Monrovia — The Minister of National Defense, Brownie J. Samukai has admitted to wastefully spending of "welfare and supplementary pension benefit" belonging to members of the Armed forces of Liberia (AFL), citing "Procedural Lapses" for the misapplication.
Speaking to a team of journalists at a press conference on Thursday, January 18 at the Ministry of National Defense (MOD) in Monrovia, the long serving Defense Minister in the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's administration said the salary deduction scheme begun in 2009 as a supplementary pension benefit for AFL soldiers after their years of service.
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