03/09/2026
Letter to President Joseph Boakai
Martin K. N. Kollie
Liberian Activist in Exile
Spui 70, The Hague, Netherlands
Western Europe
September 3, 2026
H.E. Joseph Nyumah Boakai
President
Republic of Liberia
Ref: Nominee Alex Chersia Grant has fake academic credentials. U.L and Cuttington even EXPELLED Him.
Dear Your Excellency,
Your demonstrated courage and political will to DISMISS and SUSPEND public officials for wrongdoings is worth noting. This is leadership, and we commend you for that. It is our hope that ALL dismissed and suspended public officials will also be PROSECUTED and made to fully ACCOUNT. Beyond this, Mr. President, here’s our concern this morning.
Yesterday, you appointed Mr. Alex Chersia Grant as a commissioner of one of Liberia’s leading integrity and anti-corruption institutions, the Public Procurement Concession Commission (PPCC).
Mr. President, we want to bring to your attention that Mr. Grant lacks every shred of integrity to serve in such an important national role, because the nominee in question represents the complete opposite of everything that integrity represents. Mr. Grant is utterly bereft of integrity, and our pieces of evidence are attached to undisputably prove.
In 2021, a thorough investigation by the Campaigners for Academic Crimes Court (CACC) glaringly exposed Mr. Alex Chersia Grant for using fake academic credentials (B.Sc. in Sociology and Transcript) to enroll into the University of Liberia (UL) and the Cuttington University (CU). Mr. Grant also used his fake degree for many years to have worked in the United Nations system and in the Public Sector including serving as a Lawmaker (Representative of Grand Gedeh District #3). He hugely benefited from fake academic credentials and is yet to account for such a grave crime.
Our investigation finally exposed him in 2021 and established that his so-called B.Sc. in Sociology was never acquired from the University of Ibadan in Nigeria as he clandestinely claimed for many years. Instead, Mr. Grant criminally duplicated their degree certificate, transcript, and forged their insignia (forged signatures, stamp, logo, seal, transcript, etc.). Our investigation also followed up with the administration of the University of Ibadan, and the University issued a strong public disclaimer on May 5, 2021 that Mr. Grant forged their credentials.
Mr. President, as a result of our investigation, Mr. Grant was EXPELLED by the University of Liberia and the Cuttington University, just at about the time that he was about to graduate with two separate master’s degrees from both the University of Liberia and the Cuttington University.
It is important to emphasize that we raised this same issue when Mr. Grant was nominated as the Superintendent of Grand Gedeh County. We are raising it again. Continuously nominating Mr. Grant sends a wrong message. The message that it sends is that people can fake their academic credentials and still be rewarded with public positions in Liberia. Mr. President, we do not think that this is the kind of society that you would like to see or build as a revered Statesman of integrity. The youth and kids are watching what happens now (e.g., precedent).
Mr. President, we have attached Mr. Alex Chersia Grant’s fake degree that he criminally forged/benefited from for many years and the Disclaimer from the University of Ibadan for your perusal once more. Furthermore. How can such a man preside over an integrity and anti-corruption institution like the PPCC as one of its commissioners? The outcome we expect at the PPCC is crystal clear: corruption including procurement fraud.
As Superintendent, Mr. Grant is the same man who recently and illegally leased 500 Acres of Land to the Burkinabés in Grand Gedeh. When we raised alarm, that decision was finally reversed by the Court. Today, the land of the people of Grand Gedeh is no longer mortgaged. The PPCC is a very important anti-corruption entity to have a blotched character like Mr. Grant there as a commissioner.
We hope that the CSOs, the Media, the Senators, and all Liberians will take keen note of this very serious concern that we've raised. Commissioner of PPCC is a highly technical position that largely requires qualification and experience in procurement, finance, economics, law, public administraiton, supply chain, or related field. Mr. Grant has no degree in anything and no experience in this technical area (public procurement). To add insult to injury, he criminally faked his credentials.
Besides Mr. Grant, Mr. President, there are tens of thousands of qualified and competent Liberians with integrity, including UP partisans, who struggled to earn legitimate academic credentials. There are a lot of good, patritoic, topnotch but jobless Liberians who could outperform and/or do far better in this serious national role. Allowing a known academic fraudster like Mr. Alex Chersia Grant to serve in such a role is not just an affront to them, but an assault on meritocracy, academic excellence, fair competition, public integrity, transparency, and accountability.
Mr. President, it is our hope that you will thoroughly look into this very important concern that we have raised. Once again, we thank you for your leadership and may God bless our motherland (Liberia) and its people.
This is the Era of Credential Audit. The CACC is still alive. Have a wonderful day, Mr. President. We’ll stop here for now and keep watching.
Democratically yours,
Signed: Martin K. N. Kollie
Lead Campaigner
Campaigners for Academic Crimes Court in Liberia (CACC)
