Monrovia, Feb. 28 -- Armed with presidential authority and state police, Gabriel Nyenkan, a former member of the national legislature put the incumbent Konah D. Karmoh, Head of Secretariat at the Liberia Extractive Initiative Transparency Initiative (LEITI) at gunpoint and demanded that Karmoh leave the premises of LEITI.

By Rodney D. Sieh, rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com

This was March 2019 - and President George Manneh Weah had appointed Nyenkan to the position although Karmoh had three years left in the position as a tenured official. Ironically, the Act establishing LEITI states that only the LEITI Multi-stakeholder Steering Group (MSG) can appoint or remove the Head of Secretariat. LEITI is part of the EITI- a global standard...