Monrovia, August 11, 2021; The National Civil Society Council of Liberia (NCSCL) has expressed concern over the uncertainty looming over the lives of employees and staffs within the employ of the Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA).

The Council in a statement says it takes gravely note with particular interest and concern that circumstances surrounding employment at the LRA are becoming scary by the day since Gifty Lama and Albert Peters were discovered dead in 2020 in a vehicle “parked by an unknown” person on Broad Street in the nation’s capital, Monrovia. The conditions under which Gifty and Albert met their untimely demise still remain a mystery yet to be unraveled. While the public was appalled by this egregious situation, the head of the Internal Audit Agency (IAA) again succumbed to another gruesome and questionable death allegedly at his home along the SKD Boulevard.

The Council further stated, with virtually nothing happening on the part of the government to identify and arrest the killers of Gifty Albert and Nyenswa, another Liberian and another professional auditor within the employ and services of the LRA in the name and personality of Sayon Moore has reportedly gone missing. Since August 3, 2021, Sayon Moore, enforcement officer of the Real Estate Division of the Liberia Revenue Authority suddenly disappeared when he was said to have been delivering important office documents to a friend on the Duport Road August 9, 202.

As it stands, the Civil Society Council mentioned, it cannot make clear determinations as to the whereabouts and wellbeing of Sayon Moore. But we want to call on the government of Liberia, particularly the Liberia National Police (LNP) to raise the bar, achieve the red alert and ensure that the living body of Mr. Moore is found and brought back to his family. We cannot accept anything short of the living body of Mr. Moore and might be compared to file a lawsuit against the government for reneging on its fundamental responsibility of protecting its citizens, especially professional people on whose backs the state is running daily.

Meanwhile, the Council further call on Mr. Thomas Doe Nah, Commissioner General of the Liberia Revenue Authority to stop being complacent about ensuring security protection for Liberians entrusted to him to manage as staff and employees. To be calm and quiet while your professional workforce is reducing day by day to questionable deaths and disappearances without doing anything tangible is uncalled for. If every member of the family is important to you, then the loose of one should claim your attention and should meet your timely and tangible response.

At the same time the Council through its national chairperson Loretta Alethea Pope-Kai wishes to inform the government of Liberia and other stakeholders that we are closely monitoring this identical incident of Mr. Moore. the people of Liberia and the family of Mr Moore are looking up to you to be responsible in this matter. Level up and intervene. We are determine to ensure that this will not be one of the many disappearances that have gone unnoticed.