Monrovia – The Special Presidential Task Force has released an initial list of ‘persons of interest’ for a compliance screening exercise on all General Auditing Commission (GAC) Reports that are not currently been investigated by the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) or Prosecuted by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in the country.
The Minister of State without Portfolio and Chair of the Task Force Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa says the exercise begins effectively Monday June 6, 2016.
He said these names will be updated every week depending on how those issues raised in the GAC reports are resolved.
The Task Force further emphasizes that each person of interest has a period of 30 days to contact the office of the Minister of State without Portfolio responsible for compliance review to respond to the concerns raised in the GAC reports.
Those concern can contact the following numbers 0886775571/0770130629 to schedule an appointment.
Meanwhile, the Task Force notes that this exercise is purely administrative, and not at an investigatory or prosecutorial process.
“Our role is not to investigate and prosecute the GAC report. Our role at this point, is to do compliance screening, to assist the GAC, ensuring that answers to the questions that were left unanswered are resolved. If we find improprieties, we will refer those to the LACC,” the Task Force Chairman clarified.
Attached are the initial names of those persons of interest listed for this exercise