Varney Marshall (right) poses for a picture while a chainsaw miller works at Marshall\u2019s illegal logging site in Gbarpolu County. Picture credit: WhatsApp\/Varney Marshall<\/p>\n\n\n\n
By James Harding Giahyue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n KLAY, Bomi County \u2013 A leaked video of a ranger of the Forestry Development Authority (FDA) shot by himself and photographs probably taken by his accomplices have revealed his illegal logging operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Varney Marshall, who is assigned at the Klay checkpoint in Bomi County, can be heard ranting in the one-minute-58-second video furious that one of his accomplices was trying to cheat him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cLook at the woods Abe called 600 pieces. Look at the woods he [has] now hauled. I will wait for him until he comes here,\u201d he can be heard saying at the beginning of the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He then turns his mobile phone around an open field of more than a thousand timbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou see it, you see the woods? I am doing this video to send it to my woman straight. You see it, you see the wood?<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe\u2019s here doing Gobachop. That\u2019s here his dismissal will come from. \u00a0You see the distances the woods [are]? \u00a0Is that 600 pieces here?\u201d \u201cGobachop\u201d means black market in Liberian parlance. It was coined in reference to the late Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev, whose leadership led to the demise of the former Soviet Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou want to steal from me?\u201d Marshall says in the recording.<\/p>\n\n\n\n