Liberia: Negligent Contractors Arrested, Jailed in Nimba County

11 December 2012

Nimba County Assistant Superintendent for Development, Teeko Tozay Yorlay, has ordered the arrest and prosecution of negligent contractors who abandoned contracts in the county under the County Development Fund and Social Development Fund.

The arrest order, which was successfully executed by the Liberia National Police Nimba Detachment, came against the backdrop of several contractors entering into contract with his predecessors and refusing to complete them on time thinking that the replacement of the current Assistant Superintendent predecessor was an opportunity for them to go unnoticed with several thousand United States dollars from the county's coffers. Before the coming of Assistant Superintendent Yorlay, his predecessors had entered about eighteen contractors with contractors to begin and complete elementary schools, clinics, commissioners' compound and commissioner's residence in fifteen (15) of the seventeen(17) administrative districts. Upon taking over, the youthful Assistant Superintendent noticed that only one had been successfully completely.

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