Liberia: Kimmie Weeks Threatens Legal Action

25 February 2013

The Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation-LWSC on Friday, February 22, 2013 in a major conference at it offices on Front Street threatened a US$.1M lawsuit against one of Liberia's newest newspaper, the People's Newspaper for a story it published in its Friday edition Vol. 1 No. 20 entitled: "Corporate Thievery? LWSC Board Chairman Linked".

According to the People's Newspaper in its Friday edition, "the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation the LWSC's Board Chairman Dr. Kimmy Weeks allegedly breached the usual Public Procurement and Concession Commission the (PPCC) regulations for procuring goods and services by engaging in some dubious transactions surrounding the purchase of electric pumps for the corporation."

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