Former Commerce Minister, Miatta Beysolow, current minister Axel Addy, Andrew Paygar, Daniel Dean, Filiman Sanyon and Steve Flahn Paye failed to show up at the PAC hearing. Rep. Fallah told FrontPageAfrica that Minister Addy and others had received four separate communications inviting them to the committee’s hearing but have turned it down. In 2008, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf held a bilateral consultation with the Japanese Ambassador accredited to Ghana for food aid to Liberia. On 18 August 2008, a bilateral agreement was signed between the Governments of Japan and Liberia for Japan Food Aid to Liberia. The former officials’ indictment was based on the sale of the Japanese Oil grant to the Liberian Government.

Source: Front Page Africa February 09, 2017 03:20 UTC