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As part of President George effort to fighting the menace called Corruption, his government has submitted to the 54th Legislature An Act to give the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) Persecutory power.
The President made the remarks when he delivered the State of the nation addressed on Capitol Monday in consonant of Article 58 of the Liberian Constitution.
“We will introduce new legislation to amend the law creating the Liberia Anti-corruption Commission, in order to give it more prosecutorial powers, and we are working to improve our anti-money-laundering framework.
“To help spur the business climate this year, we will support and re-launch the National Judiciary Conference under the leadership of His Honor the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. The aim of this conference is to allow the judiciary to play a significant role in business climate reforms,” he said.
According to the Liberian leader, the move, “This can be done by reforming rules and legal processes and procedures that can increase the confidence of potential investors and the existing business community, as well as improve the ease of doing business in Liberia”.
When the Bill is passed by both Houses and signed into law by the Executive Branch it is expected to give the LACC more teeth to vigorously battle corruption.
The President said the move by his administration is intended to intensify the fight against corruption, which he noted, remains prevalent in society and continues to negatively impact growth and development.
Adding; “I believe that we will succeed in our fight against corruption and will bring to justice relevant individuals and corporations who have and continue to defraud Liberia,”
The CDC-led government at the same time noted that government has advanced another effort in ensuring confidence in the fight against corruption thereby hiring financial expertise to help local team Assert Recovery Firm to recover government’s monies allegedly stolen
“We have hired the expertise of a world-renowned Asset Recovery firm to assist our local team to carry out a professional exercise to recover Liberia’s wealth stolen over many decades”.
Additionally, “We will continue to show political will in the fight against waste and abuse of our national resources, as we have shown in recent times when a managing director and other high profile officials were dismissed, arrested and sent to court to vindicate themselves from accusations of corruption. There will be no sacred cows as we take stronger measures to end this societal menace,” he indicated.