Monrovia, April 29 -- FDA Managing Director Rudolph Merab illegally granted Mavasagueh in Compound Number Two, Grand Bassa a community forest status. By Emmanuel Sherman, with The DayLight

Merab approved Mavasagueh's logging contract with C&C Corporation, co-owned and run by Clarence Massaquoi, an ineligible logger. Then Khalil Haider, a Duport Road resident, wrote to the FDA to claim 3,200 acres of Mavasagueh. Against the law, Merab encouraged Haider to compromise his claim and bargain with Massaquoi. Another person, Amos Lewis, also wrote Merab, claiming the same land as Haider but his claim has yet to be addressed. Amid these issues, Merab approved of Massaquoi's harvesting, selling timber to Krish Veneer Industries, an illegitimate...