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In IG Sudue’s account, the vehicles were abandoned by protesters at the entrance of the Capitol Building and they (LNP) drove them to their Police Headquarters, which is within the same vicinity. According to him, there he immediately ordered his officers to search the vehicles and while they were searching that was when they allegedly found the arms and ammunitions along with a knife and other deadly objects in the lawmaker’s official car marked ‘HOR 65.’ Based on the discovery of the weapons, IG Sudue said he immediately halted the exercise and ordered his men to call the press to continue with the search in order to ensure transparency in the process. News 

Unprovoked: Liberian police attacked peaceful protestors in Monrovia on Jan 6

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    Capitol Hill, Monrovia – Following the announcement of an alleged discovery of firearms in two of the vehicles belonging to officials of the Council of Patriots, Police Inspector General Patrick Sudue and the Director of the Executive Protection Services (EPS), Trokon Roberts, have given contradictory accounts surrounding the incident. Following the forceful dispersing of the protesters on Monday, January 6, the Liberia National Police (LNP) announced that it found several weapons including a 9-Millimeter Lugar black pistol with one magazine and four rounds and a barrister Pistol in…

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Liberia: citizens don’t trust police as UN leaves Liberia

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MONROVIA, VOA—The U.N. Mission in Liberia said everything is set to handover security matters to the Liberian government. The government will assume full responsibility of security by June 30, the deadline for the pullout of the U.N. peacekeeping mission, many challenges remain. For the first time since Liberia’s civil war ended in 2003, the country will be entirely in charge of its own security. Security transition plan The U.N. Peacekeeping Mission, known as UNMIL, said it is confident the Liberian government will be up to the task after the pullout,…

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Liberian police chief and presidential guards clash in the streets as UN Leaves

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By Rodney Sieh Monrovia – Strains within Liberia’s security sector ahead of the imminent drawdown of United Nations peacekeepers heightened Saturday when officers of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s Executive Protective Services bulldozed the marked RL 100 vehicle of the Director of Police Chris Massaquoi and attempted to hold the director at gunpoint. The incident involved a tussle between officers of the Executive Protection Service (EPS) assigned with the Presidential Motorcade and Police officers assigned with the Inspector General of the Liberia National Police, Col. Chris Massaquoi in Monrovia. Eyewitnesses told FrontPageAfrica…

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Liberian Police Charge Four With Armed Robbery

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By Richard Stephens MONROVIA—(LINA) Police in Monrovia have arrested and charged a 45-year-old man identified as Moses Blama as well as his three alleged accomplices, Ansu Kromah, Jardee Adiou and Bleeme Johnson, who are at-large, with armed robbery.. The Liberia News Agency quotes a police charge sheet issued December 24 as saying that Blama, a resident of the Bernard Farm Community on the Kakata highway, was on December 22 arrested by police in the Boy’s Town Community in Lower Margibi County for armed robbing a Fula businesswoman, Fatumata Jaloh, in…

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Liberian Police Chided For Alleged Extortion, Harassment Of Commercial Drivers

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By Calvin Brooks MONROVIA, December 12 (LINA) – Representative Larry Youngquoi of Nimba County has expressed serious concern about police extortion and harassment of commercial vehicles plying the highways in Liberia. Representative Youngquoi observed that the reported extortion and harassment of commercial vehicles by police officers should be stopped because it is creating a bad image for Liberia, noting that police officers should be protecting lives and property, rather than extorting and harassing citizens as they move around in commercial vehicles. The Nimba County lawmaker expressed the concern Thursday in…

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