Following the Lifting of Ban on Mineral Activities, Liberian Gov’t Commissions Hugh Diamond Sampling Plant in Western Liberia

SEVERAL PHOTOS WERE TAKEN DURING THE CEREMONY; MANY WERE HAPPY AS THEY DANCED TO THE TONE OF TRADITIONAL SONGS

Following the lifting of Sanctions on Mining activities in the Country by the United Nations Security Council, the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy Friday officially commissioned a modern diamond sampling plant in the mining town of Weasua, Gbarpolu County.

Prior to the Commissioning of the sampling plant by the acting Minister of Lands, Mines and Energy, Hon. E.C.B. Jones also urged the citizens to tell their legislators to get involve in the process, saying, “you need to take control of the project and make it yours,” Minister Jones told the Weasua citizens.

During the ceremony hundreds of citizens, including chiefs, elders and local County officials in separate remarks praised the management of both the Mano River Resources, a London based Company and Transhex Group of South Africa for bringing life into their county.

The citizens in their jubilant mood, dancing to the tone of their traditional songs and cultural performances during the occasion, said they were happy for the reactivation of the mining town of Weasua to resume mining activities.

Expressing her feelings during the ceremony, Ms. Massa Gbono one of the daughters of the founder of Weasua, the late Old Man Gbono, called on the people of Gbarpolu to join hands with the investors for the growth and development of their county, adding, “we say big think you to the company ( Mano River Resources and Transhex ) for coming to our rescue. Our children and husband will now have jobs to feel us”, Ms. Gbono in her late 40s speaking to the GNN said.

Also expressing gratitude to both companies, the Clan Chief of the area, Momo Geba said he was happy to grace the occasion and urged the Gbarpolu County Legislative Caucus to lend their moral support to the company.

“We want to call on our people in Monrovia to also give their support to this company; we have suffered too long for jobs. The coming of this company in Weasua, I believe will help our children to find job”, Claim Chief with a serious look told the company.

Also speaking at the ceremony, former Deputy Minister of Lands, Mines and Energy, Mulbah Willie thanked both the management of Mano River Resources, Transhex and the people of Weasua for haven worked hard for the progress made thus far.

Former Minister Willie informed the gathering how in 1998 he was very instrumental to for an agreement to be signed for Mano River Resources to venture into Weasua for the sole purpose of looking for diamond, adding, “I am very proud today that I did something very good which made us to reach this far”, Mr. Willie who is the Chief Executive Office of a local engineering company stressed.

He urged the citizens of Weasua to pray hard so that the establishment of this company in their area would yell what he called “a fruitful result” for all of them to enjoy.

For his part the Deputy Minister for Mines at the Ministry, and also responsible for Kimberlite, Hon. A. Kpadell Fayah addressing the gathering warned those involve in illicy mining to desist, stressing, “if you are caught you will face the full weight of the law”.

Given an overview of the project the Company, the Project Manager, Mr. Philip Le Roux
Said the company which currently has in its employ 75 Liberians and 10 expatriates has spent over US$5.7 Million since its commencement.

He said up to date the company has not reap any source of income, adding, “our mission is to explore for diamonds using state of the art tools and principles for the benefit of the company’s shareholders, the employees, the nation and the local community in which we operate. Operating in an environmental friendly manner,” Mr. Roux stressed.

Despite the absence of the County’s Superintendent and members of the legislative caucus, citizens and elders during the program were excited happy of the step taken by both Mano River Resources and Transhex to commission its sampling plant.

The Commissioned Plant Being Viewed

LIBERIANS MUST LEARN TO APPRECIATE INVESTORS - THE CASE OF MANO RIVER RESOURCES

ABOVE PHOTOS SHOW SOME OF THE ILLEGAL MININERS CHEATING GOVERNMNET OF NEEDED CASH INTAKE, ONE OF THEM ACCORDING TO OUR SOURCES, IS BUKU-MAN THE PHOTO ABOVE OF TEXAS INTERNATIONAL

As President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf tirelessly swings around the globe to seek for more support in order to fill the gap for Liberia’s reconstruction, the country’s foreign Partner-In-progress be encouraged by Liberians as they strive to invest in Liberia.
Liberia, a country coming out of nearly fifteen years of devastated civil war, with all of its infrastructural completely destroyed, including its human resource capacity is urgently seeking for assistance from all sectors of life in order for its citizens to jump-start their livelihood through the provision of job opportunities.
Thousands of Liberian job seekers are on a daily basis hunting for job opportunities a “safe belt” for the restarting of their livelihood to keep their families o to help restore their family dignity. who is sleeplessly hunting for credible investors for the speedy restoration of the dignity of jobless Liberians, a student of the University of Liberia and also citizen of Grand Cape Mount County, Faiweh A. Sherman is commending the Mano River Resources for its drive to adequately reduce the high rate of unemployment in the county through the identification of the county’s hidden mineral deposits through a systematic and scientific approach.
Speaking to the GNN in Monrovia yesterday, Mr. Sherman who also condemned recent media reports that certain group was pushing forward a petition at the House of Representatives to request the pull out of Mano River Resources from their county.
He said the allegation leveled against Mano River Resources, one of the pioneering mineral exploration companies in that part of the country by this group, has done nothing to bring about meaningful development in that county, and no iota of truth.
Speaking further he said, such statement should not be taken seriously by the vast majority of the people of Grand Cape Mount County.
in a serious and regrettable tone, Mr. Sherman said Liberians should learn to appreciate the effort of foreign investors, like in the case of Mano River Resources has over the past years worked hard through its exploration programs, to identify economy mineral.
These discoveries will in the long run bring smiles on the faces of the locals and the Cape Mountaineers themselves in general.
“Today a small group of people are persecuting Mano River Resources, because another “so-called Savior” has appeared, and putting more grease to their elbows in order to sing and dance to the tone of the “Johnny Just Come” newest investor,” Sherman with a serious look stressed.
The rhetorical question, one of those who spoke to the GNN also asked in a serious tone, “Who is this So- Called new investor who has brought in heavy machineries and has began extracting our minerals from the ground without taking into account the environmental impact?”
Recently a small group of people from the county a news conference in Monrovia that a petition to drive Mano River Resources from their County was in the making because, according to him it has failed to deliver positively, promises made to them.
He accused the company of engaging in diamond and gold exploitation instead of exploration, “thereby collecting bulk of the county’s mineral resources, but yet refused to provide those basic infrastructures such as roads, schools, health centers among others.
The Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy should be in the position to establish the fact here.