MONROVIA – 4Kids International, a local US Based organization, based in Miami Florida, described the allegation by the International Justice Group (IJG), headed by Commissioner Jerome Verdier as false and misleading to the people of Liberia, regarding Jefferson T Koijee involvement into Liberia Civil crisis.
The group said that following the publication in the Frontpage Africa Newspaper, December 26, 2019 edition, in which United States Congressman Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), and The International Justice Group (IJG), headed by Jerome Verdier mentioned that Monrovia City Mayor Jefferson Koijee Participated in Acts of Violence in the Liberia civil war.
Following the publication in December 2019, both the print and electronic media, the US-based group immediately dispatch an independent fact-finding investigation team to probe the facts in Liberia. The group said that it took them 45 days, and following the submission of the reports, it realized that the allegation was fabricated by the International Justice Group (IJG), headed by Jerome Verdier that there was no iota of truth, the reports also stated that Jerome Verdier was a very close associate of the ruling party, the Congress for Democratic Change, he is making these personal allegation because of his own differences he had with some of the party members.
The group said part of its reports, involves talking to the communities, students groups, advocacy organizations, former combatants, former TRC Members, talking to witnesses and perpetrators of the past civil war in Liberia, and neither of these individual or group mention that Jefferson Koijee the City Mayor of Monrovia, never participated in any of the Liberian civil crisis. The report also finds out that Jerome Verdier has no reports send to the International Criminal Court in The Haque, the (ICC), concerning Jefferson Koijee, it’s false and misleading to the people of Liberia that he make a report for a war crime.
The US Based group said that those perpetrated the war like Prince Johnson, Ahaji Kromah, Sekou Damante Conde, George Boley, among others are still in Liberia, so if the International Justice Group (IJG), headed by Jerome Verdier is seeking a real justice for the people of Liberia, why leave behind the real warlords, instead of fabricating an individual who never participated in the war. Mayor Jefferson Koijee who lost his parents in the war is a victim, and if you are a real human rights group, as you claimed, you should be pushing the TRC Report, instead of a single-handed innocent young man to create lie’s and false propaganda that have absolutely no iota of truth.
According to the Press Release, 4kids International Out-Going Country Representative J. Michael Kumeh, is expected to pay a 21 days official visit to Liberia, he is expected to host a major press conference in Monrovia, on Wednesday, March 11, 2020. He will be arriving in Liberia with his Team by way of the Roberts International Airport on Saturday, March 7, 2020. The press is invited.