PHOTO: Harbie McCauley, NTA Managing Director
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
The Managing Director of the National Transit Authority (NTA) Herbic T. McCauley has another legal writ of arrest against him, but this time not for alleged corruption but concerning contempt of court in connection with a case filed by a former employee over lack of pay issue.
The Criminal Court ‘C’ has issued writ of Criminal Contempt on the managing director of National Transit Authority (NTA) Herbic T. McCauley for disrespecting the court mandate.
The writ of summons said:“You are hereby commanded to summons Herbic T. McCauley to appear before the first Judicial Circuit Court on January 19, to show cause why he should not be held in contempt,” the court ordered.
In September last year, The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) the NTA Managing Director on allegations of corruption.
McCauley was alleged to have illegally taken money from the NTA account for personal use.
The writ maintained that defendant McCauley was cited by the court on January 10, to appear for a conference on January 16, but he has refused and neglected to honor the citation, thereby subjecting the court to public ridicule.
It can be recalled that the court cited the managing Director of the National Transit Authority Herbie Mccauley, to answer to question in connection to his alleged refusal to pay the backpay of a redundant employee of the institution.
The circuit court judge actions followed a complaint file by an employee identified as Joyce Farngalo, former conductor at the NTA who complain that the institution redundant her without any justifiable reason for her dismissal.
Miss, Farngalo, further revealed in her complain that the National Transit Authority through its Director and Human Resource Manager Mark Magbollah has refuse and neglected to settle her severance benefit, notice payment and arrears in the sum of over Two Hundred thousand Liberian Dollars.
The NTA redundancy letter which was signed by the HR and approve by the managing Director says the management have redundant Miss Joyce Farngloe , due to financial and economic constrain face by the institution.
The National Transit Authority (NTA) was established in the city of Monrovia, by the Government of Liberia through legislative enactment on September 11, 2008 and approved into law by Her Excellency President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf on March 24, 2009.
NTA was founded with the objective of generating revenue for national government and with the responsibility of providing transport for ordinary Liberian.