MONROVIA – Martin Saye Kollah, former Chief-of-Office-staff (COS) in the office of Montserrado County Senator, Darius Dillon, has admitted to receiving salary for five consecutive months, despite resigning his job.
The monies were deposited in his UBA account from September 2021 to January 2022. He resigned on August 18, 2021.
In his admission, Kollah said he received a letter on February 3rd from Mr. John Cholorpray, the administrative assistant in the office of Sen. Dillon informing him that salary payments were still being deposited in his UBA salary accounts for the period September 2021 to January 2022 and solicited his response to the receipts of salaries for the time indicated.
Addressing a press conference on Monday at the headquarters of Liberty Party, Kollah said he resigned on August 18, 2021, and his resignation took effect on August 31, 2022.
He said, he expected his salary payments to have been deactivated upon his resignation as he was unaware that payments were still being made to the accounts until he got a letter from the administrative assistant.
“As a personal office staff to you, my salary accounts were opened upon submission of my name to the human resource office of the House of Senate, which subsequently placed me on the payroll. Therefore, the responsibility to remove me from the payroll after I resigned was in your preview to follow the same method by which I enrolled,” he said.
He said since he received the letter, he has retrieved copies of the bank statements which confirms that salary deposits were made to the accounts in the amount of US$3,111.20USD and LD$127,098.00LRD accumulating the total of USD$3,942.00USD for the five months.
He further said for the five months from September 2021 to January 2022 the combined amount of US$3,942.00USD was sent him through electronic transfer by UBA to LBDI to service his mortgage loan, adding that he has already paid US$3,942.00 which covers full restitution of the balance of the amount in his bank account and transferred. He stated, “The entire saga about salary still being going to my account after I resigned was an evil plot and deception by Senator Dillon from the very beginning meant to incriminate me because of ill feelings towards me as a result of the negative public and media backlash Dillon received because of my resignation and political stance in the Liberty Party as the party SG.