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Bettie Johnson /betty.johnson@frontpageafricaonline.com
Monroviabout four years ago a group of Liberian women were

lured into leaving their home country for Lebanon with
a promise of jobs and better standard of living, but
things turned out for the worse as they were accordingly
abused, used against their will to work without pay and subjected
to other forms of inhumane treatment.
Following months of appeals, some of their colleagues died from
the ill-treatment and the Government of Liberia decided to act in
getting freedom for the women.
A team comprising officials from the Liberian National Police,
Ministry of Labour and others were dispatched to Lebanon to
secure the release and subsequent repatriation of the women.
Before the departure of the Government delegation, it was
announced publicly that the team had the mandate to hold talks
with their Lebanese counterparts for the release of the women
and possible drawing out of indictment against individuals
involved in the trafficking of the women to Lebanon.
Justice Minister Cllr. Benedict Sannoh, sometime later announced
that all arrangements had gone smoothly and the women were
expected to return home.
The Liberian delegation has since returned to the country with no
official public utterance about the whereabouts of the women or
their arrival into the country.
Relevant entities including the Ministry of Justice, the Liberia
National Police and the Ministry of Labour are yet to disclose
the whereabouts of the women, even though sources from these
entities have confirmed that the women are already in Liberia.
With these officials unwillingness to provide official comment
on the whereabouts of the women, there are conflicting accounts
with some saying the women are still out of the country, while
others believe they were brought into the country but are being
held in a secret location.
Recently Gender Minister Julia Duncan Cassell said the women
returned to Liberia and medical examination conducted shows
that they are in healthy condition and will be reunited with their
families soon.
Police tight-lipped
All efforts to get information on the whereabouts of the women

have proven futile, as Police Spokesperson Sam Collins said he
has no authority to comment on the issue regarding the womens
arrival into the country.
Collins told FPA that his boss has not ordered him to comment on
the matter.
I have no authority to comment on the girls who returned from
Lebanon, and there is no information I have on them, Collins said.
Labour Minister, Atty. Neto Z. Lighe who headed the Governments
delegation to Lebanon, disclosed that the girls are in Liberia, but

indicated that their location cannot be made public describing the
women as victims of human trafficking.
I led the delegation to Lebanon, the girls are here in Liberia, we
said that they are victims and we cant tell the country now their
location, but all we can say is that they are safe, because they are
in the Governments custody, said Minister Lighe.
Constitutional violation
Human Rights Lawyer and former Labour Minister Cllr. Tiawon

Gongloe has expressed shock over the manner in which the
Government of Liberia is holding the women describing the
action as a violation of provisions of the constitution of Liberia.
Atty. Deddeh Jomah Wilson head of the

Sexual and Gender Based Unit (SGBV) of
the Ministry of Justice also told FPA that
she cannot disclose the whereabouts of the
women, but added that there is an ongoing
investigation involving the women.
I dont know why they are hiding those girls; I hope that they
change because the constitution prohibits preventive detention,
protective custody. There is no provision for that under the
constitution; they have not committed any crime here. I dont
know why, except the Government explains further, said Cllr.
Gongloe.
He continued: Human trafficking is headed by the Labour
Ministrys taskforce and we have not followed this issue closely,
but from the facts they are presenting, holding the girls hostage is
wrong and also the issue of trafficking is also wrong.
Cllr. Gongloe recalled that while serving as Labour Minister, some
Bangladeshi citizens were brought to Liberia under the pretence
of working with the Arcelor Mittal, but unfortunately they were
found on the streets in the country.
I can recall, when I was Labour Minister, some group of people
were brought from Bangladesh and they made them to pay
three thousand USD each from Bangladesh and they were all
over the country. They were told they were to work for Mittal
steel somewhere in Ganta and some were around Hotel Africa
and we were able to get them back to their country, through the
International Organization for Migration, the former Labour
Minister said.
Atty. Deddeh Jomah Wilson head of the Sexual and Gender Based
Unit (SGBV) of the Ministry of Justice also told FPA that she cannot
disclose the whereabouts of the women, but added that there is

an ongoing investigation involving the women.
All I can say is that the girls are undergoing investigation and
they have warned us to keep them off the press, she said.
Atty. Wilson furthered: We cant give information to press before
people start to look for them because we are fighting these
Lebanese people and you know they have money.
Narrating their ordeal to FPA few months ago, one of the women
Muffittee Panma explained that they were promised good living
conditions and jobs by a Lebanese merchant in Liberia.
We were told by a Lebanese businessman, Abbas Debs, owner
of the Speedo Printing press in Monrovia, that we were going to
Lebanon to do business because his brother had a big business
that needed workers, but when we arrived different people who
had paid US$ 3,500 for each girl, came for us at the Airport to
work as house-girls and be used anyhow in their homes said
Muffittee.
The high cost of living in Liberia makes it easy for traffickers to
deceive girls and other youth in the country into travelling abroad
where they in many instances end up in the wrong place.
According to the UN Report on Trafficking, the most common form
of human trafficking (79%) is sexual exploitation. Victims of sexual
exploitation are predominantly women and girls. Surprisingly,
in 30% of the countries which provided information on the
gender of traffickers, women make up the largest proportion of
traffickers. In some parts of the world, women trafficking women
is the norm. Muffittee explains that when they arrived in Lebanon,
they were told that they would work as house girls, but when they
refused and argued that it was not the arrangement, they were
beaten and threatened.
The women include:
Bernice Gbar, 25: Came to Lebanon Nov.5, 2011; worked 2 years

and 8 months (salary-75 per month) without pay, was beaten and
abused sexually. Parents from Grand Bassa County.
Muffitte Panma, 25, from Sinoe County; Came to Lebanon August
27, 2013; worked 1 year without pay (salary 250).
Grace David, 25, from Nimba County; Came to Lebanon and
worked from Nov.15, 2012 to August 2014 without salary 250
promised and was badly beaten and was helped by the Liberian
Community in Lebanon.
Rema Nyepan, 25, from Maryland County; arrived in Beirut
August 17, 2013. Worked 1 year and 5 months without salary 250
that was promised her, she was beaten in the eyes when she asked
for the salary.
Ayres Jasper, 21, Maryland County; Came to Lebanon Jan.17,
2013. Worked 1 year and 7 months without a salary (250). Boss
abused her sexually with videotaping activities.
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EDITORIAL LIBERIAN LITERACY REDEFINED
v
DISMISSALS FOR
DISCRETIONARY
SALARIES MUST BE
COMPREHENSIVE
ON FRIDAY, MARCH 27 President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
dismissed three officials from the Liberia Institute for Public
Administration (LIPA) for discretionarily increasing their
salaries while the head of the entity was away from office.
THE EXECUTIVE MANSION named the affected individuals
as Mr. P. Emmerson Harris, Deputy Director General for
Administration and Management; Mr. Richard S. Panton
Deputy Director General for Training and Development;
and Mr. Harris F. Tarnue, Esq. Deputy Director General for
Research and Consultancy.
THE MOVE BY the President is welcoming as it will deter
heads of other entities from lining their pockets with tax
payers money through unilateral decisions by increasing
their salaries without justifications.
WHILE THE PRESIDENTS decision is welcoming, it is not the
first instance where officials of government have increased
their salaries and incentives in the absence of a national
policy.
FOR 10 YEARS the regime of President Sirleaf has not been
able to develop a policy setting salaries and other incentives
for heads of Government agencies specifically autonomous
commissions resulting into huge disparities in salaries and
incentives of heads of agencies and autonomous commissions.
PROVIDED THAT THESE autonomous commissions have
different scope of work, some with income generating capacity
and others just service providers, there must be a policy
outlining the basis for apportioning salaries and incentives to
heads of these agencies and autonomous commissions.
WITH NO EXISTING policy, there are no explanations for
the high salaries of heads of agencies such as the Liberia
Telecommunications Authority (LTA), the General Auditing
Commission, the National Port Authority, the Liberia
Petroleum Refining Company and others.
FOR THE GAC, it was a known fact that the European
Union contracted former Auditor General John Morlu, II
who was paid by the EU but upon Morlus departure with
the Government of Liberia taking over the salary of the his
successor, Robert Kilby was allowed to pay himself the same
EU salary of US$15,000 and since then the trend continues
without action from President Sirleaf.
THE HEAD OF the LTA also makes around US$15,000 for
regulating a small telecommunications sector with President
Sirleaf yet to question the basis for such high salary.
FEW YEARS BACK when the President was quizzed on
salary disparity, she provided a comment that looked like a
defense for the high salaries of heads of some autonomous
commissions mainly the Liberia Maritime Authority when she
declared that the head of the LMA has huge responsibilities
and deserves decent income.
THE GOVERNMENT THROUGH the Civil Service Agency
(CSA) has failed to track the payroll of these autonomous
commissions to look out for any unexplained increment
in salaries to be able to draw out a policy that will reflect
fairness and transparency.
IN DRAWING OUT a good and competitive compensation
program, fairness, transparency and level of work or output
of employees are all taking into account.
THE CSA WHICH is statutorily responsible for staffing, pay
and benefits, pension, conditions of service and human
resources development has failed dismally to develop a policy
in 10 years to guide the apportioning of salaries, as such there
is no benchmark for setting salaries in these autonomous
commissions, agencies and ministries.
DISMISSALS OF THREE at LIPA is good news in the fight
against waste but equally, the President needs to move
beyond LIPA and look into issues of salary disparities in all
other agencies, autonomous commissions, and ministries.
TACKLING SUCH ISSUE as abuse of public resources through
discretionary actions can only be done through holistic
actions and not selective because solution at one institution
does not heal the overall.
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF MUST move beyond LIPA and extend
the fight against waste to all other agencies, ministries and
autonomous commissions.
Commentary
Quiwonkpa Zuo, Nimbazuo3@gmail.com, Contributing Writer
here are few things that bother me more than when

people try to confuse knowing to read and write as
being literate and not knowing how as illiterate. This
uninformed assumption could not be furthest from the
true meaning of the word. In this piece, I will give you a clear
distinction between the two, and how it should be defined
in Liberia rather than going along with the present distorted
definition that is causing our beloved country so much confusion.
But first, I will define literacy as understood by civilized and
educated societies; this will be followed by how we Liberians
should define the word we perceive as negative illiterate, and
positive form, literate.
The word in its most simplistic form is defined as being able to
read and write or showing knowledge about a particular subject.
Notice the second portion of this simple definition is beginning
to reveal the true meaning of the word and removes itself from
that narrow definition that the typical Liberian understands.
In its broader meaning, literacy is a process that enlightens
and changes ones thoughts and attitudes; is knowledgeable
and constant, well-read, scholarly and educated; in essence, it
is transformative in its application. It doesnt look at the world
through selfish lenses, but rather employs its scholarly lessons
to elevate the communities in which it resides. To put it even
simpler: It is the light!! As the good book would say, By their
fruits, we should know them. Such is literacy. If youre not
bearing the fruits that a literate society bears, simply put, youre
not literate.
Now lets come to Liberia and discuss how we see literacy and
how we shouldnt see it. Now that we know what literacy is, I will
focus on what literacy is not.
For example, the reliance on foreigners to initiate, engineer, and
lead everything that strengthens economic growth in a given
location and naively expecting them to put Liberian interests
first, the acceptance and indifferent attitude of our overpaid
officials towards the long-suffering of the overwhelming majority
of the population, the total disregard of the rule of law by the
very people charged with upholding it, is the birth of Liberian
illiteracy.
When you have foreigners come into our country and rape our
young women and pillage all we have, walk around boastfully
claiming that government officials are in their pockets without
consequence; commit murders at will, and in many cases walk
free. In the few cases where they are tried and convicted, those
verdicts are eventually overturn because some corrupt official
has been paid off to circumvent statutory laws not realizing his
actions devalues the lives of every single Liberian including his
own, is nothing but self-hate illiteracy.
For those of you who went to America under the age of 40,
allowing con artist pastors to chop all you have in your quest to
get a visa, fill three acre swamps in Duala so prayer mothers can
pray for you, and by some luck you win DV, arrive in America
with all the opportunities on Gods green earth presented to
you on a silver platter, and you settle for doing double in some
smelly nursing home, that, my friends, is your suffering just
started illiteracy. Working three shifts in some group home in
America simply to buy an inflated plane ticket to go to Liberias
105 degree heat in an Alaskan fur coat to bluff and possibly die
from dehydration, is Jonny just come illiteracy.
Catering to foreigners, especially white ones and refusing to
extend that same courtesy to your fellow Liberians because you
believe doing so will lower your social economic status, is just
plain inferiority complex illiteracy.
Preaching against nepotism, and when youre given a double
chance to do away with such practice refuse and employs it to
the highest degree and claim that since your sons are qualified
(whatever that means) it is not nepotism but a leadership
sanctioned by Western Countries, this is treasonable illiteracy.
Knowingly appointing incompetents and thieves to very crucial
roles in the government to the detriment of the suffering masses
is unforgiveable illiteracy. Purchasing $60k luxury vehicles
every year (not 10K off road pickups) for officials whose last
vehicle rides were in the back of a dump truck in a country
with poor roads, poor schools and hospitals, half the population
malnourished, infant mortality amongst the highest in the world,
unemployment at 80%, corruption, cronyism is rampant, the
courts and legislature hold no one to account, this, my friends is
time for drastic action illiteracy.
Electing idiots and thieves who have accomplished nothing in
their lives but sat in a cushioned position given them by wicked
leaders is you sentenced yourselves to long-suffering illiteracy.
Buying grades from University of Liberia and claiming youre
education is just laughable illiteracy. Stopping a governmentissued vehicle in the middle of busy traffic (while everybody
else is waiting on you) to make sure everybody sees you in your
cheap Chinese suit while talking to a teenage girl youve already
impregnated, is 25 to life illiteracy.
Hiring a news anchor who can barely read on a 7th grade level
and claiming s/he will learn on the job is simply stupid illiteracy.
Studying the dictionary and memorizing fancy vocabularies you
cant properly pronounce is just village illiteracy.
Building a million dollars mansion overnight in the mist of the
very people you help impoverished, and when they jump over
your poorly built fence to reclaim what you have stolen from
them, then you turnaround and call them armed robbers, is
God bless you illiteracy. Raping our teenage girls and forcing
homosexuality on our boys and claiming they wore provocative
clothing in a 105 degree heat is mob justice justified illiteracy.
Starting LU night school after you get elected (stopped in the
7th grade before the war) and out of sudden youre the new dux
and Suma Cum Laude extraordinaire even though you still cant
read, thats just wonders never end illiteracy. Wearing a three
piece suit so people can call you kwi (civilized) as described by
the brilliant Liberian Poet Kona Khasu in his poem Our Man on
Broad Street, is just mind-boggling illiteracy.
Having a public official fail miserably at his task, millions
entrusted to him disappeared, same road paved 3x in one year
because the public works minister is a thieving idiot, and a
so-called Harvard educated economist (she actually studied
something else but goes along with the economist label),
reshuffles him as the special economic advisor to the president
is third world illiteracy.
Claiming to be educated with a masters and boasting about your
academic prowess, yet your girlfriends live better than your wife
and kids; your wife is a stranger who doesnt even know your
salary or any details that could protect the family, whenever you
get paid you disappear from your family for days chartering
drinking spots while your wife and kids beg neighbors for food.
Your idea of spending time with your family is coming home
drunk at 3 am, vomiting all over the house and telling your 5 year
old daughter to keep quiet because shes crying too much from
hunger pains. My people, this is the mother of all illiteracy.
Calling poor people in an over populated shanty town country
for throwing dirt in the streets when the government has not
provided any sanitary means of disposing wastes, is just plain I
am holier than thou illiteracy.
Believing that because your embezzlement-funded house, car
and office are cleaned, all your friends and closed confidants eat
in the best places in town and the next possible Ebola outbreak
will skip you because you hang out with govt thieves, not
realizing these best place buy their restaurant food from some
of the nastiest, most unsanitary places is just illiteracy pass
max.
I could go on for days, but time and space wont permit me. Now
lets turn to what civilized people consider literacy and why we
cant straightly limit literacy to reading and writing.
When Tamba builds his toilet downhill and his well at the top
of the hill taking gravity into consideration and ensuring he
does not contaminate his drinking water, thats health literacy.
When Ma Fatta sweeps the sidewalk in her community to keep
a clean and safe environment for the kids to play, who can argue
that this is not literacy? When brother Trokons trap catches a
deer and he shares a pound of meat with each member of the
village as mandated by tradition, thats One for all and all for
one literacy. When a farming village in the hills of Bomi, can
adequately calculate the seasons and continuously ensures a
bountiful harvest, thats astronomical literacy.
The point I am trying to make is literacy is not limited to having
three pens in ones breast pocket and claiming to know book. The
true meaning of knowing book is when that acquired knowledge
transforms your people. If your literacy only transforms you,
youre still illiterate. Literacy cannot preach one thing, and when
given a chance and the tools to right those very ills it preached
against, turns around and practices them at levels never before
seen. Literacy must be constant, transferable, admirable,
honorable (not as we know it in Liberia) considerate, selfless and
imaginative. It must be free of quid pro quo. In truth, it must light
up those in its presence!!
I will leave you with a quote of one of the most literate men I
know my grandfather. He lived all of his 92 years in our village,
but could accurately predict the weather, build bridges, read
and understand the thoughts of the forest, interpret dreams;
an expert marksman and master builder, the financier of the
first grade school built in our village, lone voice against some
practices of the Grebo Bush and a chief, who was loved by his
people. He was illiterate by Liberian standards but a problem
solver and a scholar by developed societies standards. Son
he begins, you can have ideas greater than our ancestors, but if
they are not coupled with action, they can never become bigger
than the brain cells the occupied!
Dedicated to my grandfather, old man Momoh, who bought me
my first book and taught me how to lay my first possum trap.
Miss you and RIP, Grandpa.
About the Author: Mr. Zuo is the author of several articles
including the Liberian Psyche. Hes a proud graduate of Buutuo
Cultural University, specializing in Changing Liberians Minds and
Attitudes. He presently lives in Buutuo, Nimba County with his
two hunting dogs, Government Official and Chief Embezzler. He
loves to drink palm wine with roasted cassava dipped in fresh
palm oil.
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LIBERIANS FACE TRAVEL BOTTLENECKS

TO OBTAIN FOREIGN VISAS
Lorenzo Bernard Top Commenter Classified at Classified

"Presidential delegation to Brussels, Belgium for an important
conference". This is Nonsense, hundreds of thousand of Liberian
tax dollars being spend unnecessarily on chartered flights, 4 star
hotel accomondations and decent meals 3x daily while children are
dying of malnutrition, and the speard of TB, HIV , EBOLA , malaria
is increasing by the minutes. I mean how worse can it get yet you
have these useless , selfish , greedy clowns, self centered, corrupt
incompetent fools living like queens and kings while my people
suffer.
Just the other day with their shameless selves accepted a $6,000
generator from the US DEA through its State Dept. You can not
afford a common $6,000 generator but you have the means to
travel extensively. You are all nothing but a bunch of mafia, I mean
gangsters running the affairs of an independent nation. On the denial
of visa, the world doesn't regard this administration/government it
is known as being one of the most corrupt in the world with a bad I
mean really bad human rights record.
Sampson Bloh Monger Top Commenter Holy Family
University, Pennsylvania
The facts of the matter are, Liberia is a failed state with the Ellen's
government having no defined and sustainable policy and strategies
to lead. Secondly, our Liberians failed government is corrupt and out
of touch.
Nyemade Wani Top Commenter University Of Liberia,

Monrovia, Liberia campus
Pepper does not hurt in only dog eye. Liberians want to deny other
Liberians their birthright and then cry nonsense. US citizens can go
almost everywhere with no visa, even South Africa, Botswana, all the
EU countries, even Mugabe is not as racist as Liberians., Liberia is an
insignificant nation now because we have abandoned our democratic
ideals and have become second to Nigeria in corruption. Also, too
many government officials want to travel. Let them sit home and hug
their Liberian citizenship tight, it will make them fly without visa.
Now, how can a government that is solely depending on begging and
donations from foreign governments to survive, be respected among
responsible nations? How can a government that firmly neglect
99% of Liberia with muddy roads and an Old Stone Age bridges
in modern times impress the world to be respected as a sovereign
nation? Dignity is earned and just doesn't fall from the sky.
Emphatically speaking, Liberia is being abused and neglected by our
corrupt officials and therefore needs reform to meet the challenges
of the 21st century.
STILL HOPEFUL- CHARLES TAYLORS

WIFE CONFIDENT OF BREAKTHROUGH
Lorenzo Bernard Top Commenter Classified at Classified

Mr. Taylor, was never denied his visitation rights, however; what
Taylor is requesting is special accommodations. Taylor is a convicted
criminal therefore it is required he receives the same treatment like
any other convicted criminal. Jewel Howard can resign her senatorial
seat move to England and be by her beloved Charles side. That is if
the British embassy will grant her traveling visa, I think It would
make thing much easier. She can then cook palm butter, fufu N soup,
and many other Liberian meal. I don't know how it works with the
British correctional system however; I think with good behavior
Mr. Taylor can also enjoy contact visit with wife Jewel and maybe
produce another wicked Chuckie Taylor lll.
You see people like Jewel and many others war lords need not hold
any political offices they all need to be prosecuted and if found guilty
sent to prison for life and then Liberia and the world will be a better
place. Keep dreaming Jewel your day is right around the corner.
Moses Harris Top Commenter Works at Retired
Is the Senator still the wife of Former President Charles Taylor? I am
just curious to know, because sometime ago I read that someone else
was claiming to be the wife of President Taylor.
Daa Onenokay Top Commenter Works at State of New Jersey
Senator Taylor is not hopeful about her visitation right to England
but rather,she is hopeful of Charles Taylor coming to Rwanda to stay
and complete the rest of his jail term. I think Bong County people
should think twice about you now. If you think Rwanda is a soft
target for your husband to use that route to come to Liberia, you ar
making a big mistake. You need to resign and move to England to be
with your husband.If you don't resign, the people of Bong County
will write a petition and call for your forceful resignation.
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ALLISON DEATH BLUNDER CONTINUE

TO EXPOSE EJS-LED GOVERNMENT
The Editor,
iberia now needs a few more Kofi Woods,

Henry Costas, Rodney Siehs, Jonathan
Koijees and others with spine to stand up
to this licensed criminality disguised as
government. Enough is enough. We can send this
regime packing which is daring us to stand up and
be counted when it matters most. Let the mysterious,
questionable drowning death of Michael Allison serve
as our red line drawn that this regime has crossed.
In my previous commentaries on the Allison tragedy,

I wrote that nothing would come out of it. And we are
witnessing the lies, disdain, coverup and contempt
this regime has for human life. We made noise and
quietly wiped our tears when the regime shot and
killed Shaki Kamara of West Point. Now it is Michael
Allison. Soon it may be you or someone you know?
Is this how the nation is rewarded by some in this

government who helped, planned and financed our
14-year genocidal holocaust only to hijack power
and employ the same tactics that plunged us into
such mayhem? We are so complacent that we can't
even protest for our rights to protest protected by the
constitution against such constant abuses.
And where is our Nobel Peace Prize winner president
who is conspicuously silent since Allison's death? The
Nobel award connotes the highest respect for human
life and rights. This is our beginning of our oil wealth
curse. NOCAL has become their next pepperbush and
they would not allow Allison or anyone to meddle
with their latest cash cow. So it is no accident that
unchecked dirty money is doled out to lawmakers to
sing and dance to the music of oil money corruption,
a disease that has infected oil giant Nigeria.
But Ellen and company are rookies who have not
mastered at art of erasing their enemies with no
traces left like Charles Taylor did or other repressive
regimes. And so they have been caught with their
pants down and can't tell a good lie.
The many blunders are now exposing them. They

came up with an invincible girlfriend who they must
produce in court during trial. They created a witness
when in sophisticated repressive regimes there is no
need to create and quote witnesses that you will be
asked to produce.
Another witness would be the man from "Brazil"

that this novice Police planted in their not-sosmart cover-up strategy, the man the Police said
Allison's supposedly grieving girlfriend cried out to
and allowed the use of his boat to fetch a drowning
Allison from the ocean. Another unnecessary witness
the Police created that must now appear in court and
bring his boat in court as part of the evidence. Again,
rookies in the Police who are not professionally
trained like their counterparts in North Korea, Libya
under Gaddafi or the KGB of the old Russia. And so
the Police went to the beach, saw his body but were
"afraid of catching Ebola" and left the body there until
the next day? By then Allison's body was "mutilated"
and parts missing and cuts found around his chin?
After the world gave us equipment and the training
on how to handle Ebola dead and patients, the Liberia
National Police did not undergo such training, nor got
any of the protection equipment of gloves and plastic
clothing and body bags? Laughing out loud.
And a Justice Minister who made a mess of an already
messy cover-up. What has a victim's alleged multiple
identities got to do with how he died? Even if Allison
was not a Liberian citizen does that diminish the
value of a human life taken away by hidden hands?
Next will be the Judiciary which is seen as a stooge
for the regime and again its independence and
integrity will take center stage when the trial gets
underway. This is where the rubber meets the road.
And we expect, as Allison's lawyers will demand, all
the witnesses will be subpoenaed: the mysterious
grieving girlfriend, the good Samaritan Brazilian boat
owner, both pathologists to testify under oath, as will
the unprofessional police officers.
If this case doesn't arouse in us Liberians the need
to try a people power nonviolent protest to demand
regime change---because NOTHING will come out
of it---then we have all endorsed the continued
criminality against our people.
Jerry Wehtee Wion
Journalist and Political Commentator,
Washington, DC
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LIBERIA INCREASES COST TO ECOWAS TRAVEL DOCUMENTS
Frontpage
PASSPORT FEE GOES UP

Consolidated Tax amendment Act of Liberia, Government Agency Fees, Section 2102 Ministry of Foreign Affairs Fixed Fees, stipulates that: The
fees for the following services/instruments of the Foreign Affairs Ministry shall be as by regulation prescribed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in
consultation with the minister of Finance and Development Planning and shall be assessed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and paid regularly to
the Liberia Revenue Authority for deposit into the account of the government. Finance and Development Planning Ministry
Act of Liberia, Government
Agency Fees, Section 2102
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Fixed Fees, stipulates that: The
fees for the following services/
instruments of the Foreign
Affairs Ministry shall be as by
regulation prescribed by the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs in
consultation with the minister
of Finance and Development
Planning and shall be assessed
by the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs and paid regularly to
the Liberia Revenue Authority
for deposit into the account of
the government.
The ministry has therefore
authorized the Ministry of
Foreign affairs to begin such
collection of the new fees on
its stipulated timeline but did
not state whether there will be
an increase in the number of
years of validity.
Stated the Finance Ministry
stated: This administrative
regulation hereby institutes the
T
LACC OBJECTS TO MPW
PRESS MAN BOND
Monroviahe government of
Liberia through the
Ministry of Finance
and
Development
Planning
has
announced
an increase in the cost
of obtaining an ECOWAS
Biometric
Passport.
The
ministry puts the new fees at
Fifty United States Dollars and
the regulation takes effect on
April 30.
In a release issued by the
Finance and Development

Planning Ministry on Monday,
the ministry maintained that
it increased the fees in keeping
with law.
Stated the MOFDP release:
Consolidated Tax amendment
Bettie Johnson/ betty.johnson@frontpageafricaonline.com
Monrovia
n the Economic Sabotage
case involving Ministry
of
Public
Works
Communications Director
Jesefu Morris Keita and Flash
Point
Managing
Director
David Kortie, the Liberia AntiCorruption Commission has
filed a 14 count exception
to the bond filed by MPW
communication director.
The LACC in the exception to
defendant Keitas criminal
appearance bond said the
entire criminal bond posted
by the defendant is a product
of
misrepresentation,
misinformation,
and
dishonesty. The LACC said the
fake bond is only intended
to evade the laws controlling
such cases and to willfully
and intentionally mislead
the court thereby bringing
it into disrepute. It claimed
that the purported bond is
insufficient and invalid is fit to
be disallowed and set aside.
The Accident & Casualty
Insurance Company (ACICO)
serving as surety on defendant
bail bond has not shown to
the satisfaction of the court
any legal authority that it has
the capacity to withstand and
cover the obligation it has
undertaken to perform as
surety under the defendant
bond, the plaintiff stated.
The LACC challenged the Keita
team to provide proof that the
bond represents a financial
proof that he (Keita) has an
account with the insurance
company.
Stated
the
LACC:
The
exception stated that further

to count 2 (above), the plaintiff
contends that the purported
statement of account of ACICO
does not in any way suggest
that the defendants surety
as account with any financial
institution within the Republic
of Liberia evidencing its
financial capacity and ability
to perform its obligation under
said bond.
The purported statement does
not in any way indicate which
financial institution defendant
surety has its account with

and as to whether the said
institution has legal standing
and or capacity under Liberias
law, practice and procedure
under in this jurisdiction to
qualify as surety.
The plaintiff in their exception
further stated that the
unidentified statement of
account covers the period
01/12/14
to
12/01/15
with a closing balance of
US$20,717.91 which does
not commensurate with the
amount stated thereby making

the bail bond insufficient and
therefore defective.
The bail bond was filed on
March 27, 2015 two months
postdating the closing balance
without any showing that
the surety still maintains
an account the purported
institution and insufficient to
perform the obligation under
the bail bond.
In count 11 of the plaintiff
exception they submits and
said that statutory law provides
that every bail bond must have
security for the fulfillment of
conditions of the said bond
which the bail bond filed in the
favor of the defendant lacks in
law and fact and therefore is
defective and insufficient, that
is to say that ACICO lacks the
legal authority, standing and
or capacity to serve the surety
for defendant which makes the
purported bond insufficient
and legal intents and purposes.
Wherefore in view of the
foregoing, plaintiff prays that
the criminal appearance bond
as filed by the defendant
be declared invalid and set
aside and the defendant be
ordered to tender a new valid
and
criminal
appearance
bond consistent with law or
be remanded to prison until
such time as when they shall
be tendered a new valid and
sufficient criminal appearance
bond. The LACC said
A notice of assignment has
not been made by the court to
hear the arguments from both
the LACC and defendant legal
counsels.
At the same time judicial
sources has hinted that most
bonds filed by ACICCO, SKY,
General Continental Insurance
Company are mostly challenge
to by the adverse party in the
case.
empowerment of the ministry

of Foreign Affairs to regulate
and assess the new passport
fee from a biometric passport
applicant who then proceeds
to the collection Window at
the Liberia Revenue Authority
(LRA) for the collection of said
fees and subsequent deposit
into the consolidated fund
in accordance with section
7 of the Revenue Code of
Liberia, prior to the issuance
of said passport by the MFA
in keeping with MFA passport
Regulation.
At the Ministry of Information
regular Press Briefing on
Monday
Deputy
Foreign
Minister for Legal Affairs,
Boakai Kanneh, said there will
be a new biometric passport
which will cost US$50,
replacing the current manual
one which costs US$23.
Kanneh indicated that the
new measure is part of the
ongoing transformation at the
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ministrys Bureau of Passport

and Visas to enhance service
delivery and conform to
international standard.
He said people applying for
the biometric passport will
be required appear in person
because their fingerprint, and
other biometric details will be
taken and the passport will be
issued in five working days.
Liberia has begun issuing
biometric passports at some of
its embassies abroad. On March
14, 2015, the Government of
Liberia launched the Liberian
Biometric ECOWAS Passports
Application Center (PAC) in
the Schengen Zone of Europe
at the Liberian Embassy near
Brussels, Belgium.
The ministry of Foreign
Affairs has opened centers
for the issuance of bio-metric
passports in Washington D.C.,
New York and Belgium. The
government has disclosed
that additional centers will be
opened in Accra, Ghana, Abuja,
Nigeria and other countries
and it will also introduce a
mobile service delivery system
soon.
But the increase in the fees
of
the
Liberian/ECOWAS
passport would no doubt
cause a backlash among
many Liberians as many
have complained of financial
difficulties due to the deadly
Ebola crisis.
LABOUR MINISTRY SETS STANDARD

FOR WORK ISSUES RESOLUTION
Monrovia he Ministry of Labour, pursuant to Section 34.2(a) of

the Executive Law which empowers and authorizes the
Ministry to regulate and set guidelines for the protection
of the rights of both employees and employers in the
country, and in conformity with Section 4302 (3) of Chapter 42
of the Labour Practices Law of Liberia, announces the following
regulation setting forth the timing and duration of labour
hearings.
The Ministry believes that this new regulation, now referred to as
Regulation 19, is intended to facilitate the speedy and expeditious
disposition of all Labour Actions filed before it.
Section 1 of Regulation 19 specifies and mandates that all
Labour Hearings at the Ministry of Labour shall be concluded in a
minimum of two months and the maximum of six months.
Section 2 of Regulation 19 states that all Hearing Officers
are hereby mandated in the spirit of speedy and expeditious
disposition of Labour actions or disputes, to declare null and
void, all cases pending before the Ministry of Labour and which
the party litigants and/or their counsels have failed to proceed
or continue with after 120 days, for abandonment and failure to
proceed. Section 2 of Regulations 19 assures that this mandate
is in keeping with Article II Section 9 of Appendix No. 3 of the
Labour Law and Labour Practices Law of Liberia.
The Ministry believes that promulgation of this Regulation
becomes imperative owing to the increased number of protracted
cases on the docket of Hearing Officers at the Ministrys Division
of Labour Standards and thus, deemed expedient to guide against
undue delays in handling labour disputes.
The Ministry reflects that it was in the same spirit and intent
of speedy and timely investigation, that the question of Default
Judgment and perfecting of same was raised and regulated in INA
Decree No. 29, Article 1, Section 8.
UNDERPERFORMANCE
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Former Senate Leader Explains Election Flunk

By Edwin G. Genoway, Jr (231886458910), genowayedwin@gmail.com
Buchanan,
Grand
Bassa
Countyormer Grand Bassa
County
Senator
Gbehzongar
Milton
Findley has disclosed
that he did not win the
December
2014
Special
senatorial election in Grand
Bassa County because he did
not perform to the expectations
of the people he was serving.
Findley said as an individual,
he believes he did well in Bassa
but the people he represented
felt unsatisfied with his
performance thus voting him
out of the senate.
He dispelled rumors that he
lost because President Sirleaf
supported him in the county.
I didn't lose because President
Sirleaf supported me in Bassa. I
lost because I didn't perform to
the expectation of the people
so they had to try another
person but I am not out of
politics," he told a local radio
station Monday in Monrovia.
He said there is a good
relationship between him and

the Liberian leader, saying his
relationship with the president
has no influence on decisions
of the senate while serving
as senate pro tempore of the
Liberian senate.
Findley noted that the people
have spoken and he has no
problem with that, "We need

not to question the authority
of the people for not voting us
back in the senate, the people
want to try others but I am still
in politics, by me losing does
not mean I am out of politics,"
he added.
No
beef
lawmakers
with
Bassa
The former Grand Bassa

County
Senator
clarified
that there is no confusion or
bitterness between him and
the current Bassa lawmakers.
"There is no bitter line between
FEARING OUSTING
Monrovia-General
and
presidential
election in Liberia is
about two years away
but elected officials are getting
anxious that they might be
ousted by voters at the polls.
The Congress for Democratic
Change (CDC) Montserrado
County
District
#
7
Representative
Solomon
George has begged the people
of West Point West Point for
mercy and called for common
ground.
He urged them to put all their
differences aside and keep the
torch of peace burning in the
Township.
"Everything we did in this
township should fall behind
us and let us work to move
the Township forward, the
lawmaker said.
He continued I accept
everything you throw on me
during our misunderstanding
in
last
August;
people
misunderstood what happened
and what we said during the
West Point quarantine.
Representative George called
on the people to think positive
about West Point and push for
development.
I say sorry to all those I hurt
during our misunderstanding,
forgive me I am your leader, I
also accept everything you did
to me as well," he expressed.
The CDC lawmaker spoke
Sunday March 29, 2015 when
he was called to make a brief
remarks at program marking
the launch of the " Ebola must
go after one year campaign," in
West Point.
The program was launched by
the Liberia Crusaders for Peace
with sponsorship from Mercy
Corps.
The CDC lawmaker however
thanked the citizens of West
me and the Bassa caucus, we

only see things differently
and Bassa lawmakers are not
under obligation to consult me
before they take decision in the
county, I still have supporters
and I am a stakeholder in the
county," he said.
On the issue of Accelor Mittal
reducing its worker force,
former Senator Findley said
reducing the work force at
Accelor Mittal is unacceptable
especially at this time when
there is no job for the people.
He said he's totally against
redundancy of employees
working for the company,
saying the company can find a
better remedy in handling the
situation of workers if there is
a reduction of iron ore on the
world market.
Commenting on Liberty Partys
political leader Cllr. Brumskine
serving as legal counselor
for Mittal, Findley said it is
up to the Counselor to serve
whoever he wants to serve.
Findley said he doubts that Cllr.
Brumskine is the one behind
the dismissal of the people of
Bassa.
"Accelor Mittal is a big company

that has many lawyers, I don't
think Cllr. Brumskine is the one
that giving them such advice,"
he noted.
There are reports that the
leader of the opposition
political party, Cllr. Charles
Walker
Brumskine
is
contracted as legal counselor
for Accelor Mittal and he's being
allegedly paid US$125,000
every three months.
It is reported that the contract
was arranged by President
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as part
of agreement for his (Cllr.
Brumskine) support to her
during the 2011 presidential
runoff election.
Some citizens of Grand Bassa
County have frowned on Cllr.
Brumskine for valuing money
over what they are terming as
interest of the people he claims
to be representing.
Some citizens told the
FrontPageAfrica in Buchanan
recently
that
they
are
disappointed in Cllr. Brumskine
for serving as legal person for
Accelor Mittal; the company
they (the people of Bassa)
claim is not in their favor.
MARGIBI TOPS MATERNAL

MORTALITY IN LIBERIA
CDC West Point Lawmaker Begs for mercy
Henry Karmo (0886522495) henrykarmo@frontpageafricaonline.com
By Edwin G. Genoway, Jr (231886458910), genowayedwin@gmail.com
Monroviareliminary findings into survey conducted on Maternal

Mortality in Margibi County by health officials indicates
that the county accounts for the highest number of
Maternal and new born mortality in Liberia compare to
the other fifteen counties.
According to sources the issues contributing to the increase in
maternal and new born mortality includes; poor health facilities,
less human resource and refusal of pregnant women by health
centers because of fear of Ebola.
Our sources also said, the county has had six deaths in March
2015 four of which took place at health facilities without being
attended to while two occurred at home.
This is unusual. To have six deaths in one month with four being
at health facilities even if they are been referred to by accredited
health center. Margibi County compare to other counties is the
lead in terms of Maternal Mortality, our source who begged not
to be named said.
In 2013 the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare disclosed that
the rate of maternal mortality in the Liberia was still high despite
a five percent decrease.
Maternal death, or maternal mortality, also "obstetrical death" is
the death of a woman during or shortly after a pregnancy.
Maternal death is caused by hemorrhage (outpouring or
inundation), blood clot, infection, unsafe abortion, high blood
pressure and obstructed labor. It is responsible for the deaths of
millions of women in Sub-Saharan Africa who go to give birth.
Most of its victims are adolescents, who face a higher risk of
complications and death as a result of pregnancy than older
women. Skilled care before, during and after childbirth are often
recommended to save the lives of women and newborn babies.
"One of several challenges that the Ministry is facing now is the
high rate of maternal mortality in the country. Although there's a
slight decrease in the rate of maternal deaths, the number is still
high," disclosed Yah M. Zolia, Deputy Minister for Planning and
Research, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW).
Upon assuming the presidency in 2006, Liberias Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf promised to tackle many national problems made worse by
a decade of civil war. One of her goals was to reduce the maternal
death rate, which has soared to 994 out of every 100,000 live
births.
Liberias maternal death rate remains among the highest in subSaharan Africa, but the government is trying to change that. This
year, President Sirleaf announced that reducing maternal deaths
was among her governments top priorities.
The Ministry of Health developed the essential package of
health services which describes maternal health interventions
at both community level and health facilities level, says Tolbert
Nyenswah, deputy minister of health for preventive services.
The deputy minister says he is hearing some positive news about
maternal mortality reduction in our country.
We will boot him out
Point for their resilience in

fight the virus.
Drugs addicts
hunt lawmaker
comments
In August 2014 when the Ebola

virus was ravaging in Monrovia
Representative
George
described the Township of
West Point in Monrovia as the
headquarters of drug addicts
in Liberia.
You talk about drugs; West
Point is the headquarters
of drug addicts. That area is
also a major place for drug
trafficking. We have been
talking to some of our people
to desist. I think we need more
police stations and officers in
West Point, he declared at the
time.
Gracing the Crusaders for
Peace campaign in West Point,
the lawmaker was quick to
apologize apparently after
hearing that some youths were
planning to boo at him and to
protest against his presence in
the district.
Some of the angry youths in
the township frowned on their
lawmaker for being rude on
them.
The
Aggrieved
residents
of West Point noted that
representative George is an
outlaw lawmaker who entered
the Capitol Building at the
detriment of district 7 using
the CDC factor to get their
votes.
Steven Nimley, a resident of

the West Point community
described Rep. George as man
who lacks focus for the people
he represents.
"How can a man who is
representing us call us drugs
addicts, it now he is realizing
that there drugs addicts here
in West Point where he got
most of his votes from, maybe
he was not understanding
himself at the time he made
the statement, what was in his
brain has been cleared that's
why he's now saying sorry to
us," Steven stated.
He further said "If even he tells
us sorry we will still vote him
out of this district, may what
we did was bad that's why he's
behaving like that, if a man we
stood in the sun to vote for can
tell
such nonsense and at the

end of the day because 2017
around the corner he's saying
sorry to us, let him keep his
sorry and start finding job
elsewhere because he's not
going back in that house after
2017," Archie Boy Freeman,
another resident of West Point
noted.
The Township is located on a
peninsula which juts out into
the Atlantic Ocean between
the Mesurado and Saint Paul
Rivers.
Home
to
approximately
75,000 people, it is one of
Monrovia's
most
densely
populated neighborhoods, and
environmental
degradation
has gradually caused part of
the peninsula to erode into the
ocean.
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GENDER BAIS CONFRONTING

WOMEN ACCESS TO MEDIA
Al-Varney Rogers alvarney.rogersfrontpageafricaonline.com 0886304498
Monroviaince 2006, for the first

time, Liberia in its
history has witnessed
the proliferation of
newspapers and radio stations
across the country.
With nearly forty newspapers
Monroviaeveral armed robbers

who are currently
detained
at
the
infamous
Monrovia
Central Prison awaiting court
trial would be admitted to bail
in the coming days without
undergoing any trial.
The move to admit the over 15
(fifteen) armed robbers comes
in the wake of a motion filed on
behalf of the alleged robbers
by the Catholic Justice and
Peace Commission (JPC).
The over 15 alleged robbers
are among 60 other robbers
that the JPC is recommending
to the court, to be set free due
to prolonged detention for over
five years without any trial.
According to the Liberia laws
and practices, a defendant
charged and indicted by the
grand jury has in his/ her
favor two terms of court to go
on trial, if not they should be
admitted to bail or acquittal
when a motion is filed on
behalf of the defendant in that
direction.
Atty.
Momolu
Kandakais
motion in collaboration with
the Public Defense Office at the
and more than seventy radio

stations in the country women
access to the media is still a
huge challenge.
To gather the extent the
media has created space for
women; the Liberia Women
Media Action Committee has
Temple of Justice, asked the

court to admit the men on bail
because some of them were
arrested since 2009 and 2010
and have not been able to go on
trial. This practice is common
in the countrys justice system.
Exercising Chapter 13.1 of
the Criminal Procedure Law
that has to do with the right
of the defendant to bail, Atty.
Kandakai
indicated
that
admitting the defendants to
bail was their right under the
law.
The defendants deserved
bail because they have been
in prolonged detention far
beyond the statutory period,
said Atty. Kandakai.
Judge Sakijipo Wolo of the
Criminal Court D where the
motion that was resisted by
the prosecution was filed, after
the hearing said that the court
will grant the defendants bail
but someone will have to sign
for them and provide a mobile
phone number to the court.
The court will scrutinize the
list and that someone will sign
for those to be released, said
Judge Wolo while delivering
his ruling on the matter.
conducted a survey detailing

the challenges women are
faced with in accessing the
media.
Before the official launch of
the report at the Press Union
of Liberia, media executives
and reporters gathered to
discuss the challenges and way

forward in increasing women
access to the media.
Still missing voices
Launching the survey report
IREX Senior Media Specialist
Maureen Sieh said, Liberia
cannot develop when women
voices are missing in the media
coverage.
We cannot develop as a nation
when the only voices we hear
are men voices, why are we
not raising women voices Sieh
inquired.
She urged media institutions to
create space and opportunities
for female journalists to
explore their potentials.
Sieh said that women voices
are not dominating the papers
and the air waves adding that
only women in politics are
mostly covered.
Women voices are not
dominating the air waves and
papers. Women are not asking
for handouts just give us the
opportunity, Sieh added.
Findings from the study
indicate that people claim to
receive news and information
on womens issues adding that
the frequency at which such
news is received is very low,
the report added.
Negative portrayal
The survey reveals that women

are still largely absent from the
news stories. Most stories are
about men, and when women
are focus of a story, it is usually
a negative portrayal.
The study furthered that only
three media houses are owned
by women in Liberia- the
Liberia Women Democracy
Radio (LWDR) the Women
Voices Newspaper, and Radio
MARWOPNET.
Estella Nelson, President of
LIWOMAC said the report is a
reflection of the Liberia media
landscape adding that it is not
exhaustive.
This report is a reflection of
the Liberian media but it is not
exhaustive, it is just reminding
the media that they have to
affirm the status of women in
the media, Nelson said.
She said with the numerous
challenges women are facing
she the situation is not what it
was years back.
Nelson stressed that the
coverage of women should not
just be about women issues
like rape and sexual violence
adding that the media should
cover the economy and politics
as it affect women.
Women issues are not just
women issues how many
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people are talking about

teenage pregnancy as a
statutory rape and the social
and economic impact it has on
the country, it is my hope that
the media will advance women
issues, Nelson further said.
Accessibility of the media
by women is said to be
very difficult as 55%, 150
respondents (98 female, 52
male) say it is difficult for
women to have access to the
media.
The Report states that women
find it difficult to access
the media due to illiteracy,
poverty, shyness, custom and
traditional influence.
To increase women access
in the media the report
is
recommending
the
empowerment of ordinary
women to use the media,
introduce
specialized
training
for
journalists,
encourage media owners to
build confidence in female
journalists,
create
more
awareness on women issues,
provides incentive for female
reporters and other interested
women in the profession
and mainstream gender in
programming.
SEVERAL ARMED ROBBERS TO GO

FREE-JPC FILES MOTION FOR BAIL
Kennedy L. Yangian kennedylyangian@frontpageafricaonline.com 0777296781
JPC Lawyer Momolu Kandakai Leaving Court

At the same the trial of eight
other armed robbers has
begun at the Criminal Court
D at the Temple of Justice,

where they have pleaded not
guilty to the charges of armed
robbery.
The release of the alleged
armed robbers is coming at a
that Europe has given to the

people of Liberia, without
any obligation of refund, to
help Liberia overcome serious
development
challenges."
said the European Union
Ambassador.
"We are doing this as a show
of solidarity and the World
Bank, that is administering
the contract, has further
given a loan to Liberia to help
finance these works. We are
sure that the road, if properly
maintained, will last and serve
Liberians for many years." said
the EU Ambassador.
Participants of the visit
received a thorough briefing
from two chinese construction
companies, that are carrying
out the works. The Ambassador,
Tiina Intelmann was pleased
to discover that the GbarngaGanta-Guinea border road
is ahead of schedule. Due
to Ebola, the construction

works were suspended from
September
to
December
2014, so an extended period
of 4 months was given this
year, to complete the works.
The contractors have now
recovered one month and they
are now due to complete in July
2015.
She was extremely impressed
with the work that they have
achieved to date and has
expressed the hope of donors
to see work completed and to
participate in the inauguration
of the road in a few months.
The contracts with the Chinese
contractors come in two parts:
during the first couple of years
the road is built. Thereafter
the contractor provides the
maintenance of the road for
seven or eight years after the
construction is completed.
In 2024, the maintenance of
time when authorities of the

Liberia National Police (LNP)
announced a sharp reduction
in armed robbery cases in the
country.
Police boss Chris Massaquoi
announced recently that the
sharp reduction in armed
robbery cases in the country
is due to a series of LNP
operations, put into place with
one of them been operation
Safe Haven.
He said the operation led to
the arrest and killing of several
armed robbers one of them
being notorious armed robber
Lewis Kennedy.
Notorious
armed
robber
Kennedy and another armed
robber were gunned down
during fire exchange with
police officers in the port city
of Buchanan in 2014.
EU, MEMBER STATES FUND MONROVIA, GANTA ROAD

Monroviahe Ambassador of
the European Union,
Ms Tiina Intelmann,
participated in a
two-day visit to inspect the
construction of the road from
Monrovia to Ganta and the
Guinea border.
The visit was headed by the
Minister of Public Works,
Mr. William Gyude Moore
to register progress and to
interact with contractors
and local people along the
construction line. This major
infrastructure project is funded
from different sources. The
European Union is the largest
contributor at 44 %, European
Union member countries;
Germany,
Sweden,
UK,
Ireland have given additional
contributions as have Norway
and Licus Trust Fund.
"This is a considerable grant
these roads then becomes

the obligation of the Liberian
Government.
The Road is built in different
stages: the 70km GbarngaGanta-Guinea border strip
will be completed in July this
year; the 175 km piece from
Monrovia Coca Cola Factory
to Gbarnga is expected to be
completed next year.
All participants in the visit
expressed satisfaction with
the work of the contractors
and great appreciation of
the fact that a great number
of Liberians have been
trained to participate in the
works, including operating
complicated machinery.
In
fact, Liberians make up 90%
of the staff working on both
sections of the Road.
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Environmental Social Health Impact Assessment (ESHIA) Related Responsibilities
The Social Development Manager (SDM) will be responsible for ensuring that the
PIOM ESHIA Management Plans are implemented within International and National
Standards and Best Practice and more importantly on budget and on time;
The Social Development Manager will be responsible for the Management of the full
Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) tendering and contracting process and management
of consultants;
The Social Development Manager will be responsible for the management of any
additional Environmental, Social and Health (ESH) specialized studies as required.
This will includes developing TOR, overseeing the tendering, evaluation
and
selection process ;
Equally responsible for the management of any Environmental and Social Projects
either relating to off-set program or social/or community request;
Management of and liaison point person for the ESHIA Contractors and associated
Sub-contractors including developing and managing their task, weekly follow-up of
ESHIA Management Plans implementation process;
The company has two divisions which are as follows: SEVERSTAL RESOURCES & SEVERSTAL
RUSSIAN STEEL
Review of ESHIA report including the EMP and SMP, and Reality check on the
appropriateness of impact mitigation measures proposed by ESHIA consultants;
Putu Iron Ore Mining Inc. is a segment of SEVERSTAL RESOURCES, which is the division which
incorporates all of the raw material assets of SEVERSTAL. In 2010, SEVERSTAL signed a Mineral
Development Agreement (MDA) for a period of twenty five (25) years with the Government of
Liberia. The agreement may be extended beyond this timeframe depending on the lifespan of the
mine. On 23 December 2011, the company purchased the remaining 38.5% shares from Affero
Mining Inc. SEVERSTAL places key importance on how to be a leader in this business. In order to
do so, emphasis is placed on the following three key values in ensuring the achievement of this goal.
EFFICIENCY AND AGILITY, RESPECT FOR EMPLOYEES, & TEAMWORK.
Manage any independent reviews and updating of the ESHIA process, deliverables
and management plans;
Liaison between ESHIA team and PIOM management and planning team on the ESM
and SMP implementation Plans;
Support to the stakeholder engagement strategy for the ESHIA Management Plans
implementation process;
Striving to become an employer of choice, the company views the welfare of its workforce of primary
importance. This is exemplified in the slogan which supports the brand which was introduced in
2009, ACHIEVING MORE TOGETHER. SEVERSTAL is defined in three words
EXCELLENCE, PEOPLE AND UNITY.
Ensure that at all times PIOM ESHIA Management Plans and impact management
strategy is aligned with International Best Practices and Standards.
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
ABOUT PUTU IRON ORE MINING INC.
Putu Iron Ore Mining Inc. came into being in 2008 through the acquisition of 61.5% shares of a 13.5
km iron rich ridge in Grand Gedeh County, Liberia by Severstal. Feasibility studies have revealed an
estimated 3.2 billion tons of iron ore. Of Russian origin, SEVERSTALs modest beginnings are the
Cherepovets Steel Mill, located in the Vologda region of Russia. The Mill came into being in 1955. In
1993, The Cherepovets Steel Mill was registered as an Open Joint Stock Company and this gave
birth to the name, SEVERSTAL. Today, SEVERSTAL is one of the worlds leading vertically
integrated steel and steel related mining companies, with assets in Russia, Latvia, Ukraine, Poland,
Italy and Liberia with approximately 53,000 employees. Severstal is listed on MICEX/RTS,
GDRs are traded on the LSE.
PUTU IRON ORE MINING INC. is seeking for a dynamic, committed and highly
competent individual with a solid background and demonstrated experience in the
field of Environmental Management or Social Science, Economics; or Health
Studies to serve as a Social Development Manager.
Job Title:
Social Development Manager (Ref. number: SDM PIOMV/0033)
Department:
Social Affairs Department (SAD)
Place of Work: PIOM Monrovia Office, Montserrado County & PIOM Site Office,
Putu Grand Gedeh County with extensive travelling required.
Reports to:
Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Duration:
Indefinite (With an Initial Three (3) Months Probation Period)
PIOM offers a highly competitive salary and benefits.
Essential Function:
The overall purpose of the Social Development Manager post will be to identify and
manage all construction and mining phases related impacts of the PIOM Project. Manage
the implementation of Environmental, Social and Health Management Plans established
during the Feasibility Study - Environmental Social Health Impact Assessment (ESHIA)
process for PIOM.
A key part to the role will be to integrate the sites perspective, impact identification and
management into PIOMs operations. This post will work in close collaboration with the
Government Relations and Corporate Affairs Manager, Health, Security and
Environmental (HSE) Managers and their respective teams.
Under the Direct Supervision of the Chief Executive Officer, the incumbent shall
carry out the following duties:
Construction and Exploitation Impact Management Related Responsibilities
Ensure that construction and Exploitation impacts are appropriately managed during
the project development phase, to avoid the creation of legacies for the project
including:
The Identification of construction and exploitation related is impacts;
Developing a Management plan for construction and exploitation

management;
impacts
Having oversight of the implementation of the impact management plans;
Regular
monitoring,
management.
review
and
reporting
on
exploration
impact
Personal Qualities:
Able to work effectively as part of a team;
The ability to build the capacity of the team;
Ability to work across functions and departments;
Positive attitude, flexibility, willingness and enthusiasm to get the job done using own
initiative and good teamwork skills;
An interest and sound knowledge of the extractive sector.
Languages:
Fluent English, spoken and written;
Knowledge of other local vernaculars would be an advantage.
Duties:
Maintaining and enhancing positive community relations and developing a large

network amongst the communities, which will enable PIOM to execute its
stakeholder engagement plans and achieve it overall business strategy.
Providing technical specialist support and advising on all social issues and
impacts management, including land and resettlement issues, cultural heritage,
community health and safety issues, project rehabilitation, closure and exit.
Developing and executing a complaints management procedure that will ensure

that all construction and mining related grievances and complaints are manage
effectively and timeously.
Evaluating all socio-economic development projects in conjunction with the local

communitys demands, regional, national development plans and programmes and
to develop social strategies and implement accordingly.
Monitoring the effectiveness of PIOM stakeholder engagement strategy to inform

future engagement plans. Also monitor PIOM compliance and alignment with it
social requirements within the Mineral Development Agreement (MDA) and
other Government regulations, national action plans and strategy.
Taking a lead role in the development and implementation of PIOMs social

capacity building strategy and to assess and address capacity gaps within PIOMs
social affairs team according to international standard.
Education and Experience:

Education: Postgraduate University Degree, preferably in areas such
Environmental Management or Social Science, Economics; or Health Studies;
Experience: The incumbent should have at least 5-10 years Specific Experience in
Management Social Issues with the Mining Industry;
Demonstrate prior experience in the management of an ESHIA process and
implementation of ESHIA Management Plans (or at least components thereof) on an
extractive (Greenfield or Brownfield project or major infrastructure project (ideally
mining project) is a requirement.
Experience in similar context, post-conflict environment would be advantageous.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
International Finance Corporation Performance Standards,

International Council Mining and Metal (ICMM) position statements,
Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights (VPSHR),
Specific Responsibilities
The Social Development Manager will be ultimately responsible to manage all socioeconomic issues on the PIOM project in consultation with PIOMs management and
the CR team.
The Social Development Manager will sets the strategy and oversees its
implementation relating to - ESHIA management plans, stakeholder engagement,
land acquisition and resettlement, social investment, local economic development,
cultural heritage and sacred sites etc.
The Social Development Manager will be responsible for stakeholder engagement

(with UN agencies, development actors, NGOs etc.) at a national, regional and county
level. Liaison with Government officials will be led by the Government Relations and
Corporate Affairs Manager and where issues overlap between the two functions,
engagement should be undertaken collectively and a clear lead established.
Engagement with the local community will principally be led by the Community
Relations Manager, under the directives and supervision of the Social Development
Manager.
Very close working relationships will need to be fostered by the Social Development
Manager with the Government and Corporate Affairs Manager, HSE and Security
Managers respectively and all overlapping areas of work should be jointly scoped and
agreed upon.
The Social Development Manager will lead on PIOMs liaison with external and
internal stakeholders regarding the implementation of the ESHIA Management Plans
and management of construction related impacts.
Oversee human rights related issues in collaboration with security, community

relations, and health and safety teams.
The Social Development Manager will also oversee all community complaints and
grievances, closure and rehabilitation related activities, community aspects of the
ESHIA and Mineral Development Agreements (MDA) social requirements.
Agrees performance metrics for each subordinate, manages performance of each

subordinate, and establishes training and development requirements for each
subordinate and budget development and planning.
Regular (weekly, monthly, quarterly and annually) reporting to the

management team on impact and ESHIA management plans implementation.
Regular reporting to Government (GOL) line Agencies as stipulated in the MDA.
PIOM
Internal Management Systems and Capacity Building
Supporting the development of internal management systems and a reporting

framework on environmental, social and health impact identification, management
and monitoring;
Build the capacity

monitoring;
Awareness rising within PIOM regarding impact management and best practice.
of the CR team on impact identification, management and
Excellent knowledge of international Best Practices and Performance Standards for

impact management, including but not limited to:
World Bank and Equator Principle Performance Standards,
Key strategic targets and outcomes will be the building of the capacity of Liberians.
Build PIOMs capacity to implement the social affairs strategy. Provide strategic
direction, advice and identify the social talent pool and requirements for the project.
Direct targeted training and mentorship programmes and facilitate peer-to-peer support
within the Social Affairs Department.
as
The incumbent must demonstrate experience in managing a project RAP process and
large scale survey,
Ability to take an holistic point of view,
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills including a strong capacity of

synthesis and an ability to communicate technical concepts,
Diplomacy skills and ability to manage teams of external consultants,
Excellent project management skills,
Team builder and motivator with demonstrable ability to work with diverse team and
culture
Ability to listen to, understand and respect the different perspectives of local
communities, PIOM and other stakeholders,
Competent PC user including MS Office e.g. Word, Excel, Access and MS Projects,
Power Point, MS Publisher,
Ability to develop budget for Social Development projects and equally have the
ability to undertake effective budget tracking process.
Ability to make good judgment, meet deadlines and establish good inter-personal
relationships;
Persistence in the face of challenge/diversity;
How to Apply:
Putu Iron Ore Mining Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and considers all
applicants on the basis of merit without regard to county of origin, sex, religion, age,
disability or marital status.
Clearly indicate the job title and reference number as subject line in your letter of
application with your curriculum vitae and relevant credentials attached, and email
us at hr@putuliberia.com
Deadline for submission of applications is April 17, 2015 at 4:00PM. If you fail to
indicate the job title and reference number as subject, your application will not be
accepted.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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TUBERCULOSIS
INCIDENT RATE ON
INCREASE IN LIBERIA
Henry Karmo (0886522495) henrykarmo@frontpageafricaonline.com
W
Monrovia-
hile
all
attention has
been on the
outbreak
of
Ebola in Liberia, there is
increase in other diseases
especially in rural counties in
the country.
To
identify
priorities
for Liberia to effectively
response to TB and HIV
in the next three years,
the people of River Cess
County have concluded a
two-day dialogue, as part
of an ongoing nationwide
consultation organized by
the Liberia Coordinating
Mechanism (LCM) of the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS,
Tuberculosis and Malaria
(GFATM) in the country, with
support from the UN System.
According to the dialogue
organizers, the consultation
aimed
at
identifying
priorities to be incorporated
into a concept note to
aid/enhance TB and HIV
programs throughout Liberia
requested by the Global Fund.
Twenty-five
participants
including
representatives
of the Muslim and Christian
communities,
traditional
leaders,
key
affected
population, civil society,
health practitioners, as well
as, members of the River-Cess
County Health Team (CHT)
attended the dialogue from
Friday to Saturday (March 27
to 28, 2015) in Cestos City,
River-Cess County.
Making
a
PowerPoint
Presentation on the overview
of the dialogue, the National
Tuberculosis and Leprosy
Control Program (NTCP)
representative
Patrick
K.
Konwloh
disclosed
that the Global Fund for
AIDS, TB and Malaria
(GFATM) has committed to
contribute USD$45million,
USD$9.5million
and
USD$47million respectively
over the next three years in
Liberia, but a concept note
needs to be developed.
He
added
that
the
development of the concept
note is a key step towards
the New Funding Model
(NFM) of Global Fund, noting
that beneficiary countries
are required to carry out
stakeholder consultations,
which will culminate into
the development of concept
notes for AIDS, TB and
Malaria programs before
the approved funds can be
accessed by the Country.
Emphasizing the need for the
citizens participation in the
development of the concept
note as requested by Global
Fund, Mr. Konwloh declared
that incident rate for
Tuberculosis in Liberia is 299
per 100,000 people, and the
disease is killing an estimated
1,900 people every year (45
per 100,000) according to
World Health organization
(WHO) statistics released in
2011.
For his part, Murphy
Kiazulu of the National AIDS
Control Program told the
participants that the main
part of Liberias difficult
health situation involves
three diseases including
malaria, tuberculosis and
HIV and AIDS.
Malaria is the leading cause
of morbidity and mortality
in the country. According to
data from the 2009 Health
Facility
Survey
(HFS),
malaria accounts for 35%
of outpatient department
attendance and 33% of inpatient deaths. The entire
population of more than
4.1 million is at risk of the
disease, with serious health
and economic implications

for the country, such as cost
of treatment, days lost from
work and school attendance
by those infected with the
disease, Mr. Kiazulu noted.
Children under 5 and
pregnant women are the
most affected groups. The
National Malaria Strategic
Plan in 2010 rolled out new
5-year strategic goals for
2010 2015, at a cost of
$170,332,893.
The objectives and activities
set out in the plan reflect the
recommendations of The
World Health Organization
(WHO), the Roll Back Malaria
(RBM) Partnership and best
practices and successes from
other African countries, to
scale-up the most effective
malaria
control
and
prevention measures, from
the health facilities down to
the community level, and to
involve the private sector
and all partners supporting
health care delivery in
Liberia, he maintained.
During the dialogue and
prioritization
workshop,
citizens of River Cess County
underscored the need for
government to continue
working
hands-in-hands
with the community in order
for the country to eliminate
TB and HIV throughout
Liberia.
We think this meeting is
good and that we need to be
serious about these illnesses.
TB and HIV continue to catch
people of this country. I feel
this is about time that we
need to design strategies
like we are doing with the
Ebola Virus, so that HIV and
TB can leave for good, said,
Mr. Sunday Amzat (Muslim
Representative).
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IN BRIEF
OBAMA WILL VISIT

KENYA IN JULY,
WHITE HOUSE SAYS
BOSTON
resident
Obama
will travel to Kenya
in July to attend
the 2015 Global
Entrepreneurship Summit,
the White House announced
Monday.
White House Press Secretary
Josh Earnest said in a
statement that the purpose
of the trip was to "accelerate
economic growth, strengthen
democratic institutions, and
improve security" in Africa.
The Global Entrepreneurship
Summit, an annual event
since 2009, brings together
entrepreneurs,
investors,
governments
and
other
organizations to boost living
standards around the world.
WORLD LEADERS' PASSPORT

DETAILS RELEASED BY
IMMIGRATION OFFICIAL
P
(CNN)
ersonal
details
including the passport
numbers
of
U.S.
President
Barack
Obama and 19 other world
leaders at last year's G20 summit
were inadvertently released
by
Australia's
immigration
department, British newspaper
the Guardian reported Monday.
An official mistakenly sent the
passport, visa and other details
of all leaders at the summit to
local organizers of the Asian Cup
football tournament, which was
held in Australia in January, the
newspaper reported.
The
recipient
immediately
destroyed the data and the
information was not distributed
further, a spokesman for
Australia's
Department
of
Immigration
and
Border
Protection told CNN.
DIFFICULT DAY' AS FLORIDA

CHURCH VAN CRASH KILLS EIGHT
A
CNN)
dark
intersection.
A church van full of
parishioners.
And
tragedy.
That's about all police in Glades
County, Florida, had to work with
early Monday, hours after a van
with 18 people inside ran a stop
sign, crossed a four-lane highway
and plunged into a shallow
water-filled ditch. Eight people
died. Ten others, including a
4-year-old child, were injured,
according to police.
Investigators don't know why
it happened, Florida Highway
Patrol spokesman Lt. Greg
Bueno told CNN affiliate WPBF.
The driver died, and police
haven't been able to interview
passengers yet.
"Our hearts go out to the families
of the victims," Bueno said.
"It breaks your heart to see
something like this happen."
igeria's
election
body says it expects
to announce the
first results of
Saturday's keenly contested
presidential poll on Tuesday.
Incumbent
Goodluck
Jonathan is facing a strong
challenge
from
former
military ruler Muhammadu
Buhari.
The US and UK in a joint
statement expressed concern
over
possible
"political
interference" in the count.
Voting over the weekend was
marred by technical hitches,
protests and violence linked
to Boko Haram.
"So far, we have seen
no evidence of systemic
manipulation of the process,"
the statement from UK
Foreign Secretary Philip
Hammond and US Secretary
of State John Kerry said.
"But there are disturbing
indications that the collation
process, where the votes
are finally counted, may be
subject to deliberate political
interference."
Follow live updates here as
the results are announced.
Voting spilled into a second
day in some parts of Nigeria
after problems with new
electronic card readers.
Opposition protesters in
Rivers State took to the
streets, demanding a recount
President Jonathan was
among
those
whose
registration to vote was
delayed by the technology,
which was introduced to
prevent fraud.
His Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP), which had
opposed the card readers,
called it a "huge national
embarrassment".
Election commission chief
Attahiru Jega said only a
fraction of the 150,000
card readers being used
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WORLD NEWS
NIGERIA ELECTION: FIRST

RESULTS EXPECTED
nationwide had failed.

The
presidential
and
parliamentary elections had
been delayed by six weeks
because of the insurgency by
Boko Haram militants.
Nigeria at a glance:

Two
main
presidential
candidates:
Muhammadu Buhari, All
Progressives
Congress
(APC), Muslim northerner,
ex-military ruler, fourth
presidential
bid;
and
Goodluck Jonathan, People's
Democratic Party (PDP),
Christian southerner, the
incumbent.

Years of military
rule ended in 1999 and the
PDP has been in power ever

since

Nigeria is Africa's
largest economy and leading
oil producer

With a population
of more than 170m, it is
also Africa's most populous
nation
Unpredictable poll
Nigeria decides 2015: Full
coverage
The
Islamists
attacked
polling stations in northeastern states, with a curfew
declared in Bauchi State after
fighting between the security
forces and the group.
The UN gave an upbeat
assessment of the vote
vote, then I can't complain

when things don't change,"
said Akin Ojo, an accountant
and tax practitioner in Ikeja,
Lagos.
"This election is important,"
he added. "People are
starting to ask questions of
their government. We need
to hold them accountable."
Mueez Akanni Adepoju, 38,
brought his two daughters
to the polling station in the
Oshodi ward, Lagos Island.
He said: "I want Nigeria
to change. I don't want
Nigerians to have to travel
out of the country. We have
everything here that anyone
needs to survive but our
government is not good."
Complex task
Navigating and orchestrating
Africa's largest population
of nearly 180 million in an
election was never going to
be easy.
Polling day was beset with
administrative inefficiencies
that threatened to derail the
process. The much-vaunted
card readers that were
supposed to help combat
election rigging failed to
work in many areas and
President Goodluck Jonathan
was its highest profile victim.
In areas where the card
readers did work, observers
said they had a long battery
life and many people were
accredited without problems.
NIGERIA VOTES: FORGET THE CANDIDATES,

DEMOCRACY WAS THE REAL WINNER
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)

hey came in droves,
men, women, young,
old. Mothers with
babies
strapped
tightly to their backs,
pregnant women, the elderly,
some who could barely walk
unaided.
They waited patiently for
sometimes
seven,
eight
hours in the scorching sun. In
parts of the country where it
poured down with rain, they

stood, barely shielded under
makeshift umbrellas.
It was one of Africa's biggest
elections and it didn't
disappoint. There was high
drama, violence and tensions
but most of all an electorate
determined to exercise their
democratic right to vote. In
northern Nigeria, women
turned out in large numbers.
Women at an Internally
Displaced People (IDP) camp
in northern Nigeria queue to
register for the election on
March 28.
Some polling stations in
Lagos opened on Saturday at
around 8 a.m. and a queue of
eager voters quickly formed.
There was a palpable air of
excitement.
"I'm voting because the
stakes are too high. If I don't
Sunday,
with
Secretary
General
Ban
Ki-moon
praising the "determination
and resilience" of Nigerian
voters, despite the reports of
attacks by Boko Haram and
others.
He said in a statement voting
had been "largely peaceful
and orderly".
His comments were echoed
by the regional bloc Ecowas,
which urged Nigerians to
accept the result.
Nigerian churchgoers on
Sunday prayed for peace
But there has been tension
in the southern Rivers State,
where thousands protested
against alleged killings of
There were also widespread

reports of people waiting
for
hours
across
the
country for officials from
the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC)
to open up polling stations.
There was also a shortage of
ballot papers in some parts.
Voting was extended through
Sunday to make up for these
shortcomings.
Yet, Nigerians were not
deterred and turned out in
their millions and waited
patiently, sometimes long
into the night, to cast their
votes.
There was a party-like
atmosphere
at
some

polling stations,
with one
enterprising soul setting up
a barbecue stand, known
locally as suya.
At another, one man even
proposed to his girlfriend,
sending the Twittersphere
into a frenzy. Although
tempers boiled over at many
from frustration at long
periods of waiting in the
blazing sun with no food and
little water.
Human rights and peace
activist Chitra Nagarajan
lives and works in Abuja and
was an independent observer
at Saturday's elections in the
capital.
She said she was struck by
the enthusiasm for voting.
"Overall the voters were
opposition workers and

voting irregularities.
Inec said it was "concerned"
by the complaints, adding
that one of their offices was
set on fire during the unrest.
Results of the voting were
expected to arrive overnight
but so far there is no official
indication of which party is in
the lead.
The PDP has dominated
Nigerian
politics
since
1999, but Gen Buhari's All
Progressives Congress is
viewed as a serious challenge.
Voters are also electing
members of the house of
representatives and the
senate.
excellent. I spoke to many

voters and many of them had
been waiting for six, seven
hours, maybe more.
"They were in high spirits,
saying how much fun it
was. They told me: 'We
are performing our civic
responsibility. We are happy
to wait and are treasuring the
moment. It's not everyday we
get to do this,'" she said.
"For me it was lovely to see
how people took voting, and
their rights very seriously.
Some people were there
from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. People
tend to focus on the negative
overall, but voters should be
commended."
Journalist and activist Chude
Jideonwo described the
elections as a "joyful time."
"Nigerians want democracy,"
he said. "They are thoroughly
engaged with the process and
it was not like 2011 when
we were begging the elites
to come out to vote. They all
queued with us to vote.
"Most of the people who
didn't vote was because
of INEC's inefficiency. The
police were professional and
very cooperative.
"The military stayed out of
Lagos and there was a lot
of cooperation between the
voters at the polling (units).
It was a joyful time making
a decision for our country,"
said Jideonwo.
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COACH HONOUR JANZA FEELS

'BETRAYED' BY ZAMBIAN FA
utgoing
Zambia
coach
Honour
Janza says he feels
"betrayed" by the
way the country's football
association has gone about
replacing him.
The Football Association of
Zambia said at Saturday's annual
general meeting it is to appoint a
foreign coach.
The announcement was widely
reported in the media on Sunday,

the day Janza oversaw a friendly
win over Rwanda.
"I was surprised to read about
my departure because no-one
has told me anything," Janza told
BBC Sport.
"Why should the issue of
my employment be a matter
of discussion at the AGM? I
thought it was a managerial issue
between me and my employers?
"It was quite disturbing because I

just read about it in the morning
of the game.
Continue reading the main story
I am not happy with the way I
have been treated. I don't think I
can trust anyone and I am saying
this from deep down my heart
Honour Janza Zambia coach
"Then I had to be in front of the
players. How can players respect
me like that? If I was made
aware, I would have prepared

myself psychologically."
Janza
was
appointed
as
Chipolopolo coach in August
2014 after the departure of
Frenchman Patrice Beaumelle
and has been working without a
signed contract.
He was in charge of the team
at the Africa Cup of Nations in
Equatorial Guinea earlier this
year, where the team suffered
a first-round elimination, but is
now set to be pushed aside for a
new man.
Football Association of Zambia
(Faz)
president
Kalusha
Bwalya said: "The executive
committee sat and evaluated the
performance of the technical
bench and the decision was made
to find a foreign coach who will
fit the national team profile."
Janza has insisted that he does
not know if Sunday's match was
his last.
"I have not been officially told
whether this is my last game
or not. After the match the Faz
president came to me to ask me
about my programme for the

upcoming matches," Janza said.
"It's something that is paining
me but I have to respect my
employers. I don't want to injure
my employers or come out like I
am fighting them."
There have been questions over
Janza's coaching qualifications,
with some suggesting he is not
at the appropriate level to be in
charge of the national team.
Janza, who was assistant
boss under Herve Renard
and
Beaumelle,
holds
a
Uefa 'B' coaching licence,
a Confederation of African
Football (Caf) 'A' licence and is
an elite coach's instructor for the
continent's governing body.
He has also held the post of Faz
technical director and could
return to that role once a new
coach has been appointed.
However, he said: "Once beaten,
twice shy. I am not comfortable
with these people.
"I am not happy with the way I
have been treated. I don't think I
can trust anyone and I am saying
this from deep down my heart.
"I have not differed with anyone
but I am not happy with the way
I have been treated.
"There's been a lot of hide and
seek and that's not nice in the
game of football and when
managing other human beings."
LACK OF FUNDING LEADS TO CANCELATION

OF COUNTY SPORTS MEET
he Minister of Youth
and
Sports
has
attributed his ministry
failure to host the
2014/2015 edition of the National
County Sports competition to the
lack of funding.
Minister Eugene Nagbe said
before the resumption of every
county sports meet, each of the
15 counties has to receive cash
from the government through his
ministry to finance their teams
participation in the competition
but said due to the Ebola crisis the
government could not provide
his ministry with the funding
needed for the tournament.
I think we all know very well
that since the outbreak of the
Ebola virus in our country 90%

of the government attention
and spending has been focused
on the virus because it caused
a serious blow to every sector
of our society including health,
economic and sports so we
have to prepare for the next
competition Minster Nagbe
said.
He disclosed that the 2015/2016
county sports meet would take
place in early 2016, which time
he believes the government
would be ready to provide
funding for the tournament.
Minister Nagbe agreed that those
who are complaining about the
setback in the development of
football in the country are right
and that the government through

his ministry has to do more in
order to move sports especially
football forward.
We are very sure that we will
get support from the National
Legislature and the president
herself for us to move forward
with the development of football
in Liberia.
The National County Sports
Meet is one of the most popular
sporting activities that bring
together citizens of the 15
political sub-divisions in the
country and sport enthusiasts
in the country are complaining
about the failure of the Youth
and Sports ministry to host the
county sports meet.
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SPORTS
REAL MADRID INTEREST

IN POGBA ONLY LOGICAL,
SAYS ZIDANE
he
Madrid
Castilla coach has
acknowledged they
are keeping tabs on
his compatriot but does not
know whether he will be on
the move this summer
Zinedine Zidane claims it
is "only logical" that Real
Madrid are keeping a close
eye on Paul Pogba's situation
at Juventus.
The France international, 22,
signed a new contract with
Juventus until the summer of
2019 back in October but is
still continually linked with a
move away from the Serie A
champions.
PSG: DANI ALVES

A GREAT PLAYER
he
Brazil
international
is
continually
being
linked with a move
to the Parc des Princes and
the French champions have
now further fuelled talk of a
summer deal
Paris Saint-Germain sporting
director Olivier Letang has
lavished praise on Barcelona
defender Dani Alves amidst
reports that the Brazil
international is on his way to
the French capital.
The 31-year-old right-back's
contract with the Liga leaders
will expire at the end of the
season and he is continually
being linked with a move
away from Catalunya.
DUKE FRESHMEN LEAD WAY

TO FINAL FOUR, STRUGGLE
WITH RITE OF PASSAGE
BAYERN: WE COULD SPEND 100M ON ONE STAR
he
German
champions
have
not yet come close
to such a fee for a
single player but are confident

they have the financial muscle
to compete in the market
Bayern Munich executive
board member Jan-Christian

Dreesen has admitted the club
could spend 100 million on a
star name.
The Bundesliga champions
have so far refused to match La
Liga and Premier League giants
when it comes to spending big
in the transfer market, with the
arrival of Javi Martinez for
40 million in 2012 still their
record outlay.
However,
Dreesen
has
acknowledged they could
emulate the likes of Real
Madrid,
Barcelona
and
Manchester United and pay
figures closer to the world
record fee of Gareth Bale for a
top individual.
"It would be simple to say
Bayern would never pay 100
million for one player. I don't
want to go there, though,

because I do not like to
backtrack in the future. So yes,
Bayern could spend 100m on
one player," Dreesen, the club's
head of finances, told Kicker.
"It will have to be an intelligent
investment, though. We don't
just want to go for the most
expensive players. Someone
has to fit in at Bayern."
Player wages have increased
exponentially
along
with
transfer fees in recent seasons
but Bayern claim salaries of
10m per year and more are
unusual at the Allianz Arena.
While Dreesen is confident
wages are no stumbling block
for the club, he concedes they
could miss out on signing
players driven purely by
thoughts of a big pay packet.
"Players making 10m or

more remain an exception,
even though I think wages
will continue to rise," Dreesen
said. "I have yet to see a player
demand wages that we could
not afford. I get the impression
that the coach's advice on
which players would fit at
Bayern is very important.
"The
top
players
are
significantly more expensive
than before. And with the
Premier League's new TV deal,
wages will not decrease any
time soon. So Bayern will have
to look after these players even
more intensively than before.
We might miss out on those
who are only looking to make
a lot of money."
W
HOUSTON
hen the supreme

moment came
Sunday
night
the stuff of
basketball fantasy Duke's
program experienced a sheepish
pause. Right at the bottom of the
ladder, with scissors in hand,
it became clear that there was
one thing all these acclaimed
freshmen had yet to learn.
Basketball nets. How exactly
did you cut one down? Like,
in technical terms. Was there
etiquette? Who got the last cut?
Who got the first? How much
nylon should you take? And,
really, who goes that high on a
ladder with scissors?
Tyus Jones waves to the crowd
after cutting down a piece of
the net after defeating Gonzaga.
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BILLIMA COMMUNITY DECRIES

POLLUTION BY CEMENCO
Massa F. Kanneh masskanneh@yahoo.com or 0886848625
Monrovia
esidents
of
the
Billima Community
have
alarmed
over
what
they
call pollution caused by the
Cement Company CEMENCO
located on the Bushrod Island.
Speaking in an interview with
FrontPageAfrica, Alhaji Siryon
said that the pollution by
CEMENCO has caused serious
health hazard for residents.
Said Siryon: Last year, some

children got sick and they
went almost blind, and those
children have been taken to the
bush for treatment.
Siryon also complained of
loud vibration and smoke
from the companys generator,
something
he
said
is
devastating for residents.
Another
resident
Assata
Dukuly said it is almost four
years since the community
raised these same issues but it

has continued without ceasing.
Dukuly alleges that children
in the area have developed
illnesses such as tuberculosis
and they believe that this is the
result of the pollution caused
by CEMENCOs operations in
the area.
When you sit here for even
few minutes, your eyes will be
filled with cement dust, she
said. When we tell the leader,
AMBASSADOR NYENABO
CHALLENGES DIASPORA LIBERIANS
TO JOIN RECONSTRUCTION PROCESS
Brussels, Belgiumiberia's Ambassador

designate to the
Kingdom of Belgium,
the
Netherlands,
Luxemburg
and
the
European
Union,
Amb.
Isaac W. Nyenabo, II has
challenged Liberians in the
diaspsora, especially those in
the Benelux Zone to join the
massive development and
reconstruction taking place
in their country.
Ambassador Nyenabo told
a group of members of
the Liberian Community
residing in the region who
had gathered to welcome
him as their ambassador,
that since the election of
President Ellen JohnsonSirleaf, the country has
transformed in many areas,
thus promoting development

and infrastructure boost in
the country.
Ambassador Nyenabo said
since 2005 to date, the
country has seen massive
improvements and huge
development in the areas
of roads reconstruction,
both rural and urban roads,
the construction of schools
and the rehabilitation of
old ones across the country,
the construction of health
centers
and
hospitals
in nearly all parts of the
country and massive housing
development in both the
private and public sectors.
The Liberian diplomat named
the
Monrovia-Buchanan
Road, the 72nd Road, the
Monrovia-Ganta Road, the
entire Central Monrovia Road
Project, the Gardnerville

Road, the Neezoe Road and
many neighborhood Roads
plus other rural roads that
have been reconditioned or
are to soon get constructed
as a just a few to consider.
He said the old Waterside
Bridge, the Caldwell Bridge
and many bridges have
either been reconditioned
or reconstructed across the
country.
''As I speak to you fellow
Liberians, there are many
junior colleges across the
country in Grand Bassa,
Lofa, Bong, Nimba, Sinji
Technical
School
and
other colleges have been
established to cater for rural
people. Also remarkable,
is the transformation of
the
William VS Tubman
they will go and CEMENCO

bribe them small money and
they will forget it. For the
Generator noise, we cant
sleep, if you talking here, no
one will hear you. We are really
suffering.
Dukuly said that the community
wanted to file a lawsuit against
CEMENCO for pollution, but
the company promised to build
a clinic to treat the sick and so
they dropped the efforts to go
to court on the matter.
She said the Environmental
Protection
Agency
(EPA)
and the Independent Human
Right
Commission
were
also involved, but since then
nothing has been done to
deliver on their promises.
The resident of the community
said CEMENCO was asked
to provide electricity for the
residents but the company has
refused.
Chairmans response
Community Chairman Mulbah
Dukuly told FrontPageAfrica
that assertions made by
residents are true.
You know the people are
right to say so because they
are not feeling the impact of
CEMENCO.
As you can see today is Sunday,
they are not working today, so
you wont find lot of dusts, he
Technical College which was

a junior college now to a fullfledged University program
that grants degrees in many
other disciplines to Liberians
in the Southeast and other
parts of the country'' he
added amidst cheers from
the audience.
Ambassador
Nyenabo
decried the devastation of
the country's health and
economy sectors as a result
of the outbreak of the Ebola
Virus Disease, EVD which
he said reversed the gains
made over the past years, but
quickly added that a serious
reform program has been
put together to address post
ebola recovery of the country
and called on Liberians in
the diaspora to join those
efforts aimed at addressing
the reconstruction of their
country in a massive way.
He called on Liberians in
the Benelux to be good
ambassadors of their country
and people by remaining law
abiding and taking advantage
of the many opportunities
available to them by their
host countries, as Liberia will
one day need their expertise
and professional skills.
The President of the United
Liberians Association in
Belgium, ULAB, Kingston
Wleh who hosted the
program,
welcomed
Ambassador Nyenabo on
behalf of his colleagues and
pledged their unflinching
support and cooperation in
working with him as their
Chief of Mission and their
country's representative to
the Benelux countries.

said in simple Liberian English.
But when the people ready for
their production, this whole
place can be covered with dust,
the generator pa, the people
who live right by the fence
cant even sleep.
Dukuly said Billima is not alone
in this suffering adding that the
situation exists in Sawmill and
Bassa town.
He said the surrounding
communities are planning to
host a meeting to address the
matter any time soon.
Not causing health hazard

Angrily
responding
to
assertions made by the
community,
the
Manager
for General Services of the
company, James Gibson refuted
the allegations of pollution on
environments by it company
made by community dwellers.
Said Gibson: Those people
who are making claims of
pollution, did they show you
their title deeds, that they own
the land? I think you should
talk to Mulbah Dukuly.
Gibson said that CEMENCO is
in no way causing any health
hazard for the community in
which it operates. He said the
company has a computerized
monitor of the entire facility.
He said this monitor shows
that the company has dust
collectors and there could be
no way the community could
experience dust.
Our facility has dust collectors
both for our raw and finished
products, he said
Gibson commenting on the
generator issue said no smoke

is affecting the community.
He said all of their generators
are enclosed with pipes which
collect the smoke and transfer
it to a container.
Gibson said CEMENCO begun
the process of constructing
a clinic in the community in
2005, but upon completion of
the foundation, an individual
claimed ownership of that
spot, thus putting the projects
on hold.
Gibson said: We started the
clinic project even before
I came here, but when the
foundation was completed,
someone came claiming the
place, thats what got that
whole thing stopped.
He claimed that his company
has already initiated a
US$60,000 modern drainage
project for the area.
But FPA has learned that the
drainage project is currently
on hold due to the lack of
cooperation from some young
people in the community.
Gibson said the Company
will not offer electricity to
the community adding For
the current business, we told
them, we cannot give them
current because when you give
one person current, the entire
community will get it.
We paid some peoples
registration fees with Liberia
Electricity Corporation (LEC)
but its left with the community
to follow up on it.
The EPA when contacted
refused to comment on the
matter.
NO CONFIRMED CASE
IMS BOSS SLAMS MEDIA REPORTS ON NEW EBOLA
Stephen D. Kollie, stephen.kollie@frontpageafricaonline.com 0776329124
Monroviahe Head of the Incident Management System (IMS), the

command center responsible to oversee Liberias Ebola
response, has clarified that contrary to several reports on
social media including Facebook and other sources, Liberia
has no other confirmed Ebola case apart from a lady who tested
positive for the virus but died last weekend.
Since the 20th, we have one confirmed case. Unfortunately, the case
has since died, he said Monday.
No other confirmed case since then as of this morning (March 30).
I am not saying it will not be [a case] if it is tested positive. But the
cases are being followed up, nobody is sick yet.
Nyenswah disclosed that out of 211 contacts that were being monitored
by the Ministry of Health team, 26 contacts have been cleared while
185 contacts are still under surveillance.
We still are intensifying our normal contact tracing. We are
investigating to see whether or not the people should remain on the
contact list or it is fair enough to release them, he said.
Nyenswah who is also Assistant Health Minister reiterated warnings
to Ebola survivors to abstain from sex for 90 or more days or observe
safe sex practices by use of condoms.
Liberias last Ebola victim who died from the virus recently is
reported to have contracted the virus through sexual intercourse.
Mr. Nyenswah told reporters Monday at the Information Ministry
press conference that sexually active Ebola survivors should abstain
from sex or observe safe sex practices through correct and consistent
use of condoms in order to stop the transmission of the disease.
Said Nyenswah: Its like we were talking HIV and AIDS. Its not
our first time hearing this. Weve been talking about condoms use.
The same applies to infectious diseases like Ebola. Condoms use
for a maximum period of three months. But however, because of
new information and research that are going on, we say for greater
security and public health and prevention of all sexual transmitted
infections, Ebola survivors should consider correct and consistent use
of condoms for all sexual acts.
LBDI EMPLOYEE WEEPS

AFTER GUILTY VERDICT
Frontpage
Kennedy L. Yangian kennedylyangian@frontpageafricaonline.com 0777296781
D
Monrovia-
Defendant Dorbor Leaves Court After Trial

efendant
Dorbor
account
working
Magaret
a
new
officer
for the
Liberia Bank For Development

and Investment (LBDI)s local
branch in Gardnersville wept
when the jurors announced her
guilty last Friday.
The former LBDI employee was

last Friday found guilty of theft,
forgery and counterfeiting.
Tears rolled down her cheeks and
she wiped her face every minute
while sitting at the far corner

of the court as the six member
jurors presented their verdict to
the clerk for onward reading to
the court.
'CONCISE'
CONSTITUTION
Liberian Women Demand Reform Agenda
Monroviaollowing a gathering
in Gbarnga, Bong
County
Liberian
women have made
numerous recommendations
for changes in the language
of the constitution of Liberia
calling for the organic law to be
clear and concise
The
language
of
the
Constitution shall be clear
and concise, especially as
regards the gender of a person.
Individuals in the Constitution
shall be addressed as he/
she of the position and title
and; MEN, women and boys
and girls shall replace all
gender neutral languages
in the constitution. Eg: ALL
PERSONS shall be replaced
with men, women, boys and
girls; male or female, some of
the recommendations state.
Under Chapter III-Article 11
(c ) of the constitution, the
women want this article to be
changed to read All women
and men, girls and boys have
the right to full protection
by the law, the right to equal
opportunities, and the right
not to be discriminated against
on the basis on their gender,
ethnicity, physical ability, age
or marital status.
The recommendations further
stated that without prejudice to
other protections provided by
the constitution, marginalized
and vulnerable groups have a
right to affirmative action to
address imbalances created
by history, custom and/or

tradition
According to the women
their
recommendation
is
mean is meant to inform and
strengthen Article 11 (c) on
fundamental rights
Equal Representation
Additionally, the women are
calling for addition to Article 18
(b) to guarantee fifty per-cent
representations of women and
men in all public functions and
equal access to opportunities
in the private sector.
New Provision, Article 79 (f)
Political Parties shall ensure
that no more than fifty percent
of elected and/or appointed
positions shall be of the
same gender. Article (11),
Addition to Article 11 (a): The
Constitution shall guarantee
special representation of men
and women with disabilities/
differently abled people and
the youth, the legislature
shall enact appropriate laws
for
the
implementation
of these provisions, the
women furthered in their
recommendations.
In justification the proposal,
they indicated that the
Constitution of the Republic of
Liberia does not have specific
provisions with regards to
affirmative action mandating
womens
representation
in public and/or private
leadership spaces.
They added that there is a
female head of state elected by
the people of Liberia and has
her place in history as the first

female head of state in Africa.
Low women representation
Currently,
women
representation
in
the
Legislature stands at 10.6%,
comprising; 3 women out
30 members in the Senate
(representing 10%); 8 women
out 73 representatives in the
House (representing 11%),
this percentage is way lower
than what is obtaining in
African Countries. Currently
the average representation for
women in Sub Saharan Africa
stands at 22%. The women
declared.
The figure, Liberian women
are complaining that it is
below the global average
which stands at 21% asserting
that Liberia is way below that
and the problem could be in
the current constitutional legal
framework.
They continued We draw
inspiration from a lot of changes
happening on the continent
in this respect as highlighted
by the various provisions of
countries like Rwanda, Kenya
and Zimbabwe. They have a
comprehensive
structures
that unapologetically entrench
gender equality.
Providing examples in other
African
countries
they
disclosed that as it stands
today Zimbabwes constitution
provides
for
50/50
representation of women in
Parliament.
The recommendations also
mentioned that Rwanda is

now worlds number one and
has a female parliamentary
representation of 63 percent.
Marriage issues
Article 23 (a) of the Liberian
Constitution
provides
protection and the institution
of marriage by recognizing 3
forms of marriages: Statutory,
Customary and Common Law.
Under this constitution; also
the legal age for marriage shall
be 18 years and all marriages
in Liberia shall be voluntarily
entered into;
The women want Article 23
(b) replaced as 23 (c), with
additions indicating The
legislature shall enact laws
to govern the devolution of
estates and property and
establish rights of inheritance
and descent for spouses of
both statutory, customary and
common law marriages as to
give adequate protection to
surviving spouses and children
of such marriages.
They also want Article 23 (d) to
state that All men and women
in a marriage shall own all
properties acquired during the
union in common unless the
couple choose an alternative
in writing, such property shall
not be alienated or controlled
by one spouse except by the
free and voluntary consent of
both parties
In justification the proposall,
they women stated that The
constitution is not prescriptive
on issues of marriage defining
We the jurors after carefully

reviewing
the
facts
and
circumstances in the case do
unanimously find the defendant
Magaret Dorbor guilty of theft,
forgery and counterfeiting, said
the jurors.
Defendant Dorbor had been
on trial since February 2015
when the LBDI Bank through
the grand Jury charged her
with theft of property, forgery
and counterfeiting, charges she
persistently denied.
While serving as new account
officer of the banks local branch
she allegedly converted into
her personal use L$ 147, 000
belonging to a local club called
the Gardnerville Saving Club
according to the indictment.
Some witnesses testifying in
the case told the court and
jury that the defendant, while
serving as new accounts officer
was responsible to open new
accounts for customers of the
bank but instead performed the
job of a teller, which she was not
responsible to do.
Witness Francis Juma, Internal
Auditor of the LBDI in his
general testimony told the court
that the defendant was booked
after it was discovered that
she received the savings clubs
money, signed in the bank book,
the age of marriage and
fundamental protections in
regard to women and girls.
The intent of the Common
Law marriage is to protect:
a). the best interest of the
child regards inheritance and
support; b). the investment
of a partner who labored and
give significant contribution
in acquiring properties during
the union.
See
below
some
recommendations
In short, is to provide
protection
for
children
born into such union and
individuals who labored to
acquire properties in the event
of death or dissolution.
FUNDAMENTAL
RIGHTS
(Childrens Rights)
New Provision, to be Article 27
The Constitution shall have
a standalone article that
addresses all issues of children
affairs;
A child shall be defined as any
person below the age of 18;
The law shall recognize and
guarantee equal protection
for every child regardless of
the circumstances of their
birth, including children with
disabilities.
Custody and child support
for children in the event the
parents no longer live together
shall be decided by a court of
law based on the concerned
parents earnings.
In all decisions affecting
children, the best interest and
welfare of the child shall be
paramount;
The Legislature shall enact
appropriate legislation to
guarantee the basic and
fundamental rights of the child.
Every child shall have the
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but that amount did not enter the

system.
When the bank discovered that
she signed the money, she came
in to pay back US$1,000 for the
money she took, stated witness
Juma.
Witness Juma further said that
defendant Dorbor was caught
with a huge consignment
of United States Dollars in
counterfeit bank notes in the
amount of US$20,000 in her
drawer at the bank.
In her reaction to the allegations
when she took the witness stand,
defendant Dorbor admitted
paying US$1,000 to the bank,
but said the money was paid not
because it was alleged that she
took it.
I paid this money back not
because of claims that I took the
money, I paid back the money
because of the limit, I made and
was held responsible for that,
said Defendant Dorbor.
According to defendant Dorbor
it was impossible for people to
say that she took the money in
question because she was not
serving as a teller.
Defendant Dorbor she was the
only person to testify on her own
behalf as all witnesses invited
refused to testify on her behalf
for reason best known to them.
The jurors claimed that the
evidence provided by the state
was enough to convict the
defendants who throughout the
case pleaded not guilty.
Defendant
Dorbor
whose
lawyer had excepted to the
jurors verdict, is expected to be
sentenced within four working
days by Judge Peter Gbeneweleh
as she faces five years in jail.
right to be supported by both

parents.
Justification: The intent of this
law is to protect all children (in
and out of wedlock) from any
and all forms of discrimination;
Right to inherent and adequate
support from parents.
To guarantee protection for
children, the Constitution
shall have a standalone article
that addresses all issues of
children affairs in line with
new progressive constitutions
in Africa;
FUNDAMENTAL
RIGHTS
(Protection from Violence
against Women, girls, boys and
men)
New Provision, Article 28 -All
forms of violence both from
public and private sources
against women, girls, boys and
men shall be prohibited and
all persons under the law are
entitled to equal protection
against
discrimination,
exploitation and abuse.
The Legislature and through
Executive Orders shall take
measures to provide protection
against all practices affecting
the dignity and freedoms of
women, girls, boys and men
Justification-The intent of
this proposed constitutional
provision is to ensure that
all Liberians are protected
against all forms of violence
addressing the cultural, and
other practices that are against
the dignity and freedoms
of all citizens and those
residing within the territorial
boundaries of Liberia.
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eventeen of the 22 Liberian players,

who left Monrovia in mid-January in
search of greener pastures in Laos,
are leaving in piecemeal after some
hot exchanges with their hosts.
On Sunday, chief scout Wleh Bedell and
players Charles Buima, Benjamin Sarkoh,
Molu Boakai and William Freeman traveled
from Laos to Thailand.
On Monday, 13 players were expected to
join the five-man delegation in Thailand.
They include Ainol Blamo Cooper,
Abdoulaye Coulibaly, Prince Balde, Marvin
Koko Blapoh, Kasimu Kweateh, Thomas
Sokota Manneh, Fred Brooks, Exodus Caine,
Lawrence Paigar, Seibo Toe, Amadiah Kawa,
Snyder Yao Titriku and Kesselly Kamara, Jr.
According to Bedell, five players will remain
in Laos with the consent of their parents
after putting pen to papers.
They are Joseph Broh, Abu Kamara, Andrew
Karnga, Josephus Weah and Emmerson
Wleh.
The bickering is over. All is well by the
grace of God. I am now out of Laos and
currently in transit in Thailand. I will be
heading for Kenya soon. Our hosts ensured
we left peacefully and the departure was
done in an organized fashion. All that has
happened is in the past.
No time to keep malice, be negative or
bitter about anything. As a blunt person,
who rarely minces my words, I blew the
whistle and that was it. But that has gone in
oblivion and I can forge ahead. I am focusing
on a new project, breaking new grounds,
pressing forward, moving ahead and have
no time to retrospect on the petulant past,
Bedell posted on his facebook page on
Sunday.
The players, who paid US$550 each to
travel to Accra, Ghana where they stayed
for more than two weeks before embarking
on their expedition, were told they would
stay at the Champasak United FC academy
before signing a professional contract on
their 18th birthdays.
But a row ensued between Bedell and
his buddy Alex Karmo (who uses Nesta
Alexander on facebook) over who will serve
as agents/managers for the players.
And after some hot exchanges, which went
viral on facebook, Karmo was pleased that
the saga peaceful ended with a document
signed by academy captain Joseph Broh and
TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 2015
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Danesius Marteh, danesius.marteh@frontpageafricaonline.com
Champasak chief Phonesavanh

Khiou Lavong and witnessed by
Bedell and him.
I have learned and will never
try that anymore in my life my
people. If [it] wasn't this angel
God send my way, what was
I going to be at this time but
behind bar, but God is great.
When you believe God he never
let you down and when your
heart is clear he always [is] with
u. Thanks to all and hope your
see it [for yourself], he posted
on Sunday.
Bedell, who refered to himself
as the Nelson Mandela for
the players that Karmo and
his academy wanted to take
advantage of, thanked the
government, Fifa and LFA and
Grand Bassa County Senator
Nyonblee
Karnga-Lawrence,
Mustapha Raji, G. Andy Quamie
for their roles played.
Indeed, the tussle is over.
Another chapter is complete
and we can redirect our focus,
shift our attention on other

things. And so, its 17 players
returning from Laos and five are
staying from a Liberian based
perspective. You can do the math
and tell which is more impactful.
Who was saying the truth or the
lies is left with your judgment.
But, trust me, I am done with this.
The pen will always be mightier
than the sword. Light will always
permeate darkness. Good will
always triumph over evil and the
advocacy for players will never
dwindle, he continued.
But why did Blamo, who signed a
document on behalf of the penta,
is remaining in Laos?
The holding midfielder cum
center back did not travel on the
academy program but travelled
to Laos at his own expense to play
for the senior team. With Blamo
already attached and playing, he
feels there is no need to return
home since the debate was about
the academy players welfare.
And though Emmerson Wleh
traveled on the academy program,

he too is attached to the senior team.
Teenage sensation Kesselly Kamara, Jr.
is with the senior team though, but has
decided to return home as the writings
were on the wall.
Remember, someones danger zone
can be another persons comfort zone.
There are contrasting views or ways of
addressing or seeing things. One player

who did not travel from Liberia to Laos
but from Ghana to Laos for the academy
program, Christian Nagbe is also
returning to Ghana, Bedell explained.
The dust has settled and the hot air has
cooled but they didnt complete the
journey from promise to reality.
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