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The head of the sub-committee on the recent joint presidential transition team, Madam Miatta Fahnbulleh is struggling to pull-out from the massive corruption allegation level against her in the US$ 650, 000 received to manage Boakai-Koung inauguration.
Several accounts have revealed that due to her poor and mismanagement of the resources given to her, the inaugural activities led to the heat exhaustion of President Joseph Nyuma Boakai during his inaugural speech after taking oath for office, resulting in some other casualties at the ceremony.
One of the accounts, Chris Wolo publicly rebuked Fahnbulleh’s claim against him of receiving US$ 60,000 for entertainment.
According to Wolo, Madam Fahnbulleh only provided US$10,000 instead of the US$60,000 she claimed to have provided for entertainment purposes.
The 2024 inauguration which appears to be the worst ever inauguration in Liberian history, didn’t just bring shame to the country but embarrassed the president to the extent that he almost collapsed from the heat exhaustion due to lack of drinking water on the podium, lack of ventilator and disorganized protocol.
However, the Internal Audit Agency (IAA) has announced the commissioning of a Special Audit of the 2024 Inaugural activities managed by the Joint Presidential Transitional Team (JPTT).
Making the disclosure a few days after the inauguration, the Director General of the IAA, David Kemah, indicated that the Special Audit of the Inaugural activities is consistent with the mandate of the IAA to conduct special reviews of Government and donor-funded activities.
According to Kemah, the Special Audit of the inauguration activities will clearly demonstrate the new government’s commitment to accountability in public governance.
The IAA’s boss further stated that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has already been written to make available relevant source documents to enable the review of the financial and operational activities of the transition budget.
Madam Miatta Fahnbulleh is a sister to Dr. Henry Boima Fanbulleh Jr . one of the Weah administration’s strongest critics on Corruption and former security Advisor to former President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
Miatta and Boima are children of H. Boimah Fahnbulleh, Sr, who was also prominent in Liberian society. In 1968, Fahnbulleh Sr was convicted of treason based on his alleged writing of letters to other countries’ ambassadors asking for help in a conspiracy to overthrow the existing Liberian government. According to the prosecution, he had been plotting since 1956; a major portion of the prosecution’s case consisted of alleging that Fahnbulleh had criticized the Liberian government in front of other countries’ ambassadors while he was serving as the Liberian ambassador to Kenya. Fahnbulleh Sr adamantly denied the charges, stating that he deserved a new trial because the prosecution’s arguments were based on events that never happened. The prosecution replied that his arguments were “unmeritorious” because the events did not need to have happened in order for him to be guilty, and his request for a new trial was denied. Very soon after taking office in 1971, President William R. Tolbert, Jr. recognised that Fahnbulleh had been the victim of trumped-up charges and pardoned him.
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