Liberia: The Leakages at the Ministry of Finance

opinion

The Liberian people may never get to know clearly how much of their taxes paid into government coffers are leaking into pockets of unscrupulous individuals or officials thru illegal withdrawals from dormant GoL accounts with commercial banks here.

But if ongoing probe by the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning into circumstances leading to the alleged withdrawals of L$6 million and US$68,000 respectively from various official accounts with one of the commercial banks in the country, GN Bank Liberia Limited, is anything to gauge by then the depth of the bleeding of the state coffers is deeper than image.

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