Conflicting accounts from the Liberia National Police (LNP), the Ministry of Justice, and Dutch Health BV have fueled growing demands for government to release the full procurement records surrounding vehicles assigned to security institutions, and senior government officials.
The controversy gained greater significance when President Joseph N. Boakai recently warned that public procurement laws, and procedures must be strictly followed in any transaction under his watch.
The unresolved questions now raised concerns over whether the government’s own standards of transparency, and accountability are being consistently applied within some of the most powerful institutions.
At his 24th Cabinet meeting on August 27, Pres. Boakai emphasized the need for procurement safeguards to protect public resources, and ensure accountability.
The meeting was held under the theme: “Value for Money; Maximizing Fiscal Space through System Efficiency, and Government Asset Security.”
While acknowledging that government procurement procedures can sometimes be cumbersome, Boakai warned officials against bypassing established safeguards.
He said, procurement systems are designed to promote accountability, fair competition, and equal access to government business while preventing the perception that contracts are awarded based on friendship, influence, or political connections.
Boakai’s warning comes as questions surrounding vehicles assigned to senior security, and justice officials continue to move beyond social media speculation into institutional, and political controversy.
LNP has publicly stated that it procured used operational vehicles from Guardian Fleet, a private company based in the United States.
In an August 21 statement, LNP said, the vehicles were acquired to strengthen police mobility, patrol operations, and emergency response.
The police also said, their institutional records did not support allegations circulating on social media attempting to link the procurement of the vehicles to individuals implicated in the ongoing narcotics investigation.
But while rejecting those allegations, LNP did not publicly release the complete procurement documentation needed for independent verification. The missing records include contracts, purchase prices, procurement approvals, payment vouchers, shipping documents, customs declarations, and General Services Agency asset registration records.
That absence of publicly available documentation has now become one of the central issues in the controversy.
Without access to the underlying records, the public is being asked to rely largely on competing institutional explanations rather than independently verifiable evidence.
Days later, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) provided a separate explanation concerning the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado currently used by the Minister and Attorney General, N. Oswald Tweh.
According to the Ministry, it formally wrote LNP Inspector General Gregory Coleman on November 10, 2025, requesting a suitable vehicle for Tweh, “because the Ministry did not have a budgetary allotment at the time to purchase a new vehicle.”
The Ministry said, LNP subsequently assigned Tweh a white Toyota Land Cruiser Prado carrying the identification number GSA-LNP-03-14.
However, the Justice Ministry identified the source of that vehicle as part of a government-procured fleet supplied by Dutch Health BV, not Guardian Fleet.
According to the Ministry, the procurement involved pickups, jeeps, motorcycles and ambulances, including 10 Toyota Land Cruiser Prado vehicles, under an arrangement reportedly valued at approximately US$1.5 million.
The Ministry has maintained that the vehicle assigned to Minister Tweh is a government property purchased with public funds, and was neither a personal gift from IG Coleman, nor from any individual connected to narcotics trafficking.
That distinction is significant. No publicly verified evidence presented in connection with the controversy establishes that the Prado assigned to Minister Tweh was purchased with proceeds from narcotics trafficking.
The central issue, therefore, is not whether unverified allegations circulating on social media should automatically be accepted as fact.
The more serious question is whether the government’s procurement, and asset records can reconcile the different explanations now emerging from public institutions, and the supplier itself.
PPCC’s Version
A Public Procurement and Concessions Commission (PPCC) document indicates that Dutch Health BV had a substantial procurement arrangement involving LNP.
LNP Security Transport Equipment Procurement Plan describes a special loan arrangement under which the company was expected to provide specialized, and security vehicles.
The procurement document reportedly places the total proposed arrangement at approximately US$6.1348 million, significantly higher than the approximately US$1.5 million figure MoJ cited while describing the fleet from which Minister Tweh’s vehicle allegedly originated.
PPCC’s document also identifies separate procurement lots, including approximately US$460,600 for eight specialized V-8 SUVs, and more than US$1.55 million for 27 four-wheel-drive SUVs.
While the existence of the procurement plan supports the conclusion that Dutch Health BV had a formal business arrangement with LNP, the document alone does not establish which specific vehicles were eventually delivered, how much the government actually paid, which procurement lots were completed, or whether the Prado assigned to Minister Tweh was among the vehicles delivered.
Border Vulnerabilities
While the rigmarole continues at the higher level of the security, citizens are also concerned about those assigned at the porous borders.
The phrase “border vulnerable implication” refers to the legal, humanitarian, and security consequences that arise when borders are structurally weak, or when border policies inadvertently increase the risk of harm to individuals, including food security. Meanwhile, the controversy deepened further when Pieter Wiemers, Managing Director of Dutch Health BV, reportedly provided investigators with a substantially different account of the vehicles his company actually supplied to Liberia.
According to the account attributed to Wiemers, Dutch Health BV delivered only eight vehicles to LNP, and received total payments of approximately US$439,100, not the reported US$1.5 million.
Wiemers, reportedly stated that additional vehicles contemplated under the procurement arrangement were not delivered, “because the company did not receive payment, or an acceptable financial guarantee for the outstanding amount.”
If that account is accurate, it raises serious questions about government’s explanation of the vehicles.
Where did the remaining vehicles described by MoJ come from? Was the Toyota Land Cruiser Prado assigned to Tweh among the eight vehicles allegedly delivered by Dutch Health BV?
And if not, under what procurement arrangement was that particular vehicle acquired, financed, and delivered to government?
These are questions that cannot be conclusively answered through press releases, denials, and competing public statements alone.
