PHOTO: Miss. Beatrice Karpeh, River Gee Woman who filed a law suit
The long-running boundary dispute between the people of River Gee and Maryland counties, where there is also said to be illicit mining going on, has taken another dimension, with an open letter sent to diplomatic missions in Liberia.
This comes in the wake of a law suit filed by a woman in River Gee County against criminal trespass and criminal mischief.
A communication has alerted the diplomatic missions’ intervention to resolve th boundary dispute between the people of Gbeapo-Tartuken in River Gee County, and the people of Barrobo in Maryland County in southeastern Liberia.
The letter is seeking foreign diplomats’ intervention, in order to curb an ongoing illicit mining now said to be destroying environment and sources of life of people in the area.
Those pressing for intervention say that beneath the dispute, on one hand, is an obscured gold mining being done by a Chinese group, who a River Gee County woman, Miss. Beatrice Karpeh has sued at the Stipendiary Magistrate Court in Karweaken City for criminal trespass and criminal mischief.
This, she claims, is in relation to illegally operating, and deliberately destroying cash-crops on her late father’s village known as Besiken. The Chinese have done this for nearly two years now.
On the other hand, beneath the dispute, hundreds of illicit Ghanaian, Guinean, Nigerian and other gold miners pillage the land and damage River Gee (a waterfront) using dredges and Mercury the international community has prohibited.
Below is Beatrice’s lawsuit, the Gbeapo Land Redemption Council, and MOVEMENT FOR GENERATIONAL CHANGE IN RIVER GEE COUNTY
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS IN LIBERIA REGARDING BOUNDARY DISPUTE AND ILLICIT MINING IN GBEAPO-TARTUKEN IN RIVER GEE COUNTY
