Cogent information reaching the Hot Pepper revealed that several gunmen, allegedly headed by Moses Mayer, Traditional Council Inspector of Rivercess County, at about 1:00 a.m. on December 5, 2021 entered the GMCS mining site and carried out massive looting, wounding two private security officers assigned at the site.
According to an eye witness, who confided in this paper, the equipment looted from the mining site valued US$283,600.
It was established that Mohamadi N. Iria, who is believed to be the main perpetrator of the attack, used a false survey map to encroach on GMCS operational area, which the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME) had issued license to the company for.
GMCS complained to the Ministry of Mines and Energy, and the ministry conducted a field investigation and ruled in favor of GMCS on November 30, 2021.
Investigation further revealed that when Mohamadi N. Iria received the information that GMCS has paid for surveyors from the Liberia Geological Survey to conduct survey on the site, on December 5, 2021 he mobilized funds and sent money to the Traditional Council Inspector, Moses Mayer, for him to organize people with gun and knifes purposely to stop the survey of GMCS and to scare GMCS workers in order that they may abandon the GMCS mining site.
Immediately after the attack, workers of GMCS informed the police in Rivercess County and three suspects were arrested. They confessed that they were the ones who carried out the act. The suspects said that the ring leader is Moses Mayer.
They narrated that, on the day of the attack they gathered at the commissioner’s house and ate before going to GMCS’s mining site. They further explained that Moses Mayer provided five bags of rice for them to cook.
One of the suspects confessed that Moses Mayer told him that Mohamadi N. Iria is the one who sent money, through mobile money, to Moses Mayer to carry out the act.