Criminal Court “C” has issued an order to re-arrest for Duanna Kamara, former managing director of the Liberian Water and Sewerage Company (LWSC), in connection with the alleged disappearance of US$240,510 for the purpose of running the company.
Others appointed on the arrest order include Moisery Momoh, Associate Director of Management, George Nyenkan, Materials Management Manager, Shad Massaquoi, Manager/Coordinator of Grand Bassa County, Mohammed Konneh, owner of Sesay’s Brothers Business Center, and Ayouba Kamara, an employee of the business center.
The court’s order comes almost four years after the Liberian Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) and the accused signed the contract that caused the prosecutor to halt the matter (Nolle Prosequoi).
Nolle Prosequoi does not mean that the case has been dismissed, but the state can arrest you whenever they want to arrest you with the same or additional charges.
Based on this, the current administration resumed the same issue and upgraded the indictment.
The arrest relates to a similar issue in 2021 when Judge Bramo Dixon exempts the accused from answering the case through a request to cease (Nolle Prosequoi).
Initially, the LACC had argued that they were unable to proceed with the case because there was insufficient evidence to continue the matter.
They are charged with economic obstruction, misuse of public funds, theft of property, records, property, misuse of entrusted property, and criminal conspiracy.
According to the indictment, in August 2021, LACC received a tip-off from a whistleblower claiming that the LWSC management team was engaged in corrupt practices.
Court documents revealed, among other things, that US$99,000 was allegedly transferred from a project account belonging to the LWSC to the fake offshore company Hydro Conseil.
He also claimed that Hydro Conseil was hired to manage the LWSC to design feasibility studies and prepared bid documents for the construction of private and mechanical works to improve water supply to Paynesville and Central Monrovia.
Unfortunately, court records argue that employment was carried out against the regulations of the Public Procurement and Concession Committee, the Project Implementation Manual, and there was no evidence of the work carried out.
It has also been revealed that, contrary to the PPCC regulations and the procurement procedures set out in PEM, the management of the LWSC and the management of the Project Implementation Unit (PIU) led to approximately 59,000 gallons of fuel being raised at a cost of USD 177,730.
The indictment also argues that with support from the World Bank, the procurement of fuel is aimed at strengthening the Liberian Urban Water Supply Project (LUWSP), particularly during the Covid 19 pandemic, and that the fuel was misapplied by the defendant for personal gain, court documents allegedly claim that the compensation (water supply) paid to the amount of Moniter was paid. It is applied incorrectly and cannot be explained.
The LACC extended department launched an investigation, discovering the defendant’s corrupt practices, alleging that it was based on the abuse of public funds based on fraudulent spending and abuse of public funds by corporate executives.
They claimed that the World Bank and the LWSC project implementation unit had raised 59,000 gallons of fuel at a cost of USD 177,730 from Petro Trade on April 21, 2020 through the Quotation Marks (RFQ) method using vouchers, and used check (#: 0013851).
The alleged prosecution, the supply, is intended to be used as emergency assistance during the Covid-19 pandemic for de thrashing operations, and also to use the operation of standby generators used to operate high lift pumps at White Plains water treatment plants.
“Of the 59,000 gallons of fuel supplied to 2,650 gallons of LWSC were stored at LWSC Fiamah in Sincol, Monrovia Station.
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The remaining 54,000 gallons were stored at the White Plains Water Treatment Plant in Caldwell Montserrado County, the indictment says.
On May 21, 2020, Kamara directed and approved the receipt of 8,000 gallons of fuel, contrary to the purpose of the fuel for the purpose of dropping operations, as well as the operation of the standby generator at the water treatment plant.
On June 1, 2020, the defendant received an additional 11,000 gallons, a total of 19,000 gallons that were transported to unknown destinations by George Nyenkan’s Material Control Officer.
“The above fuel cannot be explained by the defendant, and it was also sold to vendors Nyekan said he didn’t remember, and therefore the proceeds were split between them,” the indictment alleges.
LACC alleged that the defendant sold the fuel for US$49,780 (and then US$2.62 per gallon).
