Monrovia – Madam Celia Cuffy-Brown posted on her Facebook page on Friday, February 16, about finding ‘voodoo’ in her office.
“Perhaps the owner forgot to report this to FrontPageAfrica when they told their narratives. Let them take note that I have complained against them and my case is before the Heavenly Court! My life is in the hands of God!” – Cecilia Cuffy-Brown, Deputy Managing Director, National Port Authority
Mrs. Cuffy-Brown, who is the new Deputy Managing Director at the National Port Authority (NPA), claimed to have found “bag of dust (whether dead human dust, remains to be said) with gamble seed [cowry], tied with red thread and porcupine pail [porcupine quill], was left in my office!”
In her post, she mentioned that on her first day of work in her new portfolio, she had invited the Holy Spirit.
She wrote: “I invited my prayer partners to join me in dedicating the office to God, as my place of work is termed, the ‘Gateway to Liberia’s Economy!’
“When I dedicated the place to the Lord, He revealed that what was not of Him was in the office.”
“I prayed, asking the Lord to reveal it. The Lord did!”
However, it’s not clear exactly from her, when was the “first day of office,” as she has now spent more than two weeks in office and only posted the alleged voodoo activities on Friday.
According to her, it was based on her invitation of some church people, who came and invited the “Holy Spirit” during their prayer time that led to them finding the alleged fetish stuff.
She subsequently blames “Greedy, selfish, wicked and egocentric people,” who “seek the power of darkness.”
“The power of darkness leads to wanton insatiable greed for power and wealth, thereby breeding corruption.”
“Their hallmark leaves human sufferings and wanton disrespect for human dignity and human labour.
“These people don’t flourish in the work place and their works affect no one, but themselves, leaving everyone poor, whilst they enrich themselves.”
“They are suppressive and oppressive! Once the cross of Christ enters my office, all other powers become powerless; if they are invisible, they become visible to be thrown out,” she wrote.
The Deputy NPA boss, in her charge, also tied FrontPageAfrica in the alleged voodoo that was found in the office and added that she has complained both the newspaper and the purported individual, who left the thing in her office to the “heavenly court.”
“Perhaps the owner forgot to report this to FrontPageAfrica when they told their narratives.”
“Let them take note that I have complained against them and my case is before the Heavenly Court! My life is in the hands of God!”
However, FPA, having seen and read Mrs. Cuffy-Brown’s post on the social media, placed some calls to very close associates in order to authenticate her claims of finding mojo.
To the surprise of this newspaper, it became clear that the items had been planted in the office with the acquiescence of the NPA DMD.
One of our very cogent sources, who asked not to be named as she is very close to her, further stated: “Look FrontPage, don’t believe that lie, lie story.
“She is very much aware and knows the person whom she told to put that thing in her office in order to discredit the efforts of one of her predecessors.”
Of course, this source said she doesn’t know specifically who this past official of the NPA is.
In the absence of a Managing Director at the port, the DMD has begun exercising unauthorized powers, which threatened to destabilize the National Port Authority and set it back years of recent gains and improvements.
Mrs. Celia Cuffy-Brown chose to hastily exercise the power of the Managing Director by already taking the following unauthorized actions:
The National Port Authority runs on the government fiscal period from July 1 through June 30th, meaning the current NPA budget was crafted last year and ends on June 30th.
Therefore all unauthorized actions of expanded employment and promotions are not accommodated for in the existing budget.
But she has among other things carried out pay raise in favor of few persons, including her sister Rebecca Teta Cuffy.
She made Rebecca Claims Manager even though she has never worked in that department and increased her salary by 300 percent, from US$300 to US$1,067.
Mrs. Cuffy-Brown also raised the salary of the Human Resources Manager, Marcus Cooper, from US$1,067 to US$4,500 and further gave him a new nomenclature:
Executive Director of Human Resources. This portfolio has never or does not exist in the NPA organogram and has not been budgeted for in the present fiscal year.
Among other things she did, the Deputy MD, also promoted the Income Manager and the Budget Manager to Directors of their various sections and increased their salaries by more than 100%.
She also promoted the Expenditure Manager to Deputy Comptroller and increased his salary as well.
She further went to offices and forcibly “anointed” them without the permission of the occupants on grounds that she sees skeletons and human flesh in all these offices.