By Solomon T. Gaye
/NIMBA
The principal of the government run John Wesley Pearson senior high school, Nyan Taylor Guanue, has disclosed that discussions geared toward signing a lease agreement between the institution and Lone Star Cell MTN Company for the tower situated on the school’s campus is breeding discontent in Gompa, Nimba County.
Speaking to the Inquirer Newspaper, the school’s principal explained that document leading to a lease agreement of the GSM tower coupled with cash payment was done in the absence of the school’s administrations at the offices of the Gompa City Cooperation (GCC).
According to Guanue, Lone Star is renting the parcel of land on the campus through an arrangement entered into by GCC’s past and present Mayor Samuel Hardt without the knowledge of the school administration.
“We got reliable information that Lone Star has paid two years rental fee to GCC that we don’t know amount in question as authorities at the GCC remain tight-lipped on the information,” Principal Guanue said.
” Mayor Hardt later admitted that Lone Star made a payment of L$200, 000 to the GCC but since the check is not yet ready, the school share will be given later,” Guanue said.
The Lone star tower at the J. W. Pearson campus was built in early 2006 under written agreement crafted by the GCC during the administration of the Mayor Nohn Tensonnon. However, since the enactment of the document coupled with payment of the lease agreement, past and present mayors have made no financial disclosure to the school’s administration.
When contacted in Gompa, District Education Officer(DEO) Nyan Vahn confirmed that discussions are currently underway involving the Lone Star GSM Company’s sub office in Gompa, GCC Mayor Samuel Hardt, Principal Guanue, County Education Officer (CEO) Francis Legay and others respectively .
When the Lone Star sub office at J. W. Pearson campus in Gompa was contacted, authority at the facility referred this reporter to the central office of Lone Star GSM in Monrovia .
When Mayor Samuel Hardt was contacted via mobile phone, he angrily shouted “contact me on the issue while I’m in the office” and cut off his phone .
Investigations into the matter continue.
