Monrovia-Montserrado County District #13 Representative, Gabriel Nyenkan, says the recent Global Witness report alleging corruption in the highest annals of government is a fraudulent report.
“What I discovered of this report is that we are running around as a government and as a people for no reason,” he said over the weekend at the Center for the Exchange of Intellectual Opinion. “This report is fraud, is faulty, and is innovated with errors that can’t stand any day and night. Therefore, don’t waste your time on this report.”
“I agree with you that there is so much fatigue among the people as far as corruption is concerned. Anything that has to do with corruption—we will reverberate and the people will be concerned and they want immediate action because the history of this nation is replete with instances of corruptions”, he said.
Representative Nyenkan said he left Unity Party because President Sirleaf’s failure to curtail corruption.
“At least first, corruption was a human being, and then they took it as a public enemy, but the government’s own admission is that this human being metamorphosed into a vampire. I am afraid that it is becoming a Dracula, and so how can human being arrest vampire? So, the war on corruption is lost”, he said.
He registered that the first way to fight corruption is to take serious reports from the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission and General Anti-corruption Commission.
“If the country wants to fight corruption, the GAC report should be the first place to fight corruption. We are not concerned about our own money but rather about sable mining’s money”, Representative Nyenkan said.
According to the Global Witness report, bribes in the tune of nine-hundred and fifty thousand were given to change the law but the district 13 lawmaker said there was no law changed as he also challenged Global Witness to show evidence that laws were changed.
Rejecting Tyler’s Recusal
House Speaker J. Alex Tyler who has been indicted by a special taskforce over the Global Witness alleged scandal, has come under threat by several lawmakers who are calling for his recusal.
The CDC lawmaker said although his party has not come out with a definite position, he does not want the speaker to recuse himself unless he goes to trial and be found guilty.
“What I can say- if the verdict comes out today and the speaker is convicted, I will be the first to tell the speaker to resign,” he said.
He said over time there has been several lawmakers who were named in reports of corruption, naming Representatives Acarous Gray and Edward Forh as examples.
“Although it was alleged that Honorable Gray was accused of eating his people Ebola money, did he recuse himself or did we tell him to recuse himself?”, he questioned.
Representative Nyenkan added: “what about Representative Ford, who is the head of the Montserrado legislative caucus admitted to the recording of ‘you eat I eat’ saga and was still chairing the caucus. Did he recuse himself or did we ask him? When the same representative Snowe who is calling for speaker Tyler to recuse himself was there and could not call for honorable Forh to do same.”
J.H. Webster Clayeh (0886729972)[email protected]