Liberia - RLJ Hotel Resort Sold in Secrecy? Billionaire's Baby Now in Ghanaians' Hands

Monrovia — It still bears the name of BET founder-turned-billionaire, developer and financier, Robert L. Johnson, but the RLJ Hotel Resorts & Villas, a US$10 million, 85-room facility, off Liberia's Robertsfield highway, one of the first major investments to emerge in the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf-led government appears to have been sold for apparently the second time since it was opened in June 2009.

An investigation by FrontPageAfrica has found that the hotel is the midst of changing ownership with the Coconut Grove Hotels, Ghana already in the process of managing the hotel and have already replaced several senior Liberian managers with Ghanaians.

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