ascertain the allegation of the wide spread corruption.
The officers said they concurred with President Sirleaf that corruption is deeply entrenched well and
alive in her administration. The officers said they are direct witnesses of rampant corruption at level of
the L N P.
The LNP officers claimed that some US$ 3,709,136.00 and US$ 212,026.00, an unrestricted special
operation fund were misapplied in the fiscal year of 2006/2007 by the Sieh administration.
The officers alleged that they wrote a communication to the Comptroller at LNP, N. Melvin Togba,
seeking accountability, improvements of the section and division of labor beginning fiscal year
2007/2008.
The officers explained that since their advocacy against corrupt practices at LNP, they have been a
target of dismissal and witch-hunt.
The aggrieved officers further narrated that because of their stance to combat corruption, they are
currently suffering from what they referred to as “four unjust and drastic administrative actions”,
namely: time indefinite suspension, removal of names from payroll, prevention from entering LNP
premises and constant threats of eviction from LNP barracks.
They claimed that they were allegedly removed from the finance section by Col. Sieh on allegation of
US$ 100,000 theft. “This is a scam and false accusation leveled against to scare us and stop us from
raising the issues of financial mal-practices we discovered at the finance department of the LNP where
we work.”
The officers said when they first discovered the malpractices, Col. Asatu Kanneh attempted to bribe
them from publishing the story, but the story was subsequently published in one of the local dailies on
August 29, 2007.
The Sieh administration, according to them angrily and maliciously subjected them to a pro-
administrative investigation characterized by what they described as bias, harassment and intimidation.
The aggrieved officers said in their release that they were accused and suspended since November 2,
2007, but they have not been formally charged and prosecuted to establish their guilt or innocence.
“We are taken aback on the administration's continuous silence on media reports linking them to
massive corruption”, they said.
The aggrieved officers include Superintendents Emmanuel P. Brown, Amos F. Watson, Massa M.
Bestman, and Inspectors Jacob S. Borford and Sharkey Morris.
Reporter of this paper made all efforts to contact Col. Kanneh and other officers, but no avail. As per
Col.Kanneh, each time she was called by our reporter to comment on the allegation the reporter was
told that she was always in meetings. This went on for four days. The last time the reporter called a
male answered and our reporter identified himself and requested to talk with Col.Kanneh.The male who
answered then promised to get Col.Kanneh to call right after that meeting. Up to 6pm yesterday
another call was made to Col.Kanneh and the same male voice answered and said that Col.Kanneh
was in meeting. Asked if he could give us his name he said it was not important. “Go to the PRO
section”, he shouted.
The effort to fight corruption by the Ellen-Johnson –Sirleaf led Administration is being frustrated and
constantly undermined by most of her cronies, especially some of those who were imported to help in
the attainment of what she envisages.
But critics of the administration claim, the president is doing little or nothing to deal with corrupt officials,
something they say gives credence to the proliferation of corruption cases in her Administration .
Following receipt of the documents, four LNP officers over the weekend issued a release calling on the
Government through the Ministry of Justice and the General Auditing Commission (GAC) to launch an
immediate investigation to ascertain the allegation of the wide spread corruption.
The officers said they concurred with President Sirleaf that corruption is deeply entrenched well and
alive in her administration. The officers said they are direct witnesses of rampant corruption at level of
the L N P.
The LNP officers claimed that some US$ 3,709,136.00 and US$ 212,026.00, an unrestricted special
operation fund were misapplied in the fiscal year of 2006/2007 by the Sieh administration.
The officers alleged that they wrote a communication to the Comptroller at LNP, N. Melvin Togba,
seeking accountability, improvements of the section and division of labor beginning fiscal year
2007/2008.
The officers explained that since their advocacy against corrupt practices at LNP, they have been a
target of dismissal and witch-hunt.
The aggrieved officers further narrated that because of their stance to combat corruption, they are
currently suffering from what they referred to as “four unjust and drastic administrative actions”,
namely: time indefinite suspension, removal of names from payroll, prevention from entering LNP
premises and constant threats of eviction from LNP barracks.
They claimed that they were allegedly removed from the finance section by Col. Sieh on allegation of
US$ 100,000 theft. “This is a scam and false accusation leveled against to scare us and stop us from
raising the issues of financial mal-practices we discovered at the finance department of the LNP where
we work.”
The officers said when they first discovered the malpractices, Col. Asatu Kanneh attempted to bribe
them from publishing the story, but the story was subsequently published in one of the local dailies on
August 29, 2007.
The Sieh administration, according to them angrily and maliciously subjected them to a pro-
administrative investigation characterized by what they described as bias, harassment and intimidation.
The aggrieved officers said in their release that they were accused and suspended since November 2,
2007, but they have not been formally charged and prosecuted to establish their guilt or innocence.
“We are taken aback on the administration's continuous silence on media reports linking them to
massive corruption”, they said.
The aggrieved officers include Superintendents Emmanuel P. Brown, Amos F. Watson, Massa M.
Bestman, and Inspectors Jacob S. Borford and Sharkey Morris.
Reporter of this paper made all efforts to contact Col. Kanneh and other officers, but no avail. As per
Col.Kanneh, each time she was called by our reporter to comment on the allegation the reporter was
told that she was always in meetings. This went on for four days. The last time the reporter called a
male answered and our reporter identified himself and requested to talk with Col.Kanneh.The male who
answered then promised to get Col.Kanneh to call right after that meeting. Up to 6pm yesterday
another call was made to Col.Kanneh and the same male voice answered and said that Col.Kanneh
was in meeting. Asked if he could give us his name he said it was not important. “Go to the PRO
section”, he shouted.