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ADNews-Monrovia: Sinoe County Senator, Crayton O. Duncan has alarmed massive corruption and series of administrative malpractices being allegedly carried out at the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) by the entity’s Executive Director, Ansu Dulleh.
In his communication, which was read on the floor of the Plenary of the Liberian Senate in its March 6, 2025, Session, Senator Duncan flagged one of the worst administrative and financial malpractices in Government at the NDMA.
According to the Sinoe County Senator, while exercising his legislative oversight over the National Disaster Management Agency as Chair of the Senate’s Committee on Autonomous Agencies & Commissions, he discovered that the Management of the Agency falsely reported in the FY2025 Budget as its 2024 achievements those projects that the past government did.
Senator Duncan informed the Senate’s Plenary that when the Executive Director of the NDMA, Ansu V. S. Dulleh was cited to give reasons for the false report on the Agency 2024 ‘operations, he shifted blame on the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning and submitted a document which he said is the Agency’s actual 2024 achievements. To the contrary, when the Executive Director was asked to provide report on the achievements and how he spent the Agency’s FY2024 Budget, he again presented a complete different set of 2024 achievements and reported without specifics that he was authorized to use US$1,417,994.00 and expended US$1,389,937.04 with a balance of US$58,905.38 which does not correspond to accounting calculation. We are reliably informed that the Executive Director, Mr. Dulleh, is unilaterally administering the affairs of the NDMA with no due consideration to the role, functions, and decision-making inputs of the Deputy Executive Director for Operations and Deputy Executive Director for Administration. Due to Mr. Dulleh’s lack of cordial working relationship and respect for the role of his two deputies, operations at the NDMA have significantly declined and productivity is at an all-time low.
Based on the inconsistency in the agency’s reports and the gravity of the accountability and transparency issues raised by Senator Duncan, the Senate’s Plenary IN SESSION voted and referred the matter to the Senate’s Joint Committee on Autonomous Agencies & Commissions &Public Accounts to probe the issues raised in the communication and invite the Executive Director and his two deputies to address the allegations, and thereafter report to Plenary in one week for determination.
As Boakai’s Government strives to fight corruption and other malpractices, it is laudable that Sinoe County Senator Crayton O. Duncan has raised alarm about the reported corruption and bad governance at the NDMA. With the reported acts of corruption dogging the government, it is hopeful that the joint committee, chaired by Gbarpolu County Senator Amara Konneh, will robustly investigate this matter to ensure transparency and accountability are restored at the NDMA.
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