MONROVIA – Mr. Charles F. Kaizal, Internal Security Coordinator at the Central Bank of Liberia has been arrested by agents of the National Security Agency (NSA) after his appearance on Prime FM, a local radio station in Monrovia
Report by Lennart Dodoo, [email protected]
He was picked up on the premises of radio station Tuesday morning where he had gone to provide clarity relating to allegations made by talk show host Henry Costa that he had escorted millions of U.S. Dollars ordered by the Central Bank from the Roberts International Airport to the residence of President George Weah.
Mr. Kaizal was arrested right after the Prime Morning Drive signed off.
He was shoved in a black tainted Nissan Patrol vehicle and taken to an unknown location.
His vehicle remains parking the premises of radio station.
He told Prime FM’s Kelvin Demmy on the show that he had the authorization of the Central Bank to speak on the issue.
Kaizal’s services to the Central Bank was terminated Monday after his vain attempt to provide clarity on the same matter on Costa’s Roots FM. He had gone to provide Costa two sets of documents that he believed trashes the allegations.
A Central Bank official told FrontPageAfrica Monday that the decision was reached to terminate Mr. Kaizal’s services because he was not authorized to speak on such matters without approval from the governor.
President George Manneh Weah recently directed all Ministers, Deputies and Assistant Ministers, and Heads of Agencies and Commissions, and their deputies to refrain from making public comments on policy issues of national concern on both conventional and social media without first seeking authorization from the appropriate authorities. The decision followed the suspension of Mr. Eugene Fahngon, Deputy Minister for Press at the Ministry of Information, Culture Affairs and Tourism over insensitive remarks regarding the country-congau divide.
During his show Monday, Mr. Costa displayed photographs and videos of what appeared to be several boxes of cash which came on a Kenya Airways flight on May 10, 2019, the same date Mr. Costa announced that he had a bombshell to release. Mr. Costa claims that the monies were taken to the home of President Weah. To the surprise of many listening Monday, Mr. Kaizal walked to the Roots FM’s studio to counter that there were in fact, two shipments of money, one arriving on May 10 and another on May 27, 2019. Although he did not get a chance to air his reactions on the air, Kaizal did leave some documents validating Mr. Costa’s assertions but noted that another shipment of money had come in on the 27th of May.
Mr. Kaizal provided two letters claiming that the boxes of money were brought in the presence of a twelve-man escort team comprising of ten Emergency Response Unit(ERU) and two Traffic officers plus six CBL staffers with five CBL vehicles and a police marked traffic escort, at approximately 2:00pm we boarded the vehicles and departed from the Roberts International Airport(RIA) to Monrovia. Mr. William Dargbeh, assistant director of banking, Prince Bull, senior auditor and Edwina Edet – cashment officer department via Kenya Airways-KQ501/Sky Team.
However the photos and videos do not appear to show only Mr. Kaizal and none of the 20 persons Mr. Kaizal claims were present when the monies arrived at the RIA.