NPA Debunks Allegation made by Dismissed Buchanan Port Manager Charles D. Gull.

The Management of the National Port Authority’s attention has been drawn to a malicious story by ‘Smartnewsliberia’.

In part of its August 24, 2021 publication, the outlet claimed that the suspended Manager of the Port of Buchanan, Mr. Charles M. Gull alleged that the amount “stolen from the Buchanan’s Port account wasn’t $200,000USD but rather 1.5m USD in which he Mr. Gull linked Mr. Bill Twehway, Managing Director of the National Port Authority”.

The publication furthered ” in a short dispatch from the US, Mr Gull indicated that the NPA Managing Director personally withdrew the 1.5m under the title Special Order and made away with the money without written communication from the NPA Buchanan account Department”.

The NPA terms as unfounded, false and misleading, the publication by the online paper.

Spokesman Malcolm Scott says he finds it baffling and confounding when the Paper references claims purportedly made by Mr. Gull were contained in a ” dispatch” from the United States, when it has established that there’s absolutely NO dispatch where Mr. Gull made the specific claim of Mr. Bill Twehway, the NPA Managing Director has been allegedly linked to a 1.5m scandal.

Mr Scott says said Publication is only flooded with smear campaign by underground operatives whose motives are meant to manipulate the independent and social media followers into subversive tactics in defense of documented corruption testimonies .

The NPA Spokesman further clarify that contrary to the purported claims being flagged by the questionable ” dispatch” and publication, all revenues from the outstation Ports ( Greenville, Harper and Buchanan) are not kept in those outstation Ports accounts, but, are rather channelled to the NPA’s Central Account which makes it impossible for a single individual to effectuate unilateral withdrawal.

The NPA maintains that it investigated Mr. Gull and Mr. Kamara over allegations of opening a bogus Global Bank account were the pair have since admitted to depositing over three hundred thousand United States Dollars ( 300,000.USD) for personal gains.

Mr. Scott is therefore cautioning the media to verify information before publication and desist from deliberately misinforming the public with malevolent intents.