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16 Mar 2020

Author:
Alvin Worzi, Daily Observer (Liberia)

Liberia: Former civil engineer of mining firm says communities benefited from presence of mining company

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A former Staff of the Bong Mining Company, civil engineer Christoph Fraenkel, says Liberians benefited from richly the company through building of capacities in different categories, including engineering, education and health. Mr. Fraenkel, who is on a month-long family visit to Liberia, made the disclosure on Thursday, March 5, 2020, during an interview with the Daily Observer in Paynesville, outside Monrovia.

Mr. Fraenkel said some of those who benefited from Bong Mining Company have opened their own workshops and continued to provide needy services to society. He said the Bong Mining Company also .established the agriculture program, a project that benefited Liberians but at a small scale. “I came to Liberia in 1963 and got employed with a steel company, Bong Range or Bong Mining Company. The company hired me at the time there were no activities ongoing. After a period of time, the process started and we had to commence a building of a railroad from the Free Port of Monrovia to Bong Mine in Lower Bong County,” Mr. Fraenkel said.