Several former employees of the Liberia Telecommunications Corporation (LTC) have threatened to continuously embarrass authorities of the institution for their alleged refusal to pay them their deserved benefits.
Speaking to a team of reporters Monday when they blocked the main entry of the LTC in Monrovia, the former employees, many of whom are old folks, recounted that they were redundant in 2006 during the regime of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
They added that the former Liberian leader mandated the entity to pay their benefits in the two categories, cash and bags of rice before the end of her term in office, but the institution has reportedly refused to pay their benefits up to present.
The former employees said their first target currently is to receive their rice benefit, which has the financial value of US$260 for each member.
According to them, they have gone over 16 years fighting for their deserved benefits and some of their colleagues even died while in the process, yet the institution continues to give them inhumane treatment.
The former employees also explained that when the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) regime took over they took their official documents to House Speaker Dr. Bhofal Chambers.
They indicated that the Speaker further mandated the LTC authorities to pay their benefits, but they have not acted in full except at least 200 of the total number of former employees were given their rice benefit while the cash benefit is still outstanding.
The ex-employees of the Liberia Telecommunications Corporation (LTC) also revealed that at this crucial time where the ruling CDC is seeking re-election the entity is telling them that they have no money to pay them.
Meanwhile, when the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Liberia Telecommunications Corporation (LTC), Richmond Nagbe Tobii, was spoken to on Monday, July 31, 2023 at noon, he claimed that he was in a management meeting but promised to return the call as soon as possible.
While Tobii has neither called back nor responded to additional calls and text messages sent him on Monday and Tuesday, August 1, 2023, his principal deputy, Anderson Slober Chea, also declined to comment on the matter and referred the reporter to his boss.