“Burkinabe Are Using Herbicide To Kill Commercial Tree Plant Species” -LLA’s Administrator Alarms

By Solomon T Gaye
/NIMBA
Burkinabes are reportedly using chemical to destroy the country commercial trees plants species in Nimba County.
Speaking to The Inquirer, the administrator of the Liberia Land Authority (LLA), Eddie Gbengar, breaks silence that Burkinabes are using herbicide to destroy the species of commercial tree plants and also polluting the various creeks in the forest.
According to Gbengar, beside using chemical to destroyed commercial trees plant species, the Burkinabes have constructed camps in the forest for what now seems a permanent habitation.
He also disclosed that they are brushing the national reserved forest for the cultivation of maize (corn) for export to neighboring Republic of Ivory Coast .
“The Burkinabe issue is among other issues that are posing serious threat to the peace and security in the country,” LLA administrator Gbengar lamented .
“Right now they are stationed in the community reserved along forest in Gblor Kweepea belt, Zodru, Kparblee, Yourpea New Town, in Nimba,” LLA Eddie Gbengar alarmed.
During the middle of March 2025, residents of Gblor Kweepea forest belt arrested 20 Burkinabes in the town’s national reserved forest and turned them over to LIS for investigations.
When this paper contacted the LIS Commander Richard Menphaine’s office in Sanniquellie, officers on duty revealed the absence of Commander Menphaine.
When this paper attempted to contact the EPA’s office in Sanniquellie, security guards at the administrative building could neither confirm nor deny the presence of assigned EPA agents in the county.
When this paper contacted the office of the MIA’s county administrative officer Daniel Zekpeh office, the receptionist announced that he was out for a lunch break.