TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia—Sam Wolobah, who recently impersonated as a Medical Doctor and performed an operation at the Lofa Medical Service Clinic in Monrovia’s Paynesville suburb, has been indicted by the Grand Jury for Montserrado County for the crime of murder, as Garmah Never Lomo reports.
The indictment said, upon oath, do hereby find more probably than not, that the defendant, Sam Worlobah to be identified, committed the crime of MURDER, in violation of Title 26, Chapter 14, Section 14.1 of the new penal code of the republic of Liberia as follows, to wit:
According to the indictment, on the 18th day of March, A.D 2025 in the Jacob Town Community, Paynesville City, Montserrado County, Republic of Liberia, the Defendant, Sam Worłobah did commit the crime of murder in that;On the date and time mentioned the deceased; Samuel P Kollie had gone along with his sister Mary Kollie to the Lofa Medical Services Clinic in Jacob Town, Paynesville city, to seek medical treatment and was received by you Defendant Sam Worlobah; Mediation operation
It further stated that defendant Sam Worlobah received in his medical facility now deceased Samuel P. Kollie to have him treated for acute abdominal pain. Accordingly, Defendant Sam Worlobah conducted physical examinations by only lifting of victim’s legs and pressed his stomach and was then and there diagnosed of, suffering from appendicitis (appendices) and also diagnosed with Hepatitis-B positive.
Defendant Sam Worlobah concluded that Samuel Kollie needed a quick operation and charged the victim and his sister the sum of USD 275.00, to which the victim sister Mary Kollie told the defendant that the amount charged was too much and begged to pay USD 225.00 which the defendant accepted and carried out the operations
It was established that defendant Sam Worlobah assumed the risk of not being a Registered Licensed Doctor; criminally, unlawfully, intentionally, purposely, knowingly conducted a SURGERY on the victim and thereafter administered injections to cure pains from the patient’s wound, while victim Samuel P. Kollie was admitted at the Lofa Medical Services Clinic undergoing observation as the result of the Surgery, he met his death on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 10:00 am;
The indictment added that the Lofa Medical Services Clinic is criminally and unlawfully owned by the within-named criminal Defendant Sam Worlobah and the aforesaid clinic is not accredited by the Liberia Medical and Dental Board to carry on surgical procedures. The Clinic does not have the standards and facilities required to carry out major surgical procedures in such a case;
That defendant Sam Worlobah is not a licensed medical Doctor/surgeon to carry out surgical procedure; instead he impersonated thereby acting in said capacity that resulted into the death of victim Samuel P. Kollie on Wednesday, March 19, 2025 after spending a day at said facility under the direct supervision of the defendant Sam Worlobah.
A person is guilty of murder if he:
- a) Purposely or knowingly causes the death of another human being; or Causes the death of another human being under the circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life.
A rebuttable presumption that such indifference exists arises if the defendant is engaged or is an accomplice in the commission of, or an attempt to commit, or flight after committing or attempting to commit, treason, offenses defined in section 11.2 or 11.3 of this title, espionage, sabotage, robbery, BURGLARY, Kidnapping, felonious restraint arson, rape aggravated involuntary sodomy, escape, piracy, or other felony involving force or danger to human life.
Murder is a felony of the first degree but a person convicted of murder may be sentenced to death or life imprisonment as provided in Section 50.5 and 51.3.
Contrary to 4LCLR, Title 26, Section 14.1. (a, b); and of the statutory laws of the Republic of Liberia; against the peace and dignity of the Republic of Liberia.