MONROVIA – The office of the Deputy Commissioner General for Administration at the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA), termed as malicious, baseless, and mere falsehood that the Deputy Commissioner for Administration, Mr. Samuel Bennett, Jr., ‘has begun assuming the functions of Commissioner General, Thomas Doe-Nah’.
According to a press statement issued in Monrovia, on February 20, Mr. Bennet’s office said that no time, that the Commissioner General for Administration ever attempted to assume the role or functions of his boss, Commissioner General Thomas Doe Nah, but he believes it is a mere and cheap propaganda intended to create hate and division among authorities and staff of that noble entity.
The Liberia Revenue Authority Act of 2015, Section 7.17, clearly states, “On job rotation policy the authority shall take the general rotation of certain categories of staff from one permanent place of work to another. Additionally, the Act states: the rotation shall take place within 24 months. Notwithstanding, the authority reserves the right to rotate in any category it deems necessary to obtain its objective. The department head is responsible for preparing the rotation schedule within two months prior to the end of the authority’s fiscal year. The general staff rotation and all matters thereof shall be governed by the authority’s staff rotation policy. Rotation of staff shall in no way reduce affected staff remuneration except for benefits linked to the function and location.
Staff to be rotated including those heading a section, unit, or business office are to prepare a formal turnover report and turn over all assets, receipt book where applicable, required pertinent reports, documents, and other information to their immediate assistants.
The Human Resource Management Head shall be responsible to ensure the timely payment of rotation allowance, the availability of transportation, and the readiness of housing for all rotating staff.
Human Resource Management Head shall also coordinate with the procurement office to ensure that outstation rent or lease is timely paid and all associated repair and maintenance timely done.
The office Mr. Bennet also indicated that at no time he ever operated outside of his scope of operations as enshrined in the Liberia Revenue Authority Act and that he works squarely within the laws of the institution.
Mr. Bennet also expressed disappointment for someone within the corridor of the LRA accused the Executive Mansion of approving the wrongdoing within the LRA.
“We work within our act and the Executive Mansion has nothing to do with our work. This is purely unacceptable and unthinkable for the so-called sources within the corridors to create such fallacy against the nation’s highest office,” he said.
According to him, the Executive Mansion gives every official of government the legal and level playing field to operate freely meaning, officials of LRA work in accordance with the Act of 2015 that established the LRA.
Mr. Bennet then called for collective work among authorities and all staff of the institution in order to drastically move the LRA to a noble height.