Former International Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah and former Director Normal, Normal Providers Company Mary Taryonon Broh, amongst a number of different ex-officials, have been thrown in jail on a number of expenses, together with corruption.
By Lincoln G. Peters
Monrovia, Liberia; June 27, 2025 – A number of prime officers of the federal government of ex-President George M. Weah have been sentenced to the Monrovia Jail Compound for a number of crimes, particularly corruption.
On June 25, 2025, the Authorities of Liberia by means of the Ministry of Justice and the Assert Restoration and Property Retriever Taskforce, by means of its Chairman, Cllr. Edwin Okay. Martin indicted the ex-officials.
The defendants confronted expenses starting from theft of property, financial sabotage, misused of public cash, unlawful disbursement of public funds, expenditure of public cash, misapplication of entrusted property and abuse of workplace and energy, and felony conspiracy, amongst others.
Nevertheless, these indicted by the state embody, Mary Broh, former Director Normal, Normal Providers Company; Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, former Minister of International Affairs; Varney A. Sirleaf, former Minister of Inner Affairs, and Telma Sawyer, former Deputy Minister of International Affairs/Administration, and widow of deceased intrim President, Dr. Amos C. Sawyer.
The state additionally indicted Mr. Augustine Tamba, Deputy Director for Operation, Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Company (NDMA); Augustine Kollie, Director for Catastrophe Victims, NDMA; Henry O. Williams, former Govt Director; Rachievego M. Doe, NDMA Communication Director; Edris Bility, former GSA Deputy Director/Ops.
Moreover, the state has named Mamie Davies, Assistant Director, GSA; Momolu Johnson, Deputy Minister of Inner Affairs/Adm.; Rosetta L. Gbassay Bowah, Logistics Officer, NDMA; Wayfa Ciapha, purported CEO, Group of Seventh-Seven; Evelyn Ghee, Warehouse Supervisor and others to be recognized, of the Metropolis of Monrovia, Liberia as defendants and indictees.
” INDICTMENT WRIT OF ARREST REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA, TO: MAJOR AUSTINE SEINAVULA, SHERIFF, MONTSERRADO COUNTY, R.L. OR HIS DEPUTY, GREETINGS: YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED TO ARREST THE LIVING BODIES OF ALL THOSE MENTIONED IN THE WRIT AND OTHERS TO BE IDENTIFIED, DEFENDANTS, NAMED IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED CAUSE OF ACTION, CHARGED WITH THE Fee OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED CRIMES, BASED UPON THE INDICTMENT PREPARED AGAINST THEM BY THE GRAND JURY DULY SELECTED, EMPANELLED, AND SWORN TO INQUIRE IN AND FOR THE PEOPLE OF MONTSERRADO COUNTY, REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA, AND TO FORTHWITH BRING THEM BEFORE THIS HONORABLE COURT, (FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, CRIMINAL ASSIZES “C” FOR MONTSERRADO COUNTY), SITTING IN ITS MAY TERM, A.D. 2025, ΤΟ ANSWER TO THE SAID CHARGES MENTIONED SUPRA” the write famous.
Based mostly upon the Court docket’s mandate, on Thursday, June 26, 2025, the Liberian Nationwide Police and the Sheriff of Prison Court docket “C” arrested and detained former International Minister Kemayah, and Madam Broh together with co-defendants on the Monrovia Central Jail.
The fees, introduced by the Belongings Restoration and Property Retrieval Activity Power underneath the Ministry of Justice, embody financial sabotage, misuse of public funds, theft, abuse of workplace, and felony conspiracy.
Based on the indictment, the defendants brought about the federal government to lose 25,054 baggage of donated rice valued $425,918. The rice, donated by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in April 2023 by means of Fouta Company Inc., was meant for disaster-affected communities.
The courtroom has ordered the defendants be held on the Monrovia Central Jail, pending trial. They’re anticipated to be represented by distinguished legal professionals, together with former Affiliate Justice Kabineh Ja’neh, Cllr. Pearl Brown Bull, and Cllr Milton Taylor. Enhancing by Jonathan Browne
