Business's Bribery Shifts Country Dividends To A Privileged Few

Dec 28, 2014 | J. Yanqui Zaza, The Perspective
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For big business to get its sweet heart deal, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf paid $31,000, predictably, to each Liberian Senator, to approve an Oil Agreement between Liberia and the Liberty Petroleum Corporation, an American Company. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, against the advice of Global Witness that Liberia should not negotiate any concessionary agreement from a position of weakness as well as in the midst of the Ebola Crisis, did otherwise. Lawmakers wasted no time in approving President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s request after they received the $31k each. The bribery check issued to Senator Sando D. Johnson reminded me of an earlier big business bribery case, famously known as the Clemenceau Urey bribery case.