LCC Will Be Vindicated

MONROVIA-The Management of Liberia Cocoa Corporation (LCC) says, it is deeply troubled over the Liberian Senate Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry and the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) published report.

The group said the published report by the two institutions contain not only gross misrepresentations of facts but outright lies against LCC and its CEO, Mr. Momolu Tolbert.

Liberia Cocoa Corporation, in a release issued in Lofa said it is prepared to disprove each brazen lie presented by both the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry and the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) both with documentary and photographic evidence.

The management of Liberia Cocoa Corporation in their release challenged the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) to make available to the management of LCC and/or to publish for the general public the “alleged contract” for US$1.4 million that was “allegedly” and “unilaterally” awarded to Mr. Momolu Tolbert by Agriculture Minister, Jeanine M. Cooper.

Additionally, the management of Liberia Cocoa Corporation challenged the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry to make available to the management of Liberia Cocoa Corporation and/or publish for the general public any and all documents and/or reports that support the Senate Committee’s claim that Mr. Tolbert brought into the country “all dead cocoa seeds that were not F1 Hybrid Cocoa Seeds”.

The management of LCC said in the release that they are confident that Liberia Cocoa Corporation and its CEO, Mr. Tolbert, will be fully vindicated from what they called ‘shameless and politically motivated lies’ that Senate Committee on Agriculture, Fishery and Forestry and the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) has falsely presented to the general public as “truth”.

Alphonso Toweh

Has been in the profession for over twenty years. He has worked for many international media outlets  including: West Africa Magazine, Africa Week Magazine, African Observer and  did occasional reporting for CNN, BBC World Service, Sunday Times, NPR, Radio Deutchewells, Radio Netherlands. He is the current correspondent for Reuters 
 He holds first  MA with honors in International  Relations and a  candidate for second master in International Peace studies and Conflict  Resolution from the University of Liberia.