PHOTO; Cllr. Cephas and Ellen Corkrum
By Augustine Octavius, augustineoctavius@gmail.com
A leaked audio of a conversation between Liberia’s Solicitor General and the former Liberia Airport Authority Managing Director, Ellen Corkrum has startling revelations about allegations linking SG Syrenius Cephas and a former LURD rebel general Ofori Diaz to allegedly being involved in ritualistic human sacrifice.
Ellen Corkrum has also claimed that SG Cephas also took thousands of US dollars bribe from her to remove the travel ban placed on her by the previous government of President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, as a result of a corruption indictment on her.
But Cllr. Cephas has denied the claims. He told the local OK Fm radio on Monday, September 6, 2021 that Ms. Corkrum’s allegation is false and that he has never been involved in human sacrifice, describing himself as a “devout Christian.
Ms. Corkrum said former rebel General, Ofori Diaz and Cephas some time ago requested funds to find the heads of three virgins for human sacrifice to resolve the case against in Liberia and the United States.
In the US, Ms. Corkrum is slated to be sentenced to many years in jail for fraud.
The Justice Department of the State of Georgia in the USA recently said Ms. Corkrum has admitted to defrauding the Paycheck Protection Program of over US$6 million and has pleaded guilty.
Last week, during a local radio interview, the former Liberia Airport Authority Managing Director, Ellen Conkrum, claimed that her mother’s truck has been impounded based on the instruction of the former rebel General Ofori Diah, who has been harassing her to make available 4,000 United States Dollars purposely to find three heads of virgins for human sacrifice.
During the weekend, the newspublictrust.com obtained a recording of the conversation between the Solicitor General and the former LAA Managing Director on plan for the former rebel general to do human sacrifice with the heads of three virgins by a Guinean medicine man.
She identified the Guinean medicine man as Safia Watara and he is residing in a village along the Liberian-Guinean border
In the recording, which was made on August 28, 2021, Counselor Syrenus Cephus in conversation with the Ellen Conkrum, was heard rejecting the proposal by Ofori Diaz for 4,000 United States Dollars for human sacrifice by the medicine man
According the Ms. Conkrum, Ofori has taken he (Counselor Cephus) and Bobby Livingstone, Secretary General of the Liberia National Bar Association of Liberia, to the medicine man in Lofa County before.
The former airport Managing Director, Corkrum claimed that Ofori informed her that he has also taken the heads of virgins to the medicine man on behalf President George Weah and Presidential Affairs Ministe,r Nathaniel McGill to the Guinean medicine man in Lofa County sometimes ago
She explained that Ofiri is annoyed with her because of the delay in providing the fund so he wants to use the solicitor general to receive the fund because he ( Ofori) is embossing her with calls daily
But in respond, Counselor Cephus demanded that Madam Conkrum to text him the medicine man’s Guinean and Liberian numbers
He termed General Ofiri as a criminal because he (Cephus) has never accompanied the former rebel general anywhere to do any human sacrifice as he told her.
The recording, which is about six minutes and fifty-five seconds long, Madam Conkrum was heard referring to Counselor Cephus as her husband.
Last week, the local Prime FM carried a news story on claims by Madam Conkrum that the Liberia’s Solicitor General was linked to plan aimed at encouraging her to fund the catching of three virgins for human sacrifices and impounding a truck belonging to her mother
Ms. Conkrum began hitting the headlines when she announced her intent for the nation’s presidency when she addressed members of the Liberian community of Staten Island in New York, the United States after accusing the Liberian government of been ‘insensitive’ to the plight of the Liberian people who she claimed are drowning in abject poverty, while officials of the Unity Party led government allegedly plunder the wealth of the people.
Ellen Corkrum a mid-career Master in Public Administration, and candidate of MIT Sloan Fellow inn Innovation and Global Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School in the United States was not heard off until her appointment to head the Liberia Airport Authority in the Unity Party-led government
She and partner Melvin Johnson were charged in 2013 by the Liberian government with the crimes of economic sabotage, theft of property, criminal conspiracy and misapplication of entrusted property.
The couple were indicted for allegedly defrauding the Liberian government of more than 269,000 United States Dollars.
They mysteriously escaped the country allegedly with the aid of some Liberian security officials.
Before her departure, Madam Corkrum had clandestinely recorded several Liberian government officials unknowingly., which is a violation of the Liberian law.
Ms. Corkrum, who changed her name in the US in 2016, came visited Liberia after former President Sirleaf left office during the current George Weah administration, and returned to America without any incident.
It is reported that “Federal agents were able to seize approximately $2.1 million of the fraudulent proceeds.”
Following the exits of the Unity Party-led government, Ms. Conkrum surfaced in Liberia during the early days of President George Weah but escaped under cover of darkness when it was leaked that she was about to be arrested by the Liberian government.