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Monroviaiberia
celebrates
its
first
EbolaValentines
Day
in 2015 as the
outbreak pushes to its oneyear mark in March of this
year. Despite many Liberians
being cognizant that the deadly
disease is still around Valentine
Day this year is definitely not
going to go by without buying
a gift for their loved ones.
Hawa Ville sells Valentines
cards and gifts but said she
plans on spending the day
quietly with her family at
home because of the Ebola
Outbreak. She said unlike the
normal Red and partying, she
is going to be home this year
and will cook her husbands
favorite Liberian dish.
I am going to spend the day
with my husband and children.
I am afraid of Ebola, this is
why I am spending it at home
with my family and we are
going to eat Torbogee.
Hawa warned Liberians who
will be spending the day on
beaches and in clubs, to be
cognizant that Ebola is still in
Liberia.
They should be careful with
themselves. And observe the
Ebola rules and wash their
hands before entering any club
or crowded places, she said.
If its left with me, I would
say nobody should go on
beaches and clubs because of
this Ebola. But the people have
their own lives and they have
the right to satisfy themselves
the way they please.
She said new Ebola cases are
popping up because people
are becoming complacent and
do not want to take the Ebola
prevention measures.
They are not washing hands
and wearing long sleeves shirt
or blouses, but many of the
young people are in underwear
and passing around, she said.
I want to tell Liberians who
will be celebrating Valentine
Day this Saturday, we should
be very careful, because Ebola
is real, so let us go by the
rules.
Larry E. Saye hugs his fianc
as they shop together for
Valentines gift. He refers to
her as his Val a nickname for
the special someone who one
celebrates with in Liberia on
February 14 every year.
The couple shop on Broad
Street and he picked up a card
and rose for her and said he is
going to spend the day with
her.
My baby and I are going to
celebrate the day right here in
Monrovia. She is my friend
and also my Val, but she is just
shy to say it, he said.
Saye said though many
Liberians have lost loved ones
to Ebola; this day should be a
period to mourn and no need
for an elaborate celebration. He
said safety of the living must be
a priority and those celebrating
should do so with care.
I want the government to
come down strong on the
citizens and ban people from
going to crowded places, he
Mae Azango mae.azango@frontpageafricaonline.com
said.
They should have restriction to entertainment centers
before people start vomiting from hang over.
Boimah Swary a resident of Monrovia was seen
buying valentine gift for his wife, and said he intends
spending the day with his family because of Ebola.
If I have my own power, I would stop people from
going to clubs and beaches but we hope the government
will take the necessary measures to stop people from
going to these places because Liberia is not yet Ebola
free, he said.
The only way we can help ourselves, is to remain in
our various homes on this Valentines Day because
one way or another, people have to ride vehicles and
we do not know who is carrying the virus.

Boimah said from the onset of the Ebola outbreak in
Liberia, there was huge denial among many Liberians
and to this date people are still living in that state of
mind.
People are still living in denial, so this is why the
virus is still here because people still believe that
Ebola is not here, he said.
For Betty Kayimie a trader who sells valentine gifts
just for the season at the corner of Randell Street, in
Monrovia the business is slow and many people are
not buying cards like before.
We that selling the valentine gifts, are not making
money like the way we used to make money because
of Ebola, he said.
We understand that Ebola is in town, so my advice to
people who purchase these gifts from us, is for them
to pray before going out, because God is the key to
everything.
She appealed to the government to restrict the
population in a good way, to help prevent the spread
of Ebola.
Saint Valentine's Day, also known as Valentine's Day
or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is a holiday observed
on February 14 each year. It is celebrated in many
countries around the world, although it is not a holiday
in most of them. In Liberia people share flowers, cards
and the Color Red is worn on the day to signify love.
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EDITORIAL THE DISPLACEMENT OF PRESIDENT
Commentary
NO TIME FOR
INACTION
Liberia Must Move to
Recover Exported Millions
A WEEK AGO, a leaked report compiled by the International

Consortium of Investigative Journalists outlined how millions
of dollars from several African countries have landed in Swiss
banks where they have been kept for years.
LIBERIA, A COUNTRY with low budget, poor infrastructure
and service delivery was astonishingly ranked 57 out of 203
countries affected by the transfer of huge sums of money in
Swiss banks.
THE LEAKED REPORT stated that the maximum amount
of money associated with a client connected to Liberia was
$59.5 million, a figure that could be even much higher based
on the number of activities that took place in Liberia during
the course of the civil wars involving foreign individuals who
operated as foreign investors transacting deals with rebel
leaders and warlords.
IT IS NO DOUBT that millions of dollars from illegal trade in
Liberia during the war years could end up in foreign banks since
the country became a transit point for smuggling of natural
resources including diamond and arms trade to facilitate the
rebels and the activities of the marauding militias.
THE NUMBER OF LIBERIANS who became rich overnight
as a consequence of their involvement in business deals during
the war era also points to the level of illegal money that
circulated in the country during the turmoil period.
SEVERAL LOGGING and mining companies flocked on the
shores of Liberia during the crisis period, moving around as
investors but soon vanished following the end of the war and
are no longer known to be in business, all indicating that some
of these businesses and individuals were established to use the
crisis in siphoning millions of dollars from the country under
dubious circumstances.
THESE FUNDS GARNERED from the country through the
exploitation of natural resources, might certainly be deposited
in foreign banks ideally Swiss banks as contained in the report.
SINCE THE RELEASE of the leaked report, the entire Liberia
has been very mute with no comment from the government,
civil society or anybody, whatsoever.
A SENIOR MEMBER of the Ghanaian Parliaments finance
committee, Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah hit the nail on the coffin
when he challenged the Attorney general of that country to
take the lead and go after Ghanaians indicted in the global
leaked report for illegally stashing millions of taxable money
in Swiss banks.
DR. YEBOAH CHALLENGED Ghana Attorney General,
Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, to go after the wealthy
Ghanaians who are said to have stashed $89 million in
several HSBC private bank accounts in Switzerland. "First
and foremost we have to establish that these institutions or
individuals have evaded taxes. And the AG Department and
the Ghana Revenue Authority would have to take steps to
retrieve these [monies]", the Ghanaian parliamentarian said.
THIS IS A GOOD public pronouncement by a lawmaker and
we challenged Liberia to also take the lead in ensuring that
millions exported from this poor country are brought back
through the use of all legal means with the Swiss government
and other international partners.
THE LEAKED SWISS files, ranks Ghana 106 among 203
countries with the largest dollar amounts in Swiss banks.
Liberia is highly rank at 57.
IF GHANA WHICH WAS only ranked 106 among 203
countries is trying to take the lead what more about Liberia
which is raked so highly.
SIRLEAF IS DELIBERATE
Martin K. N. Kollie, martinkerkula1989@yahoo.com, Contributing Writer
he Executive Mansion is the official home of the

Liberian Presidency. It was built in 1964 under the
administration of President William Vacanarat Shadrach
Tubman by 2,000 workers and 150 foreign technicians.
The eight-storey Executive Mansion building, which costs US$20
million, has an atomic-bomb shelter, an underground swimming
pool, a private chapel, a trophy room, a cinema, an emergency
power plant, water supply and sewage system, among others.
This constitutional palace of the Liberian presidency went into
flames on July 26, 2006 while four West African leaders were
guests of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf during Liberias 159th
Independence Day celebration. It was exactly seven months ten
days following her inauguration on January 16, 2006 when this
unfortunate fire invasion took place.
According to South African Forensic Scientists, the fire eruption
at the Executive Mansion was caused as a result of electrical fault.
Due to this incident, President Sirleaf has been unable to perform
State functions at her official office for almost 9 years now. Is this
not a blatant violation of our law especially when resources have
been made available since 2008 to refurbish this same Mansion?
Interestingly, our President feels very complacent about
administering State functions at an unofficial location. The
Foreign Ministry is not meant to discharge Presidential duties.
Barrack Obama cannot perform his statutory mandate as President
of America out of the White House for more than 9 years. Even
though, we claim to model our system of governance after
America, but most often we exhibit undemocratic actions that do
not even conform to existing realities.
What does it take to renovate our Executive Mansion? This
government made a public announcement on August 4, 2008 to
begin renovation under the supervision of a local construction
group, Milton and Richards Architecture Film, which in turn
sub-leased certain aspects of the renovation work to other local
construction companies including the Liberian-owned W. R.
Maintenance & Janitorial Services located in Sinkor.
The estimated cost to renovate the Executive Mansion in 2008
was USD$7 million. The total amount of USD$3 million was
allocated in the 2008-2009 national budget to fund phase one of
this project. I am very concern about the safety and security of
our President, but again she cannot continue to overtly contravene
statutory guidelines which are in compliance with democratic due
diligence.
Furthermore, it is the right of our people to know some basic facts
surrounding appropriations made to revamp our Executive since
it was gutted by fire in 2006. Under the Public Sector Investment
Plan and Technical Services budget of the Ministry of State for
President Affairs, the total of US$14,933,334 has been allocated
for the renovation of the Executive Mansion. This is a succinct
fiscal breakdown per annum:
2010/2011 US$973,496
2011/2012 US$1,230,078
2012/2013 US$2,000,000
2013/2014 US$6,466,667
2014/2015 US$6,466,667
Even though, these huge amounts have been disbursed to revamp

the official home of President Sirleaf, but the Mansion is a
palace of ghosts up-to-date. This means someone must account
for these public resources? In 2008, the cost of renovating the
Mansion was US$7 million. Today, there are huge public concerns
about the completion of this Mansion even though more than
US$14,933,334 has been spent.
Is this not corruption? How does this regime intend to end
corruption? Is this not public dishonesty and mistrust of
authority? How will corruption not be a vampire? We demand an
immediate investigate into this matter. State actors must exercise
transparency and accountability at all times. The Ministry of State
for President Affairs must give a comprehensive account of this
US$14,933,334.
For too long we have sat and witnessed the unbending refusal of
this Chief Executive to relocate from an unauthorized residence
to her legitimate habitat. This inconsistent and unjustifiable
display by Madam Sirleaf is offensive to good governance and
international best practices. The President must put an end to this
unorthodox occurrence now, before it hunts her legacy further.
The Executive Mansion can never become a safe environment
until this government makes it what it ought to be. If this regime
was serious about ensuring President Sirleaf relocates to her
legitimate duty-station, our Executive Mansion would have been
fully renovated by now. Unfortunately, it is not a priority to some
unpatriotic public servants who are in control of State resources.
Nine (9) years is too sufficient to give our Executive Mansion a
conclusive face-lift. There should be no ground for unnecessary
excuse(s) especially when adequate funds were made available to
complete this national project.
Any Leader who leads by example will always receive standing
ovations from his/her people. In accordance with Article one of
the 1986 Constitution, the good people of Liberia are mandating
Madam President to return to her official home from now
to the end of this year. If our President abides by this popular
mandate, it would contribute to restoring democratic sanctity
to the Presidency. We cannot live in a country with a homeless
President. The recurrent denial of our President to occupy her real
domicile is alarming and this issue must provoke public interest.
We will not accept any further dislodgment of President Sirleaf
after January 01, 2016. This is an ultimatum that must seek the
immediate attention of our President. If Madam Sirleaf fails to
abide by our directive, we shall utilize all legal means to ensure
she returns to the Executive Mansion.
IT IS TIME FOR THE GOVERNMENT of Liberia to take

the lead in making a formal request to the Swiss government
for further investigation into the actual owners of these bank
accounts and working out modalities for immediate transfer of
the funds to Liberia to help in the reconstruction drive of the
country.
THE REPORT ALREADY mentioned that the United Kingdom
and Indian governments are already going after the accused
individuals which, makes it easier for countries affected
including Liberia to cease the opportunity in ensuring that they
get these funding returned to their respective countries.
THESE MILLIONS ARE MONEY accrued illegally through
the use of the natural resources of Liberia and they must be
used for the people instead of being kept in European and other
foreign banks, benefiting the people of those countries.
WITH CASH KEPT AT THESE banks, loans are easily

accessible to the people of those countries while Liberians pay
11 to 13 percent to get loans and keep the wheels of the country
running.
THE NATIONAL LEGISLATURE and other stakeholders
must take the lead in pressuring the government act swiftly in
requesting the return of these funds to the country-it is no time
to sit and watch as millions exported from Liberia continue to
be in foreign banks.
WE CHALLENGED THE government to even go further in
conducting its own investigation of the past business deals of
individuals and companies, tracing their origins and possibly
where these monies landed.
Above all interests, Liberia is Supreme.

About the Author: Martin K. N. Kollie is a Liberian youth activist,
and student leader. He is currently a student at the University
of Liberia reading Economics and a member of the Student
Unification Party (SUP). Martin K. N. Kollie can be reached at:
martinkerkula1989@yahoo.com
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The Editor,
The Editor,
he irony of the Sirleaf regime is that her rhetoric in
he Liberia bilateral scholarship students in Egypt decry
ANOTHER 12 YEAR-OLD GIRL
upholding press freedom are never matched up with the
"UNPAID ALLOWANCES" for approximately three years.
regime's draconian policies against individuals who refuse
Unlike other bilateral scholarship beneficiaries in countries
RAPED & KILLED IN LIBERIA
to be praise singers of the regime's failed policies. This is
like China, Morocco, and USA etc; students in Egypt have
NYEMADE WANI TOP COMMENTER UNIVERSITY OF
LIBERIA, MONROVIA, LIBERIA CAMPUS
Wow, Liberia is becoming worse that India. It did not help that t he
president pardoned and released several rapists. These men are not too
old to rape again. Rape should be punishable with death or castration.
Why are rapists just sitting in jail? Where is this Ellen's friend Duncan
Cassell?
AMB MOSES OWEN BROWNE
TOP COMMENTER
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR AT PLAN
INTERNATIONAL
God please forgive Liberia! Even with a Female President #Rape is still
on the rise? God please help us!
MAMA_DOLO1 (SIGNED IN USING YAHOO)
These stories are not about women raping people, it is about men. What
does a Female president have to do with anything? You think if these men
respected women they would be raping them? There is no president or
government that can stop a rape. These sick men are the problem we must
find them and lock them up.
JALLAHZYPOUS (SIGNED IN USING YAHOO)
Rape and murder must be consider as a capital crimes and at such required
a death penalty period. otherwise we will be here next week discussing
the same thing.
JOSHUA SAMEWAY CUTTINGTON UNIVERSITY
She is already dead, showing her face doesn't stigmatize her anyway.
MAMA_DOLO1 (SIGNED IN USING YAHOO)
The victims of rape need counseling. I think the government should
put some money towards support groups that will help these women
and girls cope with what has happened to them. The physical trauma of
rape is fairly short lived, but the emotional toll can last a lifetime. Also,
Liberians need to do what they can individually to change the culture of
rape and misogyny that is prevalent all over the country. Educate your
sons, friends, cousins, uncles, any man that is in your life that they are not
entitled to the bodies of a woman. Have open communication with your
daughters so that they feel comfortable coming to you and telling you that
they have been raped. DO NOT BLAME THE VICTIM... ever. Report
people that you know are taking part on this deviant act. Don't let them
pay you off. Your child's body is not up for sale.
GYUDE MUHLENBURG WAHUEMO FOLLOW
TOP
COMMENTER UC BERKELEY
My Liberian people, please read with comprehension and understanding.
The above article is to my knowledge not about rape. The girl was kept in
a video club by the predator Morris and later taking away after the little
girl herself refused to follow the first two individuals Morris had sent to
come with this girl to him. Now, the girl body had been found with private
parts, fingers cut. They cut off everything This is in my understanding
more than rape that many of you are highlighting and pointing fingers to
woman President. This is what we call "Ritualistic Killings". Ritualistic
killing is more painful than rape in my understanding. imagine somebody
is cuting your finger and penis while you stay breathing until you die
instantly, put this into your own flesh. How can you treate a fellow human
being like this? Liberia is gradually becoming hell where the angels of
lucifer or the devil is now taking over. There is no time to be waste in
this case. Let the young man be executed right by the same river they
slaughter this little child.
EDWIN CHUKU ZEON TOP COMMENTER CEO & FOUNDER
AT CHUKU AND CHUKU , PC
Gyude, the headline indicated ; Another12 Year Old Girl Raped and Killed
in Liberia. However, the context narrated kill, but not rape,therefore, the
author should be responsible for this mess. I would like to say congrats
for organizing the aforementioned mess in the article.
LORENZO BERNARD TOP COMMENTER CLASSIFIED AT
CLASSIFIED
FPA, this is a 12 years old child no need to post her photo, In suggest
you take it down. The president of Liberia is delusional people keep
forgetting that this is the same evil woman who couple days to X-mas
of 2014 pardon 10 sexual predators. This should give you all a clue
that something serious is wrong with Ellen's psychic, This is a very old
delusional lady who requires psychological evaluation. Listen to her
speeches you will note she repeats her self over and over because she is
mentally challenge and confused. A leader most especially a woman who
fails to recognize the magnitude of a child being rape and the domestic
violence women encounter daily in Liberia is simply sick in the mind.
Liberians in general are also duly responsible for their problems. It is
very important to evaluate candidates whom you elect meaning your
vote determines the future of your children and Liberia. Stop electing
gangsters who are greedy, selfish and encourages abuse of human rights.
In all three branches of this administration/government what you have
are clowns, rapists, gangsters, corrupt incompetent fools and until you
change your mentality I foresee no changes in the near future. May God
share His Grace on thee Liberia.
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the desperation of a lame-duck president who wasted nine years of

the Liberian people's time and thinks she will accomplish in three
years what she could not in nine years. But this has also been the
case with tyrants, dictators and pseudo-reformers to use the press as
a scapegoat. All past Liberian regimes are notorious for going after
outspoken media personalities from Tubman, Tolbert, Doe, Taylor
and now Nobel Peace Prize winner president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf.
The case of FPA's Rodney Sieh versus Chris Toe, the kangaroo
trail, the unlawful closure of his news business and his subsequent
imprisonment, all sanctioned by the corrupt Supreme Court are clear
reminders that Costa was their next target.
So Ellen can fool herself and her blind followers, the Ellenites
and Ellenazis, that history has a way of repeating itself for those
repressive leaders who live in self-denial that the ugly downfall of
their predecessors "can never happen to me" until it is too late. But
time will tell for those who refuse to learn from the past are bound to
encounter the fate that often greets stubborn tyrants, and it knows no
gender.
Does going after voices of dissent translate into the promise of
prosecuting corrupt individuals as stated by Ellen in her Annual
Message to the Legislature/nation less than a month ago? Is this the
legacy Ellen wants to leave behind when and if she leaves office,
peacefully?
Unless Ellen wants to play another "Tubmanism" on the Liberian
people, it is difficult to judge why she refuses to be called a lameduck
president. A lameduck is a lameduck is a lameduck, unless.... But
we are watching to see how this marriage ends between her and the
Liberian people. It has not been a good marriage and we are seeking a
divorce perhaps even before 2017.
That takes me back to her notorious son, Fombah Sirleaf who heads
the dreaded NSA, a torture gulag for mom's perceived "enemies."
But this is the same Fombah who staged a Texas style movie armed
robbery last July that netted him and his gang $250,000.00 bounty.
And another irony of Ellen's promised corruption fight is to let
Fombah walk away with his loot that the taxpayers must not repay to
the South Korean businessmen as determined by Ellen's handpicked
crony "independent investigator." So much so for not going to be a
lameduck president and the promise to fight corruption. But we are
taking note.
Hence, Liberians, do we expect the 2017 presidential elections to be
free, fair and transparent? Just like in 2005 and 2011, Ellen will make
sure her chosen successor "wins" overwhelmingly who would dare
not go after her to account for her failed leadership and the corruption
syndicate she supervises. The National Election Commission and
the Supreme Court are staffed with Ellen loyalists. Just look at the
just concluded or to be concluded by the Supreme Court senatorial
elections that is trying to purge Ellen's enemies from being seated
(Varney Sherman and Bohfal Chambers.)
On legacy again: why would Ellen abandon her ruling Unity Party
candidates and elected officials to campaign for those from opposition
parties as we saw in the senatorial elections and now in the Senate
Pro-Temp leadership? The Unity Party is slowly dying and funeral/
burial is 2017. Beware Senators who are being cajoled by Ellen to
vote for her choice. Vote your conscience. Remember, Ellen leaves
office in three years; she is old and you have long life ahead of you.
Think of your TOMORROW and not Ellen's NOW.
I hope it won't come to where I said "I told you so and you should have
known. Where is Ellen now?" The choice is yours to make. Liberia is
bigger than any one individual or a group of crooked individuals, and
no one single Liberian is MORE Liberian than any other Liberian.
Jerry Wion
Washington, DC, USA
been left to scream and suffer in a strange land for nearly three years.
The decision by the Inter-ministerial Scholarships Committee to
clutch students' allowances for such period continues to cause serious
damage to these students' academic sojourns leading to a gloomy
and shadowy future of the Liberia human capacity building strategy,
which serves as nucleus of the UP-led government development plan
since its inception to power.
We are suffering; we need our allowances.
Moreover, 2010 witnessed the institution of the Inter-ministerial
Scholarships Committee with the aims to ensure that scholarships
are merit-based, mainstreamed, and gender-balanced. Contrary
to this, the committee has finally termed to be biased and unfair in
implementing goals of the very purpose that brought it to existence.
How could the committee woefully resort to letting students undergo
such treatment? What are the expectances we anticipate when the
committee continues to force students to unwanted acts? Is it via this
trek we wish to robustly reform the education sector that was braindrained during the fourteen years unexplained experience?
It is now three years we have gone without our due allowances!!!!!
Unfortunately, while Ebola is consuming meaningful lives in Liberia,
students in Egypt on the other hand have been left to sleep in the streets
in Egypt, turn to mendicants, street hustlers, expose to insecurity,
driving them to absolute doom all because they were flown to Egypt
by their government. Where are the voices for the voiceless? Where
are the human right activists? Where are the advocates?Where is the
President, Her Excellency, Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf? Where are
the lawmakers? This unbearable act must come to a halt; so we firmly
stand to seek these legitimate entitlements and vibrantly declare our
vigilant preparedness to combat the continuous sufferings of students
in Egypt.
We are entitled to these entitlements.. UNPAID ALLOWANCES!!!!
Lastly, we therefore call on the immediate intervention of the
President, Her Excellency, Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, and shrewd
Liberians to help bring this appalling and cynical act to an end.
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Al-Azhar University
Abduasise A. Dakawah
Al-Azhar University
Abdullah O. Syllah
Al-Azhar University
Abraham Z.M. Kromah
Cairo University
Abubakar A. Kanneh
Al-Azhar University
Alieu M. Jaliebah
Al-Azhar Institute
Alieu M. Kiazolu
Al-Azhar Institute
Alieu V. Kamara
Graduate 2013/2014
Fuad F. Nyei
Al-Azhar University
Kassimu Massaley
Al-Azhar Institute
Losene A. Dukuly
Al-Azhar Institute
Mohammed A. Kiawhen
Al-Azhar University
Mohammed M. Sidibey
Al-Azhar University
Mustapha M. Sheriff
Al-Azhar University
Sekou M. Sherif
Al-Azhar Institute
Sekou P. Kromah
Cairo University
Sheikh K. Sesay
Al-Azhar University
Suliaman A. Kanneh
Al-Azhar University
Yusuf A. Swaray
Al-Azhar Institute
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LAW & ORDER
Page 5
A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE?
F
Monroviaollowing an overturning
of a US$25,000 bail by
the Supreme Court of
Liberia granted by the
Criminal Court E judge Cianeh
Clinton-Johnson, the court is
slated to hand down its opinion
on the matter Today (Friday).
Judge Johnson granted bail to
Jafaar Bashir an alleged rapist
based on what she called several
legal citations as provided under
the law.
Bashir a 44 year-old the
Lebanese national was charged
for his alleged involvement in
the raping of young Liberian
children within the age range of
7, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 15.
He came close to walking out
of the Monrovia Central Prison
in November last year after
Criminal Court 'E' Judge Johnson
granted him a US$25K bail.
Bashir a resident of the
Gardnersville
Community,
Bashir face multiple charges
by the Liberia National Police
including rape, porn filming of
underage girls.
The accused was forwarded to the
Temple of Justice in Monrovia
for court trial. The police alleged
that Bashir allegedly raped
the victims, who are minors,
and the incident occurred at a
Lebanese-run garage opposite
the Shoes Factory Community
in Gardnersville.
Some eyewitnesses said the
accused has also been involved
in pornography videotaping
of several of his victims and
screening those videos to
his colleagues and the police
investigation retrieved several
of those videos from the accused
residence.
Female Judges Lenient on
Rape Cases
Criminal Court E was established
when Liberias first woman
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
ascended to power in 2006.
Not many high-profiled alleged
rapist have been convicted and
sent to prison by this court,
based on constant granting of
US$25,000 bail bond.
Supreme Court to rule in Lebanese Rapist Case
Dr. Mansour who claimed that

he (Bashir) was insane.
The state reportedly argued that
Bashir had been sound because
he operated a successful business
in Liberia prior to the charges
against him.
It was only after his indictment
that he claimed to be crazy, said
a source familiar with the case.
Bashir, according to sources
had sought to use the ongoing
Ebola epidemic to evade justice.
Like the other three cases, many
legal observers are baffled over
how Judge Johnson reached her
decision Tuesday.
In her ruling, Judge Johnson
argued that considering that the
defendant is accused of raping
scores of children, the court
must ensure that the defendant
does not pose any flight risks or
danger to the community as well
as to any other children.
This court must ensure that
it protects the public against

any further criminal act of
the defendant and have the
assurance from the defendant
that the judicial process will be
respected."
Nevertheless, she was on the
verge of allowing Bashir to
walk. The judges decision
draws contrast to AFELLs fears
when the law was first drafted.
For example, the old rape law
allowed suspects to be out of jail
and back on the streets and in a
position to intimidate anyone
who might give evidence against
him.
The ruling of the high court

followed a writ of prohibition
issued on a US $25.000 bail
granted by the judge to release
the defendant on the money paid.
The justice in Chambers Cllr.
Philip Banks will hand down the

opinion Friday at the Supreme
Court.
It can be recalled the high court
give a life sentence against a man
aged 48 for raping a 12 year-old
girl in the chicken Soup Factory.
The sentence by the court
followed an appeal from the
defense lawyers after jurors
and the lower court found the
defendant guilty. Defendant
Joseph Gardea was indicted in
2009 for sexually abusing his
stepdaughter in their home.
Handing down the final verdict
the high court in its opinion said
during the trial in the lower court,
the prosecution team produced
eight witnesses while the defense
produced five.
Associate Justice Kabineh Ja'neh
who read the courts opinion,
stated that one of the prosecution
witnesses Dr. Wilhelmina Jallah,
told the court that the deceased
was sexually tampered with,
something that enlarged her
stomach.
She said the victims private part
had bruises and was severely
injured a situation that made
the deceased to always scream
during health checkups.
Justice J'aneh also revealed that
the deceased told the mother
about the constant assault by her
stepfather but her mother told her
not to inform anyone on ground
that he was the sole provider of
the family.
But Justice Janeh narrated that
a sister of the deceased Sarah
Gardea told the court that on
three occasions she saw the
defendant Joseph lying over the
deceased.
Liberia Associate Justice added
that the lower court and jurors
were not in error to give a life
sentence to the defendant and
the high Court is in conformity
and affirmed the lower courts
judgment.
But with the stay order on the
movement of Bashir from the
Central prison by the court, it is
not known if the judge will give
him a life sentence like Gardea,
or a sentence for a statutory
period either to serve his jail
sentence in Liberia or Lebanon.
and confirming him as the most

famous Liberian Comedian at
the moment.
Could he be in the loop of
lingering news of being signed
on by the telecommunications
giant to whom Karie Walker,

alias John Flomo was previously
linked?
With this initiative taken by
A Movie Producing Company
to make sure its Star is treated
with the best of respect and

development, we now look
to corporate initiatives to see
to the betterment of our best
entertainers in the Liberian
Entertainment Industry.
Bettie Johnson /betty.johnson@frontpageafricaonline.com
Women only run the rape court

and they include Judge Evelyn
Quaqua and Ceinah JohnsonClinton.
The crime Rape is a non-bailable
offence under the new rape law.
But an investigation done by
FrontPageAfrica has revealed
that in the past months, a number
of high-profiled rape cases
involving foreign nationals have
slipped from the radar, ironically,
under the watch of a female
judge at the Criminal Court E,
Judge Clinton-Johnson.
Some of the list include Bashir,
Ali Saksouk, 21, another
Lebanese national who was also
accused of rape, but was granted
his freedom by the controversial
judge. Saksouk was accused of
raping a 13-year-old girl after
her father filed a complaint that
he found Saksouk and the girl
in a 4-Runner Jeep, according to
Police charge sheet.
A source familiar with the

case told FrontPageAfrica that
Bashirs lawyers put forward
an insanity defense, which the
judge favored.
Dr. Benjamin Harris who
examined the defendant had
previously determined that there
was nothing wrong with Bashir
and found him fit to stand trial.
However, Bashirs lawyers
reportedly objected claiming that
the report was bias because the
government paid for the report.
Judge Johnson sided with the
defense, even though the state is
required to provide and pay for
medical treatment for inmates
under the states supervision.
Judge Johnson reportedly put Dr.
Haris report aside and ruled that
the defendant brings in his own
psychiatrist. Bashir, according
to court records provided a
one-sheet paper from Lebanon
unsupported by credentials of a
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LIFE STYLE
Supreme Court opinion
PAUL FLOMO GETS

HIS FIRST CAR!
P
By: E Owusu Dahnsaw-ACTOR
Monrovialatinum Entertainment
Production has proudly
presented it's Actor,
Isaac
Sundaysieh,
dubbed the funniest comedian
now in Liberia, a car courtesy of
his hard work, dedication, and
humility.
Presenting the keys of the Nissan
Altima to the famous Liberian
Actor on Wednesday, Armed
Forces Day, was the Chief
Executive Officer of Platinum
Entertainment Production, Mr.
Dream DEBO who attributed
the gesture to the thespian's
dexterity and commitment to the

development of Liberian Movies
and promised to make sure that
Paul's colleagues are also next in
line for such treats.
Accepting the keys and beaming
with smiles, Isaac Sunday Sieh
expressed his utmost gratitude
to the Platinum Entertainment
Production family for such a
heartwarming gesture indicating
that anyone can achieve as
much as he has and even more
with hard work, dedication and
humility.
Paul is the half of the duo - John
Flomo and Paul Flomo of recent
Liberian comic movies such as

Dugbormar, Tom & Jerry, John
In The Army and others, which
helps to ease the stressed minds
of Liberians and allays their
fears during the heat of the Ebola
outbreak.
This comes as the first of its
kind for a home based Liberian
Actor since the boom of Liberian
Movies in the republic.
It can be recalled that Paul was
recently seen on a promotional
float for Celcom GSM as he
drew crowds in the Hundreds
of thousands in and around
Monrovia, strongly establishing
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Monroviaenator J. Milton Teahjay

(Sinoe County) stands
accused by the General
Auditing Commission
(GAC) and the Liberian AntiCorruption Commission for
misappropriating development
funds intended for the county,
but he is recommending for
internal auditors to be assigned
in the offices of superintendents
across the country.
In a communication to Plenary,
the Sinoe County Lawmaker
stated that the legislative act of
September 2013, which created
the internal Audit Agency (IAA),
tasks the agency with primary
responsibility for conducting
forensic internal audits within
the Public sector.
He
also
stated
in
his
communication that the IAA
further mandate is to standardize,
harmonize,
capacitate,
coordinate, establish, manage,
direct and essentially, control all
audit functions within the three
branches of government.
Said Teahjay: Mr. Presiding
and distinguished colleagues,
pursuant to this clearly stated
statutory mandate of the IAA,
I am aware and it has been
verifiably established that the
agencys internal auditors are
narrowly deployed currently
within ministries, agencies, and
other stated-owned enterprises
only around Monrovia providing
technical
assurance
and
professional advice on financial
and operational activities.
TEAHJAY IRONY?
F
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LEGISLATIVE BEAT
Sinoe County lawmaker wants IAA auditors

Henry Karmo (0886522495) henrykarmo@frontpageafricaonline.com
As the immediate past County

Superintendent of Sinoe, I
am extremely worried over
the limited deployment of
auditors of the Internal audit
Agency,
IAA,
particularly,
considering
the
national
controversy over the mounting
allegations regarding abuse
and mismanagement of both
county and social development
funds
by
chairpersons
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and
project
management
committees, including County
superintendents
and
their
deputies.
Senator Teahjay not too long
ago, stood accused when he
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was County Superintendents of

Sinoe for what was interpreted
as corruption.
Senator Teahjay also claimed
that there is an urgent need for the
expansion of IAA deployment
of auditors to county capitals to
regulate compliance to financial
and
procurement
policies
in order to avoid prolonged
auditing reports from external
auditors, which sometimes are
highly controversial.
Distinguished colleagues after
countless unsuccessful attempts
by my administration as county
superintendent, previous to my
entry into the Liberian senate,
to have the General Auditing
Commission assigned auditors
in the counties to reduce the
spectra of procedural violations
in financial disbursements, he
said.
He said assigning IAA internal
Auditors in all counties would
not only professionalize the
audit sector, but also upgrade the
governance system.
He said such a decision would
ABANDONED
BY
DELTA
AIRLINES
US Based Liberian Missionary stranded in Liberia
Stephen D. Kollie/ FPA Staff Writer 0776329124
Mr. Mark Z. Johnson
hen
Mark
Z.
Johnson
embarked on a
journey from the
United States aboard a Delta
Airline fight to Liberia, he
planned to stay at least fifty days
in West Africa, hoping to conduct
ministry and business studies
in Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria and
Sierra Leone.
But that plan did not materialize
as the 55-year old two suitcases
containing all his marketing
materials and medications for
high sugar and blood pressure
could not be found on his flight
when he landed on April 15,
2014 at the Roberts International
Airport in Margibi County.
Nearly a month later, Delta
Airlines retrieve Johnsons
suitcases and returned it to
him. Unfortunately, all his

appointments in Liberia, Sierra
Leone, Ghana and Nigeria were
canceled because he could not
present the necessary materials
to his clients.
In an exclusive interview with
Mr. Johnson Tuesday, when
he walked into the offices of
FrontPage Africa to explain his
ordeal, the missionary said he
was expected to leave Liberia
June 13, 2014 but that did
not work out due to the ebola
outbreak when several flights
were canceled to Liberia.
Johnson bought a Delta Airline
ticket for US$ 1,500.00 and the
ticket remains valid up till Feb
20, 2015 which can allow him
to return to the United States
but he says all efforts applied to
reach the management of Delta
to arrange his return flight has

been futile.
According to him, in September
2014, he went at the Delta Airline
office in Monrovia and met with
a man only identified as Kamara
in order to explain his wiliness to
return back to the USA since his
missionary plans were already
unsuccessful. By then, he says,
Kamara informed him that Kenya
Airways was the only flight that
could connect him to Delta but
Kenya Airways was not coming
anymore to Liberia but could
come in December, 20124 and
that they both exchange contacts
and promised to remain in touch.
Said Mr. Johnson: He took
down my number and promised
to call me but they never call me.
Each time I call their numbers
were off. I went to the office
and the office is close there is no

notice.
Mr. Johnson told FrontPage
Africa that he returned to Delta
Airlines office on January 26,
2015 to follow up about his flight
and met with a representative
of the airline called Stephanie
Efouba.
Continued Johnson: She located
my ticket and printed it. She said
she was going to get in touch
with Delta in Accra and that she
will get back to me. She never
called me. When I show up, she
said it will cost me one thousand,
nine hundred fifty dollars, and
seventy-cents for my return
ticket back to the United States.
I said to her my ticket is still
valid and am not staying here on
my own accord. It is Delta that
abandoned me in Liberia during
the Ebola crisis.
Johnson said Madam Efouba
promised to get back to her after
some consultations with the
relevant authorities but he has
not received any communication
from Delta Airline.
He says his stay in Liberia is a
major threat to his health as he
has no money to seek medical
attention in Liberia.
Am not here because I want
to stay here. Its Delta that
abandoned me here. Since April,
I have been here for ten months
When I went to her [Stephanie]
she said she cannot guarantee
anything until she hears from
Delta, he narrated.
According to the 55 year-old
man, hes currently staying with
his cousin in Monrovia who
takes care of his feeding and

housing but is worried that his
health is in danger since he has
not been for medical checkups
for several months now.
My medication for high blood
pressure as well as sugar. So all
these times I have not taken my
medicines, what has happened
to me health wise I dont know.
At that same time when am
living in Liberia and get malaria
its fearful. Each time I have
symptoms I live in constant
fear, he said.
All efforts applied by FrontPage
Africa to reach Delta Airlines
representative in Liberia for
comment did not materialize
as Madam Efouba and Delta

Airlines office contacts remained
switch off up till the time of this
publication.
This is not the first time Delta
has had problems with its
passengers coming to Liberia. It
can be recalled that in September
2012 , a passenger riding on
board the Delta Airlines from
Baltimore, Maryland the United
States to Monrovia too the US
operated airline to court claiming
damages.
Plaintiff Archibald Rimesa
Williams told the Civil Court
at the Temple of Justice in his
also significantly improve the

relationship between various
legislative caucuses and induce
the much-needed cordiality
between local county leaderships
and their respective legislators.
Before he was elected senator
the tough talking Teahjay
accused the LACC of witchhunting when he was named
in the Anti-graft bodys report
for allegedly misappropriating
several thousand United States
dollars for projects in the county.
The LACC furthered at the time
that those projects were county
incomplete.
Teahjay after being accused by
the LACC took to the media
and named some members of
the Countys legislative caucus
including
his
predecessor
Mobutu Nyepan and a sitting
representative Matthew Zarzar
of masterminding his indictment
by the LACC.
He also accused the LACC of
not doing due-diligence in its
investigation and claimed that
the Commission headed by
Cllr. James Verdier turned the
report against him, because he
is a former classmate of senator
Nyepan.
eight counts complaints at the

time that he bought a round trip
air ticket No.00682786019333 from the airline and was
allegedly issued an intermarry
detailing the schedule of the
plane from Maryland the US-to
Monrovia
According to Williams, in
keeping with the itinerary the
defendant has issued him a
boarding pass for the flight
NO.DL3369 dated August 23,
2012 and flight No. DL 26 dated
August 24 to allegedly facilitate
his travel from Maryland to
the JFK Airport, New York to
Ghana and then to the Roberts
International Airport, Monrovia.
Williams further that he travelled
from Baltimore to Accra, Ghana
without experiencing much
difficulty or problem except that
the flight was delayed for about
two hours and that after he and
other passengers have arrived
in Ghana they were informed
that the plane has developed
technical problems and was to be
serviced.
Count four of Williams
complaint stated after he was
seated in the plane for over two
hours Delta Airlines authority
asked that to disembark and
wait at the terminal in Ghana for
another three hours before they
were informed by Delta that the
air lines was not flight worthy,
therefore they were taken to the
Travel Express Hotel in Accra
for the night.
Plaintiff claimed that the actions
of the Delta Airlines caused him
undue hardship, inconveniences,
embarrassment and humiliation
and was compelled to remain in
the same clothes for many days,
could not attend to his businesses
for which he has travelled to
Liberia, therefore he wanted
the court to award him general
damages in the amount to be
determined by the court or jury
for undue hardship.
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GETTING TO ZERO
Frontpage
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President Obama on the Next Phase in Our Fight Against Ebola
MONROVIA nited States President

Barack
Obama
announced
the
beginning of a new
phase in the fight against Ebola.
In remarks given at the White
House, he said the progress we
have made against the outbreak
in West Africa will allow the
2,800 American military troops
sent to Liberia to return home by
April 30, 2015. This will leave
a force of 100 troops behind to
work with Liberia's military,
regional partners and U.S.
civilians. However, he cautioned

the mission was not over.
"We have risen to the challenge,"
President Obama stated in his
remarks in Washington, DC.
"Our focus now is getting to
zero."
Since the onset of the epidemic in
2014, the United States has led an
international response involving
thousands of personnel, U.S.
and international, civilian and
military to fight the disease
at its source. In Liberia, U.S.
personnel, both civilian and
military, trained more than 1,500
healthcare workers; facilitated

the construction of 15 Ebola
Treatment
Units
(ETUs);
supported the establishment of
core public health management
and rapid response capabilities;
and galvanized a robust
international response comprised
of over 62 countries contributing
more than $2 billion as well
as thousands of personnel and
wide-ranging resources. Now,
approximately 10 months since
the first additional U.S. personnel
deployed to West Africa, cases
are down 80 percent from peak
FEBRUARY
16TH IS FINAL
levels.
"Every case is an ember that, if
not contained, can light a new
fire," the president cautioned.
"So we're shifting our focus from
fighting the epidemic to now
extinguishing it."
The military mission was only
part of the U.S. response, the
President noted. He stressed
the commitment of the United
States to continue to work
in coordination with the
Government of Liberia to ramp
up the civilian response beyond
the 10,000 workers who are
already involved in the fight

against Ebola.
"As we transition into a new
phase in this fight, make
no mistake -- America is as
committed as ever, I am as
committed as ever to getting to
zero," the President said. "And I
know we can."
The next phase of our response,
he explained, turns the focus
towards
consolidating
the
substantial progress we have
made in the fight against Ebola
to a civilian led effort utilizing
expertise from the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention,
the U.S. Public Health Service
and the U.S. Agency for
International Development
Civilian health care workers will
ramp up aggressive case-finding
and contact-tracing efforts to
hunt down remaining cases. We

will continue public awareness
campaigns and outreach so that
communities remain vigilant and
prepared to identify and care for
new patients.
In thanking these military and
civilian humanitarians for their
service, the President said:
Thanks to their commitment
and to American leadership
in this fight, we have made
enormous progress in the last
few months and have turned the
tide of this epidemic. Thanks to
these efforts, the number of new
cases is on the decline. Thanks
to the foundation our military,
civilian workers and countless
others around the world have
laid, we now can focus on a new
goal: Getting to zero -- zero new
cases of Ebola.
MOE Somersaults on School Reopening Date
GIVING POWER THROUGH
SOLAR ENERGY
Trusted Angels And Partner Liberia Install Solar Panel For Orphans
Monroviahe Ministry of Education has somersaulted

from its March 2, school reopening date
announced just two days ago. This is the
fourth time the ministry is revising the
schedule for the opening of schools in 2015, setting
the latest date at February 16.
The ministry had announced that schools would
opened on February 2, but later changed it to
February 16, then to March 2 early on Tuesday.
Speaking at the Ministry of Information regular press
briefing Thursday, Deputy Education Minister for
Administration Ramses Kumbuyah said the ministry
has determined February 16 as the final date for the
opening of schools.
However, we acknowledge the fact that the country
is confused about the dates, but we wish to apologize
for the changing of the date, he added.
Kumbuyah said Montserrado County and other urban
centers are fully ready for the opening of schools,
adding that they will not waste time to open schools
because of those that are unprepared.
He indicated that a group called the School Safety
Committee has been organized to help monitor
students activities on campuses.
The deputy minister has, stated that it is mandatory
that every parent, guardian and school administrator
adhere to the school safety protocols by washing
their hands and taking their temperature before
entering any campus.
Many parents and guardians have criticized the
A
Monrovia-
government terming the ministry of education as

being unprepared to reopen school and not properly
planning for education.
How will they say February 16, then come and say
March 2 and back to the 16th. I wonder if these people
are taking the Liberian people for a joke, said Massa
Johnson a mother who lives in the Brewerville area.
Many of them have their children in schools in
America and Ghana, how will they not be playing
fun out of us. We look like fun box to them? We
look like fun box to this government? We want our
children to go to school, thats all we want.
No Graduation Before WAEC Exams Results

Meanwhile the ministry has said that there would be
no graduation exercises for grade 12 students prior to
the release of the West African Examinations Council
(WAEC) results
Deputy Education Minister for Instruction, Hawah
Goll-Kotchi said the education ministrys decision is
to ensure that students graduating from high school
pass the WAEC exams before getting clearance to
graduate.
Madam Goll-Kotchi said the government is working
with WAEC to facilitate the speedy processing of the
exams results before graduation.
She said no school should collect WAEC fees from
any parent or guardian during registration except in
May or June, which is the final month for payment
of those fees.
n
organization
styled the Trusted
Angels Foundation,
a non-governmental
organization, in collaboration
with international partners has
provided over twenty pieces
of solar panels and batteries to
the Sister Iye Orphanage Home
in the Kebbah Community in
Bardnersville.
Mr. Joe Darweah Country Director
of the organization said the panel
is capable of providing electricity
for the home for the next 25 years.
He said the initiative is not the
first and his organization has done
the same in Grand Bassa County,
where a clinic is also being
electrified with solar panel energy.
Daweah said: This initiative is
funded by our partners in the US. It
is worth over US$25,000 (twentyfive thousand). We as a local nongovernmental organization, our
main focus is to help the needy
of this society. We think with the
provision of electricity, through
solar panel, orphans will do their
home studies and do other things
that we need electricity for.
Daweah said the organization

provided numerous assistance
to orphanages in Montserrado,
Buchanan, and Margibi Counties
during the peak of the Ebola
outbreak especially food and nonfood items for children from over
20 homes.
Trusted Angels is also providing
some orphans of those homes
scholarship to afford them the
opportunity to attend school, while
giving the opportunity to others to
obtain higher education, he said.
Daweah said: This donation was
made possible by our international
partners, we as an organization
will always work to make these

kids feel a part of the society. No
matter what their situation and I
think that should be one thing all
well meaning Liberians should
get involved with.
Trusted Angels
foundation
has over the years supplied
several
orphanages,
Health
canters including ELWA and the
Respirational Therapist School
located at Smyth Institute in
Sinkor,
Bromley
Episcopal
Mission School and Firestone
Liberia, where we have provided
them with deworming pills.
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Monroviahe long awaited Senate

Pro-Tempore elections
are over and the winner
is Senator Amah Zulu
Jallah (NPP-Gbapolu County).
Jallah emerged as the new Senate
Pro-Tempore of the Liberian
Senate replacing Gbezhongar
Findley who lost re-election in
the December 20, 2014 Special
Senatorial Election in Liberia.
Senator Jallah won the election
with 13 votes two votes more
than his major contender Senator
Joseph Nagbe (ADPL-Sinoe
County) while Senator Oscar
Cooper acquired three votes of
the total votes of 27 votes cast.
The total membership of
the Liberian senate is thirty
but three senators were not
allowed to vote in the Thursday
February 12 election, because
of court proceedings. Senator
Varney Sherman (UP- Grand
Cape Mount County) and
Morris Saytumah (UP-Bomi
County) though were cleared
and certificated by the National
Election Commission last week,
could not vote because they
did not complete the necessary
formalities needed to be seated.
Nagbe was seen as the favorite
for the position with the politics
of regional balance and claims
of ties with President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf and the Unity
Party as evidenced by the partys
endorsement of his candidacy.
Nagbe said: We will not work
for the executive but we will
work with the executive to
smoothly run the affairs of the
country to benefit our people. If
any one sees me as the person
who is going to muscle the
Executive or judiciaries count
me out.
LEGISLATIVE BEAT
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JALLAH ELECTED PRO-TEMPORE

Defeats Nagbe by Two votes to Replace Findley; Youth group Calls Vote Unconstitutional
Nagba one of the longest serving

senators, serving his second
term as senator of Sinoe County,
had to his advantage wealth of
experience in legislative politics
judging by his position as the
Senate chair on Judiciary. Nagbe
prior to the election, promised
like the rest of his colleagues
to redeem the lost image of the
Liberian senate by making it
more independent, but promised
not to work cordially with the
executive branch of government.
He
promised
to
build
collaboration
between
the
senate and other branches of
government
especially
the
executive and not to start a war.
Prior to the election Legislative
sources confirmed that in
addition to the 12 southeastern
lawmakers, six others from
central Liberia; including Bong,
Lofa and Margibi Counties
agreed to pledge their support to
the candidacy of Nagbe.
Many criticized the Sinoe
County lawmaker, accusing
him of being weak and being a
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replica of his predecessor, whom

they accused of playing to the
tune of the Executive. But in his
response to his critics he said,
the senate is not a place to wear
gloves to fight the executive.
Unlike Nagbe, Senator Jallah
before the election claimed
that he was the candidate of the
majority block evidenced by
his election promise to improve
benefits and salaries for staffers
of the senate and to push the
interest of the Liberian people.
The Gbarpolu Lawmaker now
NEWS EXTRA
pro-Tempore of the Senate also

promised to ensure that the
country national development
programs are reviewed. Senator
Jallah assured his colleagues he
would ensure that these policies
are formulated in a manner that
will positively impact the lives
of the Liberian people.
Jallah said: If elected as a
senator I along with the senate
leadership will build that
interpersonal relationship with
the executive. We will work
together on issues that will
benefit the people of Liberia, this
I promised.
Article 47 of the Liberian
constitution states that the
Senate shall once every six years
elect a senate Pro-Tempore who
shall preside in the absence
of the President of the Senate
(Vice President) and such other
officers as shall ensure the

proper functioning of the senate.
The constitution also gives the
power to the senate to remove
Pro-Tempore and other officers
elect from office by resolution of
two-thirds majority of members
of the Senate.
Days after Senator Jewel Howard
Taylor (NPP-Bong County) was
announced member of the Nagbe
campaign
team
accusation
and counter accusations were
heard on the local media about
the partys standard-bearers
decision to support a candidate
in the race who is from another
COURT RELEASES HENRY COSTA

Wherefore in view of the foregoing, it is the ruling of this court that the petitioners petition for Habeas Corpus is and the same is hereby
granted. The petitioner is hereby ordered released from further custody with immediate effect and it is so order. Peter Gbeneweleh
Monroviahe presiding judge of

Criminal Court C has
ordered the release of
talk show host Henry
Costa from further detention.
The order of the Judge Peter
Gbeneweleh
followed
an
argument Tuesday of this week,
when lawyers of radio talk show
host Cllr.
Tiawon Gongloe
said their client was denied his
Miranda rights and was forced to
make statements to the LNP.
Costa was harassed coerced
which is a complete violation of
human rights and the Liberian
constitution, Cllr. Gongloe told
the court.
He continued: Costa found
himself in the cell our client
was arrested and was never
informed of his Miranda rights
or informing him while he was
arrested.
Also arguing, Atty. Arthur
Johnson said the LNP breached
the 48 hours that is provided by
law and their client was illegally
arrested and was not told on
nature of the arrest.
He added: the Government
must be fined for providing
inconsistent arguments and
information before the Court.
In counter argument Cllr.Daku
Mulbah said the petition filed is
Bettie Johnson /betty.johnson@frontpageafricaonline.com
Judge Peter Gbeneweleh
prematurely done and the court

should dismiss the petitioners
petition.
The petitioners early this
morning (Monday) at 8:30 am
prematurely, hurriedly, filed a
writ of habeas corpus which they
are aware that the laws provide
for 48hrs for investigation. Cllr.
Mulbah said.
The state legal counsel stated:
All persons who are arrested on
account of the commission of a
crime is subject to investigation
which the petitioners dont
want to happen, the Liberian
constitution ordered the LNP
to investigate criminals and
offenders and charge them

where culpable, the state have
not violated the rights as he was
invited to further an ongoing
investigation.
The presiding judge later turned
Costa over to the custody of the
courts sheriff Roland Nyankoon
where his legal counsels signed
for him.
In his ruling, Thursday, judge
Gbeneweleh said there were
two salient issues for the
determination of the Habeas
corpus which include: Whether
or not the petitioner was charged
and presented to court within
48 hours, as provided by the
1986 constitution and whether

or not the petition of habeas
corpus should be granted and
circumstances.
Said Judge Gbeneweleh: State
lawyers in count 2 of their
returns argued that the petitioner
was arrested on February 7, 2015
for matter relative to the public
pronouncements on the radio
talk show host concerning the
deportation of one Sam Fawaz
to Lebanon, but not predicated
upon his violation of curfew
laws, and they said that they
invited Costa but he refused and
failed and neglected to honor the
LNP invitation.
He continued: The fact is not
denied by the Government
that the petitioner (Costa) was
arrested along with 34 Liberians
in the same faithful morning of
February 7, 2015 for curfew
violation. It is also not denied
by the respondents that the other
34 were released and only the
petitioner (Costa) remained in
the custody of the LNP.
Judge Gbeneweleh stated that the
arrest of Costa and other follows
a violation of the curfew imposed
by the Liberian government due
to the outbreak of Ebola. This
court notes that curfew violation
is not a crime but an infraction
which is punishable by a fine of
US $25.00, the petitioner should

have been released just like
the other 34 since all of them
were outdoor during the curfew
hours and were arrested by LNP
officers, he said.
In his ruling, the judge said
the next issue is the invitation
allegedly extended to the
petitioner by the LNP to provide
some explanations relative to
the deportation of Fawaz, which
he (Costa) failed to honor the
invitation extended him.
The return of the Government
lawyer is devoid of any
documentary
evidence
to
substantiate their allegation that
the LNP invited Costa, a copy of
the said invitation should have
been attached to their returns.
He continued: This court is in
disagreement with the argument
of the state that the petitioner
placed himself in hiding, it is
unthinkable and inconceivable
that the petition placed himself
in hiding where he was in the
street upon his arrest by the LNP,
hence, the police should have
arrested, charged and sent him to
court as the law provides.
Judge Gbeneweleh said the State
did not charge the petitioner
neither sent him to court adding
that an appropriate writ should
have been issued end exhibited
before the court to substantiate
political institution.
NPP officials criticized Senator
Taylors decision to support
Jallah against the partys
candidate. Senator Howard
Taylor along with seven other
senators were Friday named on
the campaign team of Senator
Nagbe. The Secretary of the
Senate, Nanborlor Singhbe,
immediately swore in Jallah.
Meanwhile, Vandalark Patrick a
young Liberian political pundit
has criticized the Supreme
Court of Liberia for allowing
the Senate Pro-Temp elections to
proceed.
The Campaigners for Change
is totally frustrated and dejected
because of the gross violation of
our constitution, he said in an
interview with FrontPageAfrica
as he responded to the vote.
Article 47 of our constitution
states that the Senate shall elect
once every six years a Senate
Pro-Temp. And for the Senate
to have gone ahead and have an
election for the unexpired Tenure
of the Senate Pro-temp grossly
violates the constitution. What is
more frustrating is that to prevent
a petition to the Supreme Court.
Cllr. Phillip A. Z. Banks the
Justice in Chambers to decide
not to act on our petition clearly
signifies that the only alternative
to seek redress in this country is
to go to the bushes or to carry out
street protest or to engage in acts
of violence.
the conclusion of the police

investigation as stated by State
lawyers, that the petitioner was
to be charged and sent to court
before the petition was filed with
the court.
The powerful writ of habeas
corpus in our jurisdiction
guarantees the protection of
human rights of an accused
as in the instant case and this
court is under legal obligation
to grant the relief sought in this
proceeding.
Wherefore in view of the
foregoing, it is the ruling of this
court that the petitioners petition
for Habeas Corpus is and the
same is hereby granted. The
petitioner is hereby released from
further custody with immediate
effect and it is so order, stated
the Judge.
Speaking to reporters after the
ruling, PUL President Abdullai
Kamara condemned the wrongful
arrest and long detention of the
radio talk show host Costa.
It is wrong and government
should not continue it, we
consider the arrest and detention
of Costa as harassment, he said.
He applauded the ruling of
the judge and it should serve
as a caution to the Liberian
government in arresting people
and journalists in the country.
Kamara continued: We will
meet the government and
tell them not to continue the
premature arrest of journalist,
and the society needs to accept
that journalists are doing the job
and should not be harassed.
He also called on journalists in
the country to stand in solidarity
of free of expression so as to
enhance the work of the press.
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IN BRIEF
BOKO HARAM TAKES ON CHADIAN

FORCES IN NE NIGERIA TOWN
IRAN COMMANDER
SULEIMANI SAYS IS
'NEARING END'
Tehran (AFP) n influential Iranian

general
who
has
reportedly been near
the front line against
the Islamic State group was quoted
Thursday saying the jihadists are
"nearing the end of their lives".
General Qassem Suleimani, the
once rarely seen commander of
the powerful Quds Force, has
become the public face of Iran's
support for the Iraqi and Syrian
governments against jihadists.
He has frequently been pictured
on social media in Iraq with progovernment forces, including
Kurdish fighters and Shiite militia
units in battle areas.
"Considering the heavy defeats
suffered by Daesh and other
terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria,
we are certain these groups are
nearing the end of their lives,"
Suleimani was quoted as saying
by the semi-official Fars news
agency, using an Arabic acronym
for IS.
DEMOCRATS SETTLE ON
PHILADELPHIA AS SITE OF
2016 CONVENTION
WASHINGTON (AP)
emocrats have selected
Philadelphia as the
site of the party's 2016
national convention,
choosing a patriotic backdrop
for the nomination of its next
presidential candidate.
The
Democratic
National
Committee said Thursday the
convention will be held the week
of July 25, 2016. The two other
finalists were Brooklyn, New York,
and Columbus, Ohio.
"Philadelphia's deep-rooted place
in American history provides a
perfect setting for this special
gathering. I cannot wait to join
Democrats across the country to
celebrate our shared values, lay out
a Democratic vision for the future,
and support our nominee," Florida
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz,
the DNC chief, said in a statement.
The site could serve as a passing
of the baton from President
Barack Obama to Hillary Rodham
Clinton, the leading contender
for the party's nomination should
she run for president, as is widely
expected.
SYRIA REBELS CALL FOR HELP
AGAINST ASSAD AS DEATH TOLL RISES
BEIRUT (AP)
Syrian opposition leader
called Thursday on
world leaders to take
"immediate action" to
end government attacks on rebelheld suburbs of Damascus, amid
reports that some 150 people have
been killed in government airstrikes
in the past 10 days.
Khaled Khoja, leader of the Syrian
National Coalition, made the appeal
at a press conference held from the
group's base in Turkey.
The government has been pounding
the eastern suburbs of Damascus
known as Ghouta for days as part
of a military campaign against
rebel-held districts east and south
of the capital Damascus. Douma, a
sprawling town east of Damascus,
has taken the brunt of the airstrikes.
WORLD NEWS
N'Djamena (AFP) oko Haram on

Wednesday
launched a pre-dawn
raid in Gamboru,
northeastern Nigeria, looking
to overwhelm Chadian troops
who had pushed them out of
the border town.
The military in N'Djamena
said the militants were
repelled but the counter-attack
was an indication of the task
facing regional forces aiming
to crush the rebellion.
Troops from Chad, Cameroon
and Niger have been deployed
to fight the Islamists, whose
bloody insurgency has claimed
more than 13,000 lives since
2009 and now threatens
Nigeria's neighbours.
In Niger a suicide bomber was
killed, without causing any
other casualties, in the Diffa
region bordering Nigeria on
Wednesday, a local official
told AFP.
The bomber, a man or woman
wearing a hijab, was spotted by
police who opened fire. "The
explosion left no victims," the
official said.
Nigeria's President Goodluck
Jonathan defended a decision
to delay the country's general
election by six weeks because
of the unrest, saying he was
"very hopeful" that the multinational offensive will see
successes against the Islamists
in the coming weeks.
"Initially, our neighbours were
not too committed" to fighting
Boko Haram but the new
cooperation was promising, he
said.
MINSK, Belarus (AP)

uns would fall
silent,
heavy
weapons
would
pull back from
the front and Ukraine would
trade a broad autonomy for
the east to get back control of
its Russian border by the end
of 2015 under a peace deal
hammered out Thursday in
all-night negotiations between
Russia, Ukraine, France and
Germany.
The deal was full of potential
pitfalls that could derail its
implementation, however. In
announcing the plan, Russia
and Ukraine differed over
what exactly they had agreed
to in the marathon 16-hour
talks, including the status of
Debaltseve, a key town now
under rebel siege.
Russian President Vladimir
Putin told reporters that the
agreement envisages a ceasefire beginning Sunday (2200
GMT (5 p.m. EST) Saturday)
as well as a special status for
Ukraine's separatist regions and
provisions to address border
concerns and humanitarian
issues.
Ukrainian President Petro
Poroshenko said there was no
agreement on any autonomy
or federalization for eastern
Ukraine, a longtime demand
of Russia, which wants that
to maintain its leverage over
Ukraine and prevent its
Jonathan
also
dismissed
allegations that his political
interests
motivated
the
decision to push back the
polls initially scheduled for
February 14, in his first public
comments since the delay was
announced.
"I was not consulted and I
don't want to be consulted" on
the postponement, Jonathan
said in a nationally broadcast
interview,
insisting
that
election officials made an
independent decision after
receiving guidance from the
security agencies.
- Counter-attack Boko Haram's counter-attack
on Gamboru, which has been
repeatedly targeted in the past,
is an established tactic from
the militants, who have seized
dozens of towns and villages
since mid-2014.
The extent of the rebels'

control of the captured areas
has been hard to verify, with
claim and counter-claim that
the authority has repeatedly
switched
between
the
insurgents and the military.
Boko Haram's apparent ability
to regroup is a sign of its
transformation from a rag-tag
guerrilla group carrying out
hit and run strikes to a more
effective fighting force.
The insurgents were initially
pushed out of Gamboru, which
lies on the Nigerian side of the
border with Cameroon in the
eastern fringe of Borno state,
on February 3.
Chadian ground troops crossed
over the bridge marking the
frontier after days of sustained
bombardment. The following
day, rebel fighters counterattacked in the Cameroon

town of Fotokol.
"The Boko Haram elements
wanted to surprise us by
attacking at about 4:00 am
(0300 GMT)," a military
source in N'Djamena told AFP
of the latest attack.
"We were aware of it from the
day before and were prepared.
They arrived with 14 vehicles
and two armoured vehicles.
We repulsed them and they
retreated.
"A helicopter was brought in
to join the pursuit and destroy
them."
One Chadian soldier and
several Boko Haram fighters
were killed, while eight troops
were injured, the source said.
- Regional force Boko Haram has stepped up
the frequency and intensity of
its attacks since the turn of the
year, in part to undermine the
disagreed on the situation at

the government-held town of
Debaltseve.
"We now have a glimmer
of hope," said German
Chancellor Angela Merkel,
who brokered the talks in the
Belarusian capital of Minsk
together with French President
Francois Hollande. "But the
concrete steps, of course,
have to be taken. And we will
still face major obstacles.
But, on balance, I can say

what we have achieved gives
significantly more hope than if
we had achieved nothing."
More than 5,300 people have
died since April in eastern
Ukraine amid fighting between
the Russian-backed separatists
and government troops. Battles
still raged Thursday even as the
four leaders held peace talks.
The new deal envisages a 50to 140-kilometer (31- to 87mile) wide buffer zone as both
parties pull back heavy artillery
and rocket systems from
the front line, depending on
their caliber. The withdrawal
should begin no later than the
second day after the cease-fire
becomes effective and should
be completed within two
weeks.

In a win for Ukraine, the rebel
regions, which held their own
elections last fall that Ukraine
and the West declared a sham,
are obliged to hold a new local
vote under the Ukrainian law.
But in a key concession to
Russia, the deal says the
restoration of Ukrainian control
over its border with Russia in
rebel-controlled areas could
be completed only by the end
of 2015 and on the condition
Nigerian elections.
A devastating attack on
the fishing hub of Baga on
January 3 has been seen as
a turning point in regional
cooperation,
galvanising
neighbouring powers into
providing assistance to the
Nigerian Army.
Since then, there have been
repeated attacks in northern
Cameroon, while the Islamists
last weekend opened up a
new front across the border
in Niger, attacking the border
region of Diffa.
Niger President Mahamadou
Issoufou on Wednesday urged
his nation to stand up to Boko
Haram Islamists.
"Our country will not go
down in history as having
been cowed by an enemy that
wants to cover our country in
darkness," Issoufou said in a
speech broadcast on national
radio, urging Nigeriens to
support their security forces
in their battle against the
militants.
The appeal came a day after
Niamey imposed a 15-day
state of emergency in Diffa,
where thousands of Nigerians
have fled the violence.
Nigeria
maintains
the
involvement of troops from
Chad, Cameroon and now
Niger, after the parliament
in Niamey approved the
deployment of soldiers, is part
of an existing agreement.
At the same time, all four
countries, whose borders
converge on Lake Chad, with
Benin, Nigeria's neighbour to
the west, agreed to provide
8,700 personnel for an African
Union-backed regional force.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar
Shekau said in a video
published on Monday that
the group would defeat the
regional forces.
MARATHON TALKS PRODUCE UKRAINE

PEACE DEAL; CEASE-FIRE SUNDAY
neighbor from ever joining

NATO.
The deal, however, requires the
Ukrainian parliament to give
wide powers to the eastern
regions as a condition for
restoring Ukraine's full control
over its border with Russia
a provision certain to trigger
heated debate in Kiev.
Uncertainty remained even
on the cease-fire, as Putin
admitted he and Poroshenko
that Ukraine conducts a

constitutional reform granting
wide powers to the eastern
regions, including the right to
form their own police and to
trade freely with Russia.
"It was not the best night in my
life. But the morning, I think,
is good, because we have
managed to agree on the main
things despite all the difficulties
of the negotiations," Putin told
reporters.
Hollande said he and Merkel
are committed to helping
verify the cease-fire in Ukraine,
hailing the deal as a "relief to
Europe."
In Kiev, Ukrainian military
spokesman Andriy Lysenko
said despite the peace talks,
Russia sent 50 tanks and
a dozen heavy weapons
overnight into Ukraine.
In the rebel stronghold of
Donetsk, residents who have
seen their city pounded daily
by artillery since late May were
skeptical of the deal.
"We will see whether there will
be a cease-fire or not," Tatyana
Griedzheva said. "You have
seen it with your own eyes, the
kind of cease-fire that we have
already had."
Sports
Frontpage
FA OPT NOT TO CHARGE IVANOVIC

The defender thrust his head into the back of Everton midfielder James
McCarthy on Wednesday but has escaped retrospective punishment
arco Reus was

applauded by
his Borussia
Dortmund
team-mates
inside
the
dressing room after signing a
new contract, the club's coach
Jurgen Klopp revealed on
Wednesday.
The 25-year-old was widely
expected to leave Signal
Iduna Park in the summer,
with his previous deal
containing a 25 million buyout clause that had reportedly
attracted interest from Real
Madrid and several other top

European clubs.
But,
while
Dortmund
themselves had admitted they
were helpless to prevent his
departure had he opted to
leave, Reus sprung a surprise
by committing his future to
BVB until the summer of
2019, a decision which was
greeted warmly by his teammates.
"I am really happy he came to
his decision," Klopp said at a
press conference.
"Marco is very relaxed

now, very free. Ideally
we can convert this into a
performance. There was even
applause in the dressing room
which I thought was pretty
cool. Ideally this will happen
at the stadium, too.
"I am not only happy Marco
decided for us, I am happy he
decided for us this early. That
was important to us. It was
a decision on a joint future.
I am glad he receives the
recognition he deserves."
In
agreeing
his
new
contract, Reus added to the

renewed sense of optimism
at Dortmund on the back
of Saturday's 3-0 win over
Freiburg, a result that saw the
club climb off the bottom of
the Bundesliga table and into
16th place.
Klopp believes the winger's
actions set a valuable
example to the rest of the
dressing room, while praising
his conduct throughout the
negotiations. "I believe in
the symbolic strength of his
actions.
LAOS ADVENTURE UNDERWAY
wenty five Liberian

footballers
left
Accra, Ghana for
Laos on February
5 in search of greener pasture.
The delegation is led by good
will footballer, Alex Beyam
Karmo, along with others,
who have begun making
history in an unprecedented
fashion from a Liberian
football perspective.
The robust rearguard, alias
"Liberian Puyol", is captain
of Champasak Idsea Pakse
of Laos, led the players for
an academy and top flight
football purpose.
They departed Ghana via
Kenya Airways, which was
expected to arrive in Laos via
Thailand in the morning of
February 6.
First batch of Liberian footballers leave for the Fareast

Wleh Bedell, bedellblessing@yahoo.com
The Accra, Nairobi, Bangkok

and Pakse marathon journey
has brought to the fore a
monumental achievement by
the Champasak Academy that
have seen the need to invest
in talents from mostly Liberia

primarily due to the exploits
and discipline of their most
"Marco is a top player and

there were many clubs
interested. He behaved great
all this time and did not
comment on everything. He
never doubted his way and
now he has committed to
BVB with everything he has.
That is important."
As well as securing the future
of Reus, Dortmund also
added 16-year-old prospect
Christian Pulisic to their
ranks on Tuesday, and Klopp
believes the youngster has
joined the right club at which
to continue his development.
"He is a great football player,
he knows how to play," the
coach praised. "He did not
leave a negative impression
yesterday. We will do
everything we can so he can
develop quietly here. That is
something not so easy with
talented, young players as
you could see with [Martin]
Odegaard."
Klopp also revealed that Erik
Durm is likely to miss Friday's
clash with Mainz with flu,
while Sven Bender will also
be absent as he bids to return
to training next week. Striker
Adrian Ramos was left out of
Klopp's last squad completely
on Saturday but could earn a
recall.
"In Freiburg I decided to have
one striker on the bench, not
two. Adrian showed a very
good reaction in training. If
we have more fit players than
we can take with us, there'll
always be tight decisions. I
did not specifically decide
against Adrian Ramos."
influential player, Karmo.
The players are Alex Beyam
Karmo, Adolphus Mutu
Blamo, Abu Kamara, Anthony
Action Wesseh, Charles
Moive Buima, Snyder Yao
Titriku, Emmerson Papa-K
Wleh,
Marvin
Kowleh
Blapoh,
Boakai
Molu,
Amadiah Kawah, Joseph
Dante Broh and Exodus Nuch
Caine.
Others are Prince Balde,
William Freeman, Kpayou
Dad Ziah, Benjamin Jerteh
Sarkoh, Andrew Cephas
Karnga, Lawrence Kabela
Paigar, Kesselly Mohammed
Kamara,
Darryl
Politee
Tuning, Sheikh Gasimu
Kouyateh
Amidu Sesay a Sierra
Leonean, John Williams a
Ghanaian, Adama Kouroma
a Guinean and Rita Wewee
Nimely a Liberian cook.
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SPORTS
MANCHESTER UNITED DEBT

RISES TO 514.9 MILLION
anchester United
have recorded an
increase in debt
to 514.9 million
in their latest financial results.
The 20-time Premier League
champions' overall debt rose
by 32.1m from the previous
three-month figures, with the
exchange rate between the
US Dollar and Pound Sterling
contributing in part.
Overall revenue is down to
143m (14 per cent) from 12
months ago, largely due to the
reduced broadcast revenue as
a result of the club's absence
from
Champions
League
football and an early exit in the
League Cup.
HAZARD SIGNS
NEW CHELSEA DEAL
helsea
have
confirmed that Eden
Hazard has signed a
new five-and-a-halfyear deal with the club.
The Belgium international
has been in talks with the
Blues over a new contract for
several months and reports
in recent days suggested an
announcement was close.
Blues boss Jose Mourinho
joked this week that the delay
had been caused by the need for
him to go out and "buy a nice
new pen".
ROMA: WE NEARLY
SIGNED ODEGAARD
oma have revealed

they came close to
signing Norwegian
wonderkid Martin
Odegaard several years before
his move to Real Madrid in
January.
The 16-year-old is one of the
most highly-rated prospects in
world football and the Serie A
club were alerted to his quality
when he was just 12-years-old.
Odegaard was one of Roma
sporting
director
Walter
Sabbatini's first targets upon
his appointment at the Stadio
Olimpico in 2011 and the Italian
said he did his best to lure him
to Rome.
"During my first year in Rome
we became aware of Odegaard,"
he said in an interview with
Gazzetta dello Sport.
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arrack Young Controllers (BYC) and FC

Fassell will honor a continental engagement,
which have been eclipsed by Ebola, on
Sunday.
BYC are guests of Gambias Real de Banjul in the Caf
Champions League in Banjul.
The visitors have not played a competitive match since
drawing 0-0 with LISCR at the Antoinette Tubman
Stadium (ATS) on the final day of the LFA first division
league on March 25, 2014.
The draw ensured BYC won the championship for the
second successive season with a point above LPRC
Oilers.
BYC may appear match rusty but their five friendlies in
which they scored more than 24 goals suggest the Go
Blues Boys will not be a walk in the park.
Real go into the match in a better shape, having drawn
1-1 with Brikama United in the Gambian premier league
on February 7.
They are unbeaten after seven rounds, with three wins,
four draws, eight goals scored and five goals conceded.
Real are joint third on the 12-team table with 13 points,
one below Gamtel.
BYCs trip looks to be in jeopardy when Gambian
President Yaya Jammeh ordered the civil aviation
authority not to grant them landing rights due to fears
of spreading Ebola.
After several email exchanges with Caf, Gambian
and Liberian FAs, BYC president Sekou Konneh was
pleased that the impasse was resolved.
We had some hurdles from the Gambian authority but
we have finally gotten the go ahead for the airline to be
able to issue the tickets for our game, said Konneh.
Head coach Robert Lartey will not count on the services
of star midfielder Benjamin Gbamy, who has been
suspended by the LFA for his role in an under-20 saga in
which his teammates went on strike in demand of wages
due them.
Konneh said it was unfortunate that Gbamy alone had to
bear the burden of a collective decision.
This is quite unfortunate that the LFA has taken this
decision because we got involved from the onset and we
even went and got the materials [seized by the players]
and brought to the FA but Gbamy is being penalized for
something hes personally responsible for.
This was a collective decision of the team but being
the captain of the team, he had to take delivery of the
materials. So on the basis of that, he alone is
now suffering it [from the punishment], Konneh said.
He wondered why the head of delegation, team manager
and technical staff of the under-20 team, who lost 2-0 to
the Ivory Coast last May, werent neither investigated
nor penalized in relation to the strike action.

BYC are making their second successive
appearance in Caf competitions.
BYC II, their junior team, debuted in the
Confederation Cup in 2013 and eliminated
FC Johannes of Sierra Leone in the
preliminary before bowing out to Tanzanias
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Azem FC in the first round.

The senior team, BYC I eliminated
Ghanas Asante Kotoko on the away
goal rule (2-2 on aggregate) before
losing to Ivory Coasts Sewe Sport 4-3
on aggregate in the first round of the
Champions League in March 2014.
Elsewhere, Fassell and AC Horoya
of Guinea will be pleased they didnt
endure off the field problems like
BYC, although the Confederation of
African Football (Caf) banned football
activities in Guinea, Sierra Leone and
Liberia due to the Ebola epidemic.
Like BYC, Fassell have not played a
competitive match since the Soccer
Missionaries beat Nimba United 5-2 in
a second division championship playoff at the ATS on March 17, 2014.
Horoya will enter the 50,000 capacity
Stade du 26-Mars in Bamako in a
buoyant mood, having beaten Fello
Star 3-1 on February 6 in Ligue One.
They are unbeaten in six games and top
the league with 14 points (four wins,
two draws, 11 goals for and four goals
against).
Fassell will also host Horoya at the
same venue on February 27 after the
Malian Football Association agreed
to a request from the Liberia Football
Association (LFA).
One bad omen is that Liberian teams,
whether at club or national level, have
not won away in many years. So a draw
will be good for BYC and Fassell ahead
of the return legs.
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