The NEWS (Monrovia)
Monrovia
4 May 2005
A French company operating in the country has announced the suspension of its activities.
A dispatch from Paris, yesterday said that ATDI's decision concerns its engagement to ensure as a delegate, the operation of the Liberian Telecommunication Regulatory Agency that was awarded on February 26, 2005 to the company by the transitional government of Liberia.
The decision followed a number of recent events that has affected both the ethics and the corporate governance rules of the company.
It can be recalled in April, Post and Telecommunications Minister Eugene Nagbe and Vice Chairman Wesley Johnson signed a 2.2 million deal with ATDI but chairman Gyude Bryant cancelled the deal and ordered that all agreement be reviewed.
This agreement erupted disagreement among government officials in a cabinet meeting at the Executive Mansion.
Additionally, ATDI says they first referred to the lack of respect of certain contractual commitments jointly taken by the Ministries of Posts and Telecommunications, Finance, Justice and by the Vice Chairman of the transitional government.
"The transitional government of Liberia has provided an exclusive, abusive and long term radio frequencies allocation to the GSM operators in Liberia without requiring any of the legal obligations such as frequencies allocations and service obligations.
The release indicates the ATDI has been receiving various financial request from the highest authorities of the transitional government that were considered "unfounded", discriminatory and non transparent for the undertaking of its mission.
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