Reliable sources from Gtext Trading and Import Company have intimated that the above-mentioned company along with VIP Group of Companies had after a delay of about two years supplied contaminated rice to personnel of the Sierra Leone Police.
Gtext management recently confirmed that it is the sole supplier to VIP Group of Companies, which in turn supplies the Police, but the condensation of few bags would not stop them from delivering the contract to their clients, which is the SLP.
Police officers are grumbling all over the country about the rotten rice they received from the management of the force under IGP William Fayia Sellu, who is bent on demotivating police personnel.
A senior police officer who is one of those currently in recipient of the rotten rice quota and who preferred to remain anonymous, disclosed that the rice supplied to them “is not good for human consumption”.
“We are shocked to witness the high level of gross incompetence being demonstrated by the leadership of the SLP under the Inspector General of Police William Fayia Sellu in the supply of rice quota to personnel,” he said. “Is this the welfare issue he [IGP Sellu] said he was going to address? This is unfair after several months of withholding our quotas, only to give us one-month supply.”
Other police officers engaged by this medium believe that the current leadership of the SLP is not living up to their expectations. “Most of us are completely disappointed to have been treated in such manner by the IGP, especially in the area of our welfare, which has to do with regular supplies of our rice quota in circumstances wherein police salaries are not enough to look after their families properly for a day or two.” .
It is widely believed that the supply of rotten rice by VIP Group of Companies and Gtext is done in connivance with the leadership of the police in the person of IGP Sellu, in order to secure his kickbacks from the contract. Junior police officers and staffers of VIP Group of Companies and Gtext said they always supply the police rice as per contract signed with the head of the force, and most times there are condensation problems with the consignments.
A senior management head of Gtext recently disclosed at Charlotte Street in Freetown that the condensation of few bags of rice won’t stop the company from delivering supplies to their clients, as they usually remove the condensed rice from the bags to ensure they supply fine rice to their clients including the Sierra Leone Police.
