FLASHBACK: Zwedru Police station burnt last week by angry mob
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
The Liberia National Police (LNP) has arrested 16 people in Liberia’s Grand Gedeh for the recent looting and destruction of properties during mob violence over the death of a man in the capital, Zwedru last week.
Last Tuesday, May 18, 2021, a man believed to be in his early 30s identified as Abraham Flaka was confirmed dead health authorities at the Martha Tubman memorial hospital.
According to the reports, the deceased and a Fulani only known as Amadu had a misunderstanding in April of this year, which surrounds ten Liberians dollars change that resulted into serious argument that led to a fist fight between the both of them.
A report said the deceased Flaka was a correction palace officer assigned at the Palace of correction in Grand Gedeh County, who went to purchase water from Amadu sometime last month.
One week earlier, ust weeks ago, it was an unleashing of mob violence in Maryland and Nimba Counties, now it is the turn of Grand Gedeh County in the southeast of Liberia.
In the latest act of mob violence/mob justice on Tuesday, May 18, 2021, there was death and the burning down of a police station in the city of Zwedru, but latest reports from the area Wednesday morning say calm is returning to this city.
The issue to burning public facilities is becoming a common practice and a way of solving problem in Liberia by Motorcyclists after donors and other international partners had invested millions in some of those public facilities. Weeks ago in Harper city there was vandalizing of the Harper Central prison as well as arson attack on the home of House Speaker Bohfal Chambers in Pleebo and recently there was riot and burning of a major warehouse in Ganta, Nimba County as a result of land dispute.
Huge amount retrieved from Paynesville armed robbers
Meanwhile, Police in Monrovia say they have retrieved over three hundred thousand Liberian Dollars and returned it to frozen food center in the Red light area, where the five armed robbers were killed.
The armed robbery was said to be masterminded by one of the cold storage workers who is currently on the run.
Armed robbers said to have been gunned down in exchange of fire with police
Police in Monrovia say they have retrieved over three hundred thousand Liberian Dollars and returned it to frozen food center in the Red light area, where the five armed robbers were killed.
The armed robbery was said to be masterminded by one of the cold storage workers who is currently on the run.
Last week, the Police Anti-Robbery Unit of the Liberia National Police early Thursday morning (May 20, 2021) gunned down five suspected armed robbers in the commercial district of Red Light in Paynesville, near Monrovia.
This latest incident comes in the wake of a serious upsurge in armed robbery attacks on peaceful residents across the Liberian capital and its environs in recent times.
The men were said to have entered a cold storage store being operated by an Indian national and burst into the safe said to contain around LD$500, 000 dollars. The current exchange rate is one United States dollar to 170-171 Liberian dollars.
Their bodies were displayed along with a kit bag choked with Liberian dollar banknotes of various denominations. Also displayed before the Fresh Frozen Food Incorporated was the oxygen tank used to burst into the safe.