Three important questions to consider in order to understand this indictment or case. This paper summarizes everything for you by answering three main questions:
1) Who are those that have been indicted?
Besides ex-Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Kemayah, former GSA Boss Mary Broh, former NDMA Boss Henry Williams, Thema E. Sawyer, and Archievego M. Doe who were arrested, imprisoned, and later released on human sureties today, there are eight more defendants who have also been indicted and risk being arrested for their alleged involvement into a major rice scandal valued at about half a million USD:
1) Edriss Bility
2) Augustine Kollie
3) Momolu Johnson
4) Wayfa Ciapha
5) Edward S. Konneh
6) Memie Davis, Rosetta
7) Augustine Tamba
8)Gbassay Bowah
9) Evelyn Gbee
2) Why are they being indicted, arrested, and jailed according to the 12-page indictment by and through the Ministry of Justice and the Asset Recovery Task Force as Plaintiff or Complainant?
Because they allegedly committed the following crimes: Theft of Property, Economic Sabotage, Criminal Conspiracy, Criminal Facilitation, Misapplication of Entrusted Property and Misuse of Public Money, Property or record, respectively.
3) What are the details leading to them allegedly committing these crimes or surrounding this indictment?
The, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on April 4, A.D. 2023, donated to the Government of the Republic of Liberia, (29, 412), 25kg bags of rice valued at USD$500,000. And after the said donation, the rice was placed into three (3) separate warehouses as follows: warehouse # 1 GSA – 11,200 bags of rice; warehouse #2 NDMA – 12,292 bags of rice; warehouse #3 NDMA – 5,920 bags of rice = 29,412, (25kg bags). According to the Ministry of Justice and the Asset Recovery Task Force, the individuals supra allegedly diverted, siphoned, and mismanaged the Saudi Arabian donation of 29,412 bags of rice.
