Credible information reaching the
Daily Observer Newspaper has it that the Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) will on today, April 6, release its investigative findings into allegations that Judge Eva Mappy Morgan of the Commercial Court authorized the illegal withdrawal of over US$3 million from the account of Ducor Petroleum Inc, while the matter was still pending undecided.
Wednesday’s scheduled release of the report comes after the matter has been pending before the JIC for a period of eight months, beginning August 2020, when both Judge Morgan and her accuser, Amos Brosius of Ducor Petroleum Inc, testified during the Investigation.
This latest development also comes barely a week after the US State Department on Human Rights released its 2020 reports, where it highlighted serious lapses of the JIC.
Liberia: Kenneth Best on the Daily Observer Newspaper and Its 40-Year Journey
Liberia: Kenneth Best on the Daily Observer Newspaper and Its 40-Year Journey
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The first thing I would like to do in this brief statement on the 40-year History of Liberia’s Daily ObserverNewspaper is to give thanks to Almighty God for giving Mae Gene and me, in January 1977, as we were coming to the close of our careers in Nairobi, Kenya, the idea of returning home to start Liberia’s first independent daily newspaper.
I remember vividly when we first started dating in 1970 that we conceived the idea of publishing a magazine in Liberia. We were not sure as to whether it would be one on politics or fashion or both. God blessed our relationship with consummation in marriage, on July 17, 1971. July 17 this year will make us 50 years married. To God Be the Glory! And thank you, Mae Gene!
Liberia’s Auditor General Recruitment Red Flag
Liberia’s Auditor General Recruitment Red Flag
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Monrovia – The recruitment of the next Auditor General of Liberia appears to be starting on the wrong footing in what is likely a violation of the General Commission Act of 2014 by the office of the President. According to Section 2.1.1.
The recruitment process, according to the GAC Act requires that an Independent Selection and Recruitment Process shall be set up by the President for the purpose of identifying suitable candidates for the position of Auditor General and (II) membership of the ad hoc committee shall include the incumbent Auditor or Acting Auditor General, Senior representatives of the Civil Service Commission, Anti-Corruption Commission, the Liberian Institute of certified Public Accountants the Governance Commission and Civil Society in Good Standing. This is done six months prior to the expiration of the tenure of the current Auditor General.
An investigation conducted by the Daily Observer Newspaper has established that Mr. Kokulo Borvor, the current Comptroller General of the Ministry of Justice, alleged of been expelled as a student from AMEU has reportedly presented a fake academic credential claiming to have graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from the university in 2017.
The Ministry of Justice, an institution responsible to seek justice for citizens, has allegedly employed an expelled student of the African Methodist Episcopal University (AMEU) as its comptroller General.
An investigation conducted by the
Daily Observer Newspaper established that Mr. Kokulo Borvor, the current Comptroller-General of the Ministry of Justice, was expelled as a student from AMEU but has reportedly presented a faked academic credential claiming to have graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from the university in 2017.