The Movement with Integrity for National Development (MIND) says they are concerned about propaganda in the media by paid agents, asking the President-elect, Ambassador Joseph N. Boakai, and the 55th National Legislature to review the concession agreement between the Global Tracking Maritime Solutions (GTMS) and the Government of Liberia (GOL).
Mind called on Ambassador Boakai and the National Legislature not to take these groups seriously, as they believe that they have been paid by some group of businessmen and their custom brokers, who have been fighting GTMS since its establishment in Liberia years ago.
The civil society group argued that GTMS has made significant impact on the revenue of Liberia, with no injury to the Liberia government in any tax payment.
“Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I as an Executive Director of the Movement with Integrity for National Development, Mr. Sekou Deebuh Sonii, and my team of office staff have conducted several research on GTMS at the Liberia Revenue Authority, Commerce, Finance, and the National Port Authority in investigating the day-to-day operations of GTMS, and have found no foul play by the company, but rather the GTMS is always concerned with the safety of the goods and services to be provided to its business community to meet professional required services through the collection of rightful charges in its scope of operations,” MIND said in a press release.
“We are using this medium to disabuse the minds of the public and the business community not to follow these groups of hungry and unserious individuals who want to spoil the good reputation already built by the GTMS and its Managing Director, Madam Aminata Bangura, in Liberia over the years.
“We as an integrity civil society media institution seriously warn individuals with bad journalism to desist from falsely accusing this serious-minded company’s operations in Liberia, and any attempt to attack the functions of GTMS operations within Liberia will seriously face the full weight of the law,” the release continued.