The Civil Society Network of Liberia (CSNL) has publicly accused some executives of the Unity Party (UP) of orchestrating a campaign to undermine the Chairperson of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), Abdullah Kamara.
Those accused are UP chairman Rev. Luther Tarpeh, who, CSNL said is prompting the likes of Mo Ali, Cornelia Kruah, Patrick Honnah, Boakai Jaleiba and Clarence Massaquoi to orchestrate the plot.
The CSNL, through a release issued yesterday, April 21, 2025, also described the actions by the UP executive and commissioners of the LTA to undermine Mr. Kamara’s leadership at the entity as “malicious and selfish.”
The group noted, “The CSNL is seriously drawn to acts that seem to subject politics over professionalism at the LTA, wherein executives of the ruling UP have embarked on a fight to see Mr. Kamara removed as Chairperson of the LTA.”
According to CSNL, research and investigation conducted on the LTA reveal that individuals within the UP are greatly bent on undermining the government’s agenda due to their “self-centered and political interest up to 2029.”
The group noted, “As it has been in a multiple of State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), some young UP extremists are determined to undercut the leadership of Mr. Kamara as Chairperson of the LTA.”
“Since President Boakai appointed the Acting Leadership at the LTA, there has been a clamor for the chairperson position with the view that a full-fledged, active Unity Party partisan should head the institution.
”This formed mindset has created infighting at the LTA, wherein the current Chairperson has become an object of significant media attacks and becoming a victim of negative public perception, largely orchestrated by actors within the LTA,” the release noted.
CSNL revealed, “We have seen and are seeing this same active UP partisan take-all mentality at the National Road Fund (NRF), NOCAL, NaFAA, and many other SOEs, and this is disingenuous and unfair to Mr. Kamara, who is an experienced and result-oriented IT professional.”
“It is also particularly disappointing that the Chairman of UP, Rev. Luther Tarpeh is prompting the likes of Mo Ali, Cornelia Kruah, Patrick Hannah, and Boakai Jaleiba, to influence the workings of the General Auditing Commission (GAC) and Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) by putting these institutions under undue pressure to release audit and investigative reports that will indict non-active UP partisans who are serving in the government like the LTA chairperson.
According to the group, these actions allegedly of Massaquoi, Hannah, Ali and others who feel so entitled to the UP government need to desist from causing distraction in the smooth operations of the government.
Meanwhile, the CSNL release also revealed that the calls for transparency and accountability in government should be holistic and within the ambit of the Rule of Law, citing Article 20 (a) of the Constitution which provides that everyone is presumed innocent until otherwise proven in a court of law, and not judgment by tribe or partisanship.
CSNL maintained that while it detests all forms of corruption and bad governance in the public sector, it also believes that some corruption allegations are sometimes designed by certain covetous politicians from within the inner circle of the government to target certain professionals and technocrats who are not partisans of the ruling party like the UP.
The group added, “Therefore, we call for an end to a creeping grand scheme and gang at every government institution, especially at different SOEs, for the sole purpose of mischievously defaming the reputation of professional Liberians working in the Government.”
