Even before Boakai's Assets Recovery and Property Retriever Taskforce can recover the first dime for the state, tension has begun brewing between the Taskforce chairman, Cllr. Edward Kla Martins and two of its members. The latter accuses the chairman of engaging in questionable expenditures totaling US$321,000.
Even before Boakai's Assets Recovery and Property Retriever Taskforce can recover the first dime for the state, tension has begun brewing between the Taskforce chairman, Cllr. Edward Kla Martins and two of its members. The latter accuses the chairman of engaging in questionable expenditures totaling US$321,000.
He listed a US9,800 per month billboard contract and the signing of a lease agreement valued at US311,200 as some of the expenditures Cllr. Martin unilaterally undertook the task without consulting the rest of the task force members. Gonquoi warned President Boakai would achieve nothing from the team as long as Cllr. Martins remains the head while urging for a reconstitution of the team. He said his call for the reconstitution of the team is because the chairperson has allegedly demonstrated that it's all about the money instead of service to the country, integrity, and fighting and discouraging corruption.
" The abrupt and arbitrary arrest and seizure of Gracious Ride, the hasty and unauthorized expenditure of US$9,800 per month for billboards, the crafting of the team budget to date--some of us have not seen that fiscal instrument as though it's a society bush, the signing of a US$311,200 lease agreement to rent an office space without even discussing it with anyone--" according to him, are indications that the chairman is acting alone.
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