What’s your take on the detention of Charles Gyude Bryant - the former chairman of National Transitional Government of Liberia.
December 15th, 2007
He was due in court about a week ago to start his case of “Economic Sabotage”, but never showed up. Court officials visited his residence, alledgely, on more than 2 ocasions to issue the “Notice of Assignment” to no avail. On Wednesday, he refused to be cited by the sherriff. As the result of these and more, he was served with the “writ of arrest” and subsequent commitment to have him detained on Friday. And by the way, he spent the night in jail and on Saturday, after he signed the Notice of Assignment at the Monrovia Central Prison…..he was released…………
On the other side………this is what “chuchu ar pepee” shared…..
“In view of the preceding however, I don’t know if the govt. has an air tight case on him. Few concerns:
1. Constitution and decisions of leaders in the discharge of their duties.
2. ECOWAS investigate report describing alleged discrepancies vs. professional audit using General Accepted Accounting Principles.
3. Pressure by U.N. and international donors to freeze assets of Liberians which legal minds suggests are violation of the constitution.
4. Govt. mishandling of legal matters in recent times (George Haddad, current treason case, etc.)
Discussion could go on and on…….. Am I wrong somebody?”…….
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5 Comments Add your own
1. Mr.Stewart | December 15th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Mr.Carter, as I stated earlier, I’ll consider your concern #3,#2 on your comment; but in today’s politics; the super power call corruption: lobbying,negotiations,elections,fund raising,appointing the right Judge on the bench,etc. we african always have to label our leaders as corrupted,not good,even if they are trying their best. Look what is happening to the leader we have now, all the bad lip we’re giving her since her elected post.
2. Mr.Stewart | December 16th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Inspector Trent, are you suggesting that the Liberian govt. bring all the interim leaders to justice or investigate all of them ? I think the Liberian govt. has their hands full with policy making,keeping the nation peaceful,debts around the world,dealing with the pressure from the super powers of the world,i.e. U.S. , development within the country,education,health care,medical supplies for aids recipient,protecting the sovereignty of the nation,and the list goes on. The interim leaders came in,did their part of the peace process,out of the picture now,let us keep them out of the political process and let the elected govt. do their job.
3. Mr.Stewart | December 16th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
Ladies & Gentlemen, let us take the advise of Gen.C and utilize the blog on mylag.com “Society Bush” for our debates and not use our personal emails for discussion.
4. survivor | December 17th, 2007 at 12:12 am
I’m just curious to know what the closed door meeting between G. Bryant and Pres. Sirleaf was about. Hasn’t the guy been indicted? If he indeed embezzled the govt.’s money then he needs to be locked up and ordered to pay restitution. Perhaps that will send the message out that Liberia is tired of being exploited by those money-hungry, self-centered, politicians. I say collect all of them and send them to “belleh-Yallah”. Quarter them q8h until they provide the account #s for all of those intl bank accounts.
5. Kai D. | December 18th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Transparency and accountability is key in the rebuilding process, but our nation has suffered 25 years of gross economic mismanagement and it’s difficult to crack down on previous regime’s corruption. For the first time in a very long time there is growing optimism in Liberia, and we need to continue to work in that direction. Anything else may take away from what this government is doing in terms of development.
If the government is going to crack down and bring in people from the past, I think it’s going to be an uphill battle because some of their key suspects may not even be in Liberia and the legal and diplomatic procedures association with bringing them home for trail sounds like serious work.
Nonetheless - When you have a country like Liberia with one of the largest economic collapses in the World since World War II and it all happen in less than two decades, the problem is far beyond what are discussing today.
Thanks,
Kai Dunna
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