Liberia: LACC Asset Verification Report & Public Anxiety

editorial

THE LIBERIA ANTI-CORRUPTION Commission (LACC), in releasing its first report on the verification of assets recently declared by officials of Government, bumped into the bellicose outrage of "culprits"—subjects of that anti-corruption exercise. The media and the General Auditing Commission (GAC), particularly the GAC under John Morlu, are used to the tongue-lashing reactions of individuals caught pants down in graft and theft. The unearthing of official perfidy has been so much a crime that investigative news organs and the Morlu-led GAC put themselves at odd with the belligerent outbursts of scoundrels and kleptocrafts who employ their ill-gotten wealth to rally public sympathy and unleash paid lackeys and surrogates to repudiate reports on official dishonesties.

LACC HAS ALSO begun to battle reactionary "culprits" in the aftermath of its first Asset Declaration Verification Report in which it has booked up to 63 public officials for various dishonest declarations and failure to cooperate. Four of the officials, according to the LACC, were booked for misrepresentations and unexplained accumulation of wealth, some for incomplete verification due to outstanding issues, some for persistent excuses, amongst others. As it stands, the entire asset declaration process appears muddled by the reported issues, and the public remains aghast about such an important anti-corruption intervention.

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