PHOTO; The four that were mysteriously found dead recently
By Cllr. Frederick A.B. Jayweh
Why have Liberia and her citizens’ image, respectability, and standing driven so low, and why is the value of human life devalued and underestimated in Liberia? Undeniably, why has Liberia today become a country of men and not laws and accountability?
The unjustified and unexplained deaths reportedly taking place today in Liberia in the space of 8 days don’t speak well of Liberia and its people as to maintaining national peace, security, and stability. Friday, October 2, 2020, Mr. Albert K. Peters and Mrs. Gifty Asmah Lama were found dead. Their lifeless bodies were discovered in a parked vehicle identified as belonging to and owned by Mr. Alpert K. Peters.
Interestingly, the Liberian National Police (LNP), admittedly tempered with, compromised and contaminated the alleged crime scene by irregularly taking away and transporting the bodies of Mr. Peters and Mrs. Lama from the purported crime scene and over to the St Moses Funeral Home in Gardnerville, near the City of Monrovia, void of preserving and protecting the alleged crime scene to ensure the proper criminal investigation and establishment of their cause of death and who might have murder Mr. Peters, Mrs. Lama and dumped their bodies on Snapper Hill, Broad Street, City of Monrovia.
Sunday and Saturday, October 4 and October 10, 2020, Mr. George F. Fahnboto and Emmanuel B. Nyesuwa also separately and reportedly died under mysterious and unexplained circumstances. Within the space of 8 days, Liberia lost four highly productive and law-abiding citizens. Mr. Peters, Mrs. Lama, Mr. Fahnboto, and Mr. Nyesuwa were auditors and financial experts auditing the Government of Liberia’s accounts.
Whatsoever the cause of the death of Mr. Peters, Mrs. Lama, Mr. Fahnboto, and Mr. Nyesuwa is, and who might have murdered them, Liberia and residents will never be the same. Liberia and residents are deeply traumatized and minute-by-minute living under well-founded and unwarranted fear. Liberia and its people are in the news.
Liberia and residents are in the news for the wrong reasons, nationally and internationally. Everywhere Liberians and residents go, they and their families will have to, unfortunately, be compelled to answer whether they are Liberians and from the country where four of its promising and productive citizens were allegedly murdered. The reported and unexplained deaths of Mr. Albert K. Peters, Gifty Asmah Lama, Mr. George F. Fahnboto, and Mr. Emmanuel B. Nyesuwa, all auditors and financial experts will always hunt Liberia and residents as they travel to and through foreign nations and their airports.
Liberians residing abroad and at home are admonishing fellow Liberians not to prematurely point accusing fingers at the George Manneh Weah-led Government, while others are asking why not. Arguably, this group of Liberians contends and says the Manneh Weah-led Government encouraged and brought this on itself by hiring and mixing former rebel and unreformed wartime generals and fighters with separate and distinct egregious human rights records amongst Liberia’s National Security Agencies.
Whether the George Manneh Weah-led Government knows or has reason to know who allegedly targeted, kidnapped, tortured, and murdered Mr. Peters, Mrs. Lama, Mr. Fahnboto, and Mr. Nyesuwa or not, the facts remain President George Manneh Weah and his Government callously and rashly recruited, hired and mixed wartime generals Daniel K. Bracewell, Augustine Nagbe, Siafa Normah, Alphonso Diah, and others notorious rebel and diehard fighters amongst Liberia’s National Security Agencies void of reflecting on the impact of their past murderous and heinous records.
Irrefutably, the mysterious and unexplained deaths of Mr. Peters, Mrs. Lama, Mr. Fahnboto, and Mr. Nyesuwa will certainly and always hunt Liberia and residents.
According to and consistent with the laws of Liberia, a person is guilty of murder if he:
(a) Purposely or knowingly causes the death of another human being; or
(b) Causes the death of another human being under the circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to the value of human life. Murder is a felony of the first degree. Still, a person convicted of murder may be sentenced to death or life imprisonment as provided in Sections 50.5 and 51.3 Penal Law Title-26- Liberian Code of Laws Revised, § 14.1. Murder.
Liberia and residents cannot afford to have criminal-minded wicked people running Liberia’s streets, murdering anyone at their will and pleasure. JUSTICE MUST BE SWIFTLY DONE!