The Inquirer (Monrovia)
Solomon T Gaye
4 April 2008
Nimba County — Tension is reportedly mounting at the Liberia Institute of Statistics and Geoservices (LISGIS) offices in Ganta, Nimba County over the payment of supervisors and census enumerators who participated in the recent census in the county.
At about 9: 30, Thursday morning, the enumerators stormed the LISGIS offices in demand of their pay for services rendered.
The aggrieved workers alleged that some higher ups at the LISGIS offices were trying to relocate boxes, that contained relevant information on the census conducted in the area to take to Monrovia, when they have not receive their money.
The spokesman for the disgruntled workers, Emmanuel Y. Neenah, told this paper that during the census week, they never received any money as incentives as was promised by LISGIS authority.
He further alleged that officials of LISGIS have refused to inform them when they would ever receive their pay.
Efforts to meet with authorities of LISGIS in the county was unsuccessful as the Liberian National Police (LNP) backed by the UNMIL Bangladesh soldiers stationed in the county barricaded the offices so as to prevent the boxes containing the census data from being destroyed or tampered with.
The tension has forced LISGIS to relocate its offices to the UNMIL Bangladesh compound in Ganta, where some staff of LISGIS is editing the enumeration forms.
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