Monrovia, April 21 -- Representative Thomas Romeo Quioh of Sinoe County's Electoral District-1 has admitted his connection to a shady logging company, while denying it.

By Varney Kamara, with The DayLight

Quioh was reacting to a recent DayLight investigation, citing allegations by locals that he co-owned African Finch Logging Limited, a UAE-based firm that has a logging MoU with the Numopoh Community Forest in Sinoe's Kpayan District. Locals, including county officials, accused Quioh of bribing and intimidating chiefs and elders into signing the document the same day he introduced it.

"As a duly elected lawmaker and a member of the advisory board of directors of the African Finch..., my involvement in forestry-related matters is stric...