Liberia: FDA's U.S.$6 Million PUP Trial Defendants Linked to 'Falsifying Signatures of Land Deeds'

Apr 16, 2015 | Abednego Davis, Liberian Observer
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Several former managers of the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) on trial for illegally issuing sixty-one (61) Private Use Permits (PUPs) in the amount of US$6M were last Tuesday linked to "forging signatures" on the community land deeds that authorized logging companies to operate on 2.5 million hectares of farmland throughout the country.

Thomas Doe Nah, a member of the Presidential Special Independent Investigation Body (SIIB), testified that representatives of the communities informed the SIIB that they did not know how the FDA awarded their lands to the companies for logging activities.