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Monrovia-
hen Yusador Gaye was tipped to replace Robert

Kilby as Auditor General of the Republic of
Liberia many felt her ascendancy from the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs where she worked as
a former Inspector General was a disaster in the making.
While at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she stands accused
of not conducting a single audit of the foreign ministry
and foreign missions internal operations and financial
transactions fearing that she did not want to step on anyones
toes.
Others wondered during her appointment and confirmation
how could the president appoint a retired person who has
spent thirty years working on the department of finance of the
State of North Carolina, where her principal responsibility was
mainly collecting and varying tax collections and not auditing.
But coming after a notoriously-disgraced auditor general
Kilby, the choice was for many a better decision than what
Kilby presented, a man bearing a fake credential, was denied
confirmation but on second nomination by the President was
confirmed in a manner far exceeding a speed of light or
what has come to be known as the 4-G Confirmation.
In Gaye, a system which has consistently eyed the easy way
out for audit indictees to attack integrity institutions when
findings did not go their way, sought someone from within
with little ax to grind and perceived closed ties to those in the
corridors of power.
Her predecessor Kilby assumed the post with similar baggage,
declaring at first that audits will not be made public and
bashing his predecessor, John S. Morlu II, a European Union
Commission vetted AG, who did.
For government auditees, Kilby was the answer to the
impunity of corruption, likely to turn the other cheek or
provide a cushion for the system to remain the same, a system
recovering from more than a decade of civil war started on the
bedrock of the April 12, 1980 military coup whose leaders, a
band of misfits military officers, pledge to eliminate graft and
preceded by a riot a year earlier over the countrys staple food,
rice.
Kilbys fate was sealed by much of his doing and eventual
self-destruction. Kilby did not conduct a single audit while he
served as Auditor General of Liberia.
In July 2013, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf dismissed Kilby
along with the Director-General of the General Services Agency
(GSA), Ms. Pearine Davis-Parkinson, for non-compliance with,
or violation of, public financial management and procurement
laws.
Kilby would later show his gratitude to the system that
embraced him and gave him a shot by resorting to months of
wailings regarding the un-constitutionality of his dismissal
climaxed by a tell-all book in which he brought the presidency
into disrepute.
GLITCH FOR GAC IN TURNAROUND MODE

Today, the General Auditing Commission since the departure
of Morlu which has struggled to gain the public trust, has of
late made some headways with a series of damaging audit
findings that exposed lapses in the governments procurement
policies. This is principally due to the fact that the men and
women trained by Morlu remained firmly committed to the
principle of conducting independent, without fear or favor, in
spite of the fact that their various new bosses at the GAC have
one way or another attempted to pander and carve in to the
desires of the Presidency and the officials of Government.
The most notable of late was the report on the National Ebola
Trust Fund for the Period August 1 to October 31, 2014 which
unearthed that the Incident Management Team on Ebola
headed by Assistant Health Minister for Preventive Services
Mr. Tolbert Nyenswah, Mr. James Dorbor Jallah and Dr. Wede
Elliott should be held liable for violating Section 66 (4) of
the Public Procurement and Concession Commission (PPCC)
Act, which regulates protocols for government procurement,
contract and others.
The GAC mentioned in its audit report that there were
variances between the allowances received by security officials
who participated in the fight against Ebola in the country
and several expenses were not supported by legitimate
documentation. For instance, The anti-graft commission
stated that it observed in the audit that US$672,617.56 was
received and disbursed by the Ministry of National Defense
(MOD) without supporting documents during the period
under review (August 1 to October 31, 2014).
AG SCOLDED, QUERIED BY INDICTEES
On Monday, the Task Force in a rage-filled venomous assault,
came out swinging against the GAC in a stinging 38-page letter
to Auditor General Gaye obtained by FrontPageAfrica in which
the authors, audit Indictees Wede Elliott Brownell Deputy
Minister for Administration, Ministry of Foreign Affairs;
Tolbert Nyenswah, Head Incident Management System/
Deputy Minister for Health Designate (indicted by GAC in
2006/2007and 2007/2008 audit of the Ministry of Health;
James Dorbor Jallah, Executive Director, Public Procurement
and Concessions Commission and Andre Pope, Head State
Owed Enterprises Reporting Unit, Ministry of Finance and
Development Planning, took aim at the Auditor General for
laying the perceived lapses on her Deputy Auditor General
Winsley Nanka.
Auditor General Gaye, according to the Ebola Task Force
Rodney D. Sieh, Rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com

Response authors threw her deputy and GAC investigators
under the bus.
The authors of the Task Force letter said when they contacted
Auditor General Gaye to query her about the report and
findings of the GAC, she said the report was not done by her,
but was in fact done by Nanka.
When queried on the various professional transgressions of
your report, you blamed the GACs faulty reporting concerning
the NETF on Mr. Winsley Nanka, Deputy Auditor General for
Audits, who, according to your wrote the report in question.
You also claimed that the subordinate audit staff at the GAC
resisted changes you deemed required that would have
made the final audit report of the GAC fairer and thereby
professional. According to you, the subordinate staff had
accused you of wanting to water down the report because you
are said to be friendly with two members of the NETF Team,
Mr. James Dorbor Jallah, Deputy Incident Manager and Dr.
Wede Brownell.
Quite obviously, you therefore opted most unprofessionally
to satisfy your subordinates even against what you say
was your own better judgment. So, simply to satisfy the
unprofessional demands of your subordinates, rather than
issue a balance and fair report because that is quite simply
the right professional thing to have done, you chose instead
to do us the great injustice of hurling sweeping and entirely
unsupported damning statements at and against us(innocent
friends as well as innocent others). Solely on that basis you
let stand in the GACs official report, sweeping allegations that
you had reason to know are without sufficient appropriate
audit evidence to establish the findings indicated in that
report, contrary to the requirements of Section 38 of ISSAI
300.
It is unclear why AG Gaye allowed and encouraged

members of the Ebola Task Force to scold and query
her about a report by the GAC bearing her signature.
Or why officials of a task force appointed by the
President would use condescending language toward
an Auditor General also appointed by the President.
PRINCIPLE OF OBJECTIVITY
The Incidence Management Team continued to lambast the
Auditor General, That puts you squarely in violation of the
principle of objectivity(section120) and also the principle of
due diligence(Section 130, Professional Competency and Due
Care), as required of all professional accountants by the IESBA
Code of Ethics for Professional Accountants.
Per section 120 of the Cod, the principle of objectivity
imposes on obligation on all professional accountants not
to compromise their professional judgment because of
bias, conflict of interest or the undue influence of others. By
so cowardly subordinating your considered professional
judgment to the noisy clamor of your subordinates, as
you claimed to have done, you did effectively and most
unprofessionally compromise your professional judgment
because of bias and the undue influence of others.
The Task force continued to scold the Auditor General by
stating:
In any case, Madam Auditor General of the Republic of
Liberia, whether or not Mr. Nanka did, indeed write the report
as you have claimed; or whether any other subordinate(s)
of yours have behaved as you have also claimed, there is one

unarguable fact: none of those others signed the report in
question. You did in your official capacity as Auditor General,
i.e., the Supreme Audit Authority, of the Republic of Liberia.
That imposed on you a moral and professional responsibility
to have read the report with a view to ensuring that you agreed
with its contents before signing it.
The Task Force responders went on to say that Auditor General
Gaye had a moral and professional responsibility, in the
absence of any contrary supporting evidence, to have stood
her grounds against whatever opposing views expressed by
anyone else for whatever reason. After all you are the boss at
the GAC, not an underling. Therefore, having signed the report,
in your official capacity as the Auditor General of Liberia, you
and only you must accept and bear sole and full responsibility
for its contents.
The Task force responders continued: If Mr. Nanka did in fact
write the report, as you claim; and if any other subordinates
did in fact actually do as you have also claimed, taken together,
these only points to the fact that those working under your
authority in a professional capacity have not had the kind and
level of appropriate training and supervision required. As
far as we are concerned they are your subordinates and they
have worked under your authority in a professional capacity.
If was therefore your professional responsibility to have
ensured that those concerned had appropriate training, you
also failed most pathetically to have provided the supervision
that was unprofessionally and personally required of you in
the engagement.
AGs Independence Established in PFM Act
The Task Force responders went on to school Auditor General
Gaye on how she should have conducted the audit. Clearly,
therefore, in the case at hand, the primary focus of your audit
should indeed have been whether the interventions required
by the national emergency declared by the President of
Liberia have performed and are performing in accordance
with the principles of economy, efficiency and effectiveness
and whether there is room for improvement.
It is unclear why AG Gaye allowed and encouraged members
of the Ebola Task Force to scold and query her about a report
by the GAC bearing her signature. Or why officials of a task
force appointed by the President would use condescending
language toward an Auditor General also appointed by the
President.
Gayes decision to allow herself to be investigated by audit
indictees about her agencys own report has no doubt brought
the integrity institution into disrepute and possibly exposed
the lapses accredited with having a political appointee heading
an integrity institution. It further puts Auditor General into
legal and ethical trouble for not exercising professional due
and supervision as indicated in the 38-page letter from the
incident management team/Ebola task force.
More importantly, Regulation K 3 of the Public Finance
Management (PFM) Act of 2009 the Independence of the
Auditor-General states that the in the performance of his
functions under this regulation or any other law the AuditorGeneral (a) shall not be subject to the direction or control of
any other person or authority.
This is why many are puzzled that AG Gaye has allowed herself
and her office to fall prey to what some say are disreputable
attacks which threatens to bring the GACs credibility and
audit of the Ebola fund into question while disowning her own
report in the process.
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EDITORIAL THINK AGAIN: WHY DID LIBERIA BEAT
Commentary
AUDITOR
GENERAL GAYE
MUST RESIGN
AUDITOR GENERAL YUSADOR GAYE has allowed her integrity

and authority as head of the supreme audit institution in
Liberia to be manipulated and bamboozled by indictees in the
GACs recent report on National Ebola Task Force.
REGULATION K 3OF THE PUBLIC FINANCE Management
(PFM) Act of 2009 regarding the Independence of the AuditorGeneral is clear in stating that the in the performance of his
functions under this regulation or any other law the AuditorGeneral (a) shall not be subject to the direction or control of
any other person or authority.
THE NATIONAL Ebola Task Forces response to the recent
findings of the GAC makes note of an apparent discussion
members of the force had with the Auditor General.
WHEN QUERIED ON THE various professional transgressions
of your report, you blamed the GACs faulty reporting
concerning the NETF on Mr. Winsley Nanka, Deputy Auditor
General for Audits, who, according to your wrote the report
in question. You also claimed that the subordinate audit staff
at the GAC resisted changes you deemed required that would
have made the final audit report of the GAC fairer and thereby
professional. According to you, the subordinate staff had
accused you of wanting to water down the report because you
are said to be friendly with two members of the NETF Team,
Mr. James Dorbor Jallah, Deputy Incident Manager and Dr.
Wede Brownell.
IT IS UNCLEAR WHY AG Gaye allowed and encouraged members
of the Ebola Task Force to scold and query her about a report
by the GAC bearing her signature. Gayes decision to allow
herself to be investigated by audit indictees about her agencys
own report has no doubt brought the integrity institution into
disrepute and possibly exposed the lapses accredited with
having a political appointee heading an integrity institution.
THE GAC IS A constitutional office, established by article 89
of the 1986 constitution making that entity very powerful in
the fight against corruption. Even the new amendment to the
new GAC act provides for the AG to serve tenure of seven years,
all intended to provide the AG job security making the person
occupying such position to fear nothing but to do the right
thing.
IN AUDIT, THE FINDINGS must be backed by pieces of evidence
contained in the audit working papers as provided by auditing
standards and in the case of the Ebola report, the auditees
have already admitted that the emergency situation led to
the unavailability of documents which cannot be sustained as
audit evidence.
THE AUDITEES CLEARLY ADMITTED their fault in response
Please do keep in mind that an emergency by its nature,
particularly in this case, basically meant a race against
time. Under the circumstances, a relaxation of related PPCC
requirements was so clearly called for, whether de facto/and/
or de jure. It is both amazing and disappointing that for some
strange reason you stubbornly refuse to accept this plain,
simple, obvious and undeniable rational fact.
WITH THIS ADMITTANCE OF race against time by the auditees
there is no explanation why the AG is so frightened by auditees
rant and is reneging to take responsibility for a report on which
she affixed her signature as a Certified Public Accountant.
NOW THAT AG GAYE IS shifting responsibility, it clearly
indicates that she lacks the requisite qualification to head the
GAC. Granted that it was her Deputy Nanka who produced the
Ebola Fund Audit report, it means Nanka is more qualified than
the AG because by her shifting blame she could have produced
a report different from what was purportedly produced by
her deputy when in fact auditees have admitted that because
of emergency they could not provide some of the required
documentations.
AU SECTION 339, AUDIT documentation states Audit
documentation should be sufficient to show that standards of
fieldwork have been observed as follows: The work has been
adequately planned and supervised; a sufficient understanding
of internal control has been obtained to plan the audit and
to determine the nature, timing, and extent of tests to be
performed and sufficient competent evidential matter has
been obtained through the auditing procedures applied to
afford a reasonable basis for an opinion.
IN THIS CASE, HOW is the AG going to back her audit report
with the necessary documentations as provided by auditing
EBOLA BEFORE GUINEA OR SIERRA LEONE?
By SIMON ALLISON for the ISS/ DAILY MAVERICK
Liberian man with a message reading 'Kick Ebola Out

of Liberia' in body paint during celebrations after
Liberia was declared Ebola-free by the World Health
Organization (WHO), in Monrovia, 11 May 2015. The
WHO declared Liberia free of Ebola on 09 May 2015, after no
new cases were reported for 42 days, twice the virus' incubation
period. EPA/AHMED JALLANZO
Interruption of transmission is a monumental achievement for a
country that reported the highest number of deaths in the largest,
longest and most complex outbreak since Ebola first emerged in
1976. At the peak of transmission, which occurred during August
and September 2014, the country was reporting from 300 to 400
new cases every week, said the WHO in a statement.
Although she marked the occasion, Liberian President Ellen
Johnson Sirleafs celebrations were muted. Shes well aware that
while the virus may have been defeated for now her country
will be dealing with the consequences of the outbreak for many
years to come. The pain and grief will take a generation to heal,
she said.
So too will the damage caused to Liberias economy, which
slowed dramatically during the outbreak and shows no signs
of recovering anytime soon; and the devastation caused to an
already-weak public health system. (Its important to remember
that in the rush to contain Ebola, other diseases such as malaria
and tuberculosis were largely ignored, leading to thousands of
additional deaths).
As Liberia begins to contemplate its difficult post-Ebola future,
Guinea and neighbouring Sierra Leone are still in the midst of the
epidemic. In the latest available statistics, both countries reported
nine new cases in the week that ended 3 May. Encouragingly, this
is the lowest weekly total so far this year but eradicating the
virus is still a long way off.
This begs the question: what did Liberia do differently? Why is
Liberia once the hardest hit now Ebola-free, while Guinea
and Sierra Leone are still struggling? The WHO identifies four
factors that contributed to Liberias successful response. First is
the decisive leadership shown by Sirleaf, who was relatively quick
to identify the scale of the threat posed by Ebola and made the
response a priority for her government.
Second is the effective community engagement practised by
health officials, involving traditional structures in monitoring and
reporting and responding to community concerns (for instance,
replacing solid walls at treatment centres with see-through walls
to dispel malicious rumours).
Third is the support from the international community,
including financial, logistical and human resources. Fourth is the
coordination of the international and national response, with
a special mention for the Presidential Advisory Committee on
Ebola established by Sirleaf.
It is telling, however, that the WHO reserves some of its highest
praise for Sirleaf. Her swift and sometimes tough decisions,
frequent public communications, and presence at outbreak sites
were expressions of this leadership, it said. (Its worth noting
that, Nobel Peace Prize aside, international praise for Sirleaf hasnt
always been so generous, and her family has been implicated in
several major corruption scandals.)
The link between Ebola and governance is, by now, well understood.
standards when the auditees have declared that because of

emergency they could not keep the required documentations?
ITS A SHAME THAT the AG will shift responsibility on an audit
report produced under her authority simply because of pressure
from auditees.
IT IS NOT ABOUT making points; it is about doing your job. You
cannot make friends with auditees, you only have to handle
them in a professional manner as you are not answerable to any
auditee. The report produced by the GAC must speak for itself
and not an AG talking to auditees outside the report produced by
the commission.
CHAPTER 53, SECTION 53.2 of the Executive Law that created
the GAC and even the amended new GAC act provides that the
Auditor-General shall be removed for gross malfeasance or
gross nonfeasance in office for mental or physical disability or
incompetence.
AG GAYE HAS CLEARLY demonstrated her incompetence by
shifting blame on her deputy and low level subordinates for such
an important report. These subordinates were not appointed by
In countries with good governance, the virus struggles to flourish

in the face of good communications, a functioning health system
and effective monitoring and quarantine procedures.
On the other hand, poor governance facilitates transmission.
In Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, the response to Ebola was
initially hampered by an official reluctance to acknowledge the
problem; entirely inadequate medical resources to deal with
it; and by a fundamental lack of trust between citizens and
governments which meant, all too often, that sound government
advice fell on deaf ears. These are failures of governance, for
which each country has paid dearly.
As health workers in Sierra Leone ran out of basic medical
equipment in late 2014, a container filled with protective suits,
face masks, gloves, stretchers and mattresses languished at
the Freetown port, delayed indefinitely by obscure customs
regulations. This example, which is one of many, serves as a
potent symbol of these failures.
Liberias government, however, was the first to take Ebola
seriously and mobilise accordingly. While its response was
far from perfect, it was quicker and more efficient than that
of its counterparts in Guinea or Sierra Leone. The Liberian
government was transparent about Ebola from the beginning
and accepted its limitations on how to handle the outbreak
There were also more institutional obstacles and denial in the
two other countries at the beginning of the outbreak, but both
countries will eventually get to zero cases if the response system
remains focused, said Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in a set of
discussion points distributed to staff.
Professor Wolfgang Preiser, Head of Medical Virology at the
University of Stellenbosch, told the Institute for Security Studies
that good governance is indispensable in containing any disease.
He pointed to South Africas markedly more effective response
to HIV/Aids under the leadership of Health Minister Aaron
Motsoaledi as an example of how one able, committed individual
at the very top can transform a response and save thousands of
lives in the process.
Preiser also pointed to another surprising factor in Liberias
successful containment of Ebola: its colonial history. Liberia was
never formally colonised; instead, it was settled by freed North
American slaves, and there have been close ties between the
United States (US) and Liberia ever since.
It was no surprise, therefore, when the US government finally did
decide to step in with medical resources in the form of highly
trained personnel from the Centre for Disease Control and human
resources in the form of 2 800 soldiers it intervened first in
Liberia. I wonder if its not the magnitude and quality of the US
intervention in Liberia [that made the difference], said Preiser.
His hypothesis is supported by the fact that, according to MSF,
Liberia received a disproportionate amount of international
assistance compared with Guinea and Sierra Leone.
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa has been one the most severe
medical emergencies so far this century. But Liberias experience
shows us that medical emergencies are also governance crises
and can only be solved by good healthcare and even better
governance. Lets hope that Guinea and Sierra Leone have already
learnt this lesson too. DM
the President and confirmed by the Liberian Senate; therefore by

shifting blames mean she is incompetent to head the GAC.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE Legislature have sufficient reason to
have this incompetent Auditor General removed to protect the
professional image of the GAC and to avoid a disgrace like her
predecessor Robert Kilby. AG Gaye must do the honorably thing
to resign because she has failed the trust and confidence reposed
in her by the President.
AS AG GAYE HAS claimed that she worked in the United States
of America for years; she will realize that when public officials
betray the public trust, they make the ultimate choice by
resigning to avoid further disgrace.
PRESIDENT SIRLEAF AND THE Lawmakers must also take note
that this AG has shown her incompetence and she can thus no
longer serve the constitutionally established integrity institution,
the GAC. In the case where she will want to hold on simply to
take home her few dollars, it will be in the best interest of Liberia
and the fight against corruption to show her the exit as there is
sufficient basis for her removal.
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Massa Washington Top Commenter Clinical Supervisor/

Therapist at Wes
Well, Well, Well, we can see that the TRC is being vindicated for
recommending that people who directly destroyed their own
Country, own up to their actions, and sincerely make efforts at
reconciliation. Instead of being selfless and humble, perpetrators
holding state power and misapplying state resources, came after
TRC Commissioners so viciously attempting to destroy innocent
people's reputation who were just doing what the Liberian people
asked us to do... "to state the truth about what happened to our
country and make recommendations for moving the country
forward". Rather than addressing issues the report highlighted,
TRC Commissioners were attacked both publicly and privately,
putting a price tag on our heads as if we were criminals and the
ones responsible for the destruction of Liberia and the murdered
of nearly 300,000 ...
John-lord Baxter Follow Top Commenter Damansara, Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia
Well said, Massa. Posterity shall be the judge.
John-lord Baxter Follow Top Commenter Damansara, Kuala

Lumpur, Malaysia
I am making a personal appeal to my fellow Liberians back at home
and in the diaspora. It is about time we stop supporting criminal
elements only because they are members of our ethnicity, direct
family members, or friends of friends. We must be selfless, put our
country first, stand together as Liberians and not allow KILLERS
and THIEVES to create a divide amongst us. We must see them
for who they are as common criminals that are undermining the
development of our one country and it's people. Let's be realistic
ladies and gentlemen. No one who has killed another or has been
caught in corruption should go with impunity, be celebrated,
elected or appointed to any position of governance in our country
if we are to make significant progress as we work towards nation
building and removing our people from poverty. The time of
reckoning is at hand. Watch out all ye KILLERS and THIEVES who
have brought untold sufferings upon our people!!!
Sylvester Moses Top Commenter Works at Self-Employed
Is the anonymous ACDL member also suggesting that the murders
of the three nuns, whose presence in Liberia was simply to serve
our people, should also be handled by the TRC?
From 1984 to 1989 the entire leadership of the ACDL were
either lobbying to prevent aid to Liberia, or plotting invasions
in Freetown and Abidjan. Today some work for President Sirleaf
who begs in every capital of rich nation's for money to pay these
rascals obscene compensations. The irony is that some of these
anarchists now shake like leaves when they hear about small street
demonstrations.
Jay Wion Top Commenter Works at Amtrak Washington, DC
MY TURN: Someone said: Truth crushed to earth shall rise again

because no lie can live forever. The moral arm of the universe is
long and it is bent toward justice and justice usually triumphs over
injustice as good triumphs over evil.
War crimes and crimes against humanity carry no statute of
limitations. War criminals are still being hunted around the globe:
Nazi Germany and the Jewish holocaust, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia,
Vietnam, Cambodia, Argentina, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and so shall
it be in Liberia.
The TRC Report is legal and binding. Those who brought war to
Liberia can run but they can't hide. We will not reward criminals.
There must be a deterrent mechanism against future war mongers.
99 days for rogue but one day for master.
We must have faith in the final morality of the universe. We didn't
get here on earth by some accident. Only the fool says in his heart
there is no God until when harm stares him in his face. Thou shall
not kill, says the oldest book in the world, the Holy Bible. You shall
reap what you sow.
Thanks for your calls and concerns. I worked yesterday but did not
work on Amtrak train 188 that derailed in Philadelphia in which
six people sofar were killed and 146 injured.
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LIBERIA
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EJS, WHY MR. WION?
The Editor:
The Editor,
t was with great happiness and relief that Liberia was

declared Ebola-free on Saturday, May 9, 2015. While the
country has gone over 42 days without a death from this
disease, it also experienced far more deaths than any other
African nation with 4,769 victims. The disease spread quickly for
many reasons including an inherent mistrust in government. I
would like to congratulate President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on the
end to this deadly and disruptive crisis. She showed tremendous
courage and patience in the very difficult decisions she had to
make all while dealing with a system and subculture where many
of those involved in Liberia's government lack integrity. She
showed great determination in ensuring our country became rid
of this disease.
While Liberia can celebrate the end of this crisis, our neighbors
are continuing to fight and hope for an end to their own epidemics.
Guinea and Sierra Leone have seen a slowdown in the spread of
Ebola but are still experiencing deaths. The President will have
to continue to take the necessary and sometimes difficult steps
to be certain Liberia remains free of Ebola as there is a fear that
it can easily cross back into our country and take hold again. We
must also restart efforts such as the vaccination program that was
stopped to focus on the Ebola problem. Vaccinations, such as for
measles is imperative to keeping our children safe and healthy.
Recently the experts at the University of Southampton said as
many as 5,000 West African children are at risk if the vaccinations
do not start again soon. Our government must continue to work
hard to keep all Liberians safe and healthy.
In an effort to strengthen Liberia and Liberians, I encourage
President Sirleaf to establish a National Workforce Development
Board that will strategize about job creation nationwide and
support small business establishment among Liberians. As an
example, the residents of West Point recently renovated its school
with the help of United Nations and other donors. They also
organized themselves and successfully saw an end to the disease
a full five months before the rest of the country. Sadly, their
own government's involvement was lacking; this is an example
of where a strong and supportive government can build a great
nation. We can still do that.
I urge her to revamp and support the country's Peace and National
Reconciliation process as well as to continue to be bold and tough
during the final years of her last term to ensure that ordinary
Liberians become the true beneficiaries of her leadership.
Jones N. Williams is the founder of the New Liberia
Foundation.
hanks for the space provided. I write in response to

the letter written by one Mr. Jerry Wehtee Wion, with
the title: Weak Leadership Led to Ebola Deaths. I
have often read the many letters and critical comments
coming from the hands of Mr. Wion about the performances of the
Government of Liberia led by Madam Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf. Many
times in my views those comments are welcomed, eventhough
often spiced with half-truths; as these are parts and parcel of the
democratic process. Mr. Jerry Wehtee Wion seems to be one of
those Liberians who have been fortunate to travel out of Liberia
to their much cherished promised Land, the United States of
America; as such, they deport themselves as having the magic
wane solutions to all of Liberias problems.
Now coming to the aforementioned titled, written by Mr. Jerry
Wehtee Wion, I have not seen one of our own, whose origin is from
Liberia, seething with bitterness and resentment; as Mr. Wion
seems to be, he has not seen any good things done by this Unity
Party-led government of Madam Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf. Even as
we have had difficult fight with the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD)and
have come out successfully by Gods grace and the resilience of
the Liberian people supported by Liberia friends internationally,
Mr. Jerry Wehtee Wion, has no commendation for President
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf and her hard working team but spite. Even
though, he isnt in Liberia now, but had painted pictures for
others; depicting that all was well in Liberia, until Ellen JohnsonSirleaf became president, especially, in the healthcare delivery
system; what a myth! How a so-called Journalist and political
commentator can feed us his usual half-truths as if we had not
lived in Liberia? The Ebola outbreak in Liberia was not the result
of weak leadership as claimed by our learned Journalist, even
some of our nationalistic medical doctors who decided to confront
the disease or epidemic succumbed because of it peculiarity and
that they did not know the protocol or procedures to follow; those
who survived, did so because of Gods grace and not how smart
they were.
Many international organizations criticized the World Health
Organization (WHO) for its slow response to the virus in West
Africa; if the United Nations with sufficient resources could not
move with terrific speed to confront the virus, how could Liberia
which had destroyed itself for14(fourteen)years do better?
Political commentator Wion, do some reflections and purify your
soul.
The only Liberian leader who made use of the medical facilities
at the John F. Kennedy medical center was the late assassinated
President (William Richard Tolbert); the rest have used external
facilities for their healthcare services. Mr. Wion is only interested in
knowing the salaries of the president and some cabinet Ministers
and not how Liberia became the first of the three countries to be
declared Ebola free by the World Health Organization (WHO).
How have you permitted hate and deceit to blind you?
Madam President is using her international connections and will
power to salvage our dear country. If you do not have anything
positive to say to us after losing our live ones to this invisible
enemy, then shut-up. Mr. Jerry Wehtee Wion, you are too envious
to think on any good that others have done for Liberia; only
negativity is exemplify in you, stay in your Promised Land and
leave us to re-develop our country. If it is prosecution that you are
talking about for corruption; then you have just failed. Ask God for
reprieved, I think Radio ELWA taught you that!
Thanks.
Gbada J. Flomo
gbadaflomo_312@yahoo.com
Paynesville
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CALCULATED
RELIGIOUS
ATTACK
Muslims Petition Legislature Against Christian State
M
Monrovia-
uslims in Liberia
have described
as a calculated
attempt to fuel
religious attack against them
attempts by some individuals
in the society who are
proposing that Liberia becomes
Christianized.
At a mass gathering Tuesday
on the grounds of the Capitol
Building,
the
Muslims
occupied the surroundings of
the Capitol protesting call by
some Liberians to have the
country become a Christian
state.
The group of over two hundred
Muslims gathered holding
placards with inscriptions
including; there is no
freedom without a price we are
prepared, whos responsible for
Liberias Problem? Christians
or Muslims?, Christian Nation
is a dead Dream.
Some of the placards also read
if Liberia becomes Christian
state there will be no right for
Muslims students and we need
better education, empowerment
and development not religious
conflict amongst others.
In a petition statement
presented to Senate ProTempore Armah Jallah the
Muslims said, proposition 24
from the Constitution Review
Committee (CRC) validation
exercise conducted in Gbarnga
Bong County which calls
for changing Liberia into a
Christian State is an imminent
threat to the existence of
Muslims and the accompanying
ramifications are negative
on their inalienable rights as
citizens.
They further stated in their
Petition: As a result of this
we do hereby assemble in
strong protest to a divisive
proposition aimed at imposing
a Christian theocracy and
Henry Karmo (0886522495) henrykarmo@frontpageafricaonline.com
religious belief on Liberians in

a Nation that is known for her
firm historical foundation of
religious tolerance.
They also argued that the
proponents of the idea to
Christianize Liberia vacillate
between what they termed as
the myths that Liberia was
founded on Christian principles
and their professed fairy tale
to give Liberia a religious
identity have all failed.
Introducing extremism
The
protesting
Muslims
described as an ill intent the
proposal by those calling for
Muslim state.
This failed test result only
exposes the ill intent of a very
few purporting in the ambiance
of Christianity to introduce
extremism
purposed at
alienating
and
excluding
Liberian Muslims from the
body politics of Liberia and to
curb their corrective edge in the
Liberian economy by realizing
the illegal and institutionalizing
the prolong marginalization of
Muslims in Liberia, the group
petition stated.
Reading the petition statement
on behalf of the Muslims,
William Knowden spokesman
for the Muslims solidarity for
Peace and Democracy claimed

that proposition 24 at the
Gbarnga conference grossly
violates the 1986 constitution
propositions Article 91 that
calls for the amendment of
the Constitution but by twothird of the membership of
both houses of the legislature
or a petition presented the
legislature by a fewer more
than 10,000 citizens which
receives the concurrence of
two-third of the membership of
both houses of the legislature.
In their petition the protesting
Muslims
also
forwarded
several recommendations some
of which include; the trashing
TIME TO SPEAK OUT

Wogbeh Takes Witness Stand In PUP Case
Kennedy L. Yangian kennedylyangian@frontpageafriconline.com 0777296781
Monroviaormer
Forestry
Development
Authority
(FDA)
Managing
Director
Moses Wogbeh who is facing
trial along with five other

former officials of the FDA
for multiple criminal offences
including economic sabotage
is expected to testify this
Thursday at the Criminal Court
C at the Temple of Justice.

Thursdays testimony will
be the former FDA boss first
public comment in court since
his trial along with five others
started barely one month ago.
His testimony comes at the

time state prosecutors led
by
Montserrado
County
Attorney
Daku
Mulbah
announced Tuesday that they
have rested in total with the
production of both material
and documentary evidences
against the five defendants.
Seven material witnesses and
several other documentary
evidences were presented to
the court by the state which
they claimed are reasonable
enough to convict the five
defendants.
Before the announcement by
state prosecutors Tuesday
that they have rested with
the production of evidences,
the state last witness and
Chairman of the Special
Independent
Investigative
Board (SIIB) James Dorbor
Jallah stated that the police did
not participate in the boards
investigation.
of proposition 24 of the CRC

Gbarnga conference calling to
change Liberia into a Christian
state and all other propositions
by the legislative and executive
branches of government.
The group in their petition
also declared that they have
instructed Islamic leaders and
organizations to pursue all legal
and constitutional means to
defeat and expose the illegality
and
unconstitutionality
surrounding the attempt to
impose Christianity as a state
religion and that the 1986
constitution be upheld and
interpreted as the organic law
of the lands and promised to
Police did not participate in
our investigation, however
our investigation revealed
that the FDA Management
along with its co-collaborators
and co-conspirators engaged
in fraudulent activities that
deprived the Government of
millions of dollars and in the
opinion of the SIIB this was
criminal as is clearly stated
in our report SIIB boss Jallah
said.
The
Special
Independent
Investigative Board (SIIB)
was set up by President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf in 2012 to
probe the alleged issuance
of Private Use Permits
(PUP) by the FDA during the
administration of Wogbeh.
Court indictment charging the
former FDA officials alleged
that Wogbeh and other codefendants during the tenure
of their respective positions
at the FDA were involved in
the issuance of over 50 Private
Use Permits (PUP) to several
companies contrary to the
Community Rights Law.
According to the court
indictment the PUP allegedly
issued under the guise of the
former FDA boss led to the
government loss of US$6m
in revenue generation the
reject any attempt that will

give rise to a referendum
purposed at institutionalizing
this proposition.
The government of Liberia
should at all-time ensure the
unconstitutional
protection
of our socio-economic, and
political rights as guaranteed
in the 1986 constitution
regardless of ethnic and
religious
backgrounds,
declared the petitioners.
The protesting Muslims further
added The government of
Liberia through the National
Legislature
must
ensure
the immediate inclusion of
more
Islamic
institutions
especially schools in its annual
budgetary allocations in the
form of subsidy as it is done in
Christian intuitions,.
The Muslims promised to
continue to recognize the 1986
constitution as the only organic
law of Liberia and adhere fully
to its provisions until such
provisions are abridged by
those responsible to uphold
and enforce same thereby
allowing those they termed
Christian
fundamentalists

to wrongly impose their
will on constitution against
the Common goodie of the
Liberian people.
Muslims in Liberia will resort
to unrestricted and perpetual
civil disobedience to any such
Christian Theocratic laws and
policies towards this and, we
call on all Imams and Muslims
leaders throughout the length
and birth to begin mass
sensitization of all Muslims
in Liberia in response to such
as well-calculated religious
attack, the Muslims stated.
claimed all five defendants

have denied.
Those standing trial alongside
with Wogbeh are John Kanto
former Technical Manager
FDA, Jangar Kamara former
manager Commercial Forestry
FDA.
Others are: Augustine B.M.
Johnson former GIS Manager
FDA, David Blayee for County
Surveyor, Grand Bassa County,
Ministry of Lands & Mines and
Maxwell Gwee former Director
of Cartography Ministry of
Lands & Mines.
The former In-house legal
counsel of the Forestry
Development Authority (FDA)
Cllr. Benedict Sagbeh indicted
alongside with Wogbeh was
granted separate trial by the
court while charges were
dropped
against
Torwan
Yantay acting GIS Manager of
FDA to serve as state witness.
The former FDA boss and four
others have pleaded not guilty
but his testimony on Thursday
is widely expected to address
the various charges that
include economic sabotage,
forgery,
counterfeiting,
obtaining deceptive writings,
obstruction of government
functions by public servant.
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Monrovia
ice President Joseph
Boakai last weekend
kicked off what
aides say is a postebola tour of his hometown
and stronghold, Lofa County;
but what many political
observers are drumming up
as a calculated gauging point
of Boakais 2017 play.
The odds are stacked against
Boakai with many Highly
placed confidential sources
within the Unity Party are
worried that Vice President
Joe Boakai is frustrating
supporters with the lack of
clarity on his presidential
ambition for 2017. Will he
or wont he be a candidate?
That is the question on
many minds. With fewer
than 29 months before the
general elections in 2017,
Vice President Joe Boakais
cautious approach to the
sweepstakes is pushing his
supporters to believe he may
not have the ambition level
required to combat for the
countrys highest office.
The Vice Presidents cautious
style of statesmanship, quietly
laboring under an aggressive
female president may not
be what supporters require
of someone angling to enter
the treacherous jungle of
Liberian presidential politics.
Already, several potential
candidates have made it
clear, rather unabashedly,
that they are seeking the
presidency. Simeon Freeman,
Benoni Urey, George Weah,
Charles Brumskine, Kennedy
Sandy and others have
made no bones about their
presidential ambition and
are developing organizations,
building coalitions and they
intend to combat for the
presidency. Just over the
weekend, the CDC leadership
met with leading members of
the legislature, including Alex
Tyler, Armah Jallah, Emanuel
Nuquay, and others in a bid to
forge a coalition for 2017.
Timidity
The Vice President has been

showing timidity about
his presidential ambition.
Despite being a clear shoo
in to win the top political
post in the Unity Party as
standard bearer, his slow and
cautionary style is driving
his supporters crazy and
some political analysts are
projecting that if he does not
take the plunge soon, he risks
losing the base of the Party.
The Partys base has
demonstrated it can attract
the right kind of coalition
going into a runoff in any
election and it includes
the Youth Wing, Rural
Women, Auxiliary groups
and the winning coalition
of independent voters who
supported the Unity Party
in the last two presidential
elections. Boakai needs to
demonstrate that he can
hold that coalition together,
and many political analysts
are saying there is no
automaticity to the coalition
remaining within the Unity
Party. It is clear that the Vice
President must in quick order
AMIDST WEAK SIGNALS FROM EJS!
WILL JOE BOAKAI PLUNGE INTO 2017

PRESIDENTIAL SWEEPSTAKES?
Rodney D. Sieh, rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com
put together an organization

that seeks to rebuild the
fractured wings of the Unity
Party. If he does not provide
any clear signal, his delayed
plunge into the race could see
operatives making choices to
protect their political future.
Bility and Wesseh Seeking
Greener Pastures?
Already, operatives such

as Musa Bility and Medina
Wesseh have been flirting
with the Liberty Party. If
others follow suit, that
would spell doom for the
ruling party and it might
even end the limited control
the party had on Liberian
politics for nearly a dozen
years.
The Unity Party
might go the way of the True
Whig Party, NDPL and NPP
when their political leaders
are no longer in control of
the political terrain, which
essentially demonstrates the
fact that Liberian politics is
dominated by the cult of the
personality. Is Joe Boakai
strong enough to fill the
shoes of the fisherwoman,
Liberias most successful
female politician ever? That
is the 64 thousand dollar
question
The Unity Party was badly

fractured
during
last
Decembers senate race in
Montserrado County, which
pitted favorite presidential
son, Robert Alvin Sirleaf
against the iconic CDC
political
figure,
George
Weah. During the election,
it was widely rumored that
manipulation and financial
inducements were the cause
of the exit from the race of Ali
Sylla, a young up and coming
stalwart. That resulted into
a debacle that split the party,
pitting Secretary General
Wilmot Paye against the
presidents son, calling him a
danger to the Party. That rift
has not been repaired.
provided their candidates

silent support, a charge yet to
be verified. Shermans tough
fight to get validated by NEC,
including serious tussles at
the Supreme Court are said
to have caused hard feelings
between the tough talking
senator
and
operatives
within the executive. The
senator recently sought to
suggest that the lengthy
process to validate his win
will owe his allegiance? To

Varney and the Liberia Action
Party (LAP) operatives, or to a
retired Ellen Johnson Sirleaf?
That political chess game is
ongoing and is resulting into
the cautious support from
the President to the Vice
President. There is no clear
signal that is being projected
in the corridors of supporters
of the Vice president. Rather,
some have openly stated that
was due to efforts to keep

him from ascending to the
powerful Senate Pro Temp
position.
they believe the president

has a Plan B, or that she is
still studying the political
landscape to determine
where she should cast
her post presidency lot.
Although the President had
told close confidantes before
that she supports the Veep,
yet recent actions by her and
political operatives point to a
totally different direction. In
Sherman Takes Control of UP
Varney Sherman is rumored

to be the glue holding
whatever is left of the ruling
Unity Party. Boakais open
support for Sherman may
have ruffled presidential
feathers during the senate
election in Cape Mount
County.
President Sirleaf
did not openly support any
candidate, but sources close
to the campaign of both Dr.
Fodee Kromah and Abel
Masselly say the president
What is Sirleafs Plan B?
The Vice Presidents political

fortunes might rest with
how the president views the
power relation and to whom
a future President Joe Boakai
the Cabinet, there is a tussle

between Lofans who support
the president and others who
are looking for alternatives.
The Presidents lack of clarity
seems to be fanning the fire
blowing with many from
Lofa County unsure where to
place their support. Foreign
Minister
Ngafuan
and
Defense Minister Brownie
Samukai are on opposite
sides of the political divide,
with the Defense Chief
clearly supporting his Uncle
Joe, while Ngaf is looking for
a political home according
to insiders. The presidential
waiting game is painful and
could erupt into mutiny the
longer the wait continues.
It is being conjectured in
some very high political
arena that President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf may be
playing her cards too close
to her chest and thus the
waiting game. While that
waiting game is going on,
the heady and treacherous
game of Liberian politics
continues unabated, with
Joe Boakai, still pondering
how aggressively he should
pursue
the
presidency.
While he awaits a clearer
signal from the president,
his slowness could erode his
political base and throw his
political ambition out of the
window.
In order for Veep Boakai to
maintain the political base
of the Unity Party and create
a coalition to win the 2017
race, he must be seen as his
own man and not as a vestige
of the waning presidency of
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. He must
take the plunge and damn the
consequences. That is the
challenge for the affable but
clearly unadventurous Veep.
Politics is not for wimps, but
for adventuresome forces
willing to risk all in order to
take power to improve the lot
of the people.
KNOWING YOU WOULD DIE:

A TRIBUTE TO HERBERT JOHNSON
By Peter Quaqua
By all account, Herbert was already an established
journalist by every measure of the Liberia dream.
He worked for several media outlets and established
others. I was privileged to work with him briefly at
the Liberian Standard Newspaper arguably the
first cross border newspaper in the country that
was printed and circulated in Ghana. This paper
appeared on the newsstand just after the departure
of President Taylor in 2003. I also know Herbert
recently had some functions in the media department
at the Liberia Telecommunication Authority (LTA).
In early 2014, Herbert and I met on a couple of
occasions at the Royal Hotel Restaurant in Monrovia to browse the internet. I stopped seeing
him (I too have been in and out of the Country) until I learned on social media that he was
terminally ill in the United States. While trying to digest that news, under a week or so, it was
revealed that Doctors had given him up. And by just knowing that he had been diagnosed of
liver cancer and could not be treated, I became traumatized. I immediate called a libratory
technician friend and asked if he could do liver test. I wanted to test mine right away.
Thanks to the strength of our colleagues in the States Association of Liberian Journalists in
America (ALJA) headed by one of my former editors at the Liberia Broadcasting System, Moses
Sandy. They moved with speed and accuracy to flying Herbert back home so that he could die
with his family. Isnt it painful and harsh for one to know that he has few more days to be alive?
Yes indeed this was Herberts situation.
So yes, Herbert is home on May 2. I happened to have been in Monrovia, having missed the
trip to Zweru, Grand Gedeh County for the Press Freedom Day celebration. On Sunday, the 3rd
of May I took my family to see this suffering man. But to my amazement I met Herbert in the
midst of other visitors in an upbeat mood, full of faith and fearless.
We had all been hopeful that the Almighty would contradict the Doctors report. But no the
scriptures had to be fulfilled It is appointed onto man to die once
I write therefore to convey my very deepest sympathy to you all in the wake of this harsh and
sorrowful death. This is a great loss to his family and immediate colleagues.
May you have wonderful memories of this colleague that will comfort you at this very sad
moment and the foreseeable future. I thank God most of all for what he meant to those he came
in contact with him.
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P.O Box 10-123, Monrovia, Liberia
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Vacancies Announcement May 16, 2015

Background and Context
PMU Liberia, (formerly PMU Inter-Life) is a non-for profit NGO operating in Liberia since
1991.PMU has been working with Liberians and provided services to IDPs during the conflict,
local communities, institutions, national and international partners in the implementation
of various programmes and projects including education, trauma canceling, peace building,
agriculture and food security, women and children protection and basic health service delivery
to needed people. The Geographic coverage by PMU-Liberia under the essential package of
health services (EPHS) and MoH/UNICEF Nutrition project in Lofa County includes Voinjama,
Salayea, Zorzor, Foya, Kolahun, and Vahun Districts.
PMU-Liberia is currently seeking to hire the services of qualified and professional Liberians to
occupy various positions within the entity such as: Programme Assistant, Finance Assistant,
Logistics Assistant, Nutrition Program Supervisor; Monitoring and Evaluation Assistant.
QUALIFICATIONS AND COMPENTENCIES: Education

A University degree is preferred in any of the post sought for by applicant and from recognized
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WORK EXPERIENCE:
For any of the posts, 5-years of professional work experience in the applicant field of work is
preferred and practical operations management with NGOs is an added advantage.
PHYSICAL CONDITIONS
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for extended period of time.
Deadline for submission of application: May 23, 2015 by COB. No application will be accepted
after this timeline. NOTE: Only qualified applicants will be short listed and contacted. Females
are encouraged.
APPLICATTION PROCEDURE
Sealed application package should include cover letter, CV, copies of relevant credentials and at
least two letters of Recommendations. Detail of the TOR for each post is found on the Executive
Mansion Website or E-mansion. Interested and qualified Liberians asked to send hand written
or electronic applications with all necessary credentials as attached to the below.
ATT: The Recruitment Committee
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12 Houses Road, Paynesville City
Monrovia, Liberia
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Signed: Recruitment Committee, PMU-Liberia
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LIBERIA ELECTRICITY CORPORATION

P.O. BOX 165
MONROVIA, LIBERIA
LEC SIGNS CONTRACT WITH

ELTEL NETWORKS OF SWEDEN
Monrovia
he Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC) on May 6, 2015 signed

a contract with ELTEL, a Sweden-based provider of technical
services in the power, communication and transportation

sectors, for the installation of high-voltage transmission
lines from the Mt. Coffee Hydropower Plant in Harrisburg to the LEC
substations in the commercial districts of Paynesville and Bushrod Island.
The installation of these transmission lines is a major step towards the
restoration of the much-needed electricity to the people and citizens of

Liberia.
The Mt. Coffee Contract 4B, Transmission Lines, includes new construction
of two double-circuit 132 kV transmission lines (24 km and 27 km each)

from Mt. Coffee to the two Monrovia sub-stations on self-supported
lattice steel towers and steel poles, and dismantling of old existing lattice
steel towers or wooden poles and foundations. Work on the contract

is expected to begin in June 2015 with the engineering, design, and
manufacturing; construction will begin later in the year and will be carried
out over approximately 18 months. The contract was awarded following a
competitive bidding process.
The company to which the contract has been awarded is no stranger to the
provision of transmission and distribution construction services in Liberia
through the Liberia Electricity Corporation. Following prior competitive
bidding processes, ELTEL has undertaken several works for the LEC over the
past six years including the installation of the 66 kV network in Monrovia
and many of the 22 kV distribution lines. In its work for LEC, ELTEL has
partnered with local companies to install the electricity networks and has
thus contributed to the capacity building goals of LEC and the country.
The Mt. Coffee project has made considerable progress since the end of
the Ebola crisis. The procurement for the project is now substantially
complete and the target date for first commercial power from the plant has
been set for December 2016. Construction at the site resumes this month
and full remobilization of contractors is underway.
The Mount Coffee Hydropower Plant was first constructed in 1964. The
first phase, with an installed capacity of 30 Megawatts from two turbines,
was commissioned and put in production in 1967. The second phase

increased the installed capacity to 64 Megawatts. Following the restoration
of peace, rehabilitation of the MCHPP was identified as the best option for
low-cost and sustainable energy generation in the near term. Liberias

considerable development challenges, combined with the fact that all of
LECs generation capacity is still sourced from costly diesel generators,
underlines the urgency in getting the Mt. Coffee Hydropower Plant

operable in the shortest possible time. The project is co-financed by the
Government of Norway, Government of Germany, European Investment

Bank and the Government of Liberia.
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STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2014

2014

2013

Note
LR$000
LR$000
Interest income
6
1,121,614
972,505
Interest expense
7
(229,178)
(149,693)
--------- ---------Net interest income
892,436
822,812
--------- --------Fees and commission income
8
1,291,826
1,083,431
Fees and commission expense
9
(2,528)
(2,940)

-----------
----------Net fees and commission income
1,289,298
1,080,491

-----------
----------Net trading income
10
74,881
129,919
Other operating income
11
23,629
60,790
--------- --------Other income
98,510
190,709
--------- --------Total income
2,280,244
2,094,012
Net impairment loss on financial assets
12
(300,275)
(182,463)
Operating expenses
13
(1,647,553)
(1,690,650)

------------
-----------Profit before tax 332,416 220,899
Income tax (expense) / credit
14
(83,134)
5,007
---------
--------Profit after tax 249,282 225,906

---------
--------Other comprehensive income
Available for sale financial assets
net change in fair value
19
(25,428)
(44,948)
Related tax
6,357
11,237
Net amount reclassified to profit or loss
44,948
--------- -------Other comprehensive income, net of tax
25,877
(33,711)
--------- --------Total comprehensive income
275,159
192,195
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Profit attributable to:
Equity holders of the Bank
249,282
225,906
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Earnings per share
Basic earnings per share
16
0.04
0.04

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Diluted earnings per share
16
0.04
0.03

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STATEMENTS OF CASHFLOWS
FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31 DECEMBER 2014

2014
2013
Note LR$000 LR$000
Cash flows from operating activities
Profit for the year
249,282
225,906
Adjustments for:
Depreciation and amortization
104,812
119,934
Net impairment loss on financial assets
300,275
182,463
Net interest income
(892,436)
(822,812)
Profit on disposal of property and equipment
-
(19,562)
Write of property and equipment
-
240
Net gain on available for sale financial assets
(55,672)
(32,753)
Tax expense / (credit)
83,134
(5,007)
-------- --------Cash outflows from operating activities
before changes in operating assets
and liabilities
(210,605)
(351,591)
---------- --------Changes in operating assets and liabilities
Loans and advances
481,623
(3,001,521)
Other assets
366,343
(776,136)
Customer deposits
(469,879)
2,947,958
Other liabilities
(664,707)
(333,227)
Borrowings
197,025
72,225

-----------
-----------
(300,200)
(1,442,292)
Interest received
1,121,614

972,505
Interest paid
(229,178)
(149,693)
Income tax paid
(50,641)
(169,817)
--------- ---------Net cash generated from/ (used in) operating
activities
541,595
(789,297)
====== =====
Cash flow from investing activities
Acquisition of investment securities
18
(1,983,272)
(2,111,156)
Proceeds from redeemed investment securities 18
1,999,497
1,502,156
Acquisition of property and equipment
22
(52,762)
(219,535)
Proceeds from sale of property and equipment
-
28,959
---------- ---------Net cash used in investing activities
(36,537)
(799,576)
Cash flow from financing activities

Dividend paid
-
(116,292)
Investment in equity shares
(1,147)
Proceed from issue of shares
56,249
--------- --------Net cash used in financing activities
-
(61,190)

---------
-----------Net increase/(decrease) in cash and cash equivalents 505,058
(1,650,063)
Cash and cash equivalents at 1 January
8,355,225
10,005,288
------------ ------------Cash and cash equivalents at 31 December
35
8,860,283
8,355,225

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Vehicles Inspection Leaves Commuters Struggling

Bettie Johnson /betty.johnson@frontpageafricaonline.com
Monrovian abrupt vehicles

inspection exercise by
the Liberia national
Police Tuesday left
several commuters within
Montserrado County, mainly
in Monrovia stranded along
the streets in search of cars
while others were seen sitting
in cars for over four hours
praying that they reach their
destination.
Some of the commuters in a
chat with FrontPageAfrica said
it was frustrating that they
woke up early in the morning
Monroviahe
Japanese
Government
has
handed over eight
thousand Sixty Metric
tons of assorted rice to the
Government of Liberia.
The donation brought together
several
Liberian
officials
including Agriculture Minister
Dr.
Florence
Chenoweth,
Commerce
Minister
Axel
Addy, representatives of rice
importers, Japans Ambassador
and other dignitaries.
Speaking at the Program,
Agriculture
Minister
Dr.
Chenoweth said the impact
of the program supports the
whole cycle of rice production
in Liberia.
Though Ebola took away
almost everything, but the
full cycle of support from the
Japanese Government must
be commended; the varieties
are many and a selection of
varieties have been done by
the Agriculture Ministry and
your program supports the
foundation seed and sacrifice
seed for all of the varieties.
Most of our farmers in Liberia
are illiterate and they know the
means of the varieties, they tell
you which type of seed they
want, the Agriculture Minister
said.
Commerce Minister Addy
commended the Japanese
Government for their support
to the Liberian economy.
He disclosed that the rice
donation is not the first as the
other donations have led to
the construction of bridges;
projects and warehouses
among others.
Minister Addy also pleaded
with consumers to swiftly
purchase the rice, which he
but could not get to their

destination due to the heavy
traffic.
The long traffic and limited
cars have been attributed
to the ongoing inspection
of insurance stickers by the
Ministry of Transport with
enforcement from the Liberia
National Police.
Ciatta Bayo of Stella Maris a
student of Civil Engineering
said right now I am very
disappointed because I have
a presentation to make this
morning in one of my classes
but as you can see I am
stranded I cant get a car to

transport me there, I dont
even know how many of us will
attend classes today.
She added that she has no
other way to get to class
because no motorbikes are
plying the streets so she hopes
her instructor accepts her
excuse.
Fatu Clark student of Soltiamon
Christian School said my
father brought me on the road
since 6am this morning to get
car so that he can be able to
go to work but no car yet and
he said I should go back home
because it has already passed

8am and if I was going to
attend my school they will not
accept me in.
Standing along Capitol Byepass, Mohammed Dixon of the
University of Liberia added it
was disheartening that I did
not attend any of my classes
today because I live Barnesville
and the inspection of the
insurance stickers and drivers
license scare away drivers
from putting their cars on the
street.
Miatta Brown, a baby mother
also lamented you see, today
I suppose to take my child
for her first vaccine because I
gave birth and it was C-section
and we have been discharged
but I dont think I will take
her because I cant stand the
traffic. To me it is terrible
and I hope the Government
can reschedule the insurance
business and I hope also
the drivers can get their
particulars so that we will not
be stranded.
Long queues were seen on
streets with cars not moving
for over hours and many of the
drivers were seen making a
U-turn and passing the shorter
routes aimed at bypassing
police officers.
Prince Tarley, a taxi driver for
over nine years said he doesnt
think he will make the correct
report to his boss due to the
traffic and ongoing inspection.
He added that his car has been
insured but there was no other
route established for cars that
are insured.
This car is already insured
but I have been in this queue
so that my time can reach and
you see I have four students

that I have to reach to their
campuses before coming back
to do my run around but I dont
think I will report properly
today because the traffic will
not allow me.
Following the intense traffic
and commuters scramble
for cars the Chief of Traffic
Patrick Smith speaking to FPA
disclosed that the Director
of Police had asked him and
other traffic officers to halt the
inspection on Vehicles.
The Director of Police and the
Ministry of Transport asked us
to halt the inspection because
following a meeting held, but
we are to resume tomorrow,
said Smith.
Christian Dixon, a driver of
a private vehicle said if the
Ministry of Transport wants
us to do our insurance and
get driver license they should
cut down the bureaucracy in
getting these items, I tell you
I put in for my driver license
since April 12 this year but
up to date I have not receive it
because every office need you
to spend a dime before getting
the license and it makes me
sick to even ask for it.
He further said the way we
are in longer queues to get to
our work place, I dont want to
see when they start to check
for license plates, I think our
kids wouldnt go to school for
weeks and we wouldnt go to
work.
The insurance of license plates
at the Ministry was halted by
the appeal and review panel
of the Public Procurement
Concession commission.
The panel decision followed
a motion to suspend the

procurement
proceedings
filed by one of the bidders of
the contract MDMC Express
by and thru the Justice and
Public Interest Consortium
Africa against the Ministry of
Transport.
In their complaint which in
possession of the FPA it states
The movant pray the panel
to suspend the procurement
proceedings relating to the
production and supply of
license plates and registration
stickers for a period of thirty
days or such period as may
be required for the resolution
of the main complaint that is
pending before the panel.
In resistance, the Ministry of
Transport said they employ the
proper procurement method
to get a new supplier in place
in the interest of continuity
in government services and
the fulfillment of statutory
responsibilities.
The ministry added that
they failed to secure the new
contract because the movant
(MDMC) was not the lowest
most responsive evaluated
bidder; in fact the movant
had the highest and nonresponsive bid.
In an 11 count response
to the movant motion, the
ministry of transport prays
the panel to quash the motion
for the suspension against the
ministry and deny the issuance
of their request as not being
factual or legal and rule that
the award of the contract to
the legitimate winner and was
consistent with the PPCC act.
JAPAN DONATES 8,060 MT OF

ASSORTED RICE TO LIBERIA
Bettie Johnson /betty.johnson@frontpageafricaonline.com
said will help finance other

projects that will empower
local farmers in the country.
Its important that we
consumers buy the rice so
that local farmers can be
empowered and today we
can boost that the farmers
are empowered through the
continuous purchasing of rice,
he said.
Minister Addy added It is
a pleasure today to receive
another food aid from the
government of Japan this has
been a long standing program,

today we have FOUTA, UCI, and
all of them are rice importers
all we can say to them is to
purchase the rice so that our
farmers can be empowered.
He said proceeds from the rice
will improve the livelihood
of farmers and Liberians as a
whole.
Also speaking, His Excellency
Kaoru Yoshimura, Japanese
Ambassador to Liberia said I
am very happy to hand over
the fifth Kennedy Round of
food aid weighed 8,060 metric

tons of assorted rice to the
Liberian Government today.
He added that the donation
is to ensure access to healthy,
sufficient and safe food by
the people of Liberia and
aid in the implementation of
projects that will ensure selfreliance in the production of
food to achieve food security in
Liberia.
The KR food aid donation
is materialized as a result of
an agreement between the
Government of japan and the

Government of Liberia for
the granting of a five hundred
and ten million Japanese Yen
towards the implementation
of the food assistant project by
the Government of Liberia in
November2013, Ambassador
Yoshimura said.
He further added: after a few
months of hard work on the
part of the both governments,
we are finally witnessing the
realization of this agreement
today and I would like to
specially thanked the Ministry

of Commerce and related
ministries.
Ambassador Yoshimura said
that the handover ceremony
is not the end to the aid,
rather the beginning of new
development projects.
After handling this rice over,
the Government of Liberia
will sell the rice in the market
and utilize the proceeds for
socio-economic projects which
are called counterparts funds
projects, he added
The Japanese Ambassador said
that the achievement of the
food security is the principle
of
Japans
development
assistance.
The Government of Japan
therefore puts a lot of efforts
in working with Governments
and organizations across the
world to achieve food security,
where there is food insecurity,
there is starvation and fear
as well as an environment
where people are unable to
demonstrate their maximum
potential for growth and
development,
Ambassador
Yoshimura declared.
Ambassador
Yoshimura
disclosed that Japan is
currently supporting the WFPs
food program for vulnerable
groups in Liberia with a grant
amount of approximately
US$2,837,000.
Monroviaoverty in Liberia
remains
on
the
increase
with
Liberians
doing
everything
to
survive
including selling their personal
belongings just to find food.
The cost of living is very high in
Liberia as an average Liberian
family finds it difficult to fend
for a daily meal. Many parents
are unemployed and therefore
cannot afford to send their
children to school and have
turned to selling anything that
is worth providing source of
food.
Monrovia's
main
streets,
especially the commercial
centers of Red light and
Waterside and other places
across Liberia are an ideal
place for the sale of different
kinds of goods including
stolen items being looted from
homes and items donated to
help reduce poverty or fight
illnesses.
Liberians without fear are
selling mosquitos nets in
different forms to find food
ignoring warning from donors
that the nets should not be
sold.
The mosquito nets were
donated to Liberia free of
charge and the distribution
began Saturday, April 25, 2015
to coincide with World Malaria
Day which a proclamation by
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
declaring the day as a working
holiday to be observed
throughout Liberia.
According to the Proclamation,
April 25 was the 8th World
Malaria Day, which was
celebrated under the global
theme: "Invest In The Future,
Defeat Malaria," and the local
slogan "No Mosquito, No
Malaria."
Frontpage
MALARIA FIGHT TURNS BREAD
WINNING-MOSQUITOS NETS FOR SALE

By Edwin G. Genoway, Jr, (231886458910)-genowayedwin@gmail.com
massive amounts of aid for a

decade. In 2011, according to
the OECD, official development
aid to Liberia totaled $765
million, and made up 73 per
cent of its gross national
income.
The sum was even larger in
2010. But in 2014 every one
of the 25,000 students who sat
the placement and entrance
examination to enroll at the
University of Liberia failed.
All of the aid is still failing to
provide a decent education to
Liberians.
Food Security
one of my own for taking bath

and washing dishes,'" Martha
noted.

One of the vendors of the
mosquitos nets identified as
Big Boy Prince said he was
selling the nets because he has
no use for it.
"Bro listen to me, I living in one
room and the people gave two
nets free, I dont have a baby, I
dont have wife or bed to cover
it with the nets, my mattress
is on the floor and the net is
too small to cover it so what
should I do with it, nothing to
do but sell it any amount I wish
because the thing is free of
charge I got it," he told the FPA.
According to international
reports, more than a quarter
of the countries in subSaharan Africa are poorer
now than in 1960 with no
sign that foreign aid, however
substantive, will end poverty
on the continent.
"The hustle is hard and we
need to survive, if the WHO
wants to help we the hustlers
let them bring us food or
something so that we can
survive on then to waste their
time importing mosquitos nets
for us for me any time I get it
I will sell it to put money in
my pocket for food, Alphonso

Johnson, resident of the
Airfield community in Sinkor
noted.
Jonson continued In the
first place I am a security
and I can't even sleep, where
will mosquitos see me to eat
me, I normally sleep in the
day while the mosquitos are
asleep too and I hustle in the
night when the mosquitos are
hustling for blood, so what is
the difference between me and
the mosquitos, let the baby
mothers get the nets not me".
Last year, perhaps the most
striking illustration came
from Liberia, which received
A
FrontPageAfrica
investigation has gathered that
a consignment of at least 2.8
million mosquito nets recently
brought into Liberia by the
Ministry of Health (MOH) for
distribution to households
across the 15 political
subdivisions are being sold in
some quarters by individuals
who benefited from the
distribution free of charged.
The consignment of long
lasting insecticide treated

mosquito nets (LLINs) donated
by the Global Fund to fight HIV
and AIDS, Tuberculosis and
Malaria (GFATM) in Liberia,
is the largest single donation
of LLINs since the start of the
Global Fund Project in Liberia
in 2005.
The nets after distribution are
now being used by Liberians
for different purposes not
related to what it was given
by the donors. Many Liberians
are now cutting the nets into
pieces putting it on sale for LD
$25 a piece to be used as soap
rob for bathing, while others
are using it for washing dishes.
Martha Wesseh a resident of
Paynesville who didn't benefit
from the mosquitos nets
distribution was seen buying
a piece form a local vendor
who has cut into pieces the
mosquitos net.
"I am buying this for me to
scrub my children skin when
bathing them, even me I love
to use it to bath because it can
clean the dirt from my skin
good. I never got any of the
mosquitos nets from anyone,
if I was going to get some, I
was not going to buy this one
because I was going to just cut
Henry Karmo (0886522495)

henrykarmo@
Monroviafter long period of
delay, the Liberian
senate has passed
into law the much
-talked decent work bill setting
the minimum wage at US$
3.50 for casual or domestic
workers and US$ 5.50 for
skilled laborers.
Both the Senate and the
House of Representatives have
failed to agree on one term in
setting a minimum wage in
the country. At one point the
House of Representatives set
the minimum wage at US$4 for
unskilled workers and US$6
for skilled workers.
The senate on the other hand
disagreed with the House of
Representatives which led to
the setting up of a conference
committee
comprising
members from the House and
Senate to meet and come up
with a final version before the
bill is passed into law.
Amid public outcries the
Liberian Senate Tuesday voted
to pass bill into law pending
concurrence from the House of
Representatives.
During Tuesdays plenary
discussion thirteen senators
voted in favor of the bill, four
against with one abstaining
from the process.
In a motion filed by Senator
George Tengbeh (UP-Lofa
County), he moved for the
conference committee report
to be received and endorsed
and passed into law. The
conference committee report
was not allowed to be placed
on the floor for discussion as
it is normally done with issues
and communications brought
on the floor.
The conference committee
in its report submitted to
plenary of the senate stated
that in 2010, the Decent
Work Bill was presented to
the Legislature for passage
and after several lengthy
debates and arguments for
five years, the bill was passed
by the senate and the House of
Representatives plenaries but
chapter five of the bill which
had to do with the minimum
wage
portion
was
not
reconciled by both plenaries
because of disagreements
over the benchmark set as
minimum wage leading to
the constitution of several
conference committees.
On February 5, 2015 a new
conference committee was
constituted in the senate to
work with the conference
committee from the House of
Representatives.
The conference committee
stated in its report that for the
past three months it held joint
conference, conducted several
meetings with the minister
of Labor and consulted legal
minds and economists.
The committee stated in
its report: We have also
discussed information and
recommendations from the
multi-stakeholder workshop
on minimum wage setting and
the decent work bill sponsored
by the International Labor
Office (ILO) and conducted by
Colin Fenwick-ILO labor law
specialist.
The
committee
further
disclosed that In December
2008, report on the Minimum
Wage study was submitted
to the Minimum Wage
Board, Ministry of Labor by
Research Team (Department
Mosquito nets on sale
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Food security concerns have

heightened in Liberia due to
suspension of some major
food markets, increasing food
prices, including rice, as well as
loss of livelihoods. The average
price of imported rice in 2014

has increased by 18% between
July and August compared
to 12 percent over the same
period in 2013.
According to the 2014 World
Food Programme report, price
increases in Ebola affected
counties are even more
dramatic, with prices of most
commodities rising between
25% and 79% in Lofa County.
The soaring prices can be
explained by the rapid spread
of the EVD which has limited
supplies coming from supply
sources because of the military
roadblocks, border closure and
restrictions on travel (curfew

and
community
imposed
quarantined zones).
Real gross domestic product
(GDP) growth in 2014, which
was initially projected at 5.8%,
is estimated to decline to 2.5%
or less by the end of the year.
In the absence of EVD, growth
projections in 2014 reflected
a weaker economic outturn
compared to the previous year
(2013). Growth was driven
largely by the expansion in
the mining sector (mainly
iron ore) as well as increased
activities in the construction
sector spurred by both public
and private investment.
Rubber
production
and
exports, on the other hand,
had slowed down reflecting
lower international prices
and developments in the
forestry sector had been
adversely affected by weak
administrative
oversight
capacity.
Growth in manufacturing
continued to be constrained
by inadequate electricity and
the generally weak business
environment. The epidemic
has further worsened the
already struggling economy.
Agriculture,
services
and
mining are sectors that have
been affected by the EVD crisis.
The
economy
of
was
recently hit by the Ebola
virus government of Liberia
continue to complain about the
country's economy dropping
low to Liberians continue
Cognizant of the harmful effects
and burden malaria poses on
the human race, particularly in
Africa, a Resolution declaring
April 25 of each year as Africa
Malaria Day, amended as World
Malaria Day, was adopted by
the Summit of African Heads
of State of the Organization of
African Unity (OAU) now the
African Union (AU) to initiate
and implement Plans of Action
that would curtail malaria and
malaria-related mortality in
Africa.

DECENT WORK BILL SAILS AT SENATE
of Economics, University of
Liberia).
It is hereby recommended
that the Minimum Wage for
unskilled workers should
range from a minimum of
US$ 125 per month or $60
cents and a Maximum of US$
187.00 or US$ 0.90 per hour,
respectively to keep minimum
Wage carriers spending afloat
in the face of rising inflation
associated with cost of living
so as to raise the standard of
living to an affordable level,
recommended the Conference
committee.
The Committee declared that
the purpose of the Decent
Work Bill is to promote the
attainment of decent work in
Liberia and create quality in
employment.
Stated
the
Committee
Distinguished
colleagues,
before we put forth the
recommendations of this
committee, we wish to remind
you that the purposes of
the Decent Work Bill are; to
promote the attainment of
Decent work in Liberia by
establishing
a
regulatory
environment
which
facilitates; continuous and
further creation of quality
employment, the ability of
all to exercise their rights at
work.
The committee concluded
we want to thank you for
the confidence repose in this
committee to conclude on the
final recommendations for the
passage of the Decent Work
Bill and we can assure you,
that these recommendations
when adhere to, will start the
beginning of a better future for
many Liberians.
EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE

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Monrovia - New Castle,

Delaware:
he Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of the
US based Global
Health Empowerment
(GHE), Robert Vollay has
described the worlds response
to the outbreak of the deadly
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in
West Africa as reactionary.
Mr. Vollay said there is a
need for the world to become
proactive in ensuring that
diseases such as Ebola, which
continue to threaten longevity,
especially
in
developing
countries
are
contained.
Speaking recently at the New
Castle Chamber of Commerce
in Delaware, when he delivered
the launching address of the
newly established GHE, a
Liberian owned international
non-profit human service
agency headquartered in
Delaware said, by the time
the international community,
especially the scientific and
medical world intervened and
successfully halted the disease,
the damage had already been
done in the affected countries
and it was threatening the
entire universe.
Since last year, EVD has claimed
11,000 human lives in the
three West African countries
of Liberia, Guinea, and Sierra
Leone. In Liberia, 4,700 lives
were lost. On May 9, 2015, the
World Health Organization
(WHO) declared the country
ight
communities
in Kakata and Gibi
Districts,
Margibi
County have been
declared Open Defecation
Free (ODF).
These communities were
triggered for Community Led
Total Sanitation Initiative
by the Christian charity,
Living Water International in
February this year.
Before
declaring
the
communities
Open
Defecation
Free,
the
Government
of
Liberia
carried out a verification and
validation exercise in May
this year to find out whether
these communities met the
requirement to be declared
ODF.
The 8 Communities declared
Open Defecation Free by
the Government of Liberia
include
Zankaiquallah,
Tormah, Johnkai, Fegbah,
Nyarlowala Wiehn town,
and Domue, Seebbah among
others.
Speaking at celebrations
marking the ODF status of
the communities over the
weekend, Margibi County
Inspector,
Tah
Sackie
commended Living Water
International for its CLTS
Initiative in the county.
Mr. Sackie reminded residents
of communities declared
ODF that LWI has played
its part and that citizens
have a bigger responsibility
to maintain the improved
sanitary conditions in their
respective communities.
He assured Living Water
International of the Countys
Worlds Response was Reactionary

Moses D. Sandy /mds66.sandy@aol.com/302-494-4688; SPECIAL TO FRONTPAGEAFRICA
Ebola free after 42 days of new

cases. Guinea and Sierra Leone
are still combating the spread
of the disease.
EVD is a disease, which causes
human suffering and deaths.
Ebola first emerged in 1976
in the Democratic Republic of
Congo and Sudan. The infection
is named after the Ebola

River located in Yambuku,
Democratic Republic of Congo.
GHE is dedicated to conducting
research, propagation, and the
distribution of public health
information on preventable
and treatable diseases before
they strike or surface in a
given community. Our aim is

not just to talk about diseases;
we want those we serve
to become knowledgeable
about various diseases in
terms of prevention, mode
of transmission, treatment
options, myths, and facts, CEO
Vollay noted.
He said GHE would undertake

the
establishment
of
community based initiatives
and the provision of resources
to combat diseases and viruses
with the sole purpose of
promulgating global health
awareness. Obviously the
tools for achieving our goals
will include education, training,

information campaign, and
community based resources,
private or public that will be
geared toward creating a wellinformed community where
its residents are equipped
with the basic knowledge of
what dangerous killer diseases
are and how they can protect
themselves
against
such
diseases.
Mr. Vollay said GHE is
determined to take its public
health crusade to all states in
the Americas and other nations
of the world. GHE is a 501c (3)
entity and it was founded in
the year 2014 in the State of
New Hampshire.
Making remarks at the
occasion, the Acting Chairman
of the Association of Liberian
Journalists in the Americas
(ALJA) interim leadership,
Moses D. Sandy welcomed the
establishment of the agency.
Mr. Sandy lauded the creation
of the GHE in the global fight
against global diseases.
The role of the GHE in
the broadcast of public
health messages to people

in
communities,
villages,
and towns at this cant be
overstated, the Acting ALJA
boss emphasized. Mr. Sandy
thanked the GHE family for
the bold action taken in the
prevention of deadly and
treatable illness through public
health education.
EIGHT RURAL COMMUNITIES
DECLARED OPEN DEFECATION FREE
cooperation in assisting
the charity carried out its
activities more effectively in
Margibi County.
Making
remarks,
the
Country Director of Living
Water International, Austin
Nyaplue, said his entity was
in Margibi County to make a
difference by working with
the locals in improving the
sanitary conditions of their
respective communities.
Mr. Nyaplue said though the
task is not easy, but with all
hands on deck the issue of
CLTS will be fully addressed
in the County.
He said his entity will
continue to support CLTS

activities in Margibi County
in particular, and Liberia at
general.
The Christian charity Head
cautioned Natural Leaders
to be more vigilant making
sure that their communities
continue to remain clean.
He also appealed to citizens
of the county for their
cooperation in carrying out
their function.
For some of the residents
from communities declared
ODF, the CLTS Initiative by
Living Water International
has assisted them greatly.
They noted that before the
commencement of LWI's
ODF Initiative, the sanitary
condition in their towns was
very unhygienic.
The residents commended
LWI for the Initiative, assuring
the charity that all will be
done by them to maintain the
ODF status.
They noted that CLTS has
helped them greatly to know
the danger involved in not
cleaning their communities.
Providing
an
overview
of Community Led Total
Sanitation in Liberia, a staff
from the National Technical
Committee at the Ministry
of Health, Jallah Gayflor, said
CLTS Initiative is intended

to put the issue of Water,
Sanitation
and
Hygiene
(WASH) in their own hands
as Liberians.
CLTS method encourages
community residents to
know the danger involved in
keeping their surroundings
clean .
Mr. Jallah said since the
introduction of community
Led Total Sanitation CLTS),
has made
tremendous
progress in the country.
During the occasion, some
residents were honored by
Living Water International
for
their
self-sacrificing
services ensuring that their

communities are clean.
The
Natural
Leaders
and CLTS champions are
individuals
who
whole
heartedly embraced the idea
of improved sanitation by
triggering other communities
in the absence of Living
Water International hygiene
promoters.
The Natural Leaders were
provided wheel barrows,
cutlasses,
shovels
and
cutlasses, among others
for the good work and to
encourage them keep their
respective
communities
clean.
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Page 13
US ADMITS AFRICAN WAR CRIMES SUSPECT CHARLES TAYLOR WAS SECURITY AGENT
TAYLOR CONFIRMED CIA AGENT
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by The Boston Globe newspaper resulted in the declassification of
nearly 50 separate documents covering several decades of Taylors work for the CIA and the DIA, confirming that
both agencies employed Taylor as an agent beginning in the early 1980s, long before he became Liberias ruler
Monrovia ormer
President
Charles G. Taylor now
sentenced to 50 years
in prison led a rebel
war with his National Patriotic
Front of Liberia (NPFL), a war
that ravaged Liberia but the
mystery surrounding how
Taylor who was at a Boston
Prison cell in the United
States became a free man to
bring war to Liberia remains
unanswered.
There is as of now no details
on how Taylor left the secured
US prison cell with the United
States persistently denying any
form of support to Taylor and
his rebel faction.
After Taylor successfully led
the NPFL from 1989 to 1996, he
overwhelmingly won general
and presidential elections
in 1997 with his relations
with the United States was
unfriendly Taylor nearly six
years in power which ended on
a sour note in 2003.
Taylor accused the Americans
of supporting rebels against his
regime while the Americans
on the other hand described
Taylor as a dictator and a
tyrannical leader.
The rivalry continued until the
end of Taylor regime with then
American President George W.
Bush, Jr. publicly declaring that
it was time for Taylor to leave
power.
Taylor was later indicted by
the United Nations backed
International Criminal Court
based in the Hague for war
crimes and crimes against
humanity committed in Sierra
Leone. He and his lawyer
described the indictment as an

international conspiracy led by
the United States against him.
Following years of trial Taylor
was sentenced to 50 years in
prison, a punishment he is
currently facing in a United
Kingdom prison cell.
Although
the
Americans
continue to deny any link to
Taylor in a war that killed
thousands of Liberians and
displaced many more, there
are revelations that Taylor was
once an agent of the United
States Central Intelligence
Agency (CIA).
A
report
published
by
intelnews.org states that the US
has admitted that Taylor was
an agent of the CIA following
a Freedom of Information
Request filed by The Boston
Globe newspaper.
According to the report the
FOI request resulted in the

declassification of nearly 50
separate documents covering
several decades of Taylors
work for the CIA and the DIA.
The documents confirm that
both agencies employed Taylor
as an agent beginning in the
intelligence, in an alleged effort

to protect intelligence sources
and methods and so as not
to harm national security,
according to The Boston Globe.
The paper quotes several legal
experts involved in Taylors UN
trial, including Allan White,
formerly an investigator with
the US Department of Defense,
who helped author the UNs
indictment against Taylor.
SELL FULL STORY
US ADMITS AFRICAN WAR

CRIMES SUSPECT CHARLES
TAYLOR WAS CIA AGENT

early 1980s, long before he

became Liberias ruler.
The report furthered that the
FOIA release does not contain
details of Taylors work for US
BY JOSEPH FITSANAKIS |
INTELNEWS.ORG |
Editors note: Since publishing
this story, The Boston Globe
issued a correction, which
EBOLAS LEGACY: ORPHANS FORCED TO

GIVE UP SCHOOL TO CARE FOR SIBLINGS
Mae Azango maeazango@frontpageafricaonline.com
Monrovia atience
Platoe
becomes teary as
she considers the
hopelessness of her
situation. Just 20 years old,
she lost both parents to Ebola.
Two younger brothers, the
youngest just one-year-old,
were infected and recovered.
Their world has been turned
upside down. With no warning
or training, Patience, a 10thgrade student, is now a parent.
She sees few options for their

future.
I want to go to school and
finish and I do not want to be
forced to go on the streets to
look for money before we eat,
because I may get pregnant,
said Patience, 20, through
tears. Because no man can
do anything for a girl my age
without asking for anything in
return, and I was not brought
up that way.
Ebola may be in the past
for most Liberians but for

thousands of survivors the
hardest part may be just
beginning.
Patience attends the Brilliance
Academy in Monrovia. She says
she did not contract the virus
because she wore gloves and
plastic to tend to her parents
when they were sick. But her
younger brothers 11 and 1,
were later taken to the ETU
and they survived.
We are living on our own in
our parents house. We do not

have any means of survival,
only when the neighbors feel
sorry for us and give food, but it
is not easy because sometimes
we cant eat at all.
Many are left to wonder as to
what happens to people like
patience who are compelled to
cater for themselves and their
siblings, since the Ebola stings.
The Ministry of Women and
Children Affairs is responsible
for orphans who lost one or
both parents to Ebola. If a
family member is willing to
cater to the children, we give
them US$ 150.00 monthly.
But if the children do not have
family
members to take them,

we put the younger ones into
forester homes and place
the older ones on a boarding
school and pay their fees, Says
Women and Children Affairs
Minister, Julia Duncan Cassel.
Teen pregnancy, a huge
problem in Liberia that limits
the options of the girls and
their children, is on the rise
following Ebola. Students
compelled to sit home for
nine months, often ended up
in sexual relationships that
includes the following: This

story
drew
unsupported
conclusions and significantly
overstepped
available
evidence when it described
former Liberian President
Charles Taylor as having
worked with US spy agencies
as a sought-after source [].
The Globe had no adequate
basis for asserting otherwise
and the story should not have
run in this form.
Ever since his 2006 arrest for
war crimes, Liberias former
President, Charles Taylor, has
consistently claimed that he
was an agent of the United
States Central Intelligence
Agency. Now declassified US
government documents have
officially confirmed that Taylor
was indeed an agent of the CIA
and the US Defense Intelligence
Agency for several decades.
The 63-year-old, who ruled his
West African homeland from
1997 to 2003, is currently
being tried at the United
Nations Court in The Hague
on multiple counts of civilian
murders, rapes, and deploying
underage soldiers during a
brutal civil war in neighboring
Sierra Leone. Rumors that
Taylor was being protected by
Washington started surfacing
in 2003, after he left Liberia
and was given protection in
US-allied Nigeria, despite his
indictment by the UN Special
Court for Sierra Leone.
In July 2009, intelNews
reported Taylors claim that
his 1985 escape from the
Plymouth County maximum
security Correctional Facility in
Massachusetts, which allowed
would not have happened if
there were in school. While
Patience is determined not to
be a victim, many others like
her may have no other choice.
Patience says she has many
needs right now:
We need food and clothes,
so I am asking kind hearted
individuals to please come
and help me and my brothers,
because I want to go to school
and finish, she said.
Patiences
father
became
infected when he took a sick
church member to the hospital.
Patiences mother became
sick when she tended to her
father. They didnt know how
contagious the virus was but
Patience had learned to protect
herself.
Patience said hers, were good
parents who supported their
children, encouraged their
daughter to go to school and let
their children lack for nothing.
Adding to Patiences feeling of
despair at her situation is the
heartache of having lost them
both so suddenly. But they
didnt prepare her with any
skill for making money for the
family.
Her father a family man, before
contracting the Ebola virus,
worked as security man at a
local security firm in Monrovia
and served in his church as
well. But now she has to pick
up the responsibilities from
him to return to Liberia and

take over the country through
a military coup, took place with
US government assistance.
His persistent claims led The
Boston Globe newspaper to
file a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) request, which has
resulted in the declassification
of
nearly
50
separate
documents covering several
decades of Taylors work
for the CIA and the DIA. The
documents confirm that both
agencies employed Taylor as
an agent beginning in the early
1980s, long before he became
Liberias ruler.
But the FOIA release does not
contain details of Taylors work
for US intelligence, in an alleged
effort to protect intelligence
sources and methods and so as
not to harm national security,
according to The Boston Globe.
The paper quotes several legal
experts involved in Taylors UN
trial, including Allan White,
formerly an investigator with
the US Department of Defense,
who helped author the UNs
indictment against Taylor.
White told The Globe that
the revelations reinforced
suspicions he had for years
and that they might explain
why some US officials seemed
reluctant to use their influence
to bring Taylor to justice
sooner. The paper notes that
Taylor, who is the first African
leader to be tried for war
crimes, must have been able to
provide the United States with
intelligence on Libya and the
Soviet Union during the closing
stages of the Cold War and into
the 1990s. The Liberian former
Presidents lawyer, Courtenay
Griffiths QC, was reportedly
contacted by The Globe but did
not respond.
where her parents left it, with
no hope of getting a days meal.
Now it is so sad and difficult to
live without parents, because
you will have to worry about
where the next meal is coming
from.
Many widows around the
scene where Patience lives,
had tears in their eyes from her
sorrowful story, and expressed.
They feared that she might not
complete school, if she does
not get help fast. Patience
wants to become a medical
doctor when she graduates a
job Liberia badly needs filled in
the wake of Ebola.
David Freeman, head of
Brilliance Academy, said he
was touched by the orphans
story and is helping them go to
school free of charge. But he is
unable to help them with food
and other essentials.
Mr. Freeman said he also fears
that if Patience does not get
assistance soon, it might force
her to look for it elsewhere, and
it could lead to her destruction.
We will not have a better
Liberia if we do not give
educational opportunities to
our children, because when we
do not have many of our kids
in schools, it means, we will be
breeding more criminals and
prostitutes that will become
societal liabilities, said Mr.
Freeman.
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PAGE
RONT
IN BRIEF
NIGERIA SUICIDE BOMB KILLS

AT LEAST SEVEN AT MARKET
SAHARA DESERT GUN BATTLE
YIELDS DRUGS HAUL
he French army
says it has seized
1.5 tonnes of
drugs and a cache
of weapons after stopping
a convoy of militants in
the desert in north-eastern
Niger.
Militants in two pickup
trucks opened fire on
French and Nigerien forces
after refusing to stop at a
checkpoint on 14 May, the
French military said.
Soldiers discovered the
illegal cargo after a firefight in which three
militants were killed, it
added.
France has 3,000 troops in
the Sahel region to combat
militant Islamists.
Three other militants were
also captured and handed
over to Nigerien forces,
the French army said in its
statement.
Widespread
trafficking
in the Sahel region is a
major source of funding
for militant Islamist groups
across
the
continent,
analysts say.
Operation Barkhane, which
comprises French forces
as well as troops from
Mali, Mauritania, Burkina
Faso, Niger and Chad, was
established in August 2014
to stop the emergence of
jihadist groups.
BURUNDI'S LEADER
PIERRE NKURUNZIZA IN
'NO REVENGE' PLEDGE
urundi's
government will not
take revenge against
those involved in last
week's failed coup, President
Pierre Nkurunziza's office
has said.
Those implicated would
be brought to justice in
accordance with the rule of
law, it added in a statement.
Protests are continuing in the
capital, Bujumbura, against
Mr Nkurunziza's third-term
bid.
The European Union (EU)
said shots were fired at the
offices of its Bujumbura
representative,
Patrick
Spirlet.
It is unclear who was behind
the shooting.
The
EU
and
African
Union have called for
a
postponement
of
presidential elections due on
26 June.
Mr Nkurunziza has so far
rejected
their
demand,
saying the election will go
ahead.
Mr Nkurunziza's office said
the government did "not
have and will never have a
plan for revenge that we are
reading and hearing about in
various places".
WORLD NEWS
suicide bomber has

blown himself up
outside a livestock
market in northeast Nigeria killing at least
seven people.
It is the second suicide attack
in northern Nigeria in less
than a week.
On Saturday, at least nine
people were killed in Yobe

state when a woman blew
herself up at a bus station.
Although no-one has yet
claimed responsibility, the
militant group Boko Haram

is suspected to be behind the
attack.
The bomb went off at about
12:15 GMT in the village of
Garkida in Adamawa state.

The BBC's Abdullahi Kaura
Abubakar in Abuja said locals
at the entrance to the market
were suspicious before the
blast and tried to prevent
the bomber going in when
he detonated explosives
strapped to his body.
The attacks come as the
Islamist insurgents are under
increased pressure from
the Nigerian military, our
correspondent adds.
Officials say most of the
militants camps in the vast
Sambisa forest have been
destroyed and many of the
jihadists killed while some
are on the run.
But observers believe many
of the fighters are still alive
and capable of regrouping
and rearming to continue
their attacks.
In January at least 19 people
were killed and several
injured by a bomb strapped
to a girl reported to be aged
about 10 in north-eastern
Nigeria.
Urbina. People who are on

treatment and [their bodies]
can control the virus are
about 96 percent less likely
to transmit, he says. As long
as its biologically suppressed,
the transmission likelihood is
extremely low.
However, the stigma still
exists, which is why so many

people do not get tested or
do not take their medications
and lives are still lost. It
just doesnt have to happen
anymore, Urbina says. We
encounter people everyday
with HIV. Its hard to transmit
the disease. And if we all get
together to erase the stigma,
we could virtually wipe out
AIDS.
Pulsipher says its time to
redirect the conversation
surrounding
HIV
and
AIDS from transmission
to treatment, which can
ultimately help save those
lives. I want to educate
people so that we can get past
the how you got the disease
to how you are living your
life with it, he says.
There are many miracles in
the world, and I believe my
life is one of them I would
love to be part of the change
in how we talk about HIV.
HIV-POSITIVE DAD SHARES AMAZING PHOTO WITH

HIS HIV-NEGATIVE FAMILY TO HELP HALT STIGMA
ccording to his
Facebook
post,
34-year-old
Andrew Pulsipher
has been HIV positive all his
life.
He was infected prenatally,
and both his parents passed
away from the disease. He
could have easily suffered a
similar fate. Most people born
with HIV and who are not
treated pass away between
the ages of 3 and 7; Pulsipher
wasnt treated until age 8.
He grew up with his aunt,
uncle and cousins, rarely
divulging the truth about
his condition to anyone, in
order to have as normal a
childhood as possible. Today,
the virus is undetectable in
Pulsiphers blood, meaning
that his medications are
working brilliantly.
He also has a wife and three
children ages 5, 3 and 1, all
of whom are HIV negative.
I am sharing this with you
because for the first time I
can be completely honest
with myself and others,
Pulsipher writes. This has
taken me a very long time to
be comfortable with (almost
34 years!). I know HIV has a
negative stigma, but that it
doesnt have to and I want
to help change that. It is a
treatable disease and you can
live a normal life with it. I am
proof of that.
Pulsipher
did
not
immediately tell his nowwife, Victoria, about his HIV
when they began dating
but when he finally did, it
didnt make a difference. I

kind of just assumed I would

get it too, Victoria said,
according to 12 News. And
that was OK with me, because
I loved him and I wanted to
be with him.
Luckily, that has not been an
issue. The Phoenix, Ariz., pair
now have three children via
IVF, and will be celebrating
their 10-year anniversary in
October.
Antonio Urbina, MD, an
internist who works with
HIV patients at Mount Sinai
in New York says HIV is a
completely different entity
in recent years. At Sinai, we
have HIV patients in their
90s, he tells Yahoo Health.
The landscape has changed
tremendously. My oldest
patient is 87, and HIV is
like number five on his list
of active health issues. The
drugs are so less toxic now,
too. Its a chronic disease, but
very manageable.
Since the first drug to
treat HIV was approved in

1987, some 30 more have
followed usually called
antiretrovirals (ARVs), or
The Cocktail. Generally,
there are five different classes
of these drugs, each used to
combat the virus at various
points throughout its life
cycle. A person with HIV will
generally take three drugs
from two classes, because
there is no one cure-all.
Taking three medications
keeps the amount of HIV in
the system to a minimum,
while also helping protect a
patient from the resistance
that can develop with a
constantly mutating virus.
Doctors
help
patients
determine which drugs are
right for their specific case,
but overall, treatment of HIV
has come a long, long way.
As long as an HIV patient
is taking their medications
and practicing safe sex,
transmission is very low, says
Born on August 27, 1987,

Champ began his career with
AC Milans youth team, but
was released in 2007 after a
long series of injuries.
In October 2007, Champ
joined Slavia Prague on
trial, but was not offered a
contract by the Czech side
due to injury.
In February 2010, Champ
moved
to
Wohlen
in
Switzerland and made his
Swiss Challenge League
debut on 24 February in a
10 home defeat to Thun,
coming on as a substitute for
Giorgi Ivanishvili. In 2011, he
moved to FC Baden.
On 3 February 2012, Champ
joined Kaliakra Kavarna on
a one-and-a-half-year deal
after a successful trial with
the Bulgarian A PFG club and
was handed the number 13
shirt.
Champs career has been
shattered by a series of
injuries, which didnt make
him as a candidate for a
national call-up to America
where he twice played for the
under-20 in friendlies.
When George Weah served
as technical director and
captain from June 2000 to
February 2002, he promoted
the likes of Dulee Johnson
(born on November 7, 1984)
and Jimmy Dixon (born on
October 10, 1981) to the
national team at the expense
of his darling son.
So why would Weahs cousin
follow in the footsteps of
Frank Jericho Nagbe, who
frequently called his son,
Nagbe Junior, to the national
team during his reigns as
head coach?
Why didnt Salinsa invite
Darlington
Nagbe,
Joe
Nagbes son, who plays for
Portland Timbers in the
United States Major League
Soccer?
Sports
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A CLUELESS MIRACLE MAN
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XAVI TO ANNOUNCE
BARCELONA EXIT
Where does Salinsa intend to take Liberia as 2017 Afcon qualifiers draw nearer?
Danesius Marteh, danesius.marteh@frontpageafricaonline.com
117 players who played a match for the

club.
The LFA will need to hasten the change
of nationality with Fifa for Nimely, who
played for England at the 2009 under-20
World Cup in Egypt.
Melvin King
Goalie Melvin King, who had a miserable

performance during the 2010 World
Cup qualifiers under Hey, was recalled
by Salinsa to compete with Nathaniel
Sherman of Barrack Young Controllers.
King, born November 18, 1995, is listed
as a player of Goldfield, which is now
AshantiGold Sporting Club.
Salinsa needs to recheck that
information because King isnt a squad
member of the Ghanaian club for this
season.
According to the clubs website, Dabuo
Robert #1, Nana Bonsu #16, Apronti
George #22, Afful Seth #30 and Isaac
Akrong were their registered shot
stoppers during the 2013/2014 season.
The five goalies were retained for the
2014/2015 season with Fatau Dauda as
the only addition. So which AshantiGold
does King play for?
Is Jabateh on the brink of being
clubless?
Born 20 September 1992, Joel plays for

Real Jean as a right back in the Segunda
Division B, which is the third level of
the Spanish football league system.
It is below the top two levels of the
league, the Primera Division (also
known as La Liga) and the Segunda
Division, and above the Tercera Division.
The Segunda Division B includes the
reserve teams of several La Liga and
Segunda Division teams.
Club career
Born in Torrent, Valencia to a Liberian

father and Spanish mother on
September 20, 1992, Joel was a product
of Valencias youth system.
He made his senior debut at 17,
appearing with the B-team in the
third division and eventually suffering
relegation.
With the unavailability of first teams
right backs Bruno and Michel, Joel made
his first La Liga appearance, playing
the full 90 minutes in a 00 home draw
against Racing de Santander on 8 March
2010.
According to Wikipedia, Joel made 69
appearances for Valencia B from 20092012 with a goal; a cap for the senior
team in 2010; 50 caps for Real Madrids
Castillas from 2012-2014 and has three
caps for Real Jean.
Real Madrids Castillas is the second
reserve team that plays in the Tercera
Division Group Seven or the fourth
division.
A Guinean or Liberian Sow?
seven appearances in the Veikkausliiga

or premier league.
He signed a one-month loan deal with
Conference south club Farnborough in
January 2015.
On 8 May 2015, it was announced that
Sow would not be offered a new contract
by Crystal Palace and would leave the
club.
The Liberian-born midfielder made 10
appearances for Palaces development
side last season before going to Finland,
but has yet to taste senior football for
the Eagles.
Alex Gebor
Another disservice done by Salinsa is the

inclusion of Abel Gebor, who was listed
as a player with FC Honka in Norway.
Gebors Honka is a Finnish football club
based in Espoo.
It was promoted into the Finnish
premier division (Veikkausliiga), for the
first time in its history, at the end of the
2005 season.
Due to financial difficulties, Honka was
relegated to the Kakkonen or third level
(third division) in 2014.
Gebor made two appearances, totaling
40 minutes (2-2 draw at home to KUPS
on October 18, 2014 and 2-1 defeat
away to ROPS on September 14, 2014)
but the 24-year-old is yet to feature this
season after three matches.
Honka and FCV jointly lead the 10-team
table with nine points but Honka have a
superior goal advantage.
Inaki Williams Dannis
Born in Bilbao to a Ghanaian father

and Liberian mother on 15 June 1994,
Williams joined Athletic Bilbaos
Lezamas youth system in 2012 at 16.
On 20 March 2015 Williams received his
first international call-up, being named
in Albert Celades Spain under-21 squad
for friendlies with Norway and Belarus.
He made his debuted against Norway,
replacing goal scorer Munir El Haddadi
at half-time in a 20 friendly win in
Cartagena on March 26.
Unattached Alex Nimely
Alex Nimely, who has been

dodging Liberia since May
2008, has again been named
by Salinsa.
Born on 11 May 1991, Nimely
is unattached but Salinsa
listed him as a player of Port
Vale in England.
Nimely signed a contract
with League One side Port
Vale in November 2014 until
the end of the season but
began training with Bolton
Wanderers in January.
In
February,
he
was
disciplined by manager Rob
Page after staying away from
Vale Park without permission
and again missed training
without permission in March.
While still on AWOL (absence
without leave), he offered
to play for Coventry City
for free but manager Tony
Mowbray rejected it on
grounds that Nimely didnt
perform well during his
time at Middlebrough when
Mowbray was manager there.
Nimely was released by Port
Vale in May and is one of the
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Old faces
Sekou Jabateh-Oliseh is a familiar name

in Salinsas army but the midfielder was
ridiculously listed as a player of Kuban
Krasnodar in Russia.
Following the departure of Seydou
Doumbia to Italys AS Roma on January
31, CSKA Moscow coach Leonid Slutsky
recalled Jabateh from his loan move
with Kuban where he scored four goals
in 12 appearances.
FrontPageAfrica has gathered that
Jabateh, who was born on June 5, 1990,
wont be offered a new deal when his
contract formally expires at the end of
the season.
Joel Johnson
Joel Johnson Alajarin is one of Salinsas

newest sensations but the lad was listed
as a defender with Real Madrid.
Ghassimu Gus Sow, who was listed by

Salinsa as Chassimou Sow is another
recruit.
Originally born in Foya, Lofa County on
April 10, 1995, Sow has been at
Crystal Palace since the age of 13 and
is a tough-tackling central midfielder
who has an outstanding lung capacity to
cover the ground from box to box.
Sow signed a three-year professional
contract with Crystal Palace in April
2012.
In May 2014, Sow joined FC Honka on a
three-month loan deal, where he made
Teah Dennis (Jordan), Zah Kranger,

Edward Junior Wilson and Patrick
Gerhardt-Nyemah (Malaysia) were
named but their clubs were omitted.
Dennis plays for Al Ahli Sports Club
(Amman); Gerhardt is with Sarawak
and Kranger and Wilson play for Felda
United respectively.
Gizzie Dorbor of Hapoel Afula, Israel;
Tonia Tisdell of Osmanlispor, Turkey;
Adolphus Marshall of PS Bangka,
Indonesia; Sekou Konneh of Fortuna
Sittard in Holland; Anthony Snothi
Laffor of Mamelodi Sundowns, South
Africa; William Jerbo of Rio Ave, Portugal
and Sam Johnson of Djurgarden IF and
Amadaiya Rennie of Hammarby in
Sweden complete Salinsas men.
he iconic midfielder
is set to draw a line
under a glittering
career at the Catalan
club by moving to the Middle
East
Xavi will announce his
decision to leave Barcelona
on Thursday as he prepares
for a summer move to Qatar
with Al Sadd.
The 35-year-old midfielder
has spent his entire career
at the Catalan club and won
an amazing 23 trophies in
that time, but has decided to
move on after spending much
of the current campaign on
the Blaugrana bench.
Xavi, who came close to a
move to Al Sadd last summer
before being persuaded
to stay by Barca boss Luis
Enrique, will meet the media
on Thursday to explain his
decision and is set for an
emotional goodbye at Camp
Nou
against
Deportivo
La Coruna in La Liga on
Saturday.
CECH OPEN TO ARSENAL,

MANCHESTER UNITED
AND PSG, SAYS AGEN
etr Cech would be

interested in joining
Arsenal, Manchester
United or Paris
Saint-Germain this summer,
according to his agent.
The Chelsea goalkeeper
has been relegated to a
No.2 role this season due to
Thibaut Courtois' emergence
in west London, and his
representative, Viktor Kolar,
has previously stated that the
Blues have given his client
permission to leave Stamford
Bridge this summer.
Arsenal have long been
linked with a move for the
Czech Republic international,
while United are understood
to have identified Cech as a
potential replacement for
David De Gea, should he join
Real Madrid.
And Kolar says his client
would welcome such moves,
while hinting that Blues
boss Jose Mourinho will not
have the final say on the
goalkeeper's future.
"Arsenal, United or PSG are
all top clubs and Petr would
like to join one of them
definitely," Kolar told Sport.
"Petr expects that (owner)
Roman Abramovich, not
Mourinho, will decide about
his future, based on their
mutual agreement from last
year."
Cech has made just six
Premier League appearances
this season.
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LIKE ANTOINE HEY, LIKE JAMES DEBBAH?
Danesius Marteh, danesius.marteh@

iberia head coach James Salinsa

Debbah has left a number of talking
points about his foreign-based
players he intends to rotate during
the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon)
qualifiers, which begin with Togo in Lome on
June 13.
Salinsas 20-man list is fraught with
misinformation at best and lies at worst
about some players leaving others who
really deserved a chance based on their
performances at club level.
When the Liberia Football Association
(LFA) appointed Antoine Hey as head coach
in February 2008, the German tactician
bragged about his knowledge about Liberian
footballers in the world but he didnt know
that Oliver Makor and Kelvin Sebwe, who
were often benched, were two of our best
players during his reign.
Makor, alias the Machine Man, twice rescued
a point for Liberia during the 2010 World
Cup qualifiers.
He scored in the 85th minute to cancel
Mustapha Jarjus 17th minute goal in the 1-1
draw with Gambia on June 1, 2008 where
nine persons died due to overcrowdedness
and in the 88th minute during the 2-2 draw
with Senegal on June 15, 2008 at the Samuel
Kanyon Doe sports complex in Paynesville
respectively.
A CLUELESS
MIRACLE MAN
Where does Salinsa intend to take Liberia as 2017 Afcon qualifiers draw nearer?
Jobless George Weah, Junior
Salinsa has recalled George Weah, Junior,

whom he says, plays for FCM Aubervilliers
in France.
Champ, as hes affectionately called, is
currently a free agent, having most recently
played for Paris Saint-Germain (PSG)s
reserves squad and has never played for
Aubervilliers.
On 17 May 2014, Champ debuted for PSGs
second team in the Championnat de France
Amateur (CFA), coming on as an 87th minute
substitute as his side lost 2-0 to Racing Club
du Lens II.
The CFA serves as the fourth division of
the French football league system behind
League 1.
see page 15
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