Liberia: NOCAL Claims Community Projects That Do Not Exist

Nov 27, 2015 | Tetee Gebro, FrontPageAfrica
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The news that the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL) had delivered two much-needed latrines and a water well hand pump to his community came as a shock to Melvin C. Bettie, Commissioner of the Johnsonville Township. “This sounds very strange to me that NOCAL has projects in this township,” says Commissioner Bettie recently showing a reporter around the community. “There is no project that takes place in Johnsonville that is not to my knowing.” In its latest investigation into the Community Responsibility projects that NOCAL claims on its website, Front Page Africa went in search of the latrines and hand pump that NOCAL describes as follows: