IN JUNE 2015, Police charged 23 people over riots at the Golden Veroleum palm oil plantation in which a senior company official was taken hostage and a government minister wounded. QUITE RECENTLY, FRONTPAGEAFRICA reported that Sime Darby, another major concessionaire is on the verge of abandoning its investment in Liberia over similar concerns. THE COMPANY IS LISTED as SIME.KL on the Kuala Lumpur stock exchange and has several investments across the world including palm oil plantation in Liberia. LAST AUGUST, Preston Nunuh, another Sime Darby Plantation security officer in Madina, Grand Cape Mount County was shot at and wounded on the leg with single barrel gun. IN A MEETING WITH president George Manneh Weah last week, Sime Darby executives were assured by the President and government that the matter would be looked into.

Source: Front Page Africa February 19, 2019 11:03 UTC