{"id":30399,"date":"2023-01-22T07:26:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T07:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-magna-ceo-boasting-of-impunity-over-illegal-logging"},"modified":"2023-01-22T07:26:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T07:26:01","slug":"liberia-magna-ceo-boasting-of-impunity-over-illegal-logging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-magna-ceo-boasting-of-impunity-over-illegal-logging","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Magna CEO Boasting of Impunity over Illegal Logging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>Morley Kamara, the CEO and owner of Magna Logging Incorporated emailed The DayLight, bragging not be bothered by stories the newspaper publishes about his company\u2019s violations<\/p>\n

Kamara copies Cllr. Yanquoi Dolo, FDA\u2019s lawyer, responsible to help prosecute forestry violators<\/p>\n

Kamara\u2019s Magna and Masayaha, its Lebanese-owned partner, have committed several offenses\u2014from an illegal subcontract to cutting trees outside its contract area<\/p>\n

The CEO and owner of a company has emailed The DayLight to boast that he was not bothered by revelations of firm\u2019s wrongdoings, copying the in-house lawyer of the Forestry Development Authority (FDA).<\/p>\n

\u201cThese stories do not move me one bit,\u201d said Morley Kamara of Magna Logging Corporation, sharing the communication with Cllr. Yanquoi Dolo, who helps the FDA prosecute forestry violators.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re missing your mark,\u201d Kamara added in the email in which he also copied Ali Harkous, Masayaha\u2019s CEO and owner.<\/p>\n

Kamara was referring to a series of investigation reports The DayLight published last year that revealed a number of logging offenses the Liberian-owned firm and Masayaha Logging Company, its Lebanese partner, committed.<\/p>\n

Two illegally harvested logs Masayaha Logging Company left behind in the Garkpa Charlie Town in Compound Number One, Grand Bassa County. The DayLight\/James Harding Giahyue<\/p>\n

The FDA failed to take any actions against the companies despite overwhelming evidence of violations revealed in the four-part series, appearing between September and October last year.<\/p>\n

The first story exposed a string of illegal logging operations outside the Worr Community Forest in Grand Bassa County, its contract area between 2020 and 2021. It featured interviews from chiefs and elders who participated in the activities, voice WhatsApp conversations an FDA executive and a resident, and a report from SGS on the same offenses. SGS is a Swiss firm globally acclaimed in the verification industry. It created Liberia\u2019s log-tracking system known as the LiberTrace.<\/p>\n

The second story showed that Masayaha abandoned some 600 logs it had harvested during the same period of its illegal harvesting spree.<\/p>\n

The third story covered villagers\u2019 protest against Masayaha for their forest benefits, stopping the company from operating. The company has not paved a new road and repaired a clinic building in the community in response to the villagers\u2019 demands.<\/p>\n

The last part of the series uncovered the illegality of a subcontract between Magna and Masayaha. The two had signed their deal unknown to the leadership of the community, a breach of the Community Rights Law of 2009 with Respect to Forest Lands. Villagers must participate in such deals, according to one of the law\u2019s guiding principles.<\/p>\n

That story also shed light on Magna\u2019s capacity to conduct logging activities, having transferred its full logging right to Masayaha, less than a year after signing its agreement with the leadership of Worr Community Forest.<\/p>\n

By law, Magna and Masayaha should have paid different fines for stealing logs and abandoning others.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Liberia. Morley Kamara, the CEO and owner of Magna Logging Incorporated emailed The DayLight, bragging not be bothered by stories the newspaper publishes about his company\u2019s violations Kamara copies Cllr. 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