Liberia: Outgoing officials make off with the furniture

Members of Liberia's outgoing transitional government have vacated offices to make way for elected successors, taking their computers, desks, chairs and even carpets with them, civil servants told IRIN on Monday. Ministers, their staff, and parliamentarians as well have made off with a whole gamut of government property, leaving offices bare. Some former parliamentarians meanwhile have changed the official plates on their government-assigned 4x4 Cherokee jeeps to private ones, and are cruising around the capital Monrovia to the disgust of angry residents.