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Media reports of official corruption continue to make headlines in Liberia. Quite recently for example, members of the Liberian Senate, perhaps acting on cue from a concern public have demanded that the head of the team that handled the COVID-19 emergency relief program provide proper account of funds and materials received.
Corruption literally means to destroy. It is often described as a type of behavior that deviates from tradition, morality, ethics, and law. It also leads to the abuse of power in decision making processes.
Influence peddling, bribery, graft, breach of trust by a public officer, nepotism, cronyism, patronage, extortion, kickbacks, embezzlement, robbery, extortion, are all forms of corruption.
Indigenous Peoples Cry for Protection: As Human Rights Defenders Zoom on West Africa
Indigenous Peoples Cry for Protection: As Human Rights Defenders Zoom on West Africa
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Monrovia – Grassroots Frontline Environmental, Land and Human Right Defenders in West Africa convened from 29 – 31 March 2021, to discuss the situation affecting their work by way of the zoom technology. It was by all means a meeting of multidimensional profiles – with the high and the lowly in society interfacing. Credit to the Mano River Union Civil Society Natural Resource Rights and Governance Platform and its affiliate organization, Green Advocates International-Liberia, the progenitor of the initiative.
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Edwin W. Harris, FIU Liberia Director General
The Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) of Liberia and neighboring Sierra Leone are presently brainstorming on workable measures to fight trade-based money laundering, the movement of cash along the borders of the two Mano River Union (MRU) countries, sharing intelligence and expertise in the fight against money laundering and terrorist financing.
A press release quotes Harris as saying that their visit to Sierra Leone is on the basis of sharing experiences and learning lessons from the Sierra Leonean FIU and other competent authorities in that neighboring country who just completed their second round of mutual evaluations with a moderate rating.