Bomi County Senator Edwin Melvin Snowe has issued a strong warning about the current behavior of the global ports operating company, the APM Terminals, that if nothing is done about that company, it could bring this government down.
“That company, Protemp, if nothing is done about APM, I don’t want to go that way, but it could bring this government down; that’s how dangerous it is; and to the extent where the House of Representatives sponsored a study tour to Ghana to compare what APM is doing in Ghana, it is day versus night. The benefits, the way people are treated in Ghana compared to what’s happening here, it’s the worst decision we ever made in this Legislature,” said Senator Snowe.
The Bomi County lawmaker, who was previously a staunch advocate in the House of Representatives for the ratification of the APM Terminals Liberia concession agreement during the administration of former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was yesterday contributing to an inquiry by his colleague, Montserrado County firebrand Senator Abraham Darius Dillon, on the company’s intransigent posture to reinstate illegally dismissed Liberian workers at Freeport of Monrovia.
“I have been in this Legislature now for sixteen years, and the one decision that I regret the most as a member of this branch of government is when I lifted up my hand in support of the APM Terminals; I said that before, anytime the name APM comes up, it bleeds my heart. Protemp (Albert Tugbe Chie), if you were to ask me today, the worst decision I have made as a human being is to vote for APM Terminals.
This Senate can liberate the Liberian people when it comes to the ill treatment of APM Terminals towards our people; it’s the worst concession we have ever passed in this Republic and I regret it.”
Addressing the concern raised by Senator Dillon, who has remained one of the strongest advocates for the twenty-four dismissed workers, the chairman of the Senate’s ad hoc committee, Senator J Gbleh-bo Brown, disclosed that despite some misgivings by some of his colleagues, his committee is in constant contact with all the parties involved in the APM Terminals saga, and that gradual progress is being made.
Senator Brown, however, admitted that even though progress has been made in many of the concerns raised by the dismissed workers, the sticky and main aspect of the debate, the reinstatement of the workers, is far from being realized. The Senate plenary’s order to APM Terminals to reinstate the workers months ago was also buttressed by the Ministry of Labor, and lately the Ministry of Justice, but all have fallen on deaf ears.
To complicate the issue more, Senator Brown yesterday disclosed that the APM Terminals Liberia remains adamant on its resolve and, as a result, the matter is now before the recently appointed Labor Court Judge, Joseph Kollie, for adjudication. “It doesn’t matter how long the case drags on, the workers will receive their just benefits in full retroactively,” he said.
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