The Coalition of Youths & Students for Better Liberia (COYSBL) has rubbished recent allegations of corruption against the Director General of the Center for National Documents and Records Agency (CNDRA), D. Nelson Bearngar, and other members of his management team at the agency. COYSBL specifically expressed disappointment in the publication in the Base TV Media Group that the Director General of the CNDRA, Bearngar, is allegedly colluding with the Comptroller, Henry Swaray, and the Procurement Director, James Fahnbulleh, to engage in nepotism, conflict of interest and other procurement fraud at the agency.
Speaking on the allegation, the National Chairman of the Coalition of Youths and Students for Better Liberia, Samuel Jallah, described the publication as a narration emanating from an unbalanced media group acting as a hired face-booker that failed to provide any trace of evidence to substantiate the barrage of allegations made against Bearngar and his management team. Jallah added, “The assertions of corruption and procurement fraud made by the little known Base TV Media Group are baseless, frivolous, far-fetched and amount to blackmailing propaganda. It is unfortunate and ridiculous that while media institutions are to be focused on promoting things that uplift the society and provide verifiable information, the media institution chose to make a malicious narrative against Director General Bearngar and his core of senior managers at the CNDRA.”
Further dismissing the reported corruption at the CNDRA, COYSBL intimated that the group’s investigation of the agency’s operations established that the management team of Director Bearngar is in compliance with the Public Financial Management (PFM) law and the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission (PPCC) Act. The youth and student conglomerate added that all procurement contracts between the CNDRA and Unique Company are consistent with the Amended and Restated PPCC Act of 2010. The group also averred that allegations that the Procurement Director, Fahnbulleh, is the owner of Unique Company is false and misleading, as its investigations show that Fahnbulleh has no link or relationship with the ownership of Unique Company.
Regarding allegations of nepotism and favoritism against the Director General of the CNDRA, Nelson D. Bearngar, the Coalition of Youths and Students for Better Liberia also dismissed the allegations, stating that the Act that establishes the CNDRA gives the Director General the authority to hire, dismiss, promote, and transfer employees for the proper functioning of the agency. The group sees it as un-substantive and flawed for a Media institution to accuse Bearngar of nepotism and favoritism, even when there is no record of him giving employment to his friends or family members.
The Coalition of Youths and Students for Better then commended the Director General of the CNDRA, D. Nelson Bearngar and his management team for improving the operational efficiency of the agency, through the validation of a five-year strategic work plan, enhancing employees’ welfare, protecting and safeguarding the nation’s administrative and historic documents, and raising revenue at the agency. They urged Bearngar and his team not to be distracted, to keep working in the interest of promoting the ARREST Agenda of the Government of Liberia (GOL).
