Liberia: NIC Official Says Wife Lied on Him Over Battery Claims

Monrovia – The project director at the National Investment Commission has debunked allegations from his former wife, labelling him as a wife beater.

Speaking at a news conference this week, Mr. Andrew Anderson declared that his former spouse is lying on his name. “I am not a brutal man. The picture that she is running around with on social media is flawed because it wasn’t me who laid hands on her. It was one of her ex-boyfriends who caught her with another boyfriend, and he beat her, it’s not me, the picture is old,” Anderson lamented.

Madam Loraine Dunn-Anderson recently took to social media, displaying graphic images alleging that she had been a victim of abuse and persistently accusing her ex-husband of gender-based violence, physical insults and denying her the right to see her children.

Madam Anderson accused her ex-husband of using his fist to brutalize her while she had gone to see her children. However, in a detailed clarification to journalists Wednesday, Mr. Anderson accused his ex-wife and her alleged boyfriend, Habakkuk Watara- Sackor of seriously damaging his marriage.

Mr. Anderson alleged that about a year ago, he noticed that his wife started coming home late hours and at times sleeping out of the house with no regards to him as husband, an action he said was influenced by Mr. Sackor.

Said Mr. Anderson: “I got to know the very day she called me that her car had a breakdown around 20th Street, but when I arrived on the scene, she was nowhere to be found. I called her endlessly but got no response. So, I decided to drive back, and it was while on 18th Street that I saw my wife’s car parked right at LITECOL Building. When I called, she didn’t answer; so, I waited around,” Mr. Anderson averred.

Explaining further, Mr. Anderson said, he waited until it was 9:00pm, when he saw his ex-wife coming down the stairs hands-in-hands with another man. “I watched them as they entered the car of the guy, I drove behind them to their destination and I witnessed the both of them entered the man’s house, I called but she did not answer.”

Mr. Anderson added that said his ex-wife did not come home until 1am and when he asked where she had been, she responded harshly, and he did not bother her again.

Mr. Anderson said he then began investigating to find out more about the man he had seen with his ex-wife. It was later, he said, he discovered that it was Habakkuk. “After I noticed it was him, I called him and told him that what I had seen. I further told him that I had enough reasons to believe that he was having an affair with my ex-wife.”

Mr. Anderson said, all he got from Habakkuk were insults.

Mr. Anderson went on to explain that Mr. Habakkuk took his ex-wife to Ghana after she had told him that she was going to Gbarnga, Bong County on a church program.

Said Mr. Anderson: “When she told me that, my wife dressed in church clothes at 5am that morning. So, I gave her my car along with our driver to drive her since the car is a pickup truck. As they left, I tried calling her on her phone, but I could not reach her until 12am when the driver called to tell me that he dropped my wife at the airport. The next day I went to the airport to investigate her travel and found out that she had traveled along with Habakkuk.”

Out of frustration, Mr. Anderson said months after the incident, he decided to travel to Ghana in pursuit of his wife. Luckily for him, he says, he ran into both Habakkuk and his wife in Ghana.

Mr. Anderson explained that he immediately contacted the Ghanaian police, but Habakkuk escaped and was declared wanted by the Ghanaian police.

Mr. Anderson further explained that even-though the Court had found Habakkuk Sackor guilty of damaging his marriage and requested him to have no communication with his ex-wife, Mr. Habukkuk has continued to interfere face with his marriage, leaving him and his children psychologically affected.