The Inquirer (Monrovia)
1 November 2008
The Management of the Consolidated Group, provider of Satellite television services has reacted to a report that it has brought into the country road construction materials that are considered as scraps and sold same to the Government of Liberia.
Yesterday, the New Democrat reported that the state spent US$814,195.00 on scrapped road construction equipment that is now virtually neglected at the compound of the Ministry of Public Works.
The report said that the equipment has not been used since Public Works Minister, Luseni Dunzo bought same from the Consolidated Group.
Reacting to the report, the Chief Executive Officer of the Consolidated Group, Mr. Simeon Freeman, described the report as inaccurate because the equipment was supplied to the ministry two years ago.
He noted that if equipment is a scrap the buyer would reject it on the day it was supplied, saying, "the equipment have been used to rehabilitate and reconstruct roads for the past two years."
Mr. Freeman described the report as "yellow journalism" on ground that the author of the news article did not even contact his company for their side of the story. "We will take legal action against the New Democrat and they will have to prove that the equipment is a scrap," he stressed.
The Consolidated Group's CEO expressed surprise that the paper could publish such a defaming article about his company without getting their side to the story. He said if the equipment was a scrap, this could have provoked a bad and counter-reaction from the Ministry of Public Works when they were brought in two years ago.
He said the Consolidated Group want to distant itself from such a cheap propaganda that people want to use to remove their Minister from office.
Mr. Freeman said when the equipment was brought some experts came along and trained employees of the Public Works Ministry to use them.
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