The Solidarity and Trust for a New Day (STAND) has apparently detected what it calls ‘criminal alteration’ in the Concession Agreement between the Liberia Traffic Management Incorporated (LTMI) and the Government of Liberia. The Group is requesting President Joseph Boakai to restore the Ministry of Transport’s authority and investigate the reported alteration of the Agreement.
A release issued on Tuesday, August 19, 2025 in Monrovia, quotes Chairman Mulbah K. Morlu as saying that STAND supports employees of the Ministry of Transport in their fight for justice and livelihoods. “Their ongoing protests are not random acts of defiance; they are a direct response to a brazen act of fraud; the illegal tampering of the Liberia Traffic Management Incorporated (LTMI) Agreement, which stripped the Ministry of its constitutionally mandated powers and handed them to a foreign-owned company,” STAND frowns.
Morlu disclosed that following a thorough investigation, STAND uncovered irrefutable evidence that corrupt officials within the Boakai administration altered the LTMI Agreement, inserting clauses that contradict the original concession act approved and retained by the Liberian Senate. This manipulation, the group stressed, is more than a legal anomaly, a betrayal of national sovereignty and a deliberate attack on the livelihoods of ordinary Liberian workers at the Ministry of Transport.
STAND is claiming that the original Agreement enacted in December 2018, explicitly safeguarded the statutory authority of the Ministry of Transport, established by an Act of the National Legislature on August 25, 1987. “Section 3.1(v) of the original agreement clearly states that the Ministry’s core functions—including the Driver License System, Vehicle Registration System, and Motor Vehicle Offices—cannot be ceded under the concession,” STAND maintained.
However, Morlu and his group believe that the concession agreement currently being enforced has been illegally altered, indicating that Section 3.1(v) was replaced with new clauses that unlawfully empower LTMI—and by extension, Techno Brain Global FZE—to assume the Ministry’s constitutionally assigned duties.
Morlu is demanding that the ‘criminal alteration’ which STAND considers as fraud, must be reversed, adding, “This is not a mere contractual dispute. It is a direct violation of an Act of the Legislature and constitutes economic sabotage against ordinary Liberians. It undermines the rule of law, robs workers of livelihoods, and desecrates the authority of the Legislature.”
STAND wants the Boakai administration to immediately intervene by halting the implementation of the ‘doctored’ LTMI Agreement.
“Launch a full investigation to identify all officials and external actors responsible for this fraud, and prosecute those found culpable. Review and reaffirm Legislative authority and where appropriate, review and recognize the 2018 LTMI Concession as the sole legally binding document, if it serves the interest of the state,” STAND groans.
