By Tokpa Tarnue, tarnue82@gmail.com
VOINJAMA, Liberia- A massive search has been launched in Zenalormai, the northwestern Voinjama District, Lofa County for a missing school teacher.
This area is 387 kilometers from the Liberian capital, Monrovia.
Josephine Akoi, 46, went missing since January 12, 2020 on their farm where she and her husband William Esiah had gone to harvest plantain on her request.
“While cutting the cutting the plantain, she walked away and came back with a wood and hit my head with it from the back and I fell to the ground so that was how she wasted the caustic soda on my head and in my left eye” Esiah explain.
According to the husband’s account, his wife subsequently fled into the bush following that attack on him, leaving him in pain and tears.
The clothes she wore that very day are said to have been found in the bushes, according to some of the residents who are demanding that Esiah the husband be held a prime suspect.
Normal farming activities in Zenalorma and surrounding towns and villages have come to a standstill following the mysterious disappearance Madam Akoi as the search continues to establish her whereabouts.
Police authorities in Lofa have confirmed the incident. The Commander of the Criminal Services Department of the Liberia National Police assigned in Lofa, James Taylor, also confirmed the involvement of the police in the for the missing schoolteacher and called on others to assist in the operation.
The couple are said to have been married for 20 years now, and that their marriage is blessed with five biological children.