Author: Lennart Dodoo

Sierra Leone’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Amara Jambai MONROVIA – Sierra Leone’s Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Amara Jambai, says there is no case of Ebola in Sierra Leone, contrary to media reports of discovered cases in the parts of the country including the capital, Freetown.

MONROVIA – So many questions are lingering over the accuracy of audit reports relied upon by the Ministry of Justice and the Solicitor General-designate to enlist dozens of ex-officials of the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s regime who are now expected to restitute several amounts allegedly received by them as board fees or expended without accountability.

Kpalan, Grand Cape Mount County – Residents of this remote village near the Lake Piso Multiple Use Reserve in the Commonwealth District of Cape Mount County, were hopeful when a forest regulatory body promised them sustainable livelihood if they would protect the natural forest and water life. Villagers say the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) program, through a local partner, assured them that if they stopped hunting and fishing in the protected area, they would be provided with a legal, alternate means of making a living. But nine months after those promises were made, they say REDD+…

Monrovia – Senator Alphonso Gaye of Grand Gedeh County has warned the “exuberant” Justice Ministry officials to be patient and follow procedure on how they go about with the prosecution of people allegedly indicted in audit reports from the General Auditing Commission (GAC).  The Grand Gedeh Senator warned that if they don’t take time and follow laid-down procedure, they may come into conflict with the law.

Kakata – On Thursday, June 20, police in Margibi County used tears gas to disperse protesting students of the Booker Washington Institute and rounded several of them as tension over the reinstatement of the school principal remains tense. 

MONROVIA – Former Information Minister, Lewis G. Brown and Dr. James Kollie who once served as Deputy Finance Minister for Fiscal Affairs, have reacted to the Liberian Government’s list of ex-officials who allegedly expended money from government coffers without accountability. 

MONROVIA – Believe it or not, J. Alex Tyler’s long absence from public domain was obviously because he lost all moral grounds to be honored with any public office after he was disgracefully impeached by his colleagues in the 53rd Legislature for several alleged acts of corruption.

MONROVIA – When Cllr. Lavallah Supowood went to the Temple of Justice on Tuesday, his aim was to secure a criminal appearance bond for his clients, about 20 of them, who were held on multiple charges, to his surprise, he met a Writ of Arrest and an amended indictment which included Representative Yekeh Kolubah.

THERE’S ONE REASON JUSTICE is blind: because the rule of law is impartial! Hence, LET JUSTICE BE DONE TO MEN! A COUNTRY LIKE OURS with an ugly past of segregation and tribalism cannot afford to slump back into Furor. And it is the discharge of the rule of law that has the propensity of breaking that thin line between civility and savagery. SADLY, JUSTICE IS again becoming SELECTIVE in our motherland, seemingly morphing into what appears like a campaign directed against a person or group holding critical views against the “power that be”. WE THINK THIS IS the case…

New Castle, Delaware – The Association of Liberian Journalists in the Americas (ALJA) says it is not perturbed by the gibberish spewed recently about the Association’s role in contemporary Liberia by the Deputy Minister of Information for Press and Public Affairs at the Ministry of Information Cultural Affairs and Tourism (MICAT), Eugene Fahngon.