Liberia: Liberia’s Power Utility Years of Evasion End As Court Orders Payment to Swedish Engineering Firm

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — Nearly a decade after a Swedish engineering firm supplied critical electrical materials to Liberia’s state-owned power utility, a Montserrado County court has ordered the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) to immediately pay more than US$415,000, closing a long-running commercial dispute that has come to symbolize deeper concerns about contract enforcement and public-sector accountability in Liberia.