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MONROVIA News Extra
VOL 8 NO.617
TUESDAY, JUNE 17, 2014
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LOW QUALITY, HIGH VOLUMES

EXECUTIVE MANSION
MAKEUP- CHANGES FOR THE WORSE?
THE DARK SIDE OF CHINESE
CONTRACTORS IN LIBERIA
In Sierra Leone, for example, road projects are moving at a fast pace primarily because Chinese
companies are not allowed to bid on EU projects, especially in the wake of European Union auditors
insistence that the EU improve management of its infrastructure development projects after fnding
that roads in several sub-Saharan countries werent built to last.
RAMPAGING CATERPILLARS
INVADE BONG VILLAGE
COMMUNITY NEWS Politics
World Bank Opens
Offce in Liberia
TESTAMENT OF
CONFIDENCE
EVICTION DILEMMA
County Residents Express Fear of
Creatures Looking Different
Over 6,000 Mount Barclay
Residents become homeless
ECOWAS Board Of Governors
End Monrovia Meeting
MOBILIZING
INVESTMENT

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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Rodney D. Sieh, rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com
Monrovia -
D
r. Chris Neyors open letter to Liberian president
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf eclipsed much of the
discussion in Monrovia Monday, with many
Liberians deciphering between the lines while
others were left questioning the timing of the letters release,
coinciding with Neyors entry into the rugged jungle of
the post-war nations political terrain as a candidate in the
upcoming Montserrado County senatorial elections.
In his communication, Dr. Neyor accused President Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf of masterminding a plot to destroy him so that
her son, Robert Sirleaf, who is yet to announce his intentions,
could have an easy path to the Senate seat for Montserrado
County and eventually to the Presidency of Liberia in the
2017 election to succeed his mother.
Writes Neyor: Your threat to destroy me comes at a time
when there are media reports of your son, Robert frantically
trying to buy off all the Montserrado Countys senatorial
candidates and promising cash for others to abandon their
political parties to support his candidacy for Montserrado.
Your threats with Roberts millions. Despite these threats, I
will remain a formidable candidate for the senate race. I take
your statement as a serious threat to my person because in our
part of the world when a President with all the power of the
State wants to destroy a citizen, the order is usually followed
to the letter.
Neyor alludes to several ways he says, could be used to ruin
him, declaring: Destroying a citizen can take many forms
including made up accidents, poison, fabrication of stories
that attacks ones integrity or loyalty to the State (sedition,
terrorism, etc.) or any combination of these plus more. I know
you and your son are capable of this because we have gone
down that road before when including when he tried to frame
me as anti-American and had me under 24hr surveillance
when I was removed from NOCAL. Madame President, you
swore in your oath of offce as our President to uphold the
constitution, which guarantees the protection of life, liberty
and property of every citizen.
The Executive Mansion did not address the issue Monday,
but seeking clarity on the issue, FrontPageAfrica contacted
the Offce of Robert A Sirleaf (ORAS), for a response to
some of the charges made by Neyor.
Sirleaf took the high road with, stating in a statement sent
via email that while Mr. Sirleaf respects and encourages
all who have interest in the 2014 Senatorial by-elections to
participate as it is their democratic and Constitutional right,
Mr. Sirleaf possesses the same right as any other, but has not
made such a decision, which remain personally his.
Nevertheless, Mr. Sirleaf described Neyors assault as shallow
and factually incorrect. We will continue to see shallow,
factually incorrect, and politically motivated statements.
We feel for those individuals. We believe time, effort, and
energy, is better spent actually doing positive things for the
people, than creating fctional story lines which havent any
impact on the lives of the average Liberian.
Record Speaks for Itself
The statement continued:
Robert Sirleafs priority is and always will be to care for the
Liberian people. As such, Robert Sirleaf continues to show
concern for people, and even from a privileged position, has
continued to demonstrate this. He gives hope hope that is
tangible; hope through change that you can see and you can
feel; hope that speaks through actions, and is less on words.
From Christian values, we feel it is best to help than to
destroy; to build up, and not to tear down. Regardless of the
politics, we will continue to encourage all others to join and
participate in ongoing uplifting programs for the betterment
of our country and its people. Robert Sirleaf remains focused,
as he has been for the past 5 years on improving and touching
the lives of the people of Montserrado through meaningful
programs and actions of empowerment and enrichment. His
record speaks for itself.
While Sirleaf has not made his intentions clear about
whether or not he intends to join what is rapidly becoming
a crowded feld in the Montserrado County race - one that
includes football legend George Weah, incumbent Joyce
Musu Freeman, Benjamin Sanvee of the opposition Liberty
Party and Neyor, many political observers say, Neyors
claims could serve as a gauging point of how polarizing the
campaigning for Montserrado could become.
Pundits were divided on talk radio Monday over Neyors
letter. These are damaging allegations that if proven could
undo the presidency, declared Menipakei Dumoe, host of
Hot Morning Live on Hott FM 107.9. On the rival, Voice
102.7, some callers to the Henry Costa morning show felt
vindicated at some of the claims made by Neyor while some
expressed disappointment at the tone of Neyors letter.

The letter comes as many senior administration offcials,
including some in Neyors camp have been coy over his
abrupt removal from the National Oil Company of Liberia,
following the 2011 re-election of Sirleaf, with some
suggesting that the departure centered around his handling
of the controversial Oil Block 13 which even Neyor is quick
to admit would become a campaign issue as many are still
baffed over why he was abruptly let go or what led to his
dismissal. The Sirleaf administration never fully explained
why Neyor was let go and neither has Neyor.
Critics of Neyor are also suggesting that his coming out
critique of the presidency, which some administration aides
say is aptly timed for the upcoming senatorial campaign
season, is meant to score political points against his potential
opponents, in this case, Sirleaf.
Neyor alluded to that much when he wrote that the President,
in her quest to ruin his senatorial quest, is looking to position
her son, Roberts easy path to the Senate seat for Montserrado
County and eventually to the Presidency of Liberia in the
2017 election to succeed you. Your threat to destroy me
comes at a time when there are media reports of your son,
Robert frantically trying to buy off all the Montserrado
Countys senatorial candidates and promising cash for others
to abandon their political parties to support his candidacy for
Montserrado. Your threats to destroy me emanates from the
fact that I have grass root support and I cannot be purchased
even with Roberts millions. Despite these threats, I will
remain a formidable candidate for the senate race.
More than political? Fundamentally Wrong
In the wake of a divided public opinion, there are some critics
suggesting that Neyors motives may be more than political.
The former NOCAL boss, currently the founder and CEO of
Morweh Energy Group based in Monrovia, appears to have
been frustrated by bottlenecks encountered in dealings with
the National Port Authority over a logistics base and why
government is giving more leverage to foreign frms over
locals.
Writes Neyor: Madame President, you know the value of
a logistics base and the opportunities it provides to local
citizens for business. I got at NOCAL three months before
exploration drilling commenced and there was no preparation
for a logistics base. I took you on one of the oilrigs where
you noticed Ghanaians were providing catering and other
services and I warned you that we had to do something about
a logistics base. The highlight of your state visit to Angola in
2011 was atour we made of the Luanda oil and gas logistics
base. Since I left NOCAL, the initiative for a logistics base
was stalled until I mobilized seven other Liberian investors
and international expertise to construct the base upon lease of
appropriate land at the Port of Buchanan from the NPA. Two
years and counting, the land has not been granted though you
tell me you support the project but then have your NPA head
told to not do it. Yet millions of dollars are pumped into the
Ghanaian economy for each oil well drilled in Liberia while
our young people go unemployed, the education system is
a mess according to you and people continue to live in
unbelievable slums, most of them around Monrovia. This is
just fundamentally wrong.
Neyors company focuses on strategic analysis and
investments in the emerging power and oil and gas sectors
across Africa.
Neyor was up to February 2012 President and Chief Executive
Offcer of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL).
In this role he presided over the day-to-day operation of the
largest state-owned enterprise and guided the entity through
its frst set of oil exploration wells including one discovery
now being appraised by the National legislature.
It is unclear what impact if any the revelations by Neyor
will have on the Montserrado County senatorial race. What
is certain for now, is the uncertainty surrounding Sirleafs
potential candidacy as he remains coy about his intentions.
Although Mr. Robert Sirleaf possesses the same right as
any other, he has not made such a decision. No one will
either compel him to or intimidate him from doing so, his
statement said Monday.
According to the National Elections Commission, the
preliminary list of candidates published is expected to take
place on July 27, 2014 while August 12, 2014 will be witnessed
the fnal list of candidates published. Political campaign
period will commence August 12-October 12, 2014 with
candidates appearing for debate on August 15-September 30,
2014. October 14, 2014 is Election Day while announcement
of fnal results will be released on October 29, 2014.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014 Page 3


SAME RIGHT AS ANY - FULL TEXT OF ROB SIRLEAFS OFFICE RESPONSE TO NEYORS LETTER
Monrovia
The Offce of Robert A. Sirleaf (ORAS)
respects and encourages all who have
intentions to contest in the 2014 Senatorial
Elections to participate. It is their democratic
and constitutional right to do so. Although Mr.
Robert Sirleaf possesses the same right as any
other, he has not made such a decision. No
one will either compel him to or intimidate
him from doing so.
We will continue to see shallow, factually
incorrect, and politically motivated
statements. We feel for these individuals.
We believe our time, effort, and energy are
best spent actually doing positive things for
our people rather than creating fctional story
lines which have no impact on the lives of
Liberians.
Robert Sirleafs priority is and always will be
to care for the Liberian people.
As such, Robert Sirleaf continues to show
concern for people, and even from a privileged
position, has continued to demonstrate this.
He gives hope hope that is tangible; hope
through change that you can see and you can
feel; hope that speaks through actions, and is
less on words.
From Christian values, we feel it is best to
help than to destroy; to build up, and not to
tear down. Regardless of the politics, we will
continue to encourage all others to join and
participate in ongoing uplifting programs for
the betterment of our country and its people.
Robert Sirleaf remains focused, as he has
been for the past 5 years on improving
and touching the lives of the people of
Montserrado through meaningful programs
and actions of empowerment and enrichment.
His record speaks for itself.
From left, NOCAL CEO Chris Neyor, Advisor to the President Robert Sirleaf and
Chevron In the end, Sirleaf effectively addressed one of Chevron's concerns ..



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Tuesday, June 17, 2014
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O
n May 12, 2014 Mr. Thomas Jucontee Woewiyu, a
Liberian warlord who, together with convicted war
criminal Charles Taylor, led the NPFL as it committed
some of the worst imaginable human rights violations,
war crimes and crimes against humanity, ever witnessed in modern
human history, was arrested and charged with lying to U.S. federal
authorities in his bid to gain U.S. citizenship and to enjoy the
safe haven and security of the rule of law that he denied many of
his victims in Liberia. Under Mr. Woewiyus military command
of the NPFL, political opponents, humanitarian aid workers,
missionaries, and civilians were tortured and murdered, women
and girls were raped and forced into sex slavery, and thousands of
civilians were killed.
In this document I make the case that Mr. Woewiyu must be
charged and tried for war crimes, crimes against humanity and
for violation of international humanitarian law, for his role in
perpetrating those heinous crimes. I also make the case why the
U.S. government must charge and try Mr. Woewiyu for his role in
committing some of the worst violations of international law seen
in this century. The US
Government can prosecute Woewiyu under the Federal
Extraterritorial Torture Statute (18 USC 2340A) This statute
makes it a crime for anyone present in the United States, whether
or not they are U.S. citizens, to commit, or to attempt or conspire
to commit, torture abroad, regardless of the nationality of the
victim(s).
Liberia is a country long governed on the basis of abuse and
impunity, a nation that has a very scant history of accountability
and the rule of law. Settled in 1832 by freed slaves brought from
the United States, Liberia was touted as a test case for black
self-rule and African democracy. The country was supposed to
be the beacon that showed the light and paved the way for the
rest of the dark continent. More than a century of misrule,
segregation and discrimination and downright cruelty by the small
settler class however, over the majority population betrayed this
promise and led to the military intervention of April 12, 1980. The
boiling anger that characterized the settler class misrule led to the
massive euphoria with which the population greeted the coup; in
the hope that this intervention would unify the country and bring
about genuine democratic rule and governance. This promise
was also betrayed by the brutality of the coup leaders; setting the
stage for a callous, vicious civil war that claimed thousands of
lives and displayed some of the most egregious abuses noted in
human history. The opportunity to put Liberia on the road to a true
democratic society governed by the rule of law, accountability and
democracy
was squandered when warlords, the very ones who perpetrated
the dastardly abuses during Liberias seventeen year civil war,
were given power to decide the issues of peace and accountability.
And they wrote peace agreements, passed policies and erected
roadblocks that would immune them from prosecution for their
crimes.

WHY WOEWIYU MUST BE TRIED FOR WAR CRIMES
The trial of Thomas J. Woewiyu for war crimes will be signifcant
in that it will be the frst trial related to the crimes committed
in Liberia during the course of the countrys brutal civil war. As
such it will represent an acknowledgement by the international
community of the horrible crimes committed against the Liberian
people, and it will open the door to future prosecutions for crimes
related to the war. His trial will also be a milestone in the direction
of reversing the deeply entrenched culture of impunity, instituting
accountability and putting Liberia on the path to recovery, stability,
and democratic nationhood. It will signal an end to impunity for
the crimes committed in Liberia, send a very strong message that
those who commit similar crimes will one day have their day of
reckoning; it will help to heal the wounds of victims and give
meaning and purpose to human rights standards, and it will send
a message to others, including would-be perpetrators of similar
crimes, that they will not enjoy safe haven in the United States.

TOM WOEWIYUS ABUSES
Tom Woewiyus crimes are horrendous and numerous. He is
a war criminal; guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity,
and violations of international human rights and humanitarian
law. His crimes include mass murder, rape, torture, and the
conscription, enlistment and use of child soldiers. As a founding
member and Defense Minister of the NPFL, responsible for the
rebel movements military policy, command and practices, Mr.
Woewiyu shares responsibility for the heinous crimes committed
by the National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL). As Defense
Minister/Defense spokesman of the NPFL, Mr. Woewiyu was
responsible for the crime of incitement to mass murder through
his repeated pronouncements and calls to violence and revenge;
occasioning the mass murder by NPFL forces against members of
the Krahn and Mandingo ethnic groups, as collective punishment
for abuses by Samuel Doe and his administration.
Under Mr. Woewiyu co-leadership, the NPFL also affected its
campaign of eliminating political opponents, perceived or real;
including Moses Duopu, Dr. Stephen Marka Yekeson, Jackson F.
Doe, Stephen Daniels, among many others.
It is common knowledge that the National patriotic Front of
Liberia (NPFL) was responsible for some of the worst abuses
committed in the Liberian confict, including rape, torture, the
conscription, enlistment and use of child soldiers, mass murder
as collective punishment on the basis of ethnicity, the murder of
political opponents, rape, and the abduction and use of girls and
women as sex slaves, among many other very serious violations
of international human rights and humanitarian law. Mr.
Woewiyu directed and supervised the military policy, planning
and operations of the NPFL and oversaw its day-to-day military
operations and activities during the period of the commission of
these crimes.
As Defense Minister Mr. Woewiyu was a paramilitary leader who
exercised policy, strategic and operational command over the
NPFLs military activities; as such he bears responsibility for the
abuses committed by the Front.
The Doctrine of Command Responsibility imposes individual
responsibility on leaders with control over their forces for the
crimes committed by those forces if they either knew or, owing
THE WAR CRIMES CASE AGAINST TOM WOEWIYU-
WHY THE U.S. MUST PROSECUTE WOEWIYU FOR
WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
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Commentary
EDITORIAL
In many countries around the world, the private sector is the
engine of growth and it stimulates the growth of the entire
economy.
When jobs are created in the private sector, they are more
stable than political jobs since governments in Africa are based
on interest and connection, where people who work in one
government are swept aside by another regime.
In Liberia, the private sector is not strong as compared to other
West African countries like Ghana, Nigeria and others with
large private sector comprising manufacturing, construction
and others making reliance on Government job high.
Liberians are not empowered in terms of financial and other
laws to compete against powerful foreign companies and
entrepreneurs and this has led to foreign merchants completely
taking over the local economy.
The Lebanese, other Asians and other foreigners are more
involved in business than Liberians and as one Liberian
involved in Vehicle rental told FrontPageAfrica in a frustrated
mood recently, Liberian lawmakers and government officials
prefer doing business with foreigners because they easily get
kickbacks from the foreigners which a Liberian entrepreneur
will not be willing to pay.
They say Liberians are not good at doing business that is not
true, it is because there is too much bureaucracy, politics and
envy amongst Liberians so sometimes that is why we stay with
the NGOs. You get a contract and bring other Liberians to benefit
so that we can build the economy, you perform to expectation
or even beyond yet our own Liberians say no, they prefer a
foreign company either a Ghanaian, Nigerian or Lebanese
because we are supposed to build Beirut Reuben M. Carto,
General Manager of Efficient Logistics told FrontPageAfrica
recently.
There was a Liberanization policy crafted setting aside 26
businesses exclusive for Liberians but enforcement remains
weak as these businesses are still being ventured into by
foreigners, leaving Liberians vulnerable to compete with these
foreign merchants who have more access to financing than
Liberians.
Jobs such as managing stores, selling retail merchandize
amongst others are all opened to foreigners and Liberians are
not protected like the case of Ghana were the law is strict on
businesses that are prohibited for foreigners to get involved
with.
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and several government
officials have all spoken of the need for vibrant private sector
to beef up government efforts in providing jobs but yet Liberian
entrepreneurs are not protected to grow.
Liberians in the construction industry have now been pushed
out of the market as their companies are now just operating in
the shadows of Chinese construction companies.
Major construction contracts are now awarded Chinese
companies when there are competent Liberian engineering and
construction companies with proven records of performance,
so how the private sector of Liberia will provide jobs remains
to be seen.
Nearly the Chinese companies only employ Liberians on a
daily hire basis which is not a permanent source of employment
while some of these Liberian construction companies are
now compelled to scale down their employees due to lack of
contracts.
COMMENTARY
BREAK THE
CHINESE
MONOPOLY
IT HINDERS PRIVATE
SECTOR GROWTH
By Alphonso W. Nyenuh anyenuh@yahoo.com
Besides construction, the Chinese are now supplying nearly all
construction materials and household utensil to Liberian homes,
leaving local businesses to perish.
Windows, doors and other furniture are now purchased from
Chinese instead of Liberian wood workshops.

Chinese are now getting contracts for construction of private
homes, something that provided jobs for hundreds of Liberians
in the past.
Jobs for these Chinese can not help to build a vibrant private
sector as they too are in need of sources of employment for their
over one billion population.
A dime generated by a Chinese company in Liberia just gets
Chinas economy going better while the Liberian economy
stumbles.
Unemployment is getting huge by the day with youth of working
age moving around begging for alms because they just cant get
jobs wile Chinese have taken over a sector that is known for
creating hundreds of jobs-the construction industry.
Liberian students are graduating with degrees in engineering and
other construction related degrees and the Chinese companies
can not create the jobs needed by these Liberians as they will
prefer importing fellow Chinese to work.
This is why it is time for state actors to move quickly to protect
Liberian construction companies and other businesses against
foreigners as if such is not done, unemployment will continue to
be high while foreigners benefit from the country.
It is time to break the Chinese monopoly in the construction
industry and allow local companies to compete and cerate
employment for Liberians.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014 Page 5
OLD, REWIND BUNCH NOT HELPING LIBERIA
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The Reader's Page
MOLLEY M. KORLEH AL'KABACH UNIVERSITY OF
LIBERIA
Seriously, I don't know who to trust but I'm convince our Country,
Liberia, is a mess and its on the president. She'll pay for this sometime
soon. I'm sick of her not willing to do the right things. I wish she was no
longer a president.
LAMINE KAMARA BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY, SWEDEN
This is dead shameful mehn, how can an educated person like Mr. Neyor
present himself like this just on the basis of rumor? wow, i thought
education should at least give us the ability to rationalize and be critical
in our analysis. i am even more ashamed that our partners who were
CC this letter will once again diminish respect for our educated folks
and thus our country.............Mr. Neyor, u said you learnt reliably, how
reliable is that reliably? Stop this mehn,
BOKAI PAGII TOP COMMENTER STANFORD UNIVERSITY
It seems like you read without comprehension as most of what Mr.
Mayor made reference to was frst hand information.
LAMINE KAMARA BLEKINGE INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY, SWEDEN
Bokai Pagii , you need to have a rethink as to whether it makes sense to
go so public as Mr. Neyor did using gossip as the basis of his attack....he
said ''reliably learnt'' I am in disagreement with several things happening
now in government but my sense of reasoning is strong enough to hear
gossip, prepare for any eventuality that might erupt as the results of the
gossip but not to go public using gossip as my basis,
where i cannot provide evidence......................some of us have decided
to accept anything negative against this regime or president as long as it
comes out negative with no room of critical thinking........
BOKAI PAGII TOP COMMENTER STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Lamine, clearly the Ellen led government is a Cabal that is hell bent on
looting the wealth of this country. Ellen son is now chairman of these
bunch of enterprising thieves.
SHERMAN MORGAN (SIGNED IN USING HOTMAIL)
Hey Neyor, that is very cold to attack the President based on rumors. I
did expect you to act so desperate using rumors to advance your political
career. Come on Neyor, you must change your political strategist, if you
are to advance in this race. Get rid of emotions and deal with the political
situation rationally.You have acted very emotional and petty and you are
better than that.
DAVID DOLO HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICER AT AU - UN
MISSION IN DARFUR (UNAMID)
Mr. Neyor, I appreciate your courage to inform the Liberian people
about the true character and intention of the President. Indeed you
have vindicated Judge Melvin Johnson and his partners as true patriots.
YOU CAN ADD ME TO YOUR CAMPAIGN TEAM; I LIVE IN
BREWERVILLE
JOE N. COOPER MONROVIA, LIBERIA
Thank you Mr. Neyor for bringing the President's deception to the open .
That's one reason why someone like you should be elected to the Senate.
You have my support already.
BOKAI PAGII TOP COMMENTER STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Sherman Morgan why do you consider this rumor, when the person
making the representations is the person who participated in the
activities.
MOLLEY M. KORLEH AL'KABACH UNIVERSITY OF
LIBERIA
Rumors oh or reliable oh! Lesson here is, our leader is not good
intentioned. She wanna die with the country.
AARON NYAHN UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
GRADUATE SCHOOL (MBA)
Wow! Wow! Wow again Samuel! Our country is doomed if the good
Lord doesn't intervene. How can an oldlady be this corrupt? She brought
the country to its kneels and now she wants to die with it.
Mr. Morgan, what is the rumors here? Please clarify.
The Editor,
A
s human beings, there are times that we forget to allow our
conscience to act. This is normal but there are other times
we must use or allow our conscience to play a role. At this
moment, it is time for my president, our president and the
president of Liberia, Ms. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, to allow her conscience
to act. In the name of God, I urge you President Sirleaf to give chance
to your conscience in leading Liberia because every day things are just
becoming out of the ordinary in Liberia under your very watch.
Every day does not have to come as a sad day in and for Liberia; but that is
the case because majority of the people are becoming poorer and poorer,
and your close-knit circle of people keep doing things that raise red fags.
The worse part is we have a class of old and rewind bunch of Liberian
politicians on meaningless commissions and in policy positions with
retired ideas and selfsh motives. The national legislature is not helping
either; corruption, gross incompetence and personal aggrandizement
overshadow their conscience. Instead of being responsible and putting
the interest of the country frst, most lawmakers are only looking out for
themselves, passing ridiculous exclusionary laws as if Liberia was still in
the dark ages.
This is precisely why President Sirleaf has the leverage and is running
Liberia like a family garage or plantation. She has no respect for both
the Liberian Senate and the House simply because many among them
are ignorant, corrupt and out-rightly childish, if not foolish. This is also
why we have a president who goes to the international media and says
Liberians are scattered people. For God in Heavens sake, this sweeping
and unjustifable categorization is the lowest level of ingratitude to a
people that satisfed the Presidents long-held ambitions for State power,
because it condemns all Liberians as abnormal people, whether we are
doing well or not.
My position today is predicated on the fact that I just read that President
Sirleafs almighty son, Robert Allen Sirleaf, just donated Lb 1.2 million
(Liberian dollars) to victims of the erosion in West Point after a western
lawmaker friend called my attention to that via phone on Sunday morning.
Of course, giving to charity and poor people is a good thing when it is a
fair game and honest money, but in the case of Roberts generosity more
questions are raised that overshadow his kindness and good intentions,
especially so since we cannot distinguish between what belongs to him
and what belongs to the Liberian government. Is the money donated by
Kuwait where Robert is a non-resident special envoy?
If your government, President Sirleaf, is incapable of providing such
funds and relief to help the victimized Liberian people, where did your
son pull that money from? Is it really money from Kuwait or is it part of
the Kuwaitis overall foreign policy agenda for Liberia? If the Kuwaiti
provided the funds, Liberians need to know so that we can express our
gratitude to the good people of that country instead of Robert taking credit
for what belongs to the Liberian people. Also, if Robert were a private
citizen or a businessman not in such lucrative foreign and domestic
policies roles in addition to having an uncontrollable infuence on your
government, we would not have raised these issues. That, unfortunately,
is not the case since he (Robert) functions as the de facto prime minister
of your administration even though the Liberian political system has no
provision for that.
Secondly, Liberians do not know the total worth of your family and the
people in your government, with many of them having homes in America
and Europe and fat bank accounts around the world. Thirdly, this your
special son seems to be the only Liberian qualifed to take lucrative public
service assignments which include among others: former Chairman and
eternal point-man of the National Oil Company of Liberia (NOCAL),
Senior Economic Adviser to the President responsible for cabinet selection
and deciding every major presidential policy, Ambassador-At-Large
to the European Union, Special Envoy to Algeria only when the US$2
million donated by that country for Executive Protective Services was
coming through, and now Special Envoy and Ambassador Plenipotentiary
to Kuwait. All these positions are in addition to his infuential private
investment and fnancial consultancy operations in Monrovia. Yet, no
confict of interest involved. That is not how things work in the western
world where you attended school and worked, Madam President. No
American president or British prime minister would do that. The powerful
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has children, too.
If the Holy Mary was Liberias president, even Jesus Christ would have
avoided being this all-powerful and omnipresent as Robert Allen Sirleaf
has come to be in a country with unlimited seasoned professionals. What
is Roberts worth? Why didnt he ever help Liberians, especially refugees,
when you were not President and had no control over national wealth?
These are real, hard and legitimate questions; they are not politics because
I am not a politician, and my colleagues in Liberia with whom I attended
training for the Catholic priesthood will tell you my moral stance and
impatience for injustice, greed and self-centeredness. That is why at great
risk to my being I was able to challenge Charles Taylor, the Goliath, who
drove all of you in exile and in hiding.
Moreover, how can an ambassador to Kuwait domicile in Liberia instead
of being in the country of accreditation? My aging mother in River-Gee
County, Liberia did not go to Harvards Kennedy School of Government,
but she has the common sense to decipher that something is not right with
this formula--and there are many Liberian mothers that think likewise,
Madam President.
President Sirleaf, as I have always indicated to you, I am not a politician,
but my background and training compels me to tell you what you are
doing wrong in Liberia. Many people died not because they wanted to
satisfy your personal and family agenda; they sacrifced because they
love Liberia. Think about the unaccountable number of young people
that sacrifced their lives to remove warlord Charles Taylors ruthless
government from Liberia when your children, including this very Robert
Allen Sirleaf, were eating ice cream in the western world. Think about the
years we spent navigating the world trying to make Liberia a functioning
society, including when I was invited at your offces in the Ivory Coast in
2002 and two mercenaries ordered by Taylors folks in Abidjan who went
to assassinate me at my hotel were convinced by me as to why removing
Taylor was a moral cause, and eventually they and I prayed together and
they left before your Munah Wreh picked me up from the hotel to your
offce to meet with Harry Greaves and others in my attempt to bring all
Liberian exiles and refugees together to a common cause. Also, if the kids
who died removing Taylor means nothing to you then think about your
former peers like Jackson F. Doe, Gabriel Kpolleh, and journalist like
Charles Gbenyon among others who died fghting for a better Liberia.
Yes, as usual you might ignore these things or choose to run another round
of public relations on them, but just know that people are hurting and this
type of insensitivity has long-term dangerous consequences before human
beings and God.
Furthermore, you are a good woman and we thought that would have
made you develop some compassionate feelings for the poverty in Liberia,
especially for poor Liberian children just like how the fve American
Catholic nuns (Sister Shirley Kolmer and others whose killings propelled
me to abandon the call for the Catholic priesthood to seek Taylors
removal) did when they stayed in Liberia caring for poor Liberian orphans
in 1992 until Charles Taylor and his thugs brutally killed them.
By disposition, President Sirleaf, I am not a man of anger, but I am
becoming restless because the pains we bore and the sacrifces we made
to get Liberia free and for you to become Africa frst female president
as you always boost, is too high for what we continue to see. I did not
abandon my quest for the Catholic priesthood to replace Charles Taylor
with another unconscionable leadership. Unfortunately, this is what we
see for most part of your governance. We know people can steal in
government, but not with such greed and openness. Why we cannot blame
you for everything, but you are the leader of the country. Take charge, or
quit if you cannot lead; it is clear, easy and simple.
EJS THREAT TO DESTROY
NEYOR? EX-NOCAL BOSS
WRITES PRESIDENT
By: Jones Nhinson Williams; a Catholic educated contemporary philosopher and an American trained public policy professional
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EXECUTIVE MANSION MAKEUP-
CHANGES FOR THE WORSE?
THE DARK SIDE OF CHINESE CONTRACTORS IN LIBERIA


Monrovia
E
ven Samuel Doe knew
better.
When Milton &
Richards Consultant
frm advised President Samuel
Kanyon Doe, not to change the
chandelier lights in the Executive
Mansion during his reign as
head of state, the young military
leader reportedly agreed with
engineers that although there
was a problem with the lighting,
it would be wrong to change the
lighting system.
The consultant reportedly
advised the late President that
those lights were expensive,
high quality lights from London
and that the only thing needed
changing, were the bulbs.
Fast-forward to now, Chinese
contractors doing work on the
seat of the Liberian presidency,
whose fourth foor was gutted by
fre during a 2005 Independence
Day festivities, have changed
all of the original ornaments in
the facility with Made in China
products.
Historians say, Doe with his
limited exposure, agreed with
Milton & Richards Firm.
Chinese Monopoly Baffing
Today, many Liberians are
baffed at the pace and massive
looting of the seat of the
presidency since the construction
project was given to the Chinese.
Millions of dollars have
reportedly been spent to renovate
the building but very little
physical transformation can be
seen.
Why would some Liberians with
better exposure and education
allow the Chinese to put cheap
quality material in a building that
was considered one of the best
in Africa? FrontPageAfrica has
also learned that that some of the
durable antiques materials used
by the Israelites were shipped to
China.
Some engineers who spoke to
FrontPageAfrica on condition
of anonymity explain that the
Chinese are putting low quality
materials in the executive
mansion. They tried to change
the durable marble tiles that the
Israelites used in the Executive
Mansion with ceramic tiles of
lower quality and the Central Air
Conditioning system with a stand
up Air Conditioner. The original
Otis elevator is to be change with
cheaper low quality elevators
from China. The expenses and
high quality chandelier lights
from London were replaced by
very low quality lights from
China, said a contractor.
FPA also learned that the original
company that has the blueprint
and build the executive mansion
came and made an offer to
renovate the building, but some
government offcials refused and
gave the renovation work to the
Chinese who many believe do
not have the skill and experience
to do the work.
According to sources closed
to the renovation work, there
have been problems between
the Chinese and the supervising
consultant about the cheap
materials used and low quality
work.
When recommendations were
made to the Chinese not to carry
on certain work, the Chinese
disobeyed the instruction or
recommendations and carried
out the work at night when the
employees of the consultant frm
are home. There were times the
consultant asked the Chinese to
stop work they were advised not
to do, but calls reportedly came
from some offcials to leave them
because of intervention from the
Chinese Embassy, our source
said. Liberians should not allow
the Chinese embassy to run
our construction industry. We
understand the Embassy should
protect Chinese interest but not
to the detriment of Liberia or
Liberians.
President Disappointed
During a visit to the facility
recently, President Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf expressed
disappointment at the work done
by the Chinese.
During Independence Day
festivities in July 2006, a fre
gutted the executive mansion,
almost claiming the lives of
four west African presidents
(including Liberia's).
At the time, conspiracy theories
were numerous as fngers pointed
in various directions in search
of answers. Some detained
rebels loyal to the former
leader, Charles Taylor, were
suspected but a South African
forensic team found that dodgy
Rodney D. Sieh, rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com

LOW QUALITY, HIGH VOLUMES
wiring rather than foul play
was responsible. Investigators
reportedly found that air
conditioners and chandeliers
switched on especially for the
visiting presidents of Ivory
Coast, Sierra Leone and Ghana
had overloaded a dilapidated
system.
The incident led to the resignation
of Morris Dukuly, then Minister
of State for Presidential Affairs,
who took responsibility for
the incident which forced the
visiting heads of state to leave
abruptly.
In recent days, scrutiny over
the quality of work undertaken
by Chinese contractors have
heightened with many, including
government offcials expressing
concerns at the poor quality of
work undertaken by the Chinese.
For the foreseeable future, some
experts fear that the problem
may not go away anytime soon,
unless other local and foreign
companies are given the chance
to give the Chinese some
competition.
For local contractors, the
Chinese infuence is posing a
major problem for business.
While countries like Ghana,
Tanzania and others have
taken measures to protect the
locals against powerful foreign
companies, Liberia is still
lagging behind.
Ghana, for example, has passed
into law the Companies Act
protecting local businesses
against foreign companies. In
Ghana, foreign companies are
subjected to huge initial capital
and there is a provision requiring
foreign companies to have
Ghanaians shareholders in their
ranks as a means of empowering
Ghanaians.
Empowering Locals Key
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
has acknowledged the need to
empower Liberian business and
all the awarding of contracts to
Chinese is coming in the wake
of the Presidents May 28, 2014,
speech on the economy in which
she suggested the importance
of breaking down the walls of
monopolies so that more local
companies can continue to
beneft from quality services at
affordable prices.
Chinese companies have taken
over the construction business
in Liberia leaving little room for
Liberian contractors.
FrontPageAfrica recently
reported that China Union, the
Chinese company that won the
bid to take over the former Bong
Mining Company of Liberia,
recently solicited bids from
companies for the construction
of Liberian staff dormitories in
Bong Mines.
China Union in communications
to several construction
companies including Liberian-
owned requested companies to
tender bids for the construction
of dormitories. In the end out
of a total of eight companies
that submitted bids, Chinese
companies accounted for half of
the total number.
In its evaluation, China Union
rated the Chinese companies
high over the local companies.
Qingjian International (Lib)
Development Co. was rated
higher followed by Semoh
Group of Companies, B-Con
Engineering Company, Kpandu
International Construction
Company, Trokon Construction
Incorporated, Modern
Architectural Construction
Engineering and Global
Construction Mechanical
Company.
FrontPageAfrica has now learned
that Qinjian International is a
subsidiary of another Chinese
company, CHICO.
Lingering Challenges
With so much riding on the Sirleaf
administration development
agenda, many are suggesting
that the government open up its
doors to other contractors instead
of relying solely on the Chinese.
In Sierra Leone, for example,
road projects are moving at a fast
pace primarily because Chinese
companies are not allowed to
bid on EU projects, especially
in the wake of European Union
auditors insistence that the
EU improve management of
its infrastructure development
projects after fnding that roads
in several sub-Saharan countries
werent built to last.
The aid-recipient countries
visited by the Court do
not do enough to ensure
the sustainability of road
infrastructure, the auditors
said in a statement. In all
partner countries visited by
the Court, roads are affected to
varying degrees by premature
deterioration. Most of these
countries have adopted
institutional reforms, notably
entailing the creation of road
funds and road agencies, and
made signifcant progress on
road maintenance. However,
many challenges remain to be
addressed in all of them to ensure
appropriate maintenance.
The EU has been one of
sub-Saharan Africas top
infrastructure donors - although
its investments lag considerably
behind those of China, the
continents leading foreign
investor in that realm. According
to Devex, a development news
wire, a total of 7.4 billion euros
($9.8 billion) from the European
Development Fund was spent
to build modern roads and
highways between 1995 and
2011, according to EurActiv.
Auditors reportedly inspected
48 EU-funded projects in Benin,
Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad,
Tanzania and Zambia and
covered some 2,400 kilometers
of highways, the publication
added.
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EVICTION DILEMMA
M
ount Barclay,
Montserrado
County- Over
six thousand
residents in the Mount Barclay
community have been made
homeless as a result of a Civil
Law court order that gave right
of possession of land on which
they reside to the Shadrich,
Melvin and Karin Bettie.
The Civil Law court ruled in
favor of the Betties giving
them legitimate right to take
possession of 71 Acres of
Land according to a copy of
a writ (in the possession of
FrontPageAfrica) prepared
by Victor Gailor assistant
Clerk six Judiciary Circuit
Montserrado County.
Residents appealing for time
Victims of the court eviction
order are appealing to the
Bettie Family to give them
more time to allow them
relocate, because they are
unaware of the eviction order
from the court but confrmed
that they do not have legitimate
rights to the land.
Madam Deborah Dahn Parker
chairlady of the affected
community said after the
Supreme Court ruled in
favor of the Betties against
the Berry from whom they
acquired their parcels of Land,
the community residents asked
the Bettie to allow them rebuy
the land which according to her
was accepted, but two weeks
later Bettie brought a truck full
of Emergency Response Unit
(ERU) police offcers to survey
the land.
Speaking in an interview with
FrontPageAfrica Madam Dahn
said, to the surprise of residents
of the area they woke up
Saturday morning with letter
of possession served in favor
of Betties.
According to her while they
were being served the writ of
possession, the sheriff from
the court was carrying out
immediate eviction.
Parker said: The Sheriff from
the court and ERU offcers
started breaking our Doors and
bringing our things out. We
were not told that they were
doing eviction today, we are
not refusing the court order but
eviction around the world are
not carried out in that manner
and form.
The affected resident
continued: You cannot serve
us writ of possession today and
implement eviction the same
day this is unfair and we need
an urgent intervention of the
National government at least
to allow us time to resettle.
She alleged that while she was
away, some police offcers and
sheriffs broke into her home
and brought out her belongings
and took away six thousand
United States dollars and
twenty fve thousand Liberian
dollars, which she claimed
belongs to a Micro Credit
group.
Madam Parker said, like many
other residents, she bought
the land from one Berry after
refugees were repatriated from
that area that was once used as
refugee camp by the United
Nations High Commission for
Refugees (UNHCR).
Like Madam Parker, Caroline
Gaye is nine months pregnant
and said she is being evicted
with nowhere to go. According
to her she has lived on the
land for the past fve years and
acquired it from one Berry.
She also appealed to the
Betties to give them time to
resettle because according to
her they are not questioning the
judgment of the court but only
need time to resettle.
I want the government to
intervene at least the man
should give us time to fnd
place as you can see my things
are outside my home and I have
nowhere to go my children are
also outside and I am nine
months pregnant.
Yassah Dennis is a mother of
triplet whose belongings were
also thrown out by Sheriff
backed by Offcers of the
Emergency Response Unit
(ERU). She also expressed
shock over the eviction
process.
My husband is jobless and I
have nowhere to go with the
triplets, I dont even have food
to eat so I am thinking where to
carry these children, she said.
When contacted a Lady
identifed as Miss Bettie and
later gave another identify
said, the family was not in the
position to comment on the
issue, as they will do so later or
at an appropriate time.
Over 6,000 Mount Barclay Residents become homeless
Monrovia-
T
he Governance
Commission of
Liberia (GC) says
it will on today,
Tuesday June 16 release
the performance report of
the Health and Education
Ministries for the year 2013.
Dr. Othello Gongar, Former
Education Minister now
commissioner at the GC said,
the release of the report is in
keeping with the Commissions
enabling legislation, which
among others mandates the
commission to publish an
annual governance report for
Liberia.
Dr. Gongar said: The GC
has invited you here today to
announce the launch of the
frst annual grade report. This
report was produced by us
in collaboration with other
stakeholders. Through the
annual governance report,
GOVERNANCE COMMISSION RELEASES GOL PERFORMANCE REPORT
Liberia is taking bold steps
to promote good governance
by opening our governance
process to both internal and
external scrutiny.
He said, the 2013 annual
governance report is an
outcome of extensive research
to measure the impact of the
governance process within the
education and health sectors.
According to him the process
Health, Education to be highlighted
was undertaken in collaboration
with the ministries of education
and health.
He further said, the exercise
involved undertaking a
ratifcation survey of the
benefciaries of both education
and health services.
The team of researchers
combined a self-assess the
use of community score card,
a powerful social research
methodology which allowed
the supply and demand this
assessment of the performance
of these two very important
institutions will help enable
them to achieve their overall
goals and objective, he said.
In 2003, as part of the Accra
Comprehensive Peace
Agreement, which brought to
an end the 14-year Liberian
civil war, the Governance
Reform Commission now the
Governance Commission of
Liberia was formed to ensure
that the governance process
would not remain the way it
was which led to a 14-year
civil war.
This time around the new
agency, the Governance
Commission, would promote
good governance, making the
practice of Bad governance
a thing of the past thereby
preventing our Nations relapse
into another cycle of confict,
Dr. Gongar added.
The GC commissioner also
disclosed that part of the
mandate of the GC is to monitor
and evaluate the impact of
good governance programs
and vowed that the GC will
carry out its mandate by
undertaking extensive research
and producing evidence based
publications.
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Her Excellency
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
President
Republic of Liberia
Monrovia, Liberia
Dear Madame President:
I have been reliably informed of your venomous statement on more
than one occasion that you will destroy me so that your son Robert
A. Sirleaf can have an easy path to the Senate seat for Montserrado
County and eventually to the Presidency of Liberia in the 2017
election to succeed you. Your threat to destroy me comes at a time
when there are media reports of your son, Robert frantically trying
to buy off all the Montserrado Countys senatorial candidates and
promising cash for others to abandon their political parties to
support his candidacy for Montserrado. Your threats to destroy me
emanates from the fact that I have grass root support and I cannot
be purchased even with Roberts millions. Despite these threats, I
will remain a formidable candidate for the senate race.
I take your statement as a serious threat to my person because in
our part of the world when a President with all the power of the
State wants to destroy a citizen, the order is usually followed to
the letter.
Destroying a citizen can take many forms including made up
accidents, poison, fabrication of stories that attacks ones integrity
or loyalty to the State (sedition, terrorism, etc.) or any combination
of these plus more. I know you and your son are capable of this
because we have gone down that road before when including
when he tried to frame me as anti-American and had me under
24hr surveillance when I was removed from NOCAL. Madame
President, you swore in your oath of offce as our President to
uphold the constitution, which guarantees the protection of life,
liberty and property of every citizen.
Because of the seriousness I attach to your statement (which could
be reason for impeachment in a non-imperial democracy), I am
forced to issue this Open Letter to you so that our citizens and
international friends can beware of how far you would go for one
son to the detriment of your own administration and our country.
I cannot fathom why you would come after me with such
vengeance, Madame President, one who has considered you a
mother, admired you, have membership in the same church with
you, utilized his own resources and connections to support you
politically and was a shining star in your frst term. Is it because
I am the son of another Liberian mother from the rank of the
marginalized?
I met with you on April 24 at your Ministry of Foreign Affairs
offce in presence of your Chief of Staff Dr. Edward McClain
and informed you of my intent to honor petitions to contest the
Montserrado County Senate seat in the October 2014 Special
Senatorial Elections in order to help the National Legislature be
more responsive to the critical issues of the country. You inquired
why I wasnt running for the Rivercess senate seat instead
and I explained among other things that I was born and raised
in Montserrado County to a father who came from Morweh in
Rivercess and I was a registered voter in Montserrado. You stated
it would be a diffcult task for me but I told you that elections is
about number and from survey, I had the number to win in the
county. You told me then that others had approached you for the
same seat and that you would do your own survey and see whom
to support. I said that was fair enough for I was just informing you
out of courtesy but not necessarily for your support.
Since I left your offce that day and began consultations with cross
section of Montserrado citizens, you have been doing everything
to undermine my participation in the election in favor of your
son whom you did not reveal to me that he intended running for
the same seat. You have been trying hard to coerce offcials of
your government who are supporting or sympathizing with my
anticipated candidacy to work with your son instead even when
some advised it would not be a good idea for your son to contest
the Montserrado County senate seat.
Madame President, democracy brings all qualifed candidates
into an election and the voters determine who they believe is the
best candidate suited for a post. It would be a violation of the
constitution and elections laws to coerce or entice support for
your son to be elected senator. I am very much aware of your
OPEN LETTER TO HER EXCELLENCY ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF
PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA
EJS THREAT TO DESTROY NEYOR?
plan to have your son become senator at all costs, have him
made President Pro Tempore of the Senate and then position him
for the 2017 presidential election to succeed you. Your son, if he
has given up his US citizenship and legally become a Liberian
citizen again, is entitled to run for any position if qualifed under
our election laws but let the voters make the choice whom to
support and elect. It would be a violation of your oath as President
to misuse your offce to make your son senator and eventually
president of our country, especially when your own performance
as President does not leave much to be desired now.
I wonder why you harbor so much bitterness against me, Madame
President. In addition to your remarks to destroy me, you have
also stated emphatically that you will make sure I am NEVER
elected senator of Montserrado County. Why Madame President?
Is it because as CEO of NOCAL I refused to give in to you and
your son Roberts adventurism to exploit the oil resources for your
own benefts? I think the public should get to know why you are
so bend on destroying me and trying to legitimize the already
unconstitutional power you have given to your son Mr. Robert
Sirleaf.
You are very much aware that I tutored you and Robert on
fundamentals of oil and gas and informed you of the potential
wealth of the emerging Liberia petroleum sector, the hard-to-
resist temptation of millions of dollars demanding those of our
citizens with the highest integrity in its management and advised
you to give the sector more attention. From the time Robert was
appointed to the Board of Directors of NOCAL in 2010 and he
realized the millions involved, he started to position himself
overnight as an oil and gas expert and instructing me on how we
could make a lot of money. When I didnt go along, he began to
undermine and intimidate me as CEO as well as then Chairman of
the Board Clemenceau Urey.
When I started the reform process at NOCAL learning from
the errors of most of the African oil-producing countries and
formulating a foundation for empowering Liberians through
lucrative local content participation in this new extractive sector,
you know that Robert interjected that it was unwise politically to
allow citizens to have money like that, especially when the 2011
elections was around the corner.
You were fully aware that Robert began to portray himself as the
de facto head of NOCAL and began soliciting huge amounts of
money from individuals and companies with interest in acquisition
of oil blocks. Some of these companies approached me and I
brought those to your attention only for Robert to tell them not to
pay attention to me because I was going to be removed after the
2011 elections and he was going to become Executive Chairman
(which was later proven right). Oil blocks were promised to these
people of which you are fully aware and millions was brought in
irregularly for the campaign with cash brought in on private jets
and taken to your home.
I brought to your attention that $2 million had been offered to me
in bribe with a request that I do not take certain executive action
against an oil company. I quoted to you portion of my remarks
when I took over NOCAL few months earlier that no amount
of money would be big enough to make me betray you and our
people. What I got out of that was your ridicule of me before the
Petroleum Technical Committee in the Cabinet Room at your
offce that I was parading myself as the most perfect man in the
government boasting that I could not take bribe. Justice Minister
Christina Tah and your Legal Advisor Cllr Seward Cooper (now
NOCAL Board Chairman) were among those at that meeting.
They can bear witness. Most of those at that meeting told me later
how shock they were with your characterization of me.
Madam President, the interest and protection of the wealth of
Liberia is more important to me than personal wealth. Far too
long, Liberians have suffered from bad economic management of
their natural resources and your administration, unfortunately, has
not moved any further from the past. Unarguably, mismanagement
of public resources is at the zenith during your administration.
Out of desperation, Robert tried to wickedly tag me as anti-
American following a speech I made to the Liberia Business
Association that diversifcation in future allocation of oil blocks
was in our long term economic interest, a strategy agreed to and
promoted by even American advisers. There was nothing anti-
American about that, realizing the United States is our closest
friend, prime source of economic support and currently have about
80% of contracted oil blocks. I was glad that our international
partners and Liberians did not buy into such mis-guarded and
unsubstantiated propaganda.
Robert got furious that the international watchdog Global Witness
had referred to me as a reformer appointed by you to clean up
NOCAL in its damaging report of September 2011 on corruption
in the Liberian oil sector. The credit was to you that you had seen
it ft to fnally appoint a reformer at NOCAL but that didnt go
down well for your son who sent his friend and one of your trusted
ministers after me, instructing that I made untrue statements to
Global Witness. I still have those ugly emails exchanges with that
friend who is still a minister today.
I cannot fathom why you would come after me with such vengeance, Madame President, one who has
considered you a mother, admired you, have membership in the same church with you, utilized his
own resources and connections to support you politically and was a shining star in your frst term. Is it
because I am the son of another Liberian mother from the rank of the marginalized?
Dr. Chris Neyor, Former CEO, National Oil Company of Liberia,
Senatorial candidate, Montserrado County

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As your Energy Advisor, with your approval, I started quiet
diplomacy with the Nigerian Government including then President
YarAduas offce and the Petroleum Resources Minister to resume
crude oil allocation to Liberia. The diplomacy continued when
President Goodluck Jonathan took offce. The convincing reason
we gave to the Nigerians and later to the Kuwaiti was to use the
proceeds from the allocation transaction to reduce the high cost
of electricity in Liberia until we have in place more affordable
power generation sources. Both for Nigeria and later Kuwait,
when those sensitive negotiations I initiated and spearheaded was
about to close, you put your son, Robert in charge of the closing as
the Special Envoy. The Nigerian oil allocation intended to support
lower electricity bill has been fowing now for years yet electricity
cost in our country is the highest in the world. Not a penny from
the allocation has gone to LEC fuel expenses and cost of power
continues to be unaffordable to most of your citizens in areas
where electricity is provided.
Every time I met with you as head of NOCAL, your constant
remark was we were sitting on tons of money in NOCAL bank
accounts. I responded every time that the monies were earmarked
for capacity building and social interventions like the projects we
were doing around the country impacting the lives of our people.
One of Roberts closest confdants tried to convince me to take
$4- 5 million out of NOCALs account to give you as campaign
contribution. He intimated to me that all my colleagues were
doing that but I told him they would have to account some day but
I cannot even give it a thought to do such.
Interestingly, I was the only head of a major state enterprise
that was removed after your 2nd term inauguration though by
all accounts you knew of my stand against corruption and my
insistence on productive performance at NOCAL. It was not
surprising when that same confdante of your son Robert came
to me after my removal and said; You see why I was telling
you to give the old lady some money during the campaign? The
confdant is still alive and around.
Despite all that, God has been good to me and the company I
established after leaving NOCAL, the Morweh Energy Group, is
doing well. Though I make no income internally, I bring in what
I earn overseas and employ Liberians in my offce and my home,
give away to scholarships and other social causes and pay various
taxes including offce lease (Coast Guard), payroll and income
taxes. For the past two years, you and your NPA MD have given
me the runaround for port land my partners and I want to lease in
Buchanan to build an oil and gas logistics base that will provide
opportunities for Liberians and Liberian businesses to proftably
participate in provision of goods and services to exploration
drilling operations now going on in Liberia.
Madame President, you know the value of a logistics base and
the opportunities it provides to local citizens for business. I got
at NOCAL three months before exploration drilling commenced
and there was no preparation for a logistics base. I took you on
one of the oilrigs where you noticed Ghanaians were providing
catering and other services and I warned you that we had to do
something about a logistics base. The highlight of your state visit
to Angola in 2011 was atour we made of the Luanda oil and gas
logistics base. Since I left NOCAL, the initiative for a logistics
base was stalled until I mobilized seven other Liberian investors
and international expertise to construct the base upon lease of
appropriate land at the Port of Buchanan from the NPA. Two years
and counting, the land has not been granted though you tell me
you support the project but then have your NPA head told to not do
it. Yet millions of dollars are pumped into the Ghanaian economy
for each oil well drilled in Liberia while our young people go
unemployed, the education system is a mess according to you
and people continue to live in unbelievable slums, most of them
around Monrovia. This is just fundamentally wrong.
You have confded to some that I think you are a fool to grant
approval for this vital national project when I had badmouthed
your son, referring to the time in a NOCAL Board meeting when
he was insulting and I told him the truth that he knew nothing about
the working of the oil business and he would be cause for you
not having a good legacy. You rather let Ghanaians and Ghanaian
companies beneft from jobs and contracts on oil rigs operating in
Liberia using the Port of Takoradi as logistics base than having a
Liberian spearhead the building of one here in Buchanan for the
beneft of our economy because of your vindictiveness.
You and your son, Robert have a complete stranglehold on the
economy, depriving and punishing any Liberian who dare or
desire to have an independent mind and who refuse to participate
in looting the country of its resources. Closing the economy to
perceived enemies is preventing job creation in Liberia!
Had the House of Representatives not imposed a freeze on oil
blocks, Robert would have sold all of our remaining oil blocks
by now. I know as a fact that he has lined up companies most of
who have contributed heavily to the Robert Sirleaf Foundation for
award of oil blocks. In your interview with FrontPageAfrica, you
even confrmed contributions made by companies to the Robert
A. Sirleaf Foundation, while Robert was serving as Executive
Chairman of NOCAL and Senior Advisor to the President of
Liberia demonstrating how you and your son were trying to
concentrate all the oil money into the hands of your family.
One can understand why that new oil and gas act drafted by your
son left out provisions for defned citizens participation and oil
revenue management mechanism but emphasized only the giving
away of oil blocks, exempting future awards from the Liberian
PPCC law. Have you read the draft act? It was a mockery when you
openly praised your son for completing his task in reforming
NOCAL with submission of the draft oil and gas act to the
National Legislature just before his resignation from NOCAL due
to public and international pressure. Robert resignation is also
a joke because it is an open secret that he still calls the shot at
NOCAL. Well, actually, he does at every agency where money
and natural resources are involved including trying to give away
Wologisi after the Western Cluster fasco.
The primary purpose of a government is to protect and empower
its citizens but as President of our country, all I have experienced
at close range with you is a selfsh desire to protect and empower
only your family where your son Robert Sirleaf and your sister
Jan Barnard are given power our constitution does not assign to
instigate appointments, dismissals and amass ill-begotten wealth.
You are good at showing two faces, one to the international
community where you have been awarded medals and accolades
and degrees and the other to your people at home where you have
shown disdain and manipulation and deception and malice. You
have been unable to reconcile the country because of your history
of vindictiveness and putting Liberians against each other.
Why I am doing this
I am sure this open letter is shocking to you, knowing my quiet
nature. I am not doing this because I just want to be Senator for
Montserrado. I am prepared to withdraw from the race once I know
we have a winning candidate who will not compromise the hopes
and aspirations of the suffering people of Montserrado County
and you know that candidate is not the son you are trying hard to
legitimize as your successor. The people of Montserrado deserve
better and this is why I decided to get in the senate race to ensure
that their interests are fully protected.
I am writing this because our country and the international
community need to know who you truly are from someone who
knows you well, having interacted with you on many matters of
state where your decision and actions betrayed the peoples trust.
I am writing this because at such a time when so many Liberians
are crying out for skills building and college graduates cannot
fnd internships or meaningful employment, when roads to slum
communities are almost impassable during this raining season,
when there is massive budget shortfalls due to corruption and
incompetence which you have admitted to, when so much is at
stake for the country requiring the best of leadership to put us
back on course, you have made a decision to spend most of your
time to be Campaign Manager for your son, Robert to become a
senator at all cost
I have prayed about this Open Letter to you and I have a sense of
relief in my spirit that this is the right thing to do for the good of
our country. You and I are members of the First United Methodist
Church and serve on the Annual Conference Advance Committee.
In keeping with Scripture, I brought your deceptive behavior to
attention of our pastor and the bishop. The bishop spoke to you
about my concerns but you downplayed it as usual, saying you
had nothing against me.
Madame President, this is not just against me, it is against the
country. You uprooted from the government and around you those
with the best integrity and competence to help you move our
country further. John Morlu, Nagbalee Warner, TiawonGongloe,
Alfred Brownell, Wilson Tarpeh and your own co-Nobel laureate
LeymahGbowee are among those you have made enemies simply
because they tell you the truth and will not betray their country
and people to enjoy the spoils of corruption for a season.
Sando Moore, Liberias foremost photojournalist, who hails from
Bomi with you and was instrumental in your reelection was told
by you not to attend your 2012 inauguration simply because he
had a difference with your son Robert. It was just fundamentally
wrong for a president to come down this low to prevent a
Liberian and a top journalist from attending inauguration because
of a disagreement with the presidents son. NOCALs ad in his
IMAGE magazine was pulled down as a result.
I fully understand the consequences of this Open Letter to you.
I know you will come after me with vengeance utilizing all the
apparatuses of the State. I am prepared for all eventualities.
I want you to succeed Madame President because when you
succeed, the country succeeds, but it seems you dont want
yourself to succeed. For some strange and inexplicable reason,
you take decisions that are inimical to your own government just
to satisfy your son or your sister. You and your son Robert Sirleaf
are driving our country down a cliff. Even your international
supporters are gradually seeing that your governance is horrible
and they are beginning to distance themselves from you.
A leader should be all-powerful to do good but at the same time
restrained from doing evil. The new Liberia we are trying to build
on the blood of over quarter million of our fellow citizens who
lost their lives in the civil upheaval is one where we do not sit
and watch the country go down that path of destruction again.
We must all speak out for in doing so, our country will be freeing
itself of presidents who abuse our rights and misuse our resources
for their own selfsh interest.
Madam President, you have the right as a mother to support
your son for senator. But you do not have the right to threaten to
destroy me or any other Liberian, or coerce anyone in the process.
Your son must convince Liberians to vote for him on the merits
not on the basis of using the power of the presidency to make him
senator and then president at all cost. In this new Liberia, that is
not going to happen. I do not take threats to my personhood lightly,
especially coming from an all-powerful, imperial president. It is
high time that vindictiveness is stopped!
I pray that God softens your heart and you change course for your
own good and that of the country. I will be watching. I have much
more to publish including email you begged me to destroy when
I was at NOCAL.
Sincerely yours,
Christopher Zeohn Neyor
Christopher Z. Neyor
Former President & CEO, NOCAL
President & CEO, Morweh Energy Group
Senatorial Aspirant, Montserrado County
cc: African Union Mission, Monrovia
ECOWAS Representative Offce, Monrovia
SRSG, UNMIL-Monrovia
US Embassy, Monrovia
Delegate of the European Commission, Monrovia
Embassy of Norway
The Liberia Council of Churches
The Moslem Council
National Traditional Council

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LAW & ORDER
County Residents Express Fear of Creatures Looking Different




Monrovia-
I
n the wake of a re-trial
motion pending before
him for hearing and
determination, Presiding
Judge Emery Paye is expected to
render Judgment into the guilty
verdict by jurors against 13
defendants facing mercenaries
charges.
Ahead of todays ruling Judge
Paye is to entertain arguments
from state and defense lawyers
to later rule whether to deny
or grant the motion for re-trial
to 13 defendants who have
already been found guilty of
mercenarism.
The 13 defendants were indicted
in September 2012 by the
state for their alleged role in
the mercenary activities in the
Ivory Coast during post election
violence in that country in 2010,
a claim they all denied.
The outcome of the violence
left several properties destroyed
as well as the death of several
other persons including seven
United Nations Peace keepers
from Niger serving in the UN
peacekeeping mission in the
Ivory Coast.
Following three months of trial
last week, a six member jury
heard the case and found the 13
defendants guilty on the basis
that the evidence produced
during the course of the trial by
the prosecution were enough
RE-TRIAL ARGUMENT
RAMPAGING CATERPILLARS
INVADE BONG VILLAGE
Wongbeh, Jorquelleh District,
Bong County
V
illagers from
Wongbeh in
Jorquelleh district
have reported
being attacked by what can
only be described as jumbo
caterpillars.
Joshua Flomoku, town
chief of the village, told
FrontPageAfrica on Sunday
that the unusually large
caterpillars covered in
long hair which makes them
appear about the size of a
fnger began appearing
about 10 days ago.
We were shocked and scared
because these caterpillars
looked really different, he
said. It is a bit bigger than
a regular caterpillar, but the
hair is so thick it makes them
look jumbo-size.
He said the caterpillars had
initially only attacked nearby
plantations, but over the
past several days they had
decimated other trees in the
area and were also invading
villagers homes.
The head of the disaster
committee at the Ministry
of Internal Affairs, Ranney
Jackson, who toured the
town to ascertain the damage
caused by the caterpillars,
said he had recommended
pesticides be used to get
rid of the caterpillars but
villagers opted not to for fear
of damaging crops. These
caterpillars also didnt die
easily with the spray, he
added.
Flomoku said the villagers
had instead been killing the
caterpillars by hand, shaking
them off the branches of
affected trees and burning
them. Its almost under
control now, he said.
Residents of the town
said a similar outbreak
had previously attacked
their village last year. An
offcial from the Ministry of
Agriculture in Bong County
Stephen Matthews said he had
collected specimens to conduct lab
research, but still had not turned up
any information about the unusual
creatures.
FrontPageAfrica reported that since
May this year, millions of hairy
caterpillars have cropped up in at least
four administrative districts in Bong
County, invading felds and homes.
Aside from giving residents itchy
rashes, the caterpillars have also
destroyed more than 1000 rice farms
the countys main agricultural
product.
Selma Lomax, selma.lomax@frontpageafricaonline.com
Min. Jackson and Rep. Mulbah ascertaining the havoc caused as the result of the catterpillars
The decision by residents to use fre to prevent the
caterpillars have not yielded any success
The invading caterpillars
to warrant the guilt of the 13
defendants.
Defense lawyers who represented
the defendants rejected and later
fled for re-trial motion against
the guilty verdict that sent shock
wave into the court room last
week that left family members
and friends openly weeping both
in and outside of the court room.
Cllr. Tiawon Gongloe the lead
defense counsel who fled the
re-trial motion accused the jurors
of ignoring several important
facts in the case, which he said if
considered could have acquitted
the 13 defendants who had
through -out the case denied the
charges.
Key in the motion, Cllr. Gongloe
told the court to set the jurors
verdict aside and grant unto the
13 defendants re-trial because the
testimonies of the witness of the
state, which the jurors used as a
reliance to convict the defendants
were un-corroborative.
Let me say that the unanimous
guilty verdict rendered by
the jurors was contrary to the
evidence produced at the trial
said Cllr. Gongloe.
Contrary to the defense counsels
claim in the motion for re-trial,
the prosecution also told the court
not to do same as the testimonies
of all of its witnesses were
cohesive and had no variances as
claimed by the defense counsel.
In the its 13-count motion of
resistance under the signature
of its lead lawyer and also
Montserrado County Attorney
Daku Mulbah, the prosecution
pointed out that the claims in
the defense motion for re-trial
constitutes a total distortion
of the facts as contained in the
records of the court and that
among its witnesses, especially
the testimony of witness
Blayee Gaye revealed that the
defendants operated a base in
Garlios Town other in the Thai
Forest in Grand Gedeh County
and controlled areas in the Ivory
Coast.
Wherefore and in view of the
foregoing respondent prays court
that your honor will ignore, deny,
dismiss movants motion for
new trial and confrm and affrm
the unanimous verdict of the
empanelled jury, enter judgment
penalizing them consistent with
facts and law said the resistance.
State, Defense Battle Over fate of 13 charged with mercenarism as Judge Hands Ruling
Kennedy L. Yangian kennedylyangian@frontpageafricaonline.com 077296781


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GOVERNMENT NEWS
Monrovia-
T
he Economic
Community of
West African States
(ECOWAS) Bank for
Development and Investment
(EBID) has ended its 12th
Ordinary Meeting of its Board
of Governors comprising
Finance ministers of the sub-
region and economic policy
makers in Liberia.
The meeting held at the Royal
Grand Hotel in Monrovia on
June 16, 2014, brought together
ffteen fnance ministers
including Liberias Amara
Konneh and was declared open
by President Ellen Johnson
Sirleaf.
Making remarks during the
opening ceremony, President
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said
that the meeting marks a
turning point in Liberias dark
past as the country reclaims
its international image.
Recounting Liberias role in
the establishment of the bank,
President Sirleaf said the
country played a pivotal role
in the establishment of the
entity naming Liberians such
as the late Dr. Romeo Horton
who became the banks frst
managing director followed by
Mr. Robert Tubman.
Specifcally tailored to
address manifold issues of
infrastructural development,
regional trade and transport
service delivery, the bank
has gone through a period of
structural and institutional
changes over the years,
culminating in 2007 into a single
structure, with the objective
of harmonizing its activities
into a unifed administrative
structure, she said.
Over those years we have
seen critical investments in
various projects across the
region, through fnancing from
the bank. Projects, including
the construction of seaports,
pavement of highway roads,
linking sub-regional territories,
resorts, agriculture investments,
all seeing remarkable success
over the years.
President Sirleaf reiterated calls
for the Board of Governors
of EBID to open up capital
portfolio to non-regional
members and other institutional
investors in the face of the slow
payments of capital by regional
members.
The admission of non-regional
members will enable EBID to
contribute to the economic and
social development of Member
States through low interest
loans, the Liberian leader
suggested, adding, With a
larger membership, the Bank
will be endowed with greater
expertise, and the credibility
of its partners would allow it to
have access to the markets of
non-regional Member States.
Minister Konneh who now
chairs the Board of Governors,
speaking during the opening
ceremony said the year 2014 is
an important year for the bank
in terms of what it has set out
to achieve.
MOBILIZING INVESTMENT
ECOWAS Board Of Governors End Monrovia Meeting

Wade C.L. Williams, wade.williams@frontpageafricaonline.com
This year marks a crucial
period of refection for the Bank
as we review progress over the
last four years, consistent with
our strategic plan from 2010 to
2014; looking at our agenda, we
have set for ourselves a clearly
ambitious target and I am very
confdent we will derive the
required outcomes to move the
Bank forward.
Continued Minister Konneh:
Though we have been
challenged over the last few
years, particularly in addressing
capitalization and resource
requirements for the Bank,
we have still seen remarkable
progress as we continue to
sustain the foundation for
growth and expansion. Today
we come together to review
some of the issues, not with all
the answers, but with a unity
of purpose that would ensure
that we make the hard choices
and take the tough decisions,
both policy and operational in
helping shape the future of this
institution.
He said as the region continues to
witness what he calls economic
and social stress along with the
growing exposure of ECOWAS
economies to external shocks,
there is a need to approach the
future of the bank with renewed
urgency.
Mr. Bashir M. Ifo President
of the ECOWAS Bank
highlighting the outcome of the
deliberations, told journalists
that the board of governors,
considered several items on the
agenda including the adoption
of guidelines for the criteria for
opening up the capital of the
bank to non-regional partners.
The governors discussed, read
and adopted these guidelines.
Governors also examined a
request by a private investor to
invest in a recovery of EBID
based on the permission of
the board of directors and the
governors also gave necessary
approvals for continued
negotiations with this investor,
he said.
Governors further examined
the activity report of the bank
for the year 2013, adopted it as
well as approved the account
presented by the external
auditor.
He praised the government of
Liberia for the level of recovery
since democratic elections
in 2005 and the subsequent
inauguration of an elected
government in 2006, which saw
President Sirleaf taking over the
mantle of authority.
In spite of the daunting
challenges, the Liberian
government continues to create
the enabling environment
to achieve socioeconomic
progress ad constructively
engage the international
community. Improvement in
security, governance and the
rule of law, have led to the
mobilization of domestic and
international support with
resources both material and
human, to enhance Liberias
drive to achieve the MDGs, he
said.
He said during the period under
review, the Board of Directors
approved 21 projects in the
amount of UA 153.7 million
or roughly US$232.9 million;
adding that on a yearly basis,
approvals increased by 17%.
Mr. Ifo said the approvals
of new facilities bring total
commitments in respect of
operations approved by the
Board of Directors to UA 1.15
billion for 177 projects in
favor of Member States of the
Community, between January
1, 2004 and December 31, 2013,
adding that new commitments
amounted to UA 118.7 million
(US$180 million) for 15
projects in 2013, indicating an
increase of 40% over the level
recorded in 2012.
He stated that EBID has to be
properly endowed if it is to
remain an important partner
in the sub-regions quest for
development.
The prompt payment of capital
subscriptions by Member States
will therefore send a very
strong signal to our partners and
other investors about the Banks
credibility, he said.
Continued Ifo: The availability
of concessional resources to
the Bank is key in ensuring
that it attends to the enormous
developmental needs within
the sub-region. Considering
that most of our countries have
debt management policies that
espouse a high level of grant
element in their borrowings,
the availability of concessional
resources to the Bank will go
a long way in helping both
the countries and the Bank
achieve their developmental
objectives.

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World Bank Opens Offce in Liberia
-Careysburg Mayor Philips
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Mae Azango azama20062007@yahoo.com/0886545960
Monrovia-
W
orld Bank
Country Director
to Liberia says
the opening of
the Bank new offce in Liberia
reaffrms its commitment to the
country development.
"As we celebrate the opening
of our new offces, we would
like to express the World Bank's
commitment to continue to work
closely with the government
of Liberia in the successful
implementation of the Bank's
Country partnership for Liberia,
World Bank Country Director
to Liberia Yusupha Crookes said.
Crookes recalled Liberias role
play in the establishment of the
Bank adding that bank support to
Liberia development is dated as
far back as the 60.
"Liberia joined the world Bank in
1962, becoming its 75th member.
Two years later, Liberia received
its frst funding a program to
fnance the construction of
two new roads, including the
highway from Monrovia to the
Robert International Airport,"
Director Crookes said.
Crookes continued: "upon re-
engaging after the end of the war,
the Bank is again prioritizing
investments in infrastructure,
including roads, energy and
ICT."
"The expansion of our program
has also meant an increasing
demand for more and better
quality offce space to
accommodate additional staff on
the ground, today this is our new
reality," World Bank Country
Manager Inguna Dobraja said.
Dobraja said: "Over the last
several years, we have seen
strong growth in the size and
depth of our program in Liberia,
a growth that was foreseen after
the Country completion of the
TESTAMENT OF CONFIDENCE
HIPC process in 2010."
Finance Minister Amara Konneh
said, since the Bank established
its offce the Bank has increased
the size and quality of its support
to Liberia.
Minister Konneh said "we are
pleased to note that the World
Bank presence in Liberia has
increase the seize, quality and
support to Liberia, this has
contributed to the success of the
bank programs and government
priorities contributing
signifcantly to the reduction of
poverty."
The Finance Minister furthered
The modernization of this
complex is true testament of
World Bank commitment to
support Liberia's development.
We have work together to build
roads bridges, schools together
we have come a long way.
Konneh said, the bank and
government of Liberia are
working together to alleviate
extreme poverty from through
self initiative like the youth
empowerment project.
True confdence
Foreign Minister Augustine
Ngafuan said, the construction of
World Bank Complex represents
a huge confdence in Liberias
future.
Minister Ngafuan said, by this
you the World Bank has joined
others including the British
Government that last year
reopened its Embassy in Liberia
with resident Ambassador after
almost two-decades of closure
as well as Sweden, Qatar and
Brazil, among others.
Ngafuan continued:Secondly,
the movement of the World
Banks Country Offce from
Mamba Point, considered the
diplomatic enclave, to Oldest
Congo Town far away from
the diplomatic enclave and the
center of the city testifes to the
ever deepening stability and
security that Liberia has been
experiencing for a little more
than ten consecutive years..
Ngafuan said, diplomatic
missions and international
organizations can choose to have
their offces in areas of their
choice unlike the past.
He indicated that the Bank has
remained a friend to Liberia
through thick and thin.
In those diffcult years of the
start of the regime, the WB
assisted us through many and
various interventions aimed at
building the capacity, helping
to craft our development
frameworks.
Minister Ngafuan stated that
the Bank contributed half of the
funds which enabled the Liberian
Government to clear commercial
debts of over 1billion dollars
through debt buy-backs.
The Bank has contributed
to the rebuilding of critical
infrastructure including the
paving of Monrovias streets
under URIRP Project, support to
the Monrovia City Corporation
under the Emergency Monrovia
Urban Sanitation project
(EMUS), Ngafuan said.
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EDUCATION
PREGNANCY IN SCHOOL UNACCEPTABLE
Careysburg, Montserrado
County-
T
eenage pregnancy is
prevalent in Liberia as
some girls drop out of
schools, while others
remain pregnant and attend
school. But a local municipal
offcial said it is wrong for
pregnant girls to attend school in
such condition.
Careysburg Mayor Anna Urey
Philips told FrontPageAfrica
that it is not a good thing for
pregnant girls to stay in school
with other girls. She put forth
the argument recently in the
presence of Education Minister
Etmonia Tarpeh at the turning
over ceremony of the Charles
B. Harris, Child Friendly School
to the government in lower
Careysburg, Montserrado.
Mayor Philips stressed that
having pregnant girls in school,
is a means of encouraging other
girls to get pregnant, arguing that
it increases teenage pregnancies
in the country.
If you are pregnant, you should
drop out and stay home until
you have your baby and come
back to school, but we should
not allow children to come to
school pregnant because it is a
bad infuence on other children,
said Careysburg Mayor Philips.
When we talk about teenage
pregnancies in our schools today,
this is one of the areas where it
possibly comes from. Because
we as adults, are accepting such
things because we allow them sit
in schools with our babies, she
further emphasized.
Mayor Philips said she has been
wondering about the situation of
pregnant girls going to school
and thought it was something
that was accepted by the Ministry
of Education.
I really agree with the minister,
because it does not look good for
a girl to be pregnant and seated
near a ten year old girl because
it sends all kinds of messages
that are unacceptable, she said.
And if you send that kind of
message to a child that it is
acceptable, look at how many
of them that would be looking at
that child, could turn out doing
the same thing?
Education Minister
EtmoniaTarpeh, for the frst time
spoke on the issue of accepting
pregnant girls in schools and
sitting in class with younger
girls, at the turning over of the
Charles B. Harris Child Friendly
School to the government of
Liberia.
Education Minister wants rethink
Education Minister Tarpeh
challenged parents attending the
program to begin thinking on
what to do about the situation
that is alarming in the society
I want us to start looking at
what is happening in the schools
today, we have a lot of students
pregnant and are going to school
regularly. You would fnd a girl
who is pregnant, sitting next to
a ten year old girl in class and
we can see what that does to our
learning system, said Minister
Tarpeh.
Minister Tarpeh furthered
I know the girls who get
pregnant are supposed to have
the opportunity to go to school,
because it is their right to be
in school, but I am not sure if
it is their right to be in school
pregnant and seated by a ten year
old girl. We need to fnd some
way to deal with that situation so
that they have an opportunity to
learn while our younger children
have a better place to study and
be a part of society.
Since the ascendancy of
government of President Ellen
Johnson Sirleaf in 2006, there
has been increase in the number
of pregnant girls in school.
In defense of friends
Little Salomi Morris 10, is in
the 2nd grade and attends the
Charles B. Harris Child Friendly
School in Careysburg. She says it
is sad to see her pregnant friends
selling on the streets while she
goes to school.
I can feel bad when I see my

By: Al-Varney Rogers alrogers2008@gmail.com
friends selling on the streets
because they are not selling for
their own parents but different
people who took them from in
the interior. I want them to stop
selling markets and come to
school.
In line with Little Salomis
concern, Mayor Phillips says
parents should take advantage
of the opportunity and send their
children to school, because many
parents put markets on their
childrens head as young as fve
to sell on the streets.
We want the parents to realize
that once their children are
educated, they would be able to
help and support them. Some of
these things they do, cost other
things like rape to occur, because
these kids are out on the streets
unprotected and unguided by the
adults that should be taking care
of them.
While on the campus of the
Charles B. Harris Child Friendly
School, many parents agreed
with what the Minister and the
Mayor spoke about regarding
pregnant girls going to schools
and expressed that they hope
the government sees reason to
address the situation soon before
it gets out of hand.
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Tuesday, June 17, 2014 Page 13
REGULATOR STILL IN LACC DRAGNET
Commission on Higher Education Director General long Corruption tale
Gunmen Kill At Least 50 In Kenya During TV Screening
IN BRIEF
KERRY: US OPEN
TO TALKS WITH
IRAN OVER IRAQ
ABDULLAH SAYS FRAUD
GAVE HIS RIVAL A MILLION
VOTE LEAD IN AFGHAN VOTE
CHINA SENTENCES THREE
TO DEATH OVER TIANANMEN
SQUARE ATTACK

WASHINGTON (AP)
T
he Obama
administration is
willing to talk with
Iran over deteriorating
security conditions in Iraq and
is not ruling out potential U.S.-
Iranian military cooperation in
stemming the advance of Sunni
extremists, Secretary of State
John Kerry said Monday.
Kerry also said in an interview
with Yahoo! News that U.S.
drone strikes "may well" be an
option.
Kerry said Washington is "open
to discussions" with Tehran if
the Iranians can help end the
violence and restore confdence
in the Iraqi government.
Asked about possible military
cooperation with Iran, Kerry said
he would "not rule out anything
that would be constructive."
However, he stressed that any
contacts with Iran would move
"step-by-step."
BEIJING (Reuters) -
C
hina sentenced three
people to death on
Monday over a deadly
attack at Beijing's
Tiananmen Square last October,
state television reported,
an incident blamed by the
government on Islamist militants.
One attacker was given a life
sentence, and four others received
jail terms ranging from fve to 20
years.
Five people were killed and 40
hurt when a car plowed into a
crowd at the northern edge of
Tiananmen Square and burst into
fames. Those killed included two
bystanders and three people in the
car.
KABUL (Reuters) -
A
fghan presidential
candidate Abdullah
Abdullah said
on Monday his
opponent's apparent million-
vote lead in the second round of
national elections at the weekend
was due to massive fraud.
Observers fear allegations of
fraud on both sides could lead to
a lengthy and paralyzing struggle
for power along ethnic lines,
threatening to derail attempts to
transfer power democratically
for the frst time in Afghanistan's
history.
"I have always maintained that
the main rival is fraud," Abdullah,
a former anti-Taliban resistance
fghter, told reporters.

F
RONT
PAGE
WORLD NEWS
WORLD CUP TRAGEDY
MOMBASA Kenya (Reuters) -
A
t least 50 people
were killed when
gunmen in two
minibuses sped
into a town on Kenya's coast,
shooting soccer fans watching a
World Cup match in a television
hall and targeting two hotels, a
police post and a bank, offcials
and witnesses said on Monday.
Police said Somalia's al Shabaab
Islamist group was most likely to
blame for Sunday night's assault
on the town of Mpeketoni,
which lies on the Indian Ocean
coastline that runs north from
Kenya's main port of Mombasa
to the Somali border.
Kenya's interior minister referred
to the attackers as "bandits" and
there was no immediate claim of
responsibility for the assault, the
latest in a spate of gun and bomb
attacks in recent months that
have hurt the struggling tourist
industry.
Kenya, which has blamed al
Shabaab for previous attacks,
had said it would be on alert
during the World Cup to ensure
public showings of matches
were kept safe.
"The attackers were so many and
were all armed with guns. They
entered the video hall where
we were watching a World Cup
match and shot indiscriminately
at us," Meshack Kimani told
Reuters by telephone. "They
targeted only men but I was
lucky. I escaped by hiding
behind the door."
The attack could heighten
existing worries in other African
nations such as Nigeria, which
is battling the Boko Haram
Islamist insurgency, that bars and
other venues drawing crowds
by hosting World Cup match
screenings could become targets.
Wreckages of burnt cars are seen
outside the Mpeketoni police
station after unidentifed gunmen
atta
Sunday's assault is the worst
in Kenya since last September
when al Shabaab gunmen
attacked Nairobi's Westgate
shopping mall, leaving 67 people
dead.
After Westgate, Al Shabaab
warned of more attacks, saying
they were determined to drive
Kenyan troops out of Somalia.
Kenya, whose soldiers are
deployed as part of an African

peacekeeping force battling
militants, says it won't pull out.
The gunmen raced into
Mpeketoni in two minibuses,
the kind used as public taxis
in Kenya, and attacked their
targets with guns and at least
one explosive device. The
government said they also raided
the nearby settlement of Kibaoni.
Witnesses said there were about
30 gunmen. A police offcer said
all the victims were men with
no women and children killed.
"After they attacked the area,
they went round the town in the
vehicles shooting in the air and
chanting slogans in the Somali
language," said 28-year-old
Issah Birido, who survived the
Mpeketoni attack by climbing a
tree, hidden by the darkness.
Wreckages of burnt cars are seen
outside the Mpeketoni police
station after unidentifed gunmen
atta
He said two cousins were killed
and their homes set on fre. Some
20 buildings were gutted and the
charred wreckage of more than
20 vehicles littered the streets,
witnesses said.
Kenya has a large number of
citizens of Somali origin, so
the fact that the attackers spoke
Somali does not confrm an al
Shabaab link. Tribes of Somali
origin and other ethnic groups
have in the past fought over land
and other issues, though that
has mostly occurred in Kenya's
lawless northern border area.
Kenya Red Cross regional
director for the coastal area,
Muiruri Kinyanjui, said the
death toll was at least 50, but
said it could rise because many
residents were still unaccounted
for, while others had suffered
serious injuries.
Many people fed to nearby
forests for safety.
Interior Minister Joseph Ole
Lenku told a news conference
the security forces would fnd
the perpetrators, whom he
called "bandits" and "criminals",
making no reference to al
Shabaab.
Residents of Mpeketoni view the
damage left behind at the Equity
bank after unidentifed gunmen
atta
In an apparent swipe at
political opponents, he said the
government was cautioning
"political leaders ... to desist
from destructive politics and
ethnic profling that may be
responsible for this heinous act".
He did not elaborate.
Police said no arrests had
yet been made and said an
investigation was underway to
identify the perpetrators.
"Right now it is still premature to
say who is behind the attack until
investigations are done, but the
initial suspicion is al Shabaab,"
Mwenda Njoka, spokesman for
Kenya's internal security, told a
Kenyan television channel.
The government agency, Kenya
National Disaster Operation
Centre, said the attack had been
blamed on al Shabaab.
Al Shabaab bombed crowds
watching World Cup soccer
matches on television in the
Ugandan capital Kampala in
2010, killing 77 people. Uganda
also has troops in Somalia. There
were no immediate reports of
foreign visitors being hurt in the
attack on Mpeketoni, which is
not a major holiday destination.
But the assault could still further
damage the tourist industry as it
lies just 30 km (20 miles) from
Lamu, a historic Arab trading
port that is a popular attraction.
Kenyan hotels say bookings
have dropped sharply because
of recent attacks and warnings
by Western governments about
travel to Kenya. Some hotels on
the coast say they face closure,
while some hoteliers inland who
offer safari trips say reservations
are down by 30 percent or more.
'SUPER' BANANA TO FACE FIRST HUMAN TRIAL
Sydney (AFP) -
A
super-enriched
banana genetically
engineered to improve
the lives of millions
of people in Africa will soon
have its frst human trial, which
will test its effect on vitamin A
levels, Australian researchers
said Monday.


The project plans to have
the special banana varieties
-- enriched with alpha and
beta carotene which the body
converts to vitamin A -- growing
in Uganda by 2020.
The bananas are now being sent
to the United States, and it is
expected that the six-week trial
measuring how well they lift
vitamin A levels in humans will
begin soon.
"Good science can make a
massive difference here by
enriching staple crops such
as Ugandan bananas with
pro-vitamin A and providing
poor and subsistence-farming
populations with nutritionally
rewarding food," said project
leader Professor James Dale.
The Queensland University
of Technology (QUT) project,
backed by the Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation, hopes to see
conclusive results by year end.
"We know our science will
work," Professor Dale said.
"We made all the constructs, the
genes that went into bananas,
and put them into bananas here
at QUT."
Dale said the Highland or East
African cooking banana was
a staple food in East Africa,
but had low levels of micro-
nutrients, particularly pro-
vitamin A and iron.
"The consequences of vitamin A
defciency are dire with 650,000-
700,000 children world-wide
dying ... each year and at least
another 300,000 going blind," he
said.
Researchers decided that
enriching the staple food was
the best way to help ease the
problem.
While the modifed banana looks
the same on the outside, inside
the fesh is more orange than
a cream colour, but Dale said
he did not expect this to be a
problem.
He said once the genetically
modifed bananas were approved
for commercial cultivation in
Uganda, the same technology
could potentially be expanded
to crops in other countries --
including Rwanda, parts of the
Democratic Republic of Congo,
Kenya and Tanzania.
"In West Africa farmers grow
plantain bananas and the same
technology could easily be
transferred to that variety as
well," he said.
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Belgium striker unburdened by high expectations of his side
Romelu Lukaku says side getting stronger and stronger
BRAZIL WORLD CUP 2014
COTE D'IVOIRE: AURIER A
BIG PLUS IN IVORIAN WIN
BELGIUMS ROMELU
LUKAKU EMBRACES
PRESSURE
COUNTDOWN WORLD CUP


All the action leading up the Brazil
NICK SAID, ALLAFRICA
C
ote d'Ivoire's 2-1 victory over Japan in their World Cup
opener in the early hours of Sunday morning African
time was pleasing for much more than the crucial three
points.
In a victory that provides Africa with a frst success at the 2014
fnals, the Ivoirians showed great spirit and temperament to come
from behind after conceding an early goal and show their quality
in the second half.
It is that kind of fghting spirit that is vital if they are to progress
deep into this tournament.
On top of that the performance of Toulouse right back Serge
Aurier was a huge plus and perhaps signalled the emergence of
a new star for this Elephants team that will very soon move into
transition between its Golden Generation and the fresh faces who
will have to replace them.
Aurier laid on both goals for the African side -- providing heading
opportunities for Wilfried Bony and Gervinho -- and terrorized
the Japanese with his rampaging runs.
"Today a young one had his say. Serge brought us energy and
balance, and he had a fantastic game," veteran striker Didier
Drogba said of his 21-year-old teammate. "He's the best right back
in all of France. I think he'll do well at the next level too, in the
Premier League."
Aurier has already been linked with Arsenal, but Drogba is more
concerned with what he brings The Elephants.
"It's good to see we have a new generation coming through. This
is what we need and it's good for our football. It gives us energy.
It gives us spirit," Drogba says.
"We're trying to bring all the young ones up the right way, to bring
them along in the spirit of this team."
For Aurier, the day could not have been more perfect and he will
no doubt take confdence from his superb display.
"Setting up both goals, it's like a dream," Aurier says. "I can't
believe it. It's my frst World Cup, we're here in Brazil and I
helped the team to win."
Those are the positives, and they were big, but there were also
some disappointments on the day for the Ivorians.
They, and in particular Bony, missed far too many chances that at
this level, and against a better team, would likely have seen them
lose.
They are a side that creates opportunities because they have such
attacking intent throughout their ranks, but unless they take them
it counts for little.
Coach Sabri Lamouchi will also have to manage how he uses
Drogba in this tournament, with the 36-year-old making it clear
he was not pleased to be on the bench.
Perhaps he is being saved for harder tasks later on, but Lamouchi
will know more than anyone that a sulking Drogba will lower the
mood of the entire group.
There were also a few players who took knocks in the game and
they will have to be assessed ahead of the Ivoirians' second match
against Colombia on Thursday.


A
n upbeat Romelu Lukaku (R) prepares to face the media
before a Belgium training session in Belo Horizonte.
Photograph: Martin Bernetti/AFP/Getty Images
Belgiums Romelu Lukaku is carrying Belgiums hopes
on his shoulders in his frst World Cup in the absence of the injured
Christian Benteke, but the forward is relishing the pressure that
comes with the tournament.
I love pressure, I embrace it, the 21-year-old said on Sunday
before Belgiums World Cup Group H game against Algeria on
Tuesday.
Belgium are regarded as the dark horses of the tournament with a
squad of young, talented players eager to leave their mark on the
fnals of a competition from which their country has been absent
for 12 years.
If you are scared of pressure then you cannot play well, said
Lukaku, who returned to training later last week following an ankle
injury in their friendly against Tunisia on 7 June.
The tension in the Belgium camp has been rising in training this
week, with crunching tackles that left two players injured. I like
it, said Lukaku of the incidents. You need this. It shows that we
want to win. Our training sessions are all like competitive matches.
Lukaku, on loan from Chelsea to Everton last season, is one of
several Belgians in the squad who play for leading European clubs,
raising expectations among their fans. Yet apart from the defender
Daniel van Buyten, no player has competed at a World Cup. For
Lukaku that is not a problem.
We have a lot of quality in the team and year after year we have
been getting stronger and stronger, the soft-spoken striker said.
A lot of us are now playing for top European clubs so there is no
problem.
Belgiums coach, Marc Wilmots, who has featured in the Belgium
squad at four World Cups, has enough experience to go around, and
he is sharing it with his players, Lukaku said. He has been doing
this from the frst day we started, he said.
see page 15
STALEMATE
IRAN FRURSTRATE NIGERIA TO GOALESS DRAW
A
fter all the goals, glamour and controversy this was the
sobering reality check, an unwelcome guest at the World Cup
party.
Nigeria and Iran have still not won a game in this competition
since the 1998 fnals after a lifeless encounter which will have only
enhanced Argentina hopes of securing top spot in Group F untroubled.
On Sunday there was the artistry of Messi but this was just a mess and the
frst stalemate so far. It never appeared likely to produce a winner, with
Carlos Queirozs snooze-inducing tactics unlikely to silence accusations
over his perceived negative approach.
After such a torturous few weeks of preparation, Queiroz will consider
this deserved result a triumph while Irans opponents now face a pivotal
game against Bosnia-Herzegovina on Saturday in their own bid to secure
qualifcation.
Stephen Keshi, the Nigeria coach, is under pressure to win over a
demanding media and support
and their failure to beat such unfancied opponents will crank up the
expectancy levels even further.
It could have been even worse for the Super Eagles, with the best chance
of an excruciating game falling to Iran when Reza Ghoochannejhads
header was brilliantly saved by Victor Enyeama in the frst half.
Queiroz must have feared further turbulence in this opening game after
enduring such a nightmare build-up. Renowned for his meticulous
planning and eye for detail, most notably at Manchester United, his
preparations over the past few months have bordered on high farce.
In May a friendly against Serbia was bizarrely cancelled at short notice
while his players reported late for a training camp, an embarrassing
situation which led to criticism from the countrys politicians.
There were then huge problems with the squads training equipment,
with some players even receiving boots the wrong size, while Queiroz
has also been frustrated by the lack of quality opposition arranged for
their friendlies.
Draws against footballing monoliths Belarus, Montenegro and Angola,
and a win over Trinidad & Tobago, had hardly sent Iran into the fnals
full of verve and vigour. It is no surprise their manager had insisted the
competition was mission impossible.
Iran were under frequent pressure in the early stages, and Ogenyi Onazi
wasted an early chance for Nigeria when he shot wide from inside the
box.
The current African champions were dominant but struggling to test
their well-organised opponents, growing increasingly frustrated as the
half wore on. Victor Moses, the Chelsea winger who experienced such
frustration on loan at Liverpool, displayed occasional fashes of brilliance
on the left while forward Emmanuel Emenike was a formidable presence.
They nearly took the lead in fortuitous circumstances on the half hour
when Ahmed Musas clever free kick almost caught out Alireza Haghighi,
but the goalkeeper recovered to scramble the ball away from the bottom
corner.
Yet Iran, toothless for much of the frst half, could have silenced Nigerias
boisterous support in the 34th minute when Reza Ghoochannejhad found
space in the area to powerfully head Ashkan Dejagahs corner towards
goal. But Victor Enyeama, the impressive Nigeria goalkeeper, produced
an excellent save.
Keshi introduced former Newcastle forward Shola Ameobi in the second
half while Stokes Peter Odemwingie was also brought on in an attempt
to skewer the tedium.
But Iran were disciplined and resilient, producing a few scares of their
own as the game limped, thankfully, to an end.
Match details
Iran (4-4-1-1): A Haghighi; Montazeri, Hosseini, Sadeghi, Pooladi;
Heydari, Andranik, Nekounam, Saf; Dejagah; Ghoochannejhad.
Subs: Ahmadi, Shojaei, Haghighi, Jahanbakhsh, Ansarifard, Haddadifar,
Mahini, Alnameh, Rahmani, Beikzadeh, Beitashour, Davari.
Nigeria (4-3-3): Enyeama; Ambrose, Omeruo, Oboabona 5 (Yobo 29),
Oshaniwa; Mikel, Onazi, Azeez; Musa, Emenike, Moses.
Subs: Uzoenyi, Gabriel, Egwuekwe, Odemwingie, Odunlami, Ejide,
Babatunde, Nwofor, Uchebo,Agbim, Ameobi.
Referee: Carlos Vera (Ecuador)

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Germany Whips Portugal 4-0; Iran Frustrates Nigeria and
USA-Ghana in Dueling Encounter
BRAZIL WORLD CUP 2014
Sports
SPORTS
SAMUEL ETO'O TWEETS
HE WILL BE OUT OF
WEDNESDAY'S GAME
AGAINST CROATIA
DIDIER DROGBA SET FOR IVORY
COAST SUPER-SUB ROLE
WENGER READY TO GIVE COSTA
RICA STAR JOEL CAMPBELL HIS
CHANCE AT ARSENAL
S
amuel Eto'o is out of
Cameroon's second Group
A match against Croatia
on Wednesday night after
the striker confrmed his knee injury
will keep him sidelined.
The Chelsea striker took to Twitter
to tell of the news, and it means
Cameroon's all-time top goalscorer
will not be able to help them bounce
back from their 1-0 loss to Mexico
in their World Cup opener.
Eto'o wrote: 'The doctors confrm! I
would probably not be able to play
the match vs Croatia on Wed June
18th due to an injury on my knee
causing me pain.
D
idier Drogba proved a
talismanic infuence in
helping the Ivory Coast
to win their opening
World Cup encounter but the ageing
striker could be confned to a role
as an impact player, coming off the
bench at the tournament supposed
to be his swansong.
The 36-year-old came on as a
substitute, just after the hour mark,
to spark a come-from-behind 2-1
victory for his country over Japan in
a rain-drenched Recife on Saturday.
But while Drogba, whose post-
World Cup future is unclear, will
be itching for a place in the starting
line-up for the next game against
Colombia in Brasilia on Thursday,
his impact at the Pernambuco arena
could well have marked his card.
A
rsne Wenger will
closely monitor Joel
Campbell during the
rest of the World Cup
and then in pre-season training
with Arsenal before making a fnal
decision on whether to include him
in his squad for next season.
Campbells starring performance
for Costa Rica in their shock win
against Uruguay has been a timely
reminder of the option he could
provide next season following three
years on loan at Lorient, Real Betis
and Olympiakos.
The current plan is for him to return
to Arsenal after the World Cup
and then, depending on pre-season
and the situation with potential
new signings, Wenger will decide
whether another season of regular
frst-team football elsewhere would
be benefcial. The expectation is
that the 21-year-old will be given
his chance to prove himself in pre-
season.
Campbell can operate both as a
striker or a winger and was also
impressive for Olympiakos this
season in the Champions League,
notably in their narrow defeat
against Manchester United.
Wenger is in Brazil watching
matches as a pundit for French
television. He is looking for a
striker, a right back, a holding
midfelder and a goalkeeper this
summer. Should Campbell stay with
Arsenal, Wenger would still target a
new striker.


A BAD DAY FOR RONALDO
--
A
s World Cup
openers go, this
was about as bad as
it gets for Portugal.
Thumped 4-0 by Germany, one
key defender sent off, another
possibly out of the tournament
with injury and its World
Player of the Year looking
decidedly unft.
Real Madrid star Cristiano
Ronaldo wasn't lacking in
effort but was as powerless as
those around him to prevent
Portugal being steamrollered
by Der Mannschaft in Salvador.
It started badly for Paulo
Bento's men and got steadily
worse as Germany maintained
its record of scoring at least
four goals in every opening
World Cup match since 2002.
They were 1-0 down after 10
minutes when Joao Pereira was
adjudged to have hauled down
Mario Gotze, fellow Bayern
Munich star Thomas Muller
slotting home confdently from
the spot.
It was 2-0 just after the half
four mark as Mats Hummels
thumped a header into the net
from Toni Kroos' corner.
Just fve minutes later Real
Madrid defender Pepe tangled
with Muller, who sank
theatrically to the turf claiming
a hand to the face.
Pepe then stood over his
opponent and pushed his head
towards Muller's, the referee
producing a straight red card.
Muller then struck just before
the interval to put the game well
beyond Portugal, pouncing on
a loose ball inside the area to
fre past Rui Patricio.
Portugal made a change at
the break, as Ricardo Costa
replaced Miguel Veloso, but
it made little difference as
Germany continued to press
home their advantage.
Mesut Ozil, who plays for
English Premier League side
Arsenal, should have found the
net when played through on
goal but he hit his shot straight
at Patricio.
With one Real Madrid defender
already off the feld, another
joined him as Fabio Coentrao
pulled up with what looked
like a hamstring injury and
departed on a stretcher.
Germany squandered several
counter attacking opportunities
before Muller completed a
memorable hat-trick on 78
minutes, stabbing a shot into
the net after Andre Schurrle's
cross had been parried by the
goalkeeper.
Ronaldo nearly opened his
World Cup account in stoppage
time but Manuel Neuer saved
brilliantly from his ferce free
kick.


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winners who will get to travel to Brazil
for an all-expense paid trip to experience
the World Cup live. The winners were
announced at an extravagant outdoor
concert held at the Cellcom headquarters
on the Capital Bypass.
The trip to Brazil promotion is the third
of its kind that Cellcom has implemented
in the last several months. Cellcom
recently sent ten winners to New York
and Casablanca, while 5 lucky couples
spent a week in Ivory Coast and Paris.
The trip to Brazil promotion allows
the ten winners to travel to Brazil with
airfare, accommodations and tickets to
the games paid.
The event, which was held before a live
audience and was also broadcast live on
several local radio stations was geared at
providing transparency on how Cellcom
picks and announces its winners. Each
of the winners were called from an
offcial Cellcom telephone number with
the frst six digits of 777 777.
The well attended event featured fve
Liberian musicians including Kzee,
Mighty Blow, Lady Mouthphy, Deng
and, Lady Faith. It was also attended
by the CEOs of Coca Cola, Cellcom, the
Ambassador of Brazil to Liberia and the
head of Coca Cola Liberia.
During their remarks, both the
Ambassador and Head of Coca Cola
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congratulated Cellcom for the promotion
and the winners who they said were
certain to have an exciting trip to Brazil.
The CEO of Cellcom Mr. John Vasikaran
also congratulated the winners and
cautioned the Liberian population to
be aware of fraudsters claiming to be
from Cellcom and asking for money or
scratch cards in return for a prize. Mr.
Vasikaran noted on this issue: let me
make it emphatically clear that Cellcom
has never and will never request any
scratch cards or any money or anything
in return from the legitimate winners.
Please, if you get any message saying
you have won something from Cellcom
and you need to send money or scratch
cards, please do not do it and please
report this number to us so that we can
block it.
For his part, the Chairman of the
Board of Directors of Cellcom, Mr. Avi
Zaidenberg recounted Cellcoms long
commitment to supporting football in
Liberia and said that the trip to Brazil
promotion was another step in promoting
the spirit of football in Liberia. Mr.
Zaidenberg said: As you already know,
Cellcom is the company in Liberia that
truly cares about football. In fact,
I know Cellcom has provided more
support for football in Liberia than any
other commercial company in Liberia.
Altogether, Cellcom has invested more
than 2 million United States dollars into
promoting football in this country.
The winners include Korto Williams,
Henry Ashitey, John Boley, Celestine
Poney, Jackson Musa,
Dan Angelo George, Jeremiah Johnson,
Wonder Freeman, Chara Feddine V.
Camille and Sateyea Quaye.
A BAD DAY FOR
RONALDO