LSDA President Debunks Smart News Report

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Ayoubah Kamara, President of the Liberia Scrap Dealers Association (LSDA), has vehemently debunked an on online report published by Smart News emanating from a group demanding for his removal from office without justifiable reason. In its July 3,2024 report published on its online page, Smart News quoted a group styled, Liberia Scrap Buyers Association(LSBA), accusing the LSDA President Kamara for conducting an illegitimate election without an ad hoc election commission in violation of the LSDA Constitution and allegedly failing to secure a scrap yard for illegal scrap, among other allegations the group levied against him. Refuting such claims being made by the Liberia Scrap Buyers Association, Mr. Kamara termed the demand for his removal from office as unsubstantiated because, according to him, at no time a resolution was signed by the so-called 400 members of the LSBA at the headquarters of the LSDA on the Japan Freeway in Monrovia to demand his removal from office for an alleged breach of the LSDA constitution whatsoever. By the way, the LSDA president disassociated the Association from having any link with the LSBA which, he said, is a registered separate entity with the government of Liberia, and not clothed with the authority to somewhat demand his removal from office. Not only that, Kamara opined that the LSBA with its offices at Barnesville Junction with KalifalaSanoe as its president, this association is neither a concerned group within membership of the LSDA and cannot call his removal from office as president of the LSDA. The LSDA head’s reaction to the allegations uttered by the LSBA and reported by Smart News without verification in keeping with journalistic norms, was obtained yesterday at his office on the Japan Freeway when he spoke to this paper in a brief interview. On the issue of unilaterally organizing a managed election without proper procedures to retain his three years term of office, Kamara said at no time did he conduct said election as claimed by the LSBA. “In fact,” the LSDA president disclosed,” I was petitioned by  thousands of our members in Liberia due to the transformation that I have brought to the LSDA to continue my four years term of office, and not a three -year term as stated by the LSBA in its so-called  resolution.” Kamara said since his ascendancy as president of the LSDA, he and his corps of officers including coordinators have been working and not taking salaries. Predicated on this, he explained that leadership is incapacitated financially to secure a scrap yard for illegal scrap materials. He revealed that the LSDA Task Force has arrested some illegal scrap materials in Bong County and the association has accordingly informed authorities of the Ministry of Mines and Energy about the arrest of said illegal scrap materials. Regarding the two jeeps and 10 motorbikes that were donated to the LSDA by one of Liberia’s major scrap buyers, Paul Sethi, Kamara said one of the jeeps is being used by him and the other one by the LSDA operations department, while five of motorbikes is being used by the head office operational department and the other five by the county coordinators. Meanwhile, scores of scrap dealers in Monrovia and across the country has joined the LSDA president Ayoubah Kamara’s leadership in denouncing the report by the LSBA demanding their leader removal from office, and described the LSBA as not a concerned body of their association to purportedly call for the removal of another entity’s president from office. They have expressed their renewed confidence in Mr. Kamara’s leadership to take the association to the next level in Liberia’s scrap industry, and admonished him not to be deterred in executing duty as president of the LSDA in keeping with his four years mandate.

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