MONROVIA, Feb. 25 -- The Special Presidential Task Force Commissioned by President George Weah to investigate the unprecedented shortage of gasoline in Liberia presented its findings to the President last Friday.

The Task Force, headed by the Minister of State Without Portfolio, Trokon Kpui, was charged with the responsibility of probing what was determined to be a variance of 60 percent between importers' inventory of products at the Liberia Petroleum Refining Company (LPRC) and actual stock at the storage facilities.

The report, which is yet to be made public, includes a detailed explanation of the LPRC petroleum storage and lifting schedules, while also describing what caused the shortage and which corrective measures should be taken...