The Inquirer (Monrovia)
30 April 2008
press release
The attention of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) has been drawn to the series of banner headline stories in National Chronicle over the past two days with a horde of allegations against the LTA and its Chairman, Albert Bropleh.
The National Chronicle front page stories inter alia accused Chairman Bropleh of planning to throw out of the Liberian market certain GSM companies to give way to new applicants for GSM licenses, lording himself over his colleagues on the LTA commission and taking unilateral decisions.
The LTA strongly rejects these reports as merely a fragment of someone's mind and have no truth.
The LTA wishes to clarify that decisions at the LTA are reached by majority members of the five-member Board of Commissioners consistent with the Telecom Law and that Chairman Bropleh is only the first among equals.
The LTA is aware of the GSM companies' funded-media campaign against the LTA with the aim of diverting the Regulator from performing its statutory functions much to the liking of service providers which seemingly has no intentions to do business in good faith.
The LTA reiterates that it is determined to execute its duties and the powers given to it under the Telecom Law to bring sanity to the patently disordered telecom sector and no amount of mischief by the band of GSM companies or individuals would daunt the LTA's effort.
Finally, the LTA reminds National Chronicle to always follow the elementary principle of journalism in its reportage-getting all sides to a story-as the paper failed to do so in the case of the LTA.
A journalist or media institution's credibility is easily eroded where ethical standards are not adhered to.
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