Liberia: Huge Price for People's Rights - Govt. Stops Forest Vampires, Threatens Prosecution

The Government, at the end of 2012, reported the creation of hundreds of jobs in apparent fulfillment of promise etched into its three-year development plan, and no doubt the logging industry is—or was—one of the linchpins of that fulfilled promise. But knowing that partner of Government was actually a wolf in sheep skin, wrecking important national edicts and regulations. It is now caught pants down and, notwithstanding its contribution of job and revenue creation, the logging sector is facing the wrath of Government, as The Analyst reports.

"…the Government stands to lose several millions of dollars in revenue; but this is a price that this Government is ready to pay to preserve our forests, to maintain the integrity of the legal and regulatory framework that underpins the use of our forest resources, and to enhance compliance with our international obligations as a responsible member of the international community."

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