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28/01/2024
Environmental Protection Agency Chief Technical Advisor, Benjamin S. Karmorh challenge his dismissal!!
On 25th January 2024, the EPA through its Head of Media and Corporate Communications issued a Press Release on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Liberia social media page and also shared same with media institutions in the country announcing my dismissal from the EPA as Chief Technical Advisor (CTA) due to criminal misconduct. In the release, it is asserted that I led a group of persons to disrupt normal operations and orchestrated an unauthorized take over of power at the Agency on Tuesday January 23, 2024. Let me in categorical terms rubbish and term as unfounded and baseless my dismissal which is mentioned in a Press Release issued by the Environmental Protection Agency of Liberia, through its media and corporate communications head which in my opinion was written based on the instructions of Wilson K. Tarpeh based on his desperate quest to continue holding unto public office at the EPA in complete contravention of the Act establishing the agency as outlined in section 16 which gives him no tenure powers. Wilson K. Tarpeh has no legal authority to dismiss me at Chief Technical Advisor of the EPA and whoever advised him, advised him wrongly to proceed.My bogus and illegal dismissal by Wilson K. Tarpeh including his attempt to silence and get at many more staffers at the agency is a way of cleverly silencing professionals and technocrats at the Agency who are reading the EPA Act with a clear understanding. This character of a man called Wilson K. Tarpeh must have no space in the New Liberia that is been built on the pillars of Transparency, Accountability, Integrity, Professionalism, Rule of Law, and meritocracy. As far as we are concerned his so-called dismissal letter issued us is a clear sign of witch hunt against us and we want strongly state that we’ve taken immediate legal redress on this matter and pending the outcome of our legal engagements we will proceed with the further steps required as enshrined in the laws of Liberia. As enshrined the Executive order 123 Section 9 issued by former President George M. Weah on November 22, 2023, as of 22nd January 2024 “non-tenured presidential appointees shall be presumed to have resigned as of the date of the inauguration. Accordingly, the most Senior Civil Servant at all Ministries, Agencies, Commissions and State-owned enterprises, shall act as Officer-In-Charge pending appointment of their successors”We have worked with the EPA since its founding in 2003 with an impeccable and notable character which is an inalienable fact based on the record both nationally and Internationally. The records of our service to the EPA and our nation cannot and will never be tainted by an individual like Wilson K. Tarpeh who’s only desperate to stay on at the EPA even without legitimacy. The negative characterization of our person is a complete fallacy and as such Wilson K. Tarpeh needs to rethink his witch strategy and naive tactic employed against us. We also want to call on the Government of Liberia that in the last 72 hours or more, the developments at the EPA instigated by a power tasty individual like Wilson K. Tarpeh necessitates an immediate action by the Government of Liberia to appoint or nominate an Acting Executive Director at the Agency to instill calm and order so that normal functions of the entity goes unhindered. I want to state for the record, that EPA is on the verge of a complete collapse if nothing is done to salvage the current situation. We now have a divided and completely shattered EPA under the aegis of Wilson K. Tarpeh’s who continues to perpetuate himself at the EPA in complete contravention of the law.
Signed: Benjamin S. Karmorh, Jr.