Monrovia: Philbert Browne, the man who broke the news about missing currency in the country has revealed that it cost the Central Bank of Liberia 15 million United States Dollars to print 15 billion Liberian dollars.
By Trokon Freeman_trokonfreeman@yahoo.com
Mr. Browne said the legislature approved the printing of additional 10 billion dollar bank notes, saying that individual members of the legislature took bribe to have the work done.
He said for the first printing, each member of the legislature, specifically members of the House of Representatives received between 1.5 million to 250, 000 dollars.
Browne told the OK Conversation Wednesday that the first bribe was issued to the lawmakers at Representatives Thomas Fallah’s T-Five Academy in Neezoe, while the second money was given to lawmakers on the grounds of the Central Bank of Liberia.
The Hot Pepper newspaper’s Publisher said the entire debate is being shifted from missing currency to authorization on the printing of additional banks.
He revealed that about 2 billion counterfeit money is in circulation on the Liberian currency.
” This is an information we did not even fishing for. About sixteen lawmakers walked in my office and told me how much they received. Some received around one point something million Liberian dollars while the lowest persons received two hundred and fifty thousand. The money was distributed among them in Nezoe, at the Thomas Fallah T5 School in Paynesville City.
Almost all the lawmakers received that money. You know that’s a norm in this society, the Legislature does nothing without bribe, Journalist Brown said.”
Mr. Browne said the printing of different currency is the way forward.
Phoning in to the Conversation were Representatives Acarous Gray, Samuel Kogar and Edward Karfia of Montserrado, Nimba, and Bong Counties respectively.
The three lawmakers promised to proffer a communication to the plenary of the House of Representatives to invite Mr. Browne to provide further information relative to those involved in the bribery.