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Monroviahe Supreme Court of Liberia on December 6 issued a

stay order on Executive Order number 65 issued by
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on December 4 but the
aftermath of the stay order has led to growing debates
surrounding who filed the petition on which the Supreme acted
to halt the implementation of the executive order.
President Sirleaf issued Executive Order 65 prohibiting
all concerted mass movements of people on the streets of
Monrovia during the ensuing special elections, including in
particular rallies, demonstrations and parades for 30 days after
the announcement of election results
Stakes were high after President Sirleaf issued the Executive
Order as the opposition Congress for Democratic Change
threatened that it could not adhere to the order descrying it as
unconstitutional and calling on all its supporters to gather at
the National legislature for a sit in action.
The police was also preparing a stern operation to tackle
possible mass gathering of people as predicted on Monday
according to police sources but then somebody moved in
to avert what was expected to be chaos by filling a Writ of
Prohibition before the Supreme Court against the Executive
Order.
Justice in Chambers, Cllr. Phillip A.Z. Banks, III acted by
issuing a stay order on the executive order, thereby calming
what was becoming a growing tension but two sides have
emerged claiming glory for the petition that led to the stay
order.
Liberias Information Minister Lewis Brown announced to
the public that the Supreme Court issued the Stay Order based
on a petition filled by Mr. Robert A. Sirleaf, a candidate in
the pending senatorial election but late Sunday afternoon; the
Congress for Democratic Change claimed that the Stay Order
was based on a petition filed by fourteen lawmakers.
CDC official Samora Wollokolliein statement read on behalf
of the CDC stated a writ of prohibition has been filed,
affidavit signed and received on 6th December 2014, with the
honorable Supreme Court by 14 lawmakers of Montserrado
County and not Mr. Robert Sirleaf as indicated by a desperate,
unauthorized, surrogate and misdirected Lewis G. Brown.
Minister Browns action to announce on state radio a stay order
by the Supreme Court, on grounds of a prohibition issued by
Mr. Robert Sirleaf, has questioned the moral integrity of the
government of Liberia.
Robert Sirleaf in an interview on the Voice of America said he
was filling his petition with the Supreme Court on Monday,
contradicting the statement by Minister Brown but the
Information Minister on Monday morning defended that Mr.
Sirleaf might have not known that his lawyers have already
filed the petition before the Supreme Court.
Court documents in the possession of FrontPageAfrica
indicate that Robert Allen Sirleaf, independent candidate for
the Montserrado County senatorial elections, of the city of
Monrovia, county of Montserrado republic of Liberia filed a
petition for writ of prohibition on the 5th day of December
A.D. 2014.
In the affidavit attached to the Robert Sirleaf petition, it stated
Personally appeared before me, a duly qualified Justice of
the Peace for and in Montserrado County, at my office in the
City of Monrovia, Robert Allen Sirleaf, Petitioner in the above
entitled Petition and made oath according to law that all and
singular allegations of both law and fact set forth and contained
in the annexed and foregoing MOTION are true and correct to
the best of his knowledge and belief; and as to those matters
of information, he verily believes them to be true and correct.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 5th day December,
A.D. 2014.
The court documents indicate that Justice in Chambers Cllr.
Banks acted on the Robert Sirleaf petition by issuing the Stay
order on December 6, 2014 at 2:00 pm.
Justice Banks stated in the 2:00 pm mandate to the clerk of the
court:
You are hereby directed to issue the alternative writ on the
respondents in the above titled action to stay any and all
enforcements of Executive Order #65 pending the disposition
by the court on the challenged constitutionality of the said
Executive Order, especially given it relationship to issues
already before the court for disposition. You will further direct
to file returns to the petition on this writ on or before Wednesday,
December 10, 2014, and notify them, the respondents that any
failure to file such returns will be deemed a waiver. Further,
upon the notification of the filing of returns by the defendants,
the Justice shall have the case transferred to the Full bench
for determination as the issue raised in the petition is a
constitutional issue. In the situation of any violation of this
Stay order will express the violations to the contempt process
of the Honorable Supreme Court.
A copy of the petition by the fourteen lawmakers including
Edwin M. Snowe, Jr. Gabriel Nyenkan, Munah E. PelhamYoungblood, Bill Twehway, Solomon George, A. Vamuyah
Corneh, Adolph Akwe Lawrence, Saah H. Joseph, Julius F.
Berian, Edward S. Forh, Acarous Moses Gray, Thomas P. Fallah
and William V. Dakel, All Representatives of Montserrado
County, of the City of Monrovia versus the Government of
Liberia by and thru the Ministry of Justice, it is stated that the
lawmakers filled their petition against the constitutionality of
Executive Order #65 on December 6, 2014.
The documents show that Justice Banks mandated the clerk of
the court on issued the Stay order at 4:30 pm on December 6,
The Supreme Court of Liberia on

December 6 issued a stay order on
Executive Order number 65 issued
by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
on December 4 but the aftermath
of the stay order has led to growing
debates surrounding who filed the
petition on which the Supreme
acted to halt the implementation of
the executive order.
2014.
In a stay order issued by Justice Banks following the fourteen
lawmakers petition before the high court for a writ of
prohibition, the Supreme Court placed a stay order on the
executive order.
You are commanded to instruct the Respondents to stay and
suspend the enforcement of Executive Order #65 pending the

disposition of the matter by the court, stated the Stay Order
from the Justice In Chambers.
The court also ordered the Government of Liberia through the
Ministry of Justice and the Solicitor General to appear before
the court on Wednesday, December 10.
you are hereby commanded to notify the Government of
Liberia by and thru the Ministry of Justice, represented by the
Acting Minister of Justice and all Deputy Ministers also of
the City of Monrovia, Liberia in the above entitled cause of
action to appear before his Honor before His Honor Phillip
A. Z. Banks, III, Associate Justice of the Honorable Supreme
Court of the Republic of Liberia, presiding in Chambers at
the Supreme Court Room, Temple of Justice, on the 10th of
December, A.D. 2014 at the hour of 9:00 am to show cause why
the petitioners petition as prayed for should not be granted,
the Stay order further stated.
Justice Banks mandated the Government of Liberia to file its
return before appearing before the court on December 10 as
failure will be deemed as waiver.
Stated the Supreme Court Stay Order You are further
commanded to file their returns to the petition not later than
Wednesday, December 10, 2014.
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COMMENTARY
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INTERNATIONAL
ANTI-CORRUPTION DAY
PUTTING EXECUTIVE ORDER #65

LIBERIA O
ON NOTICE
Charles W. Brumskine, Contributing Writer
LIBERIA IS JOINING the rest of the world in observing

International Anti-Corruption Day, in consonance with the
United Nations Convention Against Corruption which was
adopted 31st October 2003 by the United Nations General
Assembly.
IN A PROCLAMATION declaring the day as a working
holiday, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, has urged
all Ministries and Agencies of Government, Local
and International Organizations, the United Nations
System and the General Public to join the Liberian AntiCorruption Commission in collaboration with Civil Society
Organizations and the National Integrity Forum, to plan and
implement appropriate programs befitting the occasion.
THE DAY ITSELF aims to raise awareness about corruption
and promote Anti-Corruption campaign activities, the
role of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption
(UNCAC) in combating and preventing it.
THE DAY FOR many is a solemn reminder of the many vices
continue to eat at the core of Liberias post-war resurgence.
CORRUPTION IN ALL shapes and sizes continues to hurt
Liberia economically, politically and socially. In every
corner of Liberia.
ACCORDING TO TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL,
Corruption is a problem for all economies, requiring leading
financial centres in the EU and US to act together with fastgrowing economies to stop the corrupt from getting away
with it.
LIBERIA RANKS 94 out of 174 countries in 2014 with
a score of 37 illustrating the rugged challenge the postwar nation finds itself as it struggles to emerge out of the
obscurity of corruption purgatory.
WHAT MANY of those in authorities fail to understand is the
very nature of corruption and the impact and negative effect
it has on the daily life of those languishing at the bottom of
the economic ladder.
THE LIBERIA ELECTRICITY Corporation for example
has been unable to explain why several light poles in the
Monrovia area have been falling and putting pedestrians
and motorists at risk. Did someone overprice cheap poles?
Did authorities not see that a plot to get extra bucks off
government purchase could potential lead to the killing of
several people using routes where those poles have been
planted?
WE HOPE that the president will begin to force her officials
and those in authorities to answer some of these burning
questions.
INTERNATIONAL ANTI CORRUPTION DAY should not
just observed on paper as just another day to show the world
that Liberia is on board but it must serve as a chilling reminder
to those in authorities that their quest for riches on the backs
of the government could lead to the loss of someones life.
GOVERNMENT MUST GO BEYOND the establishment
of the Anti-Corruption Commission, a Policy and a
Comprehensive Strategy that outlines the preventative,
educational and enforcement measures to combat Corruption
in Liberia but must ensure that those who steal from
government coffers bear the full weight of the law. In the
Presidents own words, corruption in both Public and Private
sectors of a Nation undermines the Institutional Framework
of good governance. A Hint to the Wise
n December 3, 2014, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

issued Executive Order #65 (EO#65). The Executive
Order prohibits the mass movement of people,
including rallies, parades, and demonstrations on
the streets of Monrovia. The Order reads thus:
NOW THEREFORE, I, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of
the Republic of Liberia, by virtue of the powers vested in me,
do hereby, by this Executive Order and for the purposes of the
aforesaid, order and direct that:
All concerted mass movements of people on the streets of
Monrovia during the ensuing Special elections, including in
particular rallies, demonstrations and parades, are prohibited
and for thirty (30) days after the announcement of election
results, thereby strengthening the efforts of the Government of
Liberia to contain the spread of Ebola, to protect the security
of the state, maintain law and order, and promote peace and
stability in Liberia.
Liberians are troubled by the Executive Order, and rightly so,
because our nation has been down this road before, and from
where we ended, as a people, we still have not recovered. The
omen is frightening; the action of the President should therefore
be rebuked by all.
The Executive Order is unconstitutional, it is reprehensible, and
it defies common political sense. With EO#65, the President has
invaded the constitutional province of the Legislature by making
law. In the third Whereas Clause of E#65, President Sirleaf
informed the nation and the world that there is an existing law
regulating rallies, parades, and demonstrations on the streets
of Monrovia, but that she, as President of the Republic, has
determined that the law enacted by the Legislature has proven
to be ineffective. Therefore, the President usurped the function
of the Legislature, and unconstitutionally took upon herself
the duty of law-making. This action of the President must be
condemned; it cannot be allowed to stand.
The President's power, if any, to issue an executive order must
stem either from an act of the Legislature or from the Constitution
itself. The President has no authority to issue EO#65 from either
of the two lawful sources.
In the framework of our Constitution, the fact that the Executive
Power of the Republic is vested in the President, who is the Head
of State, Head of Government, and Commander-in-Chief of the
Armed Forces of Liberia, counters any misconception that she
is also a lawmaker. The President is only to faithfully execute
the laws. And the Constitution is neither silent nor equivocal
about who should make the laws, that the President is required
to execute. After enumerating several law-making powers
of the Legislature, the Constitution goes on to say that the
Legislature is endowed with the additional power to make all
other laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into
execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by
this Constitution in the Government of the Republic, or in any
department or officer thereof.
Exercising the executive powers does not give the President the
authority or the right to violate the Constitution and the laws
of Liberia. The fact that the Executive finds itself incapable of
enforcing existing laws, whether the law is the Penal Code, the
Public Safety Law, or the Vehicle and Traffic Law, does not, by
any stretch of legal reasoning give the President the right to make
a different law. If the President finds existing laws inadequate,
as she laments in EO#65, her constitutional duty requires her
to propose new laws to the Legislature. But she is without the
authority to make any law, new, different, or additional, to suit
her governance style.
Of course, there is no statute that gives the President the right
or otherwise authorizes her to issue EO#65, as any such statute
would itself be unconstitutional. The President's Executive
Order does not direct how a law enacted by the Legislature

should be executed; instead, it directs that a Presidential Order
be executed, as a law, in a manner prescribed by the President.
The President has said that she finds the 1975 Act that regulates
public marches and demonstrations inadequate. Consequently,
she issued EO#65, as a law, depriving Liberians of their
constitutional right to freedom of expression, which includes
rallies, parades, and demonstrations. That is wrong!
The Presidents reference to the Ebola virus, as an excuse for
her Executive Order, is shameful. Why would it be okay to have
mass movement of people, including political rallies, parades,
and demonstrations on the streets of Buchanan, Gbarnga,
Kakata, Voijama, Sanniquelle, and other cities of Liberia, but not
Monrovia? Would the President have us believe that Monrovia
is the only area in the country that continues to be affected by
the Ebola virus? Even a child can see through this political ploy.
The President also tells us that EO#65 is intended to protect
the security of the state, maintain law and order, and promote
peace and stability in Liberia. I respectfully disagree with the
President, as experience has shown, not only in Liberia but also
in liberal democracies all over the world, that the security of the
state is protected, law and order are maintained, and peace and
stability are ensured when the various branches of government
function within their constitutional limits, premised upon the
maxim that the government is by the people, of the people, and
for the people; and, when the people are allowed to exercise
their constitutionally guaranteed rights, with each person being
fully responsible for the abuse thereof.
The right to hold political rallies, parades, and demonstrations,
may be curtailed, restricted or enjoined by government
only during an emergency declared in accordance with the
Constitution. The President is no doubt aware that the State of
Emergency that was declared to deal with the Ebola virus has
expired. The President must also be cognizant of the fact that
she authorized the holding of the Mid-Term Senatorial elections
on December 16, 2014, confirming that rallies, parades, and
demonstrations could be safely conducted.
With a little over two years left in her constitutional tenure, the
President has evidently decided to take our nation another step in
the wrong direction, away from democracya step that would
lead our country down the path of autocracy and eventually,
anarchy.
EO#65 places Liberia in a tailspin! By the stroke of her pen, the
President has merged the functions of the two political branches
of governmentthe Legislature and the Executiveinto one;
the President has violated the Constitution and laws of Liberia,
which has the potential to lead our country into anarchy. Liberia
must not be allowed to descend into an environment that breeds
terrorism and extremisms. Therefore, regardless of where we
stand, Liberians must come together and rebuke this action of
the President. It is unlawful, it is bad, it is wrong, and it does
not serve the interest of any; not the Presidents, not the West
African community, not the global community, and certainly
not the interest of our Republic. The President would do well to
make amends without delay.
I, therefore, call upon you, Madam President, to yield to the talks
on the streets of Monrovia and throughout the length and breadth
of Liberia, as many perceive your action as being politically
motivated for selfish reason; pay attention to the voices from
the corridor of power, partisans and non-partisans alike; and for
once, listen to those whom you may perceive as adversaries,
but who generally speak out of love for our country. Please act
now: REVOKE, REPEAL, and CANCEL EO#65. EO#65 is
unacceptable, and will not be countenanced by the people of
Liberia!
May God bless the people of Liberia, and save the Republic!
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LUSENE SHERIFF SANDTON, GAUTENG

Ohm, Liberia shall never return to the dark days when our leaders could do
whatever they wished. The sun has set in and darkness has vanished. This
president should learn lessons from the Arab Spring and take her cues from
the recent political showdonw in Burkina Fasso. Mind you, the youth are
awake and today's youth are far more awake than the youth of 30-40 years
ago. They are awake and not dangerous, but danger comes when leaders
begin to under-estimate the power of thier own population to demand and
enforce changes.
BLOJAY NATION TOP COMMENTER JANITORIAL SCHOOL
OF GOOD GOVERNANCE
Gongloe is correct on this one that any action affecting the conduct of
election should come of the NEC as the independent body solely responsible
to conduct and manage elections in Liberia. This consistent interruption of
election by both the executive and the court , so far, is chilling for our
struggling democracy.
SALIHO KENNEH TOP COMMENTER WORKS AT NEW
YORK, NEW YORK
Your Excellency the people of Liberia are tired of being pushed around.
Please for the sake of your grandkids and us please return to status quo
Henry C K Reeves Tuskegee University/Wayne State University
Your Point is misplaced! The most important point lies with the final
decision of the Liberian Supreme Court which will rule on the feasibility of
the Senatorial election to be held on 20 December 2014. Some of you think
you understand constitutional laws. Some of you criticised the president
for not acting quickly when the Ebola Virus first came into the country.
The security health of our people is at risk. That is the responsibility of the
president. You people forget the hash reality of the experiensed danger of
the Ebola epidemic. If you think the president's action is wrong take it to the
courts. I challenge you to do so.
ZAI ZAR-ZAR BARGBLOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY
This is a good article, it contains pertinent information with reference to up
holding those principles that will ensure the discontinuity of past negative
attributes so common during previous administrations. The condemnation
of this practice is a good sign for the survival of Liberia's democracy.
BLOJAY NATION TOP COMMENTER JANITORIAL SCHOOL
OF GOOD GOVERNANCE
Really FPA! Is this a joke? "NO POLITICIAN in recent Liberian history
has worked so hard and fought so many battles with ruling establishments
than Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf.
PHIL GEORGE TOP COMMENTER
All she fought for has come to this: Prolific government corruption,
cronyism, incompetence and blatant abrogation of the constitution.
LIBERIAS DEMOCRACY
QUAGMIRE: STAY ORDER
ON EXECUTIVE ORDER
ZIONNEY (SIGNED IN USING YAHOO)

Liberia is teetering on the edge again....Timeline: 1979, 1980, 1985,
1989/1990-2003, than Ebola quite recently. Incompetence! Incompetence!
Incompetence! Lastly, just take a look at the senatorial candidates for
Montserrado County; needless do I mention the other counties. What a
shame!!!
BESTMAN JUDUE WILMINGTON UNIVERSITY
I'm not a proponent of the Sirleaf's administration, but must point out that
all of this mess was created by the National Legislators...authorizing NEC
to carryout elections in the middle of a disease outbreak ...ignoring the
(public) safety of our people for political gain and self aggrandizement...
knowing that massive gathering which prompts physical contacts violates
preventive measures of disease(s) outbreak, why carryout elections? Socalled pundits would refer to the constitution that is often ignored when
it comes to discharging public service(s)...once again, Liberians safety
was compromised...On the other hand, President Sirleaf imposed a stay
order to safe her administration from international pressure by adhering to
public safety measures...but the stay order also infringes on the rights of the
masses...WHAT A BAD JOKE! As J.J.Rawlins puts it "Popular nonsense
must give way to scientific truth "...I tell you one thing..when enough is
enough, the people will rise up and stage massive peaceful protsets and sitins at various government facilities to bid this government good bye...the
ten years syndrome is right around the corner ....."One of the great glories
of democracy is the right to protest for right ".- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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oes the President have the power to decline to enforce

existing laws or make new ones via Executive
Orders??? I say...Hell no! (Re "Executive Order
#65..").
The Constitution only empowers the President to enforce existing
laws! That's why the Liberian National Police, National Security
Agency, and the Armed Forces of Liberia are all under the
executive branch!.
But the President says (in Executive order #65) that "exiting law
requiring persons desiring to march or demonstrate to obtain prior
permit from the Ministry of Justice have proven ineffective..."
Can the President tell us why these exiting laws are ineffective??
Oh wait, I forgot: The President, acting like a military dictator,
thinks that passing Executive Orders would stop CDC goons from
blocking productive citizens from going to work or school.. Or
would stop them vandalizing or looting private property. Or stop
them from blocking market women from taking their goods to the
general market..
Earth to Grandma Ellen:
What make you think that people who purposely DISOBEY
"exiting law requiring persons desiring to march or demonstrate
to obtain prior permit from the Ministry of Justice have proven
ineffective..." would OBEY a NEW law (executive order #65)
prohibiting mass rallies, demonstrations, and parades during the
specials elections and 30 days thereafter, just because you say
so?? Please (Hint: see "Weah, CDC to Protest EJS Executive
Order" FrontPageAfrica).
During the 2006 presidential election, these were the same CDC
goons who went around the country hyping election violence!
Again, during the 2011 election, These same goons stopped
productive citizens from going to work or school. They stopped
market women from taking their goods to the general market.
They stopped mothers from taking their sick children to the
hospital.
Are you waiting for the goons to push our country to brink of
anarchy before you start taking them seriously?
Appeasement doesn't work with these goons. The only language
the CDC goons understand is brute force!!! In other words "when
ears don't hear, backside must feel"
You should AMEND Executive Order #65 as follows:
Where as Article 50 & 53 of the Constitution of 1986 vest
"executive power in the president....to preserve, protect, and
defend the Constitution and laws.." of Liberia and
Where as Article 17 states that "All persons, at all times, in orderly
and peaceable manner, shall the right to assemble.. (attention cdc
goons: it says "in orderly and peaceable manner")...and
Where as Article 13a states that "Every person lawfully within
the Republic shall have the right to move FREELY throughout
Liberia...subject to the safeguarding of public security, public
order, public health, or morals or the rights and freedoms of
others"..and
Where as Article 11 states that "All persons are bone equally
free and independent and have certain inherent and inalienable
rights, among which are the right of enjoying and defending life
and liberty, and ..possessing and protecting protecting property,..
as provided for in this Constitution"
Therefore, I, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of the Republic
of Liberia, by virtue of the powers and authority vested in the
president by the 1986 Constitution and laws of Liberia, order the
following:
1) During all "peaceful protest", if you throw stones at the police,

you will get a good ass whipping from the police, right on the
spot! ( see Article 11..defending life, liberty and property!)
2) During all "peaceful protest", if you throw stones at 3 year old
children in school, their parents will be allow to stone you back!
(see Article 11..defending life, liberty and property!)
3) If you loot during your so-called "peaceful protest", you will
be shot on the spot! (see Article 11..defending life, liberty and
property!)
4) If you think you have ebloa and you stay home, the government
will pay you a self-quarantine fee for 21 days! (see Article 11 &
"Who's Eating Ebola money")
5) If your "peaceful protest" becomes a major nuisance (disturbing
the public's peace!), you will be arrested! You will not be allowed
to violate the rights of large number of people who are not
interested in your so called "peaceful protest"! (see article 13a)!
As you can see, the above amendments are reinforcement of
the Constitution, because the Constitution only empowers the
president to execute the laws on the books, and not to make new
ones via executive orders!!
Um, Madame President, I mean no disrespect, but if you can't cite
specifically as possible, where in Constitution, or what Liberian
law grant you the power to prohibit mass rallies, demonstrations,
and parades during the specials elections and 30 days thereafter,
please amend Executive Order #65!
Small shame is better than big shame!!!
Martin Scott
Atlanta, Georgia
martyretire@yahoo.com
AS TO THE SUPREME COURTS

STAY ORDER: IS ROBERT
SIRLEAF AN EXCEPTION?
Mr. Editor:
obert Sirleaf is not yet senator and already he has

embarked on a spree of flagrant disrespect for the
rule of law and civil authority. I wonder what kind of
senator he promises to be, in the unlikely event that he
gets elected.
When the honorable Supreme Court issued a stay order last Friday,
it was expected that, in full obedience to the rule of law, all actors
(aspirants, political parties, and electorates) would call off all
campaign activities until such time when the Court issues further
notice to proceed or not to proceed with the elections. Contrary
to this and in a blatant disrespect to the Courts stay order and
the NECs admonition to all concerned parties, Candidate Robert
Sirleaf is still canvassing and conducting campaign activities.
Specific reference is made to giant size billboards bearing
the portrait and campaign messages of Robert Sirleaf. These
billboards, located around Parker Paint Community and at the Old
Road Junction just across from the Presidents house, have been
placarded with Roberts campaign portrait days after the Supreme
Court placed a stay order on all election activities.
People who want to lead this country, especially those who want
to be our senators ought to be law-abiding citizens. I would
rather hope that Robert Sirleaf would be a law-abiding, humble
personality, and hence an example to emulate. But so it is, Power
corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Robert must not go with impunity. He must be investigated, and
if found culpable, must be punished so as to deter him and other
people bent on disrespecting our laws and legal processes.
Alston C. Armah
Concerned Citizen
stonalcman@gmail.com
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EMERGENCE OF LIBERIAS OIL SECTOR BRINGS OPPORTUNITIES FOR
Monrovia iberia
recently
ended
consultations
on reforms in the
emergingoil industry
by stakeholders participation.
As part of its efforts to educate
the public on the potential of the
industry to grow the economy
and improve the lives of citizens
or ruin the country, FrontPage
Africa begins a three part series
to shine light on the current
status of oil exploration and
potential production in Liberia.
The series will concentrate
on
positive
developments
occurring in the industry but will
also provide instances where
lack of transparency,alleged
corruption and personal interests
are conspiring to undermine
the emergence of the oil and
gas industry in Liberia. With
big bucks and swashbuckling
entrepreneurs, the modern day
version of the gold rush in
Liberia could produce all of
the elements of the resource
curse or the Dutch disease. On
the other hand, if the resources
are managed properly, it
could support the countrys
development agenda. Thus, the
reform process is absolutely
necessary to ensure that
Liberians gain from their natural
resources.
Resources should help countries
grow and develop, but instead,
they often lead to conflict,
corruption and poverty. History
is full of examples of countries
whose natural-resource wealth
led to less economic success.
Revenue from extracting raw
materials might be mismanaged
or embezzled by government
officials, or siphoned off by
foreign
corporations.
The
bonanza might crowd out
investment in other parts of
the economy and make goods
and services more expensive.
And the countrys fiscal and
W
Monrovia-
ith a lot of blame

floating around as
to how President
Ellen JohnsonSirleaf came to her decision to
impose her now controversial
Executive Order No. 65, more
details are emerging that Acting
Justice
Minister
Attorney
General, Cllr. Benedict F. Sannoh
was instrumental in convincing
the president that the order was
the right thing to do.
Sannoh who has been acting
since the resignation of former
minister Christiana Tah is a
strong proponent of the president
enforcing executive orders.
The recent issuance of Executive
order No. 65 by President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf ordering halt to
rallies, has been criticized by
prominent individuals including
the son of the Liberian president
Robert Sirleaf; but Acting Justice
Minister insists that the order is
to ensure that the spread of the
deadly Ebola virus is minimized
in Monrovia.
Several critics and legal
observers have been pounding
on the latest declaration terming
it as trampling on the rights of
people to free movement.
How Oil can Profit or Ruin Liberia

economic fate might hang on

volatile
global
commodity
prices, especially for smaller and
less diverse economies. Liberia
is not new to the oil game.
In 1958 an exploration license
was awarded to the Liberian
American
Exploration
Corporation (LAEC), which
led to geological fieldwork in
1959. LAEC did not conduct
any further activity. Exploration
activity did not start again until
1968 when the government
commissioned an onshore/
offshore aeromagnetic survey.
The survey indicated the presence
of a thick sedimentary section.
This was in contrast to the thin
sedimentary
interpretation
suggested by Tennessee Gas
Transmission Company, which
was conducting exploration
work in neighboring Sierra
Leone. Also in 1968, Conoco
and Chevron acquired some
magnetic, seismic and gravity
data from the government and
Union Carbide also acquired
some offshore and onshore
gravity data.
In 1969 a Petroleum Code was

promulgated. Accordingly, three
offshore Blocks were awarded
to Union Carbide (Block A),
Frontier (Block B) and Chevron
(Block C). Chevron Oil Company
of Liberia drilled Chevron well
No.1 (IIB-l), 25 miles southwest
of Monrovia, to a depth of 9504
feet. Union Carbide Company
of Liberia drilled Union Carbide
well No.1 (Al-l) 23 miles to the
north of the Lofa River month,
to a depth of 5 405 feet and well
No.2 (A2-1) to 10320 feet in the
vicinity of Chevron well No.1.
The search for oil began anew
in 2000 under the regime
of former President Charles
Taylor when the government of
Liberian formed the National
Oil Company of Liberia
(NOCAL) and in 2002 enacted
the Petroleum Law which is
still in effect today. With no
money to develop the countrys
oil program, NOCAL contracted
TGS-NOPEC, than a Norwegian
company domiciled in Houston,
Texas to conduct 2D seismic
on the Liberian offshore basin.
That agreement was for a little

more than 6 million US dollars
and resulted in the delineation
of the countrys oil basin into
17 oil blocks in the shallow
waters. Due to the reemergence
of conflict in Liberia, the
Taylor administration could not
tender any of the blocks and
thus in 2003 when the National
Transitional Government of
Gyude Bryant came to power,
it had 17 oil blocks to trade, and
it mostly traded them in two
bid rounds, but several of the
blocks were granted by direct
negotiations, which have later
come to make millionaires out of
several foreign individuals.
Liberia can avoid the resource
curse afflicting many African
nations. Despite Africas wealth
in oil, gold, chromium, platinum
and other minerals, very little
manufacturing takes place on
the continent. Rent-seeking and
corruption have created powerful
elites that block diversification
and inclusive growth. Too many
leaders and their cronies use
resource income for personal
JUSTICE VOID
enrichment at the expense of

development. For example,
about 80% of Nigerias oil
wealth accrues to 1% of the
population while the percentage
of people living on less than a
dollar a day has increased from
just over 27% in 1970 to about
75%, wrote Greg Mills in his
2010 book called Why Africa
is Poor.
Liberians have two options
in developing a model for oil
exploration and production.
They can adopt the superior
examples of Norway or they can
choose to use opaque and corrupt
models in its development
agenda and wind up like its
counterparts in the resource
rich countries in Africa, such
as Equatorial Guinea and Chad.
Norway has set the standard.
Norway
first
discovered
petroleum in the North Sea
in 1969 but has managed
to successfully steer away
from the resource-curse, by
minimizing rent-seeking and
corruption. Norway, the sixthlargest oil exporter in the world,
is an example of how to use a
countrys oil-wealth to benefit
the people. Norway heads the
Human Development Index,
which measures the well-being
of people around the world. This
is in part thanks to the fact that
the countrys immense natural
resources have been directed into
the Government Pension Fund
Global, previously known as the
Petroleum Fund. This change
of name is consistent with the
idea behind the fund: To pay
for the future well-being of the
Norwegian people.
Ghana is the newest player on
the block but it has adopted a
more pragmatic and transparent
course. Ghana has put in
play measures to maximize
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benefits from its oil resources

for its economic development
including citizens participation
especially in local content,
skill-building
and
various
employment
opportunities.
Ghana has a logistic shorebase
that affords Ghanaians the
opportunity to establish and
expand profitable businesses that
provide goods and services to the
growing oil and gas industry. It
is the Ghanaian logistic base that
is currently used for exploration
activities in Liberia, creating
hundreds of additional jobs for
Ghanaians.
Ghana is doing it well from the
start.
Today, Liberia has auctioned
off or negotiated 12 blocks
LB6-LB17, (four are being
reassigned in a current bid
round), the past has been rocky
for the countrys oil program,
producing millionaires, and
yet no oil production, although
revenues have also flowed to the
countrys oil program, providing
scholarships
for
students,
funding social programs and
in many cases, wastes have
occurred. It would take at least
a decade before oil production
begins if oil is discovered. Most
experts believe that significant
more
money
and
more
accountability institutions must
be created before Liberians begin
oil exploration and production.
Hopefully reforms currently
being considered by the House
of Representatives will answer
the question whether Liberia is
afflicted by the resource curse or
if it can copy the good examples
of Norway and become a
prosperous oil producing nation.
It will depend on transparency,
accountability and the national
will.
Already the oil program is marred
by allegations of corruption
and lack of accountability.
FrontpageAfrica has concluded
an investigation into the
countrys oil program and made
some startling discoveries.
Next: Part Two
Corruption and Lack of
Transparency
in
Liberias
Oil Program; The Players
and the Money Trail of
African Petroleum and other
powerbrokers in the Industry.
ILL-ADVISED EXECUTIVE ORDER HAVING RIPPLE EFFECT ON LIBERIAN PRESIDENCY
Acting Justice Minister Says Plans to make Country Lawless

prompted Presidents controversial decision
The Executive Order No. 65

ordered all concerted mass
movements of people on the
streets of Monrovia during
the ensuing special elections,
including in particular rallies,

demonstrations and parades
prohibited and for 30 days after
the announcement of election
results.
On Monday, Sannoh defended

the presidents action even as
it appears that the presidency
is walking away from the
controversial
decision,
explaining that the declaration

by the president is to ensure that
the Ebola virus is under control
in the country.
Speaking at a hearing in a writ of
prohibition against the election
at the Supreme Court Monday,
the Acting Justice Minister
responding to question on why
the order was only placed on
Monrovia and not in all the
counties, said: What happens in
Monrovia is absolutely different
from the other counties and if the
stay order is removed, we will
ensure that the order takes effect
in the fifteen counties.
The Acting Minister added that
the Executive order was issued
to make people planning to
become lawless be aware that
this country is made of laws and
they must act in accordance with
the law.
At the same time, the Supreme
Court of Liberia has issued a stay
order on Executive order No.65
pending a notice of assignment
to the parties for hearing in the
petition to the court.
The issuance of the stay order
followed a petition filed by
parties including the son of
the Liberian President, Robert

Sirleaf and fourteen members
of the National Legislature
who requested the high court to
put a stay order on the recent
declaration by President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf.
During Mondays hearing, Cllr.
Sannoh said that at least eight
counties have been free from the
virus and the Executive Order is
a strategy to reduce the spread of
the virus.
The
Executive
is
still
strategizing as we speak so
that this deadly virus can be
minimized from the country,
said Cllr. Sannoh.
The Executive Order is not
intended to marginalize people
or to favor anybody put is made
to protect the Liberian citizenry
he added.
There are attempts to make this
place lawless and those who
have planned such act must not
be supported by this court.
The acting justice Minister added
that the executive order must be
supported so that the issue of
Ebola can be reduced.
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NO NEW CASES BY END OF YEAR

C
Monrovia-
hristmas is fast
approaching
and
the
Presidents
prediction and goal
of zero new cases by Christmas
seems to actually be wishful
thinking as some in diplomatic
circles have said before. On
Monday when President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf launched the
Ebola Must Go Campaign at
the Christ Kingdom Harvest
Church, she set a new one.
Speaking at the launch of the
program attended by Anthony
Banbury head of the United
Nations Ebola Emergency
Response (UNMEER) and
other government officials,
President Sirleaf said she wants
2014 to close without Ebola.
This campaign is a nationwide
effort, between the government
and our partners and the
people of Liberia particularly
to achieve the national goal of
no new cases by the end of the
year, she said. We have made
great progress in stopping
Ebola, but we know that the
disease is still in our country.
We all have to intensify our
efforts, to travel that very
difficult last mile.
President Sirleaf, optimistic
about the significant progress
Liberia has made in combating
the virus, said Liberia must now
set a new code of allegiance and
make it a commitment to see
Ebola completely eradicated
from Liberia.
Through our efforts, the
disease has retreated into
places that are hard to reach.
So, it is now in communities,
across Liberia, sometimes in
our rural areas, difficult to get
to and we must find a way to
deal with it, she said.
Continued President Sirleaf:
We must all be committed to
say, Ebola must go. We know
its real, weve passed the stage
of saying it is real. We now say,
Ebola must go. This is why I
am joining this community,
which has been such a strong
group in fighting Ebola. We are
President Sirleaf sets New Target; Launches Ebola Must Go Campaign

Wade C. L. Williams, wade.williams@frontpageafricaonline.com
launching it in a place where

they have made a difference.
She said Liberian communities
must begin to take charge of
the fight by speaking up about
Ebola and bringing the sick out
to the Ebola Treatment Units,
which are now in abundance.
Please if they whisper to you
that somebody in that place got
fever, or somebody in that place
has a headache, somebody
in that place is vomiting,
somebody in that place cant
move, you are helping them by
talking about it, not by hiding
it, said President Sirleaf.
We want everyone to take
a pledge. Now we want to
start a different pledge, we
want to say, I for example Im
taking the pledge first; I citizen
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf pledge
to protect myself, my family
and community because Ebola
must go and stopping Ebola is
everybodys business
Assistant Health Minister
Tolbert Nyenswah, who is
considered Liberias lead on
Ebola said the country has
made huge progress in the fight
against the deadly virus. He
said the local and international
response to fight the epidemic
has been tremendous and

Liberia is now feeling the
impact of the response.
We past the dark days in our
country between August and
person is confirmed with

Ebola, we didnt have it as a
country in September.
He said Liberia is in a better
position now than it was
themselves in Liberia. When

Ebola broke out in March,
we were learning about this
disease, today our community
people are experts of Ebola,
September; in September we
didnt have the number of bed
space, he said.
Liberia in a better position
Today, were far approaching
about 2,000 beds in our
country. At the time, to test
somebody, to say yes this
months ago when the virus was

raging havoc on the country.
Nyenswah said Liberia has the
capacity to handle the disease
properly thus the decrease in
the number of new cases.
We know very well that our
communities have mobilized
he said.
Continued Nyenswah: Today
we have about nine laboratories
in Liberia that can perform
Ebola test. In the country, we
had lots of health workers that
fell prey to the disease and
died, today, weve trained over
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DONT
BE
TRICKY
IN
DOING
BUSINESS
Lawmaker urges officials of Zwe Security Consultancy Services
R
Monrovia-
A. Macaulay Sombai, sombai121@gmail.com
epresentative
Solomon
George
of
District
#7,
Montserrado County
has urged officials of the Zwe
Security Consultancy Services
(ZWESECONS) Institute not to
be tricky in dealing with their
business partners.
The lawmaker made the call after
cutting the ribbon to the newly
formed offices of ZWESECONS
on Buchanan Street in Monrovia.
To you officials of this noble
security institution, I know very
well that you all are people
with great ideas and if you
all work hard through those
ideas your institution could
be counted among the best
security institutions in Liberia,
Representative George said.
He further said So I am
appealing to you all not to go to
the devil for success and dont be
tricky with both your customers
and employees if you want for
business to progress and at the
end you achieve goal of your
business.
Representative George promised
to pay six months rent for
ZWESECON beginning January
2015 as his own contribution to
the institution.
ZWESECON is an industrial
security and Peace building
training
institute
that
is
specialized in training and
research.
Tarpeh L. Usayee Jr., the
Chief Executive (CEO) of
ZWESECONS
emphasized
that his institution is not only
involved providing protection,
but is also providing higher
nine thousand health workers

in our country, that can do
proper infection prevention
and control.
For his part, UNMEERs
Banbury
praised
the
community effort in helping to
fight the deadly disease calling
it an inspiration.
Listening to the stories about
what has been accomplished
in New Georgia, Im really
accomplished by it. We also
know that the most important
activities or actions to defeat
Ebola, he said.
Banbury added: It is also
inspirational to see the result of
the work of the community, to
fight Ebola and to chase Ebola
out of the community; to look
after the survivors, to care for
the sick and to be such a role
model for other communities
about how communities should
behave, about the things to do
to bring Ebola to an end.
The Christ Kingdom Harvest
Church in New Georgia
community was chosen for its
role in helping the community
fight the deadly Ebola virus
according to its head prelate
Pastor John Ghartey.
The church has been able to
care for children who are Ebola
survivors and lost parents
to the deadly disease. The
President pledged US$5,000
to the church during the
launch. The campaign received
financial boost with the pledge
of US 10,000 by UNMEER
Banbury.
The
campaign
highlights five key actions that
must be done together. These
actions include: Bury all dead
bodied safely, keep sick people
in their own area, speak out
if you know a sick person,
help health workers find those
who touched a sick person
and contacts should stay to
place with food and water and
encouragement.
education for security personnel

and individuals who are
interested in the field of security,
after the fourteen (14) years war.
The CEO said his institution has
come a long way and said he
thank God for where they have
reached in the struggle to help
educate security personnel at the
highest level.
Said CEO Usayee: This has
been my dream but to come up
with this dream was not easy but
nevertheless we have reached
thus far and one of our main aims
is not only to protect people but
to also educate people in order to
be able to help others.
He said the objective of his
institution program is to create
conducive learning atmosphere
for every Liberian in the
exchange of ideas on the issue of
peace and security for all.
ZWESECONS offers six weeks
certificates program for security
personnel only and nine months
diplomas for officers and
individuals.
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EXECUTIVE ORDER
US BASED GHANAIAN LAWYER ASKS AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OBAMA
he Law Office of
Samira
Sulemana
has
called
on
undocumented
immigrants and their families
living in the United States
of America that intend to
take advantage of President
Obamas recent executive order
on immigration to seriously
consider using the services of
an immigration attorney.
Samira Sulemana, who is an
Attorney at Law, said hiring
an attorney can make all the
difference between being
approved for your visa or being
deported. The Ghanaian based
US lawyer says the Obama
executive order will protect a
lot of undocumented persons
living in the USA illegally
from the threat of deportation,
as well as give them the
opportunity to stop living in
the shadows.
President
Barack
Obama
sidestepped
Congress
on
November 20, 2014 to
announce steps he will take to
shield immigrants living and
working illegally in the United
States from deportation, thus
defying Republican lawmakers
by using executive orders.
Under the new law, as many as
5 million people will be spared
from deportation and made
eligible for work permits. This
means any individual who
qualifies for protection from
deportation would be given
authorization to work legally
in the USA, a social security
number, as well as the
ability to obtain a driver's

license in their own name.
Samira Sulemana who is a
member of the American
Immigration
Lawyers
Association (AILA) said:
Africans living in the USA
who are from Liberia, Sierra
Leone or Guinea will under
this new action also qualify
for
Temporary
Protected
Status (TPS) for a period of 18

months.
Individuals
from
these
countries may also qualify for
Employment
Authorization
that allows them to work
legally in the USA. On the
broader scale, current Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) and Parents of US
Citizens and Green Card
LACC, NIF, CSOS
COMMEMORATE IACD 2014
Holders will greatly benefit

from this executive
order, Ms. Sulemana said.
Others who will qualify are
undocumented parent(s) of
US citizens or permanent
residents living in the USA
on 11/20/2014, the day
President Obama announced
this executive order. One
requirement is that these
individuals must have also

lived continuously in the USA
since 01/01/2010.
If you meet all the above
requirements then you may
qualify for President Obamas
Deferred Action Program.
Stressing on the importance
of engaging the services of an
immigration lawyer, Attorney
Sulemana told this writer that
there might be many who
may not understand how this
new presidential action works
and they may out of fear of
deportation not take advantage
of the protection the law will
afford them.
If you or someone you know
is living in the shadows of the
law in the USA, I will ask
that you take advantage of this
moment to come into the light,
have your status regularized
and legalized and afford
yourself the opportunity to
pursue the American Dream
she appealed.
The Law Office of Samira
Sulemana has partners in the
States of New York, New
Jersey, and Philadelphia. They
also handle immigration cases
all over the USA. Samira
Sulemana herself personally
speaks the Ghanaian languages
of Ga, Twi and Hausa and is
also fluent in French.
"My doors are open to all

Africans and foreign nationals
which is why my partners and
I encourage all to reach out to
via phone number +1215-3207455 or through her email at
sulemana.esquire@gmail.com
to discuss options" says the
lawyer who seeks to address
culturally sensitive issues of
clients too.
Samira Sulemana, Esquire,
specializes in immigration law,
family law, personal injury,
medical malpractice, and
criminal defense. She studied
at the Drexel University Earle
Mack School of Law in the
state of Philadelphia USA after
obtaining a Bachelor of Science
in Nursing from Rutgers
University in New Jersey. Prior
to immigrating to the USA, Ms.
Sulemana obtained a Bachelor
of Arts from the University of
Ghana, Accra, with a major
in Psychology and a minor in
French.
Attorney Sulemana is licensed
to practice law in the State
of New Jersey, as well
as the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania. She offers free
consultation and encourages
anyone with an immigration
question to call the Law Office
of Samira Sulemana today.
Environmental Specialist
2 Years Term Appointment
Location: Monrovia, Liberia
Background
The World Bank Group (WBG) is seeking to recruit a highly qualified Environmental Specialist to be
based in the World Bank Country Office in Monrovia, Liberia to contribute to the business lines of the
Global Practice on environmental and natural resources management, especially pollution management
and environmental health; environmental risks management and safeguards in large infrastructure
project; biodiversity conservation and natural resources management; and climate change agenda.
The specialist will support the GPs work on the application of environmental policy to Bank investment
lending, including risk management and knowledge and learning initiatives. The Environmental Specialist
will play an essential role in the application of the Banks environmental policies (i.e. Environmental
Assessment OP 4.01, Natural Habitats OP 4.04, Pest Management OP 4.09, Physical Cultural Resources
OP 4.11, Forests OP 4.36, and Safety of Dams OP 4.37) and in supporting the use of environmental
assessments methodologies across a range of sectors and country contexts.
The Responsibilities will include:
The Environmental Specialist will have the following main tasks and responsibilities: a)Seek and develop
opportunities to integrate sound environmental management and environment safeguards policies in
different investment operations, participate as a team member in such operations and related AAA, and
enhance local capacities for implementing these policies. b) Contribute to the Unit in at least one
particular area of environmental expertise, such as pollution management and environmental health;
natural resources management and biodiversity conservation; and climate change themes that are
increasing in importance throughout the Region. c) Maintain dialogue and coordination between the
Liberian national counterparts and the teams working in Liberia, with an emphasis in developing longlasting relations with Government counterparts and relevant national institutions. d) Participate as team
member in the preparation and/or supervision of environmental safeguards policy requirements in
different Bank funded operations. e) Provide expert advice to client and counterpart organizations, project
teams and GP management with regard to the preparation and supervision of Pollution Management and
Environmental health related projects
Qualifications
Monrovia he Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission

(LACC) in collaboration with the
National Integrity Forum (NIF) and
Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) will
on Tuesday, December 9, 2014 join the rest of
the world in commemorating International AntiCorruption Day (IACD).
December 9 was designated by the General
Assembly of the United Nations to serve as an
opportunity for all organizations and individuals
worldwide to create awareness about corruption
and to promote anti-corruption activities. This
year, the UNODC and UNDP have developed a
joint global campaign, focusing on how corruption
affects education, health, justice, democracy,
prosperity and development. The theme for this
year is Break the corruption chain.

In commemoration of International AntiCorruption Day 2014, the LACC in collaboration
with the NIF and CSOs with funding from the
UNDP, have planned series of activities befitting
the day. In consideration of the Ebola virus, this
years commemoration will feature radio and
television discussions about corruption, publication
of anti-corruption messages and the parading of a
float.
The day will also highlight the launching of the
Commissions three years Strategic Plan by the
President of Liberia as well as messages from the
Liberian President, Secretary General of the United
Nations and the Executive Chairperson of the
LACC.
In addition to meeting Bank-wide Grade GF level positions, it is expected that the successful candidate
will meet the following selection criteria: Advanced degree (PhD or Masters) in environmental economics,
environmental science/engineering, natural resources management or related field, preferably with major
in one or more of the following areas: environmental health or pollution; environmental institutions or
policy; forestry, biodiversity or climate change. A minimum of 5 years of full-time relevant professional
experience in the environment sector.
For the full job description and selection criteria for this vacancy, qualified candidates are requested to
visit and submit an electronic application at the World Bank careers
website:www.worldbank.org/careers. . Once on the site, Click on > Current Job Opening > Job Type
> Professional & Technical > Job Family > Environment > Job number 141411. The World Bank
Group is committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, nationality, culture and educational
background. Individuals with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. Closing date is December 25,
2014. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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WHO CHOP FUNDS FOR
ABANDONED RIVERCESS CLINIC

R
Yarnee District, Rivercess
County
esidents
in
Yarnee
District
located across the
Cestos River in
Southeastern Liberia, rush
daily to the Po River Clinic run
by two American Missionaries
of the Pillar of Fire Mission
Church.
The small Clinic is only
capable of treating twenty
people daily and is not close
to enough to cater to the over
30-50 towns and villages in the
region. For this reason, many
are denied basic health care,
because they cannot afford to
travel to Cestos City by the
Cestos River which serves as
the only means of commuting
people via Kru canoe to Cestos
City.
In an effort to find out why
there are no other clinics in
the district, a visitor recently
crossed the wide, dark and
deep Cestos River to locate
an abandon Health Facility in
a town called Klagba, several
kilometers away from the
Po River Clinic on the Pillar
of Fire Mission in the same
District.
Why do you think our women
are doing home deliveries that
are dangerous because the Po
River Clinic is not near and
many pregnant women cannot
cross the River? Because from
here to Cestos is not a small
distance for a pregnant to
travel when she is in labor,
Says Edward Fanciah, Tax
commissioner of Klagba.
The commissioner says the
incompletion of the clinic is

adding misery to the suffering
citizens of the Town, and
the reason the clinic is not
completed is because the
project was abandoned two
years ago.
Assistant Town Chief Jerry
Dargbeh of Klagba, said the
Mae Azango maeazango@frontpageafricaonline.com
project started since 2011

when his people used to cross
the Cestos River to go to clinic
before the Pillar of Fire church
build their clinic in recent
times.
We used to put pregnant
women in canoe to go to
Cestos City for delivery before
the Pillar of Fire clinic came
and when there is no canoe,
the pregnant women will
remain here and give birth at
home and sometimes they die
because of complications. So
this clinic was going to solve
many problems when it was
finished because we are dying
of small sickness that could
have been treated when a clinic
was here.
rather than sick people.

The Yarnee district that is
basically cut off from the rest
of Rivercess and is relatively
deserted because residents
said nobody wants to cross
the big Cestos River to bring
anything. Due to the neglect,
development intended for the
entire county has been slow.
Launching an investigation
in the abandoned project
that could have save many,
Mr. Jerry Green, the Project
Planner of Rivercess said his
office manages development
of the county, and from the
genesis of the contract when
his office discovered that
the contract was awarded to
Wilmot B. Yalartai, Head
The
Superintendent
then
wrote a letter to the former
Minister of Health Dr. Walter
Gwenigale. When Zianway
returned, he informed us that
the ministry had already signed
the contract to Yalartai and
that Minister Gwenegale, said
he could not do anything to
find another contractor, Says
Jerry Green, Project planner of
Rivercess.
Greene says Zianway further
asserted
that
Minister
Gwenigale said the reason why
the administration building,
abandoned by Mr. Yalartai was
not completed, was because
Yalatai bribed his office with
US$25,000.
The question is if the Minister
Since the outbreak of the Ebola

virus the Countrys health care
delivery system has suffered
many lapses and challenges,
leading to the crumbling down
of many medical facilities,
including major Hospitals
and clinics and the erection of
various Ebola Treatment Units,
(ETU), to treat Ebola patients,
of the Moweh Construction

Company, he immediately
communicated with the then
superintendent
Wellington
Gevon Smith, to inform the
ministry of health that Mr.
Yalartai was blacklisted for not
completing projects, based on
few abandoned projects he left
uncompleted in the county.
is saying Yalartai gave us

money to complete a project
that is not up to standard, then
why did he accept to give
another contract to a man who
gave bribe me to complete
a project, or was he also
bribed?, Greene wondered.
Project
Planner
Greene
explained further that he
wrote Representative Francis

Paye,
complaining
the
Health Minister to him, and
Representative Paye called
the Minister in chambers,
but he has not yet heard from
the Representative, while the
project remains at a standstill.
I did not receive one brown
penny from Yalartai because
he does not even know me
or has never seen me before.
So I challenge him to stand
before me and say he gave
me any money. I can tell you
from the date Yalatai received
the fund for the administrative
building in Rivercess, and if
he ever steps here to know
the location of the building,
then he gave me money. If we
received bribe, why should we
report issues that will expose
us? But because we knew we
were not part of the scheme, so
we demanded the building be
completed Said Greene.
When contacted via mobile,
to get his side based on the
allegations from Mr. Greene,
Former
Health
Minister
Gwenigale did not answer the
called after several attempts.
Also commenting via mobile
on the communication to
Minister Gwenigale, Former
Rivercess
Superintendent
Wellington Gevon Smith
confirmed that he wrote a
communication
informing
Minister Gwenigale of the
continuous habit of Mr. Yalartai
of
Moweh
Construction
Company, abandoning projects
in the County, but he does not
know why the contract was still
awarded to Yalartai who has a
bad record in the County.
A FrontPageAfrica reporter
who toured the area recently
saw an unfinished building
at roof level covered in bush.
Over twenty bags of cement
that had turned to rock and
several pieces of spoilt and
rusty wheelbarrows were
abandoned outside in the
open on the site. There was no

warehouse built over the spoilt
materials, suggested by Mr.
Greene, and there was neither
timbers nor steel rods anywhere
in sight. Some authorities in the
area explained that the items
had been stolen by unknown
persons.
Returning to Cestos City
onboard a Kru Canoe over
the rough Cestos River to
speak with County Health
Authorities, Joshua Z. Kortee,
Administrator of Rivercess
Health Office, showed a
blueprint of the building in
its completion stage and said
he did not know why a son
of the County would treat his
own people in such a manner,
Mr. Kortee then referred the
journalist to the Ministry of
Health Infrastructure head, Mr.
David Jallah in Monrovia, to
give full details of how much
the project cost.
I do not know how much the
project is worth but it is true
that Mr. Yalartai abandoned
the project two years ago and
nobody knows his whereabouts.
But this abandoned project
is supposed to be a medical
complex and if it had finished,
it would have catered to the
whole District because when
completed, it will have Doctors
Nurses quarters, Laboratory,
Maternal ward, Children ward,
General ward and Out patients
Department.
While the people across the
Cestos and the Yarnee River
continue to suffer due to
the lack of basic healthcare,
the mysterious contractor
remains at large. And while
the abandoned project nearly
swallowed up by bush, remains
hanging in Limbo, pregnant
women will continue to die,
since the remaining funds were
reported allocated to something
else and not the completion of
the medical facility.
DEATH ANNOUNCEMENT
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419 EBOLA RECRUITMENT

Teachers work without Pay
The death is announced of Mr. Slewion T-Toe, an

employee of the Liberia Electricity Corporation
(LEC), which occurred on November26, 2014 at his
Jamaica Road residence in Monrovia.
A journalist of many years, Slewion worked with
the Ministry of Information for nearly 15 years, and
the with the Monrovia Daily News, Daily Times
(Shareholder/Founding Partner) and the Labour
Times, among others.
He was Assistant Manager for Public Affairs at the
LEC up to the time of his death.
Slewion is survived by his wife Gloria, children
Sankan, Tewloh, Seahlatee, Edwin, Slewion, Jr., Pet
and Ardy as well as a host of relatives in Liberia and
the United States.
Funeral announcement will be made at a later date.
Signed by Mrs. Gloria T-Toe and Sinmuantee T-Toe,
wife and brother of the deceased for the family.
PUBLIC SERVICE
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Management of Medicare Insurance

Corporation wishes to inform the general public
that Mr. J. Sando Momolu (former Senior Technical
Advisor), Mr. A Morris Browne (Comptroller) and
Mr. Otis O. Momolu ( Deputy Marketing Manager)
are no longer in the employ of Medicare therefore,
anyone doing business with these individuals will
be doing it at his/her own risk.
olding up placards high above their head under a hot

blazing sun over the weekend over hundred teachers
gathered in front the Monrovia City hall to draw the
attention of members of civil society organizations,
members of the National legislature amongst others to the ongoing
bad labor practices muted against them by the Education Ministry.
The teachers said they were recruited, trained by their district
Education officers from the Education Ministry to conduct fifteen
days Ebola awareness in their respective communities .
The teachers through their spokesman Franklin P. Davis , alleged
that their district Education Officer recruited them a month ago to
intensify their Ebola awareness in communities with a promise to
pay fifty united states dollars per day following the completion of
the Ebola awareness.
He said such promise has not been fulfilled on grounds that the
Assistant Education Minister for Administration inform them that
the recruitment and training process were not sanctioned by the
Ministry and that they cannot pay them.
Unfortunately, when we went to the ministry to collect our just
benefit they deliberate told us that they dont have money to pay
us reasons that information reaching to us was misleading , after
we have been trained by them for two conservative days Mr.
Davis lamented.
He said teachers recruited are more than eight hundred from
Montserrado County and across the country they are more than
five thousand other teachers who were also contracted by the
Ministry for the ebola awareness.
Mr. Davis termed the action by the Education Ministry as a cleaver
attempt to rob suffering teachers off their compensation.
We termed this action as being barbaric, being inhuman and
using our labor to be split in the mud and for that reasons we are
not going to leave any screw on turn, we are going to use every
means necessary or even the legal means to make shore that we
get our just benefit said Davis.
In a rather harsh tone another teacher Madam Willamette
Telewoneh, said they were informed that for the public school
teachers they were not going to receive money for the Ebola
awareness and for the private schools teachers the Ministry will
see if they can benefit.
After we have work tirelessly at the end of the day they have
come up to tell us that they dont have money for us because we I
employ by the ministry of education , if we are employed by the
ministry of education, why they didnt include all the teachers
they only include hand full. Said Madam Willamette Telewoneh.
She argued that if it was a job for teachers from private schools to
do it was logical to incorporate all of the teachers and not some
teachers, something he termed as abuse of their rights and labor.
According to her, they risk their lives in dangerous areas such as
refugee camps, VOA, Brewervillle and other communities that
reported high rate of Ebola cases and were not even provided
PPEs to protect themselves.
Said Madam Telewoneh , the job was tedious, we were creating
awareness, doing survey, marking of houses , schools without
given PPEs in those dangerous areas.
She wants the education Ministry to rethink and provide them
their just benefit on ground that they have completed the job and
it was approved by their District Education Officer DEO, and
County Education Officer CEO.
The Public Relations officer at the Education Ministry filled
to answer his phone as his phone rink endlessly. Investigation
continues.
CONFLICT BETWEEN GBARNGA RADIO STATIONS RESOLVED TRUCE REACHED
A
Gbarnga -
long
running
confrontation
between
staff
members of Radio
Gbarnga and Super Bongese
FM has been resolved following
a 2-day mediation effort led
by the Press Union of Liberia,
the Center for Media Studies &
Peace Building (CEMESP) and
the Bong County Civil Society,
with support from IREX.
The media followed more than
a year of heightened tension
between staff members of
both stations. The conflict has
however grown ridiculously
unmeritorious
during
the
last several weeks, whereby
scandalous attacks were waged
on rivals and their family
members, utilizing the radio.
This gross degeneration of the
conflict greatly demeaned the
credibility and respectability
of the media in Gbarnga,
and
prompted
complaints
from several members of the

Gbarnga community, including
journalists.
At the two-day meeting, also
attended by Bishop Anthony
Borwah of the Catholic Diocese
of Gbarnga, the PUL mediation
team engaged both parties,
drawing attention to key actions
in the confrontation, which
violated various sections of the

media code of ethics.
The conference noted that staff
from both stations flouted basic
media ethics, including various
sections of the Press Union of
Liberia (PUL) Code of Conduct,
by running unsubstantiated,
scandalous and biased reports in
their effort to get at colleagues
on the other end to address

perceived claims.
While the conflict endured, the
stations utilized their positions
to deny staff from rival stations
opportunities that were available
for professional development,
ensuring that some community
members did not benefit from the
platform provided by both parties
to discuss public issues, and

allowed their relationships with
various political actors to cloud
their judgments, to the extent of
furthering the confrontation.
At the close of the dialogue,
representatives of the stations
adopted a joint communique
which, among other things,
recommitted themselves to
working in a professional
manner in providing news
and information about their
community.
Following the mediation and with
advice from the PUL, CEMESP,
Civil Society, the parties agreed
to undertake several corrective
measures including to "publicly
apologize to the community for
the actions... which undermined
community cohesion, heightened
tension and disrupted peace and
professionalism in the media;
and recommitted "to working
for the community in promoting
peaceful
coexistence
and
development," and renewed their

commitment to professional&
ethical journalism that will
restore community confidence in
the community radio .
Closing the session, Press Union
of Liberia President Abdullai
Kamara welcomed the resolution
of the conflict as an important
step in putting media in the
position to lead community
development and peace building
efforts.
He said the media cannot be
an effective part of the peace
building process, if journalists
are engrossed in conflict and
violating ethical concerns.
Mr. Kamara noted that regardless
of how offensive anyone has
been, even to media, journalists
are under a professional
obligation to report such matter
in a most ethical manner, in the
hope that the audience will learn
useful lessons from the media
accounts.
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Monrovia-
ondemnations
continue to pour
in on the issuance
of
Executive
Order 65 by President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf even though
the Supreme Court of Liberia
acting on petition for a writ of
prohibition has placed a stay
order on the said order.
On December 4, President
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf issued
Executive Order No. 65
ordering
prohibiting
all
concerted mass movements
of people on the streets
of Monrovia during the
ensuing special elections,
demonstrations and parades.
Close allies to the President
during her quest for reelection in 2011 have come out
lashing at her latest decision
and the political leader of
the opposition Liberty Party
Counselor Charles Walker
Brumskine says President
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf reference
to the deadly Ebola virus as an
excuse for issuing executive
order number 65 is shameful,
calling to all Liberians to
rebuke the action of the
President.
Addressing a news conference
Monday Dec 8, 2014, Cllr.
Brumskine wondered why
President Sirleaf feels it would
be prudent to have mass
movement of people, including
political rallies, parade and
demonstrations in other parts of
the country except Monrovia.
Said Cllr. Brumskine: Would
the President have us believe
that Monrovia is the only area
in the country that continues
to be affected by the Ebola
virus? Even a child can see
through this political ploy.
With a little over two years left
in her constitutional tenure, the
President has evidently decided
POLITICS
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SHAMEFUL EXCUSE
Liberty Party Political Leader, Cllr. Brumskine Sees Executive Order 65
As Putting Liberia On Path Of Autocracy And Anarchy
Stephen D. Kollie, stephen.kollie@frontpageafricaonline.com 0776329124
Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine
to take our nation another step

in the wrong direction, away
from democracy- a step that
would lead our country down
the path of autocracy and
eventually anarchy.
Cllr. Brumskine argued that
there is no statue that gives the
President the right or otherwise
authorizes her to issue
executive order number sixtyfive, adding that any such statue
would be unconstitutional.
He
indicated
that
the
Presidents executive order
does not direct how a law
enacted by the Legislature
should be executed; instead

it directs that a presidential
order be executed as a law,
in a manner described by the
President.
I respectfully disagree
The Liberty party political
leader said he disagrees with
the Liberian leader on the
basis for issuing the Executive
Order.
Continued Cllr. Brumskine:
The President also tells us that
executive order number sixtyfive is intended to protect the
security of the state, maintain
law and order and promote
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OBITUARY
VETERAN JOURNALISTS
SLEWION T. TOE IS DEAD
Monrovia he Press Union

of Liberia (PUL)
says it is left
brokenhearted
by the death of long-time
journalist Slewion T-Toe,
describing him as being
among the pioneers who
laid the foundation for the
current generation of young
journalists.
Mr. T-Toe passed away on
November 26 at his Jamaica
Road residence on Bushroad
Island, his wife Gloria told
the Union. He was 56, and
died following a period of
illness.
The fallen journalist traded
his profession at the Ministry
of Information Cultural
Affairs & Tourism (MICAT),
working in the broadcasting
division, and later with
MICAT TV between the

peace and stability in Liberia.

I respectfully disagree with the
President as experience has
shown, not only in Liberia but
also in liberal democracies all
over the world, that the security
of the state is protected by law
and order are maintained and
peace and stability are ensured
when the various branches of
government function within
their constitutional limits
premised upon the maxim
that the government is by
the people, of the people and
for the people; and when
the people are allowed their
constitutionally
guaranteed
rights with each person being
fully responsible for the abuse
thereof.
The Liberty Party political
leader said the right to hold
political
rallies,
parades
and demonstrations, may
be curtailed, restricted or
enjoined by government only
during an emergency declared
in accordance with the
constitution.
He noted that the Liberian
leader has merged the
functions of the Legislative
and the Executive branches of
government resulting to a clear
violation of the constitution.
Robert Sirleaf lawsuit a joke
Cllr.
Brumskine
believes
Liberia must not be allowed to
descend into an environment
that breeds what he called
terrorism and extremism thus
calling on President Sirleaf to
yield to talks on the streets of
Monrovia and other parts of the
country to cancel the executive
order.
Commenting on the planned
lawsuit
by
Montserrado
County independent senatorial
candidate Robert A. Sirleaf
against his mothers executive
order,
Cllr.
Brumskine
described the move as an act
that brings the presidency
of Liberia to a new low thus
indicting that the President and
her son are taking Liberia for a
joke.
Said Brumskine: Would
anybody give credence to the
fact that Robert Sirleaf suing
his mother? We all know
how cruel they are. So why
would they attempt to make
a mockery of our system of
government in this country.
Its a sad thing. I will not pay
attention to it and I dont think
anybody else will pay attention
to the fact that Robert Sirleaf is
suing his mother.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
according to an Executive
Mansion
release,
signed
Executive Order No. 65, on
December 3, 2014, which she
said is intended to strengthen
the efforts of the Government
of Liberia to contain the spread
of Ebola, protect the security
of the State, maintain law and
order, and promote peace and
stability in the country.
The executive order number
65 orders all concerted mass
movements of people on the
streets of Monrovia during
the ensuing special elections,
demonstrations and parades
prohibited and for 30 days after
the announcement of election
results.
Executive Order No. 65 notes
that the existing law requiring
persons desiring to march or
demonstrate to obtain prior
permission from the Ministry of
Justice have proven ineffective
to address rallies, parades and
concerted mass movements on
the streets of Monrovia and its
environs, stated the release
from the Presidents office.
1970s and 90s.

T-Toe also co-organized
several media institutions
including
the
defunct
Monrovia Daily, the Daily
Times and the Labor Times
Newspapers before and
after he joined the Liberia
Electricity Corporation in the
1990s, where he served as
Assistant Manager for Public
Affairs until his demise.
PUL President K. Abdullai
Kamara described T-Toe
as a senior brother whose
exemplary role inspired lots
of current journalists to enter
the profession.
T-Toe will be interred in
Bong County on December
12 at the T-Toes Family Plot
in Totota, the family told the
PUL. His remains will be
removed from the Abraham
Roberts Funeral Home on
December 11 and taken to the
Georgia Pattern Memorial
United Methodist Church
on Water Street, downtown
Monrovia for a wake keeping
spanning 5-8pm, followed
by funeral the next morning,
beginning at 10.
REV. ANDREW OLANIYIAFOLABI
he family of the Rev. Andrew OlaniyiAfolabi

regrets to announce his death which occurred
on November 25 2014 in Atlanta Georgia,
USA after a brief illness.
Wale Afolabi, KolawoleAfolabiSons of the Deceased
announce that there will be a meeting on Sunday
December 7 at 4pm at the family residence in Congo
town near the Liberia Women Democracy Radio to
discuss his burial slated for December 19.
On behalf of the Family
Wale Afolabi, KolawoleAfolabi(Sons of the Deceased)
Frontpage
ELECTION IN JEOPARDY
Supreme Court Hangs Next Hearings into Writ of Prohibition
Kennedy L. Yangian kennedylyangian@frontpageafricaonline.com 077296781
Monrovia-
t long last the

Supreme Court of
Liberia
Monday
conducted hearing
into the much awaited writ
of prohibition filed before
the court to halt the pending
Senatorial election but the fate
of the election hangs as the
court failed to state when the
next hearing is expected to take
place.
The writ of prohibition was
filed by several political
parties and eminent Liberians
at the Supreme Court against
the
National
Elections
Commission (NEC) calling
for a halt to the December 16,
2014 Senatorial election due to
the outbreak of the Ebola Virus
in the country, coupled with
constitutional violations.
Last week it was widely
speculated that the high
court was to hear the writ
of prohibition that led to the
current stay order placed on the
December 16, 2014 senatorial
election but the hearing failed
as Chief Justice Francis
Korkpor announced in open
court that there was no hearing
assigned by the high court on
the matter.
Mondays hearing at the
Chamber of Supreme Court
which lasted for nearly
nine-hours was witnessed
by several Liberians from
various backgrounds including
ordinary citizens as lawmakers
with vested interest in the
outcome of the writ also turned
out.
The
National
Elections
Commission (NEC), the body
(L-R) Cllr. Theophilus Gould Before Temple of Justice; Petitioner Blamo Nelson Leaves Court
on Monday
responsible for all electoral

activities in the country slapped
with the writ of prohibition
backed by the Ministry of
Justice told the high court
judges that the election was
set for December 16, 2014
following consultations and
agreement reached with several
stakeholders.
In order for the senatorial
election to be held in the
wake of the Ebola outbreak,
NEC lawyer said at all polling
centers across the country
during voting each eligible
voter will be made to wash/
his or her hands, stand 3
feet apart and that each voter
temperature will be taken as
preventive measures against

voters coming in contact with
one another which could be
dangerous in this period of the
Ebola outbreak.
Your
honors
NEC
is
performing its duty consistent
with the law and that the
petition for the writ of
prohibition is intended to
create a bitter confusion in the
country, because if election
is not heard there will be no
legislative forum come the
3rd Monday in January 2015
argued Cllr. Theophilus Gould,
NECs legal counsel.
Cllr. Gould further told the
full bench of the high court to
deny and not give credence to
the petition as he said it was

intended to cause confusion in
the country.
Acting Justice Minister, Cllr.
Benedict Sannoh backing
the
National
Elections
Commission for the holding of
the senatorial election added
his voice to Cllr. Gould, telling
the high court judges that the
true intent of the writ by some
individuals is to cause political
chaos in the country and called
on the high court to deny and
not issue any alternative writ
for the petition.
Cllr. Sannoh stated that the
petitioners had not told the
high court whatsoever losses or
injuries that the holding of the
senatorial election will cause

them.
According to Cllr. Sannoh the
decision to hold the election
was done with the acquiescence
of both the Executive and
Legislative
branches
of
government.
Unconstitutional, petitioners
lawyer argues
Contrary to the arguments of
both Cllrs. Gould and Sannoh,
Cllr. Laveli Supuwood differed
and told the high court judges
that it was unconstitutional for
lawmakers to set election date
when the President declared
the state of emergency to
cancel the senatorial election
scheduled initially for October
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14, 2014.
Cllr.
Supuwood, who
represented another group
of Liberians opposing the
holding of the Senatorial
election under the National
Democratic Coalition added
that holding election in the
midst of Ebola outbreak will
show to international partners
and friends that Liberia is not
serious.
He stated that once Liberians
are prepared to protect the
peace in the absence of the
election due to Ebola they
can come together when the
country is free of Ebola and set
up another election date.
Nothing Liberia will lose
when this election is not held
on December 16, 2014 Cllr.
Supuwood told the listening
judges
who
interposed
questions as he argued his
points.
Another opposing lawyer Cllr.
Syrenius Cephas also indicated
the need for a conference
that will include members
of the Liberia National Bar
Association
(LNBA),civil
society groups among others
to set up an election date other
than the December 16, 2014
schedule when the country is
declared Ebola free.
Following the arguments

parties representing those
against the holding of the
election called on the Supreme
Court to halt the election while
those for asked the high court
to deny the petition.
In his closing comment Chief
Justice Korkpor stated that
ruling into the matter will be
reached very soon and called
on his colleagues to review
all documents within the case
before determination.
There is no indication yet in
this case to say which way it
will go, we are going to look
at every documents, matter
suspended said Chief Justice
Korkpor.
SUPREME COURT FACES HYGIENE PROBLEM

Urine fills Male bathroom
Monroviahe male bathroom

at
the
Supreme
Court of Liberia
Monday caused an
embarrassing situation with

lawyers and visitors having
difficulty visiting the restroom.
This is unusual, a lawyer
attending hearing at the
Supreme Court who had gone

to ease himself in the high
court bathroom said.
Lawyers and party litigants
were seen roaming the grounds
of the Temple of Justice in

search of place to urinate or
defecate.
The Supreme Court male
bathroom was seen filled, with
urine wasted on the floor as the
lawyers and other Liberians
who turned out to witness the
Supreme Court hearing on the
Wirt of Prohibition against the
2014 senatorial election were
murmuring on the issue.
At the hearing, men and
women were seen using the
same bathroom while others
had to go at the City Court to
use the restroom.
The Supreme Court is on
the fifth and six floors of the
judiciary building.
The judiciary currently has
two persons working as court
administrators and over 50
persons serving as workers at
the third branch of government.
Though every court has a
bathroom but they are not fully
maintained as feces and urine
are usually seen in commodes.
You come to court and sit

all day you have to go down
to city court to urinate, this is
unacceptable, one lawyer who
did not want to be named said.
The Monrovia city court is said
to be currently operating one
commode and two holes for
male to urinate.
As for Courts A, B, C, D they
all operate one bathroom each
in which either there is no water
at some point or the bathrooms
are locked and lawyers and
party litigants have to request
for the keys before using.
Fluid is said to be one of the
ways in which Ebola is spread
and if the hygiene problem at

the judiciary is not handled
properly, many believe it could
lead to possible infections or a
case of Ebola may develop at
the judiciary.
When contacted, one of the
maintenance workers (name
withheld) told our reporter that
the manhole connected to the
bathroom was full and repeated
requests have been made for
repair but to no avail.
The maintenance person added
We have been requesting to
the court Administrator for the
fixing of this bathroom but up
to date nothing has happened.
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EBOLA
NOT
VALID
EXCUSE
CHRISTIAN LEADERS CRAVE FOR ELECTION
Al-Varney Rogers avarney.rogers@frontpageafricaonline.com 0886304498
Monrovia
s Liberians eagerly
await the Supreme
Courts ruling on a
writ of prohibition
filed against the pending
senatorial election, a group of
Christians under the banner the
Association of Evangelicals of
Liberia says the Ebola scourge
is not a valid excuse for not
proceeding with the senatorial
elections.
The Faith base group said that it
strongly supports the President,
Legislature and the National
Elections Commission in holding
of the Senatorial Elections before
January 2015.
NEC should do all it can to hold
the senatorial election before
January 2015 to avoid having
Senators in the Senate who have
no constitutional grounds for
being there, President Board
of Governance Association of
Evangelicals of Liberia NuwoeJames Kiamu said.
Kiamu argued, that those who
filed the petition before the
Supreme Court claiming to be
the peoples representatives are
not, adding that they are doing
it to undermine the country
democracy.
While it is the critics
Henry Karmo (0886522495)

henrykarmo@frontpageafricaonline.com
constitutional right to petition the
Supreme Court to halt electoral
activities and even suspend the
2014 senatorial Election, we
must make it very clear that these
people are not all the people in
whom all power is inherent nor
are they acting as the peoples
legitimate representatives in this
matter, Kiamu said.
Kiamu added that the power
and authority the people have
to institute their government
for their happiness and safety
cannot be done arbitrarily but
procedurally.
The people act through their
government, that is those select
few they elect or appoint to do
their business on their behalf and
not through the masses, Kiamu
said.
Kiamu said any action by
any group of people to stall
the election the integrity
of the Liberian people, their

constitution and government.
The
President
Board
of
Governance of AEL furthered
that the time for the senatorial
election was when the Ebola
Virus was on the increase thus
creating cause for the postponing
of the election.
Unfortunately, 2014 is the
year for senatorial election and
the second Tuesday fell right
when the Ebola scourge was
threatening medical situation in
which election would not make
good sense. In this instance,
it became necessary for the
peoples representatives and
executive to act immediately and
properly, Kiamu added.
Kiamu said, if it turns out that
the election does not proceed
as planned AEL holds that the
sitting Senators would have the
constitutional basis to retain their
Henry Karmo (0886522495) henrykarmo@frontpageafricaonline.com
GHOST OF
CORRUPTION
HUNTS SINOE SUPT.
DESIGNATE QUIAH
Senate postpones confirmation

over $800K GAC Report
POLICE SEIZE DIVERTED WFP EBOLA

FOOD ITEMS IN MARGIBI COUNTY
Monroviaolice in Margibi County

have seized a DAF
truck full with food
items intended for
citizens of Grand Bassa some
of whom are quarantined and
other survivors of Ebola but was
diverted for sale on the market.
Even though Police officers
conducting the investigation
into the incident have refused
to speak to the Press, highlyplaced sources have hinted
FrontPageAfrica
that
the
DAF Truck loaded with two
hundred (200) bags of rice,
thirty (30) boxes of cooking oil
and forty (40) bags of beans
was under the supervision of
the District Superintendent
and Commissioner Samuel P.
Karmanjay and Samuel Moore
respectively.
Sources also told FPA that the
items were intended for an area
called Gbakpea Town in the
District #1 (Teemor Chiefdom)
in Grand Bassa County but were
kept aside and later diverted
by the two local officials of

Government.
One source indicated: Mr.
Karmanjay and Mr. Moore
made arrangement with some
businessmen from Monrovia to
purchase the stolen Ebola Food
items before the Commissioner
and Superintendent could move
with the food they first informed
the police at Cotton Tree in
Margibi County that the food
was going to the next town.
Security sources involved in
the investigation also hinted
FPA that the two alleged doers
of the act including the District
Superintendent
Samuel
P.
Karmanjay and Commissioner
Samuel Moor allegedly escaped
the scene and are currently on
the run in Grand Bassa County.
Some citizens of the county
have
expressed
serious
disappointment
over
the
situation, noting that Gbakpea
Town was one of the worst hit
Towns by Ebola that needs more
assistance from the Government
of Liberia and any act by anyone
to deny the people that benefit

should be discouraged at the
highest peak.
Mr. Levi C. Kanioe a Youth
advocate in the County, in
an interview with FPA at the
Police depot in Margibi County
disclosed that Gbakpea Town
had a population of about fifty
people but that population has
reduced as a result of the deadly
Ebola Virus outbreak in that area.
Kanioe
expressed
disappointment over the attitude
of some local county officials
whom he said are hurting the
very citizens they are expected to
be serving or protecting. I feel
officials of government should
now be working hard to assist the
residents of the town rather than
harming them by stealing their
food, Kanioe said.
He attributed the attitude by
some officials of government to
steal benefits intended for the
ordinary citizens as some of the
vices that has subjected Citizens
of that county to poverty.
Kanioe said: we want the
seats in the Senate.

The point is this. If the
senatorial elections fail to hold
before January 2015 then, by
that action, we the people of
Liberia, would automatically be
mandating the sitting Senators to
continue to conduct the peoples
business until at such time when
we cause them to leave their
offices by regular elections,
Kiamu continued.
He called on Churches and
institutions to stand ready
to participate in the pending
senatorial election adding that
they should not allow anyone to
take them on a propaganda ride.
AEL believes that we should do
all we can to nurture Liberias
democracy and not rupture it.
We pray that with God above, we
will prevail over this situation,
Kiamu added.
two officials of Government to
immediately resign their post
because they have proven not
to be trustworthy to handle the
affairs of the people of District
#1 in Grand Bassa County.
When contacted via mobile
phone, the District Commissioner
Samuel P. Karmanjay admitted
loading the Truck for an area
called Jacob Laty Town for
distribution and said the food
was donated by the World Food
Programme and managed by
Liberia Agency for Community
Empowerment (LACE).
The Grand Bassa County District
Superintendent told FPA that he
has no knowledge on how the
food items were diverted from
Jacob Laty Town to Margibi
County.
Mr. Karmanjay blamed the
management of LACE for
the situation, and said he has
clarified his position on the
situation.
He denied allegations that he
is on the run in the county but
failed to give his current location
saying: I am in a meeting and
later I will be meeting with some
Clan Chiefs in the District.
For his part Mr. Julius Sele
Executive Director for the
Liberia Agency for community
empowerment said, there was a
clear misunderstanding by the
residents of the county whom
he said thought the food was
intended for them.
Sele said: We completed the
distribution of food to residents
of the Teemor Chiefdom and we
need to carry food to other parts
of the county and to do so we
had to passed through Margibi
County to travel through
Bong County before getting
to other areas but the people
misunderstood the decision and
felt their food was being taken
away.
Few months ago President
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf threatened
M
Monrovia-
r. Romeo Quiah, the man expected to replace Milton

Teahjay as the next Sinoe County Superintendent has
to wait a little longer before finding out whether he
would ever take on the job.
Quiahs confirmation hearing Monday was greeted with hurdles as
senators chose to postpone the hearing based on a past audit report
from the General Auditing Commission of Liberia in which the
administration under which Quiah served as Assistant Superintendent
for Development could not account for more than US800,000 dollars.
The Senate Committee on Internal Affairs chaired by Senator Armah
Jallah(Liberty Party, Gbapolu County) postponed the hearing after
the issue about the GAC report against the Sinoe County local
government was raised by his colleague Senator Dallas Gweh.
Quiah, who was among several local officials of government
including Superintendents, Development superintendents, District
commissioners from counties including; Sinoe, Rivercess, Gbarpolu,
Maryland and River Gee, was asked to step out because they could
not continue with his hearing.
The Superintendent designate unfortunate situation came about as a
result of a concern raised by Senator Gweh who asked the nominee
about some eight hundred thousand unaccounted for as indicated by
the GAC against the administration of the Mr. Teahjay under which
he served as Development Superintendent.
Mr. Quiah told FrontPageAfrica at the Capitol Building Monday that
he did nothing wrong and denied misusing any fund intended for the
county development. He described the GAC as group of old order
people who are not abreast with current information.
Quiah promised that when confirmed by the Senate, he will run a
county that is not ethnic sensitive by bringing on board all citizens
irrespective of the ethnic groups they belong to.
Recently the Liberian Anti-corruption Commission indicted the
Teahjay administration for misappropriating money intended for the
county development.
Teahjay in response to the LACC indictment threatened legal
action against the LACC and blamed some members of the County
legislative Caucus for masterminding his indictment.
According to Teahjay, lawmakers of the Sinoe County legislative
caucus including Senator Nyenpan and representative Zarzar are
frightened by his ambition to contest the senatorial seat in the county.
Teahjay accused Senator Nyenpan of playing a role in the awarding
of contracts to some contractors which according to him were owned
by the Senator who allegedly used his influence to manipulate the
bidding process.
Recently at a news conference former superintendent Teahjay came
under attack from Representative Matthew Zarzar who according to
him was responding to Teahjay claim that he (Zarzar) is a primitive
man.
Representative Zarzar accused Teahjay of wearing two sizable rings
in his middle and index fingers.
According to Zarzar, Mr. Teahjay superstitiously brags that the rings
are charms reportedly containing some sorts of part that would protect
him against prosecution for crimes he committed.
Zarzar said: He waives his hands containing these rings as he greets
people believing that these rings contain magic power to convince the
public including leaders as he performs these wicked acts. He thinks
these rings would make his words final in every discussion; is this not
primitive?
Rep. Zarzar also claimed that Mr. Teahjay is hosting a Malian juju
man (Witch Doctors), who has been living in his house since he
became superintendent.
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IN EBOLA
OUTBREAK
REGULATOR STILL
IN LACC
DRAGNET
BAD DATA
Commission on Higher Education Director General long Corruption tale
LONDON (AP)
s health officials
struggle to contain
the
world's
biggest-ever Ebola
outbreak, their efforts are
being complicated by another
problem: bad data.
Having accurate numbers
about an outbreak is essential
not only to provide a realistic
picture of the epidemic, but
to determine effective control
strategies. Dr. Bruce Aylward,
who is leading the World
Health Organization's Ebola
response, said it's crucial
to track every single Ebola
patient in West Africa to stop
the outbreak and that serious
gaps remain in their data.
"As we move into the stage of
hunting down the virus instead
of just slowing the exponential
growth, having good data is
going to be at the heart of this,"
Aylward said. "We are not
there yet and this is something
we definitely need to fix."
"Decisions about prevention
and treatment should be datadriven, but we really don't
have the data," agreed Irwin
Redlener, director of the
National Center for Disaster
Preparedness at Columbia
University.
A week ago, the World Health
Organization insisted at a
media briefing it had mostly
met targets to isolate 70

percent of Ebola patients and
bury 70 percent of victims
safely in Guinea, Liberia and
Sierra Leone. But two days
later, WHO backtracked and
said that data inconsistencies
meant they really didn't know
how many patients were being
isolated. Then the U.N. health
agency also conceded that
many of the safe burials were
of people not actually killed by
Ebola.
Aylward said not knowing
exactly how many Ebola
patients there are in hotspots
like western Sierra Leone
means health officials might
miss potential contacts who
could unknowingly cause a
surge of cases. Compared to
other epidemics like malaria,
which is more seasonal and
can fade away without huge
control efforts, ending the
Ebola outbreak will require
extraordinary attention to
detail.
"This outbreak started with
one case and it will end with
one case," Aylward said. "If
we can't get 100 percent of the
contacts of cases, we will not
be on track to shut it down.
Unfortunately at the moment,
the data right now is not
enough for us to get to zero."
In West Africa, where health
systems were already broken
ADDS ANOTHER PROBLEM

before Ebola struck, collecting

data amid a raging outbreak
has been challenging.
"Suddenly you have all these
different sources of data that
have to be compiled" from
different aid agencies, said
Ray Ransom, a data expert at
the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention. "The
ability to actually collect
information is a different
challenge than responding to
the outbreak, and the energy
has been focused on the

response."
He said local officials are good
at tracking known or suspected
Ebola cases and their contacts
but not as reliable relaying
that information to national
authorities.
The software built to track
Ebola outbreaks was initially
designed by the CDC to have
one person entering data
into a computer. That "was
perfectly fine since the dawn
of time up until" the outbreak

exploded this summer, said
Armand Sprecher, a public
health specialist with Doctors
Without Borders.
The CDC has redesigned the
software so now multiple
people can enter data, although
that created new problems like
possible duplication, Sprecher
said.
When the epidemic starts
to taper off, health officials
should have more time to find
every Ebola case and their

contacts. But they may find
they have to re-establish trust
with the community to do that.
"If people were calling in cases
for months and no one was
coming ... and then suddenly
that's no longer a bottleneck,
do people suddenly realize
that and say, aha, if I call in
today, it'll work this time?"
asked Sprecher. "If you've lost
the community, you don't get
anywhere."
PLAN LIBERIA MAKESDonates

ORPHANS
SMILE
Several Food And Non-Food
Items To Children Affected By Ebola
Moses Browne, Contributing Writer
he international aid agency, Plan

has started huge distribution of
food and non-food items across
Liberia.
About 92 orphans including 528 beneficiaries
in 16 communities of Bomi Countys 3

districts received
rice, oil, sanitary kits, used
clothes and other assorted materials.
This is one major way of identifying and
helping to protect our children especially
those who have lost fathers, mothers and
families to the deadly Ebola virus Alphan
Kabba says.
According to Plan Liberia Bomi Program
Unit Manager Alphan Kappa, this is Plans
way of showing humanitarian concern to
those affected by Ebola particularly, orphans.
In its bid to help Liberians kick this deadly

virus out of Liberia, and save thousands of
lives, Plan International Liberia took truck
load
of rice, oil, preventive materials and

assorted items to two of Liberias fifteen

counties in Lofa and Bomi.
Plan distributed food items to 92 orphaned
children in Bomi County. This included 176
x 25kg bags of rice, 184 bottles of cooking
oil, 92 sachets of salt. Clothes and shoes
were distributed to 60 orphaned.
Meanwhile, Plan Liberia is planning to
establish alternative care centers for children
affected by Ebola in line with the Liberian
Government policy and procedures.
Plan will establish six interim care centers in
Bomi, Nimba and Lofa Counties respectively
for children who have been affected and
discharged or who lost their parents as a result
of the Ebola Virus and are now vulnerable
with no care. This will be supported through
the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare
who will manage the six centers.
The Interim care centers will provide
temporary care, support and protection to
those vulnerable children.
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IN BRIEF
U.S. SANCTIONS AIMED

AT CHANGING POWER IN
RUSSIA: DEPUTY MINISTER
MOSCOW (Reuters) Russian

deputy
foreign
minister
accused the United
States on Monday of
trying to bring down President
Vladimir Putin by imposing
sanctions on Moscow over the
crisis in Ukraine, TASS news
agency reported.
"It is hardly a secret that the
goal of the sanctions is to create
social and economic conditions
to carry out a change of power
in Russia," TASS quoted Sergei
Ryabkov told a hearing in the
lower house of parliament.
He said it would take years to
overcome the impact of the crisis
in Ukraine, during which the
United States and the European
Union have imposed sanctions
on the finance, defense and
energy sectors in Russia as well
as on some individuals.
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WORLD NEWS
ACQUITTED
SOUTH AFRICA: BRITON ACQUITTED OF HONEYMOON MURDER
Shrien Dewani lost a three-year legal battle in Britain to

avoid being extradited to and tried in South Africa
U.S. CONDEMNS GAMBIA

OVER DISAPPEARANCES,
NEW ANTI-GAY LAW
BANJUL (Reuters) resident Barack Obama's

National Security Council
(NSC) has voiced concern
over Gambia's moves to
block access to top United Nations
human rights investigators and
enact tough new legislation against
homosexuality.
Gambia's foreign minister last
week vowed to sever dialogue
with the European Union after the
bloc, an important donor to the
West African nation, raised similar
criticisms.
"We remain concerned about
ongoing
reports
of
forced
disappearances
and
arbitrary
arrests, including of journalists,
human rights advocates, and civil
servants," NSC Spokesperson
Bernadette Meehan said.
MAID TORTURED WITH

VACUUM CLEANER TUBE IN
HONG KONG ABUSE CASE
HONG KONG (Reuters) n

Indonesian
domestic
helper
told a Hong Kong
court on Monday
that she had been tortured by
her employer, with a vacuum
cleaner tube placed in her mouth
and twisted to cause lacerations,
public broadcaster RTHK said.
The landmark trial, featuring
pictures
of
Erwiana
Sulistyaningsih's bruised body,
has
sparked
international
outrage at the treatment of
maids in the Asian financial
center.
Former Indonesian President
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
denounced her treatment as
torture.
Sulistyaningsih's
employer,
Law Wan-tung, a former
beautician, faces 20 charges,
including inflicting grievous
bodily harm, assault, and
criminal intimidation.
The public broadcaster said
Law appeared calm as she
pleaded not guilty to all the
charges, except one, of failing
to take out an insurance policy
for an employee.
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) South African court

cleared
British
businessman Shrien
Dewani on Monday
of charges that he paid hitmen
to kill his wife while they were
on honeymoon in Cape Town
four years ago.
LONDON (Reuters) he Archbishop of

Canterbury has said
he found seeing the
hungry in Britain
to be less serious but more
shocking than the plight of
those starving in some places
in Africa.
Justin Welby, head of the
80-million strong Anglican
communion, compared his
two recent experiences of
seeing hungry people in the
Democratic
Republic
of
Congo, to talking to a family
making a collection of free
food in England.
"I found their plight more
shocking. It was less serious,
but it was here. And they
weren't careless with what they
had they were just up against
it," Welby wrote in the Mail on
Sunday.
"The scale of waste in this
country is astonishing. As a
nation we discard about 15
million tons of food a year, at
least four million thrown out
by households," he said.
A cross-party parliamentary
State prosecutors had argued

that Dewani paid 15,000 rand
($1,300) in a plot with taxi
driver Zola Tongo and others
to kidnap and murder his wife,
Anni, in November 2010,
charges he has consistently
denied.
Three South Africans, who
had implicated Dewani as part

of plea bargains for reduced
sentences, are serving lengthy
jail terms for her murder.
"The application is granted.
The accused is found not
guilty on this charge," Judge
Jeanette Traverso told a packed
courtroom. Dewani is expected
to be released and could

fly home to Britain later on
Monday.
Anni Dewani's family said they
were "deeply disappointed"
with the judge's decision,
especially because Shrien
never had to take the stand to
give his version of events.
"Today we feel as a family

that the justice system has
failed us," Anni's sister, Ami
Denborg, told reporters outside
the courtroom as family
members wept nearby.
Traverso earlier said Tongo,
the prosecution's chief witness,
gave testimony "riddled with
contradictions" and it was
difficult to know where "the
lies end and the truth begins".
She added that the evidence
provided by two hitmen also
convicted of Anni Dewani's
murder "contradict Mr Tongo
on about every aspect of their
interaction".
Prosecutors had argued that
Dewani agreed to pay for a
staged hijacking in Gugulethu
township on the edge of Cape
Town.
Mziwamadoda Qwabe, a South
African serving 25 years in jail
for murdering Anni Dewani,
told the court he commandeered
the car in which the Dewanis
were traveling. Police later
found her body in the back seat
with a single gunshot wound to
the neck.
Vinod Hindocha, father of
murdered Anni Dewani, leaves
a court with family members in
Cape Town Dece
Dewani lost a three-year legal
battle in Britain to avoid being
extradited to and tried in South
Africa.
His trial is the second highprofile case this year to turn
the spotlight on South Africa's
judicial system and high
murder rate.
A Pretoria high court in
October sentenced Olympic
and Paralympic runner Oscar
Pistorius to five years in jail
for shooting dead his girlfriend
Reeva Steenkamp.
More than 17,000 people were
murdered in South Africa
between April 2013 and March
2014, an increase of about
800 over the previous year,
according to police figures.
ANGLICAN LEADER SAYS PLIGHT OF HUNGRY

IN BRITAIN MORE SHOCKING THAN IN AFRICA
inquiry into Hunger and Food

Poverty published on Monday
highlighted
the
growing
reliance by needy Britons on
food banks, which provide the
needy with free emergency

supplies.
The Hunger and Food
Poverty inquiry found that the
number of people in Britain
provided with emergency food

assistance by one charity, the
Trussell Trust, rose to 913,138
in 2013-14, up seven-fold from
2011-12.
Administrative
delays
in
paying state benefits was the
reason many people visited
food banks, the inquiry found.
It recommended that the
government reform the system
to deliver payments more
quickly.
Welby and other religious
leaders have in the past
criticized Britain's current
government for the cuts it has
made to the welfare payouts,
part of its effort to reduce a
large budget deficit.
Religious leaders say they
have forced rising numbers of
people to use free food banks,
skip meals and turn off heating
to save money.
Britain's $2.8 trillion economy
is forecast to grow faster than
any other Group of Seven
economy country this year. The
economy is forecast to grow 3
percent in 2014 and 2.4 percent
forecast for 2015.
Sports
GERVINHO WARNS
'DESPERATE'
MANCHESTER CITY
Roma will end their Champions League dream... especially with Yaya Toure absent
F
R
ormer
Arsenal
winger Gervinho has
warned Manchester
City that Roma
eal
Madrid
goalkeeper Keylor
Navas says he will
remain professional
in his ongoing battle with Iker
Casillasfor the club's No.1
jersey.
The Costa Rica star joined
Madrid from Levante in the
summer but has made just four
appearances for the club, with
Iker Casillas preferred in goal.
Navas could start against
Ludogorets in the Champions
League on Tuesday night as the
reigning European champions
conclude their group stage
campaign having already
sealed their progress to the
last-16.
But while there have been
suggestions the 27-year-old
has grown unhappy with his
bit-part role in the Spanish
captital, he insists he is satisfied
and determined to play as many
games as possible.
"I'm happy at the club," he told
reporters at a press conference
on Monday.
"I try to be professional and
play all the games I can. We
are working seriously as usual.
We know that this match will
be difficult and we respect
Ludogorets like we do all our
other rivals. We want to win
tomorrow and finish the year
well.
"Football is a very beautiful
sport and everybody should try
are preparing to end their

Champions League hopes this
week.
The Italians host the Premier
League
champions
on
Wednesday evening knowing
that a goalless draw will be
enough to see them progress to
the next stage of the competion

if CSKA Moscow fail to beat
Bayern Munich.
But, Gervinho insists his side
Frontpage
will be chasing the win that

will guarantee their place in the
knockout draw - while adding
that Manuel Pellegrini's side
are under huge pressure to
satisfy their wealthy owners.
Speaking to the Sun on
Sunday, the Ivory Coast
forward said: 'We must win.
If we beat City we go through
even if Moscow win. ''City are
obliged to win. They have all
the pressure. Not Roma. City
are in the same period that
Chelsea used to be before they
won it. It becomes complex
until you win the trophy.
'The trophy their investors
expect to win is the Champions
League... City have a lot more
pressure on us given the
expense they have undertaken
to create this team. It's the
Champions League that they
desperately want.'
Roma held the Blues to a 1-1
draw in October but Gervinho
suggests they will carry
the upper hand in the next
game due to the absence of
suspended Yaya Toure - not to
mention that ligament injury
that will keep Sergio Aguero
out of the decisive game.
'City are not the same team
without Yaya,' he said of his
international team-mate.
'For them, it's a loss that he
won't be there. He is 90 per
cent of their team- he's a very
important player for them.
'When he's in top form the
whole team does well. When
he's not well, City are not well
either.'
WAITING HIS TIME

Costa Rica international Keylor Navas has spent much of the season on the bench after
moving to the Santiago Bernabeu over the summer, but insists he is happy with his role
Page 15
SPORTS
YOU MAY AS WELL PARK A

COW!' - MOURINHO FUMES
AT NEWCASTLE TACTICS
ose Mourinho has

lambasted Newcastle's
tactics as "parking a
cow" after the Magpies
inflicted uponChelsea their
first defeat of the season on
Saturday.
Didier Drogba's late strike
could not spark a revival after
Papiss Cisse's double sealed
a 2-1 win for Alan Pardew's
men at St. James' Park, but
the Portuguese boss took
issue with the hosts' style of
play.
Mourinho
slated
the
physicality of Newcastle's
players and the lackadaisical
approach of the ball-boys
when deep into six minutes of
added time.
IM RUNNING OUT OF THINGS

TO WRITE ON MESSI'S
HAT-TRICK BALLS - RAKITIC
arcelona

midfielder
Ivan
Rakitic claims he
is running out of
words of praise to write on
Lionel Messi's hat-trick balls.
The 27-year-old netted three
times on Sunday to help
Barcelona to a 5-1 derby
win over Espanyol, taking
his hat-trick tally in La Liga
to 21, and Rakitic has hailed
his team-mate's sublime form
this campaign.
"I'm running out of things to
write on Leo's hat-trick balls,"
the Croatia international was
quoted as saying byAS.
FITTING FAREWELL FOR

DEPARTING DONOVAN
to enjoy it. Ludogorets have

come to play a serious match.
We don't have to change our
gameplan. We always think
that the next match is the most
important one."
Madrid came through a

tricky test in Bulgaria in their
first clash against Tuesday's
opponents at the start of
October, and had Cristiano
Ronaldo and Karim Benzema
to thank as they came from

behind to win 2-1.
Should Carlo Ancelotti's side
win again at the Santiago
Bernabeu, they will have
recorded a maximum 18 points
from their six group games,

having also seen off Liverpool
and FC Basel home and away
in Group B.
or the past four

months, the mortality
of Landon Donovans
career has become
increasingly tangible. Yet the
LA Galaxy icon has remained
characteristically serene. Hes
been contemplative but not
overly emotive.
It wasnt until the final whistle
on Sunday that Donovan truly
let loose. As the final whistle
blew, the 32-year-old spread
his arms, tilted his head back
and looked to the heavens.
Seconds later, he disappeared
into a swarm of Galaxy teammates mobbing him from the
bench.
Thus ended the last of
Donovans 32,520 minutes
played in Major League
Soccer. With MLS Cup crown
number six, his remarkable
career came to a close.
FrontPage
www.frontpageafricaonline.com
VOL 8 NO.737
Sports
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2014
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FROM PREMIER
LEAGUE TO
LEAGUE ONE
Liberias Alex Nimely moves to Port
Vale from Manchester City in England
Danesius Marteh, danesius.marteh@frontpageafricaonline.com
eague One sidePort Vale have announced

the signing of former Manchester City
striker Alex Nimely.
According to the clubs official website,
Nimely finalized a deal on November 26that will
keep him at the club until the end of the season.
Nimely has been training with Rob Page's side
forseveral days following his release by City in the
summer.
His signing will come as good news to new Liberia
coach James Salinsa Debbah, who is confident
he can persuade the 23-year-old to switch his
allegiance to the land of his birth.
Nimely, a former England under-20 international,
played for Mighty Barrolle before moving to
Cameroons Coton de Garouain 2006 and later
joining City in 2008.
He spent six years at the Etihad Stadium but only
played one premier league gamea 6-1 win

against Burnley at Turf Moor on April 3, 2010, and
spent time on loan at Middlebrough, Coventry City,
and Crystal Palace.
Nimely is yet to be assigned a jersey, having missed
the 2-2 draw away to Gillingham on November 29
with veteran midfielder Michael Brown's injurytime goal ensuring the spoils were shared.
Dany N'Guessan put the visitors ahead after 18
minutes with a low shot from the edge of the box.
John Egan equalized shortly before half-time with
a brilliant 30-yard effort and then headed in his
second after the break to put the hosts in front but
37-year-old Brown's late deflected shot earned Vale
a draw.
Nimely could debut against Coventry on December
13, having impressed Page in a reserves game.
Page has been keen to bring in extra cover up front
as he continues to be without nine-goal top scorer

Tom Pope (knee), who is expected to be out until
January.
And news that N'Guessan is keen to extend his
short-term contract will come as a Christmas
package.
The 27-year-old signed a two-month deal on
October 23, having been without a club since his
release by Swindon Town at the end of last season.
The contract of N'Guessan, who has scored three
goals in six games since arriving at Vale, ends on
December 20.
Vale also signed former Porto winger Enoch Andoh
on an 18-month deal on November 25, subject to
international clearance.
The 21-year-old Ghanaianhas been training with
Vale for several weeks and played in a reserve win
at Shrewsbury this month.

"He's a great addition to the squad and one that
we're excited about watching develop. He showed
in a couple of reserve games what he is capable
of doing," said Page, who has signed defenders
Stephane Zubar (Bournemouth), Reiss Greenidge
(West Bromwich Albion)and Remi Streete
(Newcastle United), all on loan, along with striker
Harry Panayiotou (Leicester City).
But only Zubar, now suspended for three games
after being sent off for retaliating at Joe Garner
in the defeat at Preston on October 18, has so far
figured.
Having taken over when Vale were lying 23rd,
Page's side are placed 15th on the 24-team table
with 23 points from 19 games, having won six,
drawn five and lost eight with 25 goals scored and
27 goals conceded.
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