The anti-corruption and environmental lobby group accused Sable employees of bribing government officials to gain access to valuable mining licences. Delta, later, reinvented itself as Sable Mining. Sherman maneuvered in encouraging Sable Mining to invest in Liberia, promising to use his expertise as lawyer and his then portfolio as Chairman of the then ruling Unity Party to win mining exploration bids from the government. But Sable Mining and Groves summersaulted in the affidavit, claiming that Sherman was solely responsible for all their activities in Liberia as he presented himself as a very strategic personality in the government, who could have helped them win mining bids. To harmonize the mining law with the 2005 Act section “75” was inserted and then we came out with the 2010 amended act,” Sherman explained.

Source: Front Page Africa February 28, 2018 01:30 UTC