The French Version Inside

QPR CODE: 797005 Down Load ew NewDawn N TRULDYa INDEPENDENTwn VOL.11 NO. 035 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2021 PRICE LD$40.00 Android App Election house

a g P11e suffers arson attacks Some of the unexploded petrol bombs found. -Amidst electorial disputes

a g Enough P11e is enough! -CPP rages to Samukai’s defense CPP Chair, Senator Nyonblee Karnga Lawrence WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2021 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 2 Continental News Mozambique militants 'beheading province.One mother, whose Another woman said her predominantly Muslim region of name was withheld to protect son had been killed by Cabo Delgado.A group with a children' her identity, said her eldest militants while she and her similar name has existed in id agency Save the other children. child had been beheaded near other three children had been Somalia for more than a C h i l d r e n s a y s More than 2,500 people have where she and her other forced to flee."After my 11- decade. It is affiliated to al- AIslamist militants been killed and 700,000 have children were hiding."That year-old son was killed, we Qaeda, unlike the Mozambican are beheading children as fled their homes since an night our village was attacked understood that it was no group which allied itself with young as 11 in Mozambique's Islamist insurgency began in and houses were burned," she longer safe to stay in my the rival IS movement in 2019. northern province of Cabo 2017. The militants have said."When it all started, I was village," she said."We fled to IS sees the insurgents as Delgado. pledged allegiance to the at home with my four my father's house in another being part of what it calls its One mother told the Islamic State (IS) group. children. We tried to escape village, but a few days later Central Africa Province. It agency she had had to watch In its report, Save the to the woods but they took my the attacks started there too." released images last year as her 12-year-old son was Children said it had spoken to eldest son and beheaded him. Chance Briggs, Save the showing fighters in Cabo killed in this way close to displaced families who reported We couldn't do anything Children's country director in Delgado with AK-47 rifles and where she was hiding with her gruesome scenes in the gas-rich because we would be killed Mozambique, said the reports rocket propelled grenades. too." of attacks on children "sicken This alarmed counter- us to our core"."Our staff have terrorism experts, as it been brought to tears when suggested that global jihadists hearing the stories of suffering were exploiting a local t o l d b y m o t h e r s i n insurgency for their own displacement camps," he gains.Some analysts believe the said.The United Nations insurgency's roots lay in socio- special rapporteur on extra- economic grievances, with judicial executions described many locals complaining that the militants' actions as "cruel they have benefited little from beyond words".The insurgents the province's ruby and gas are known locally as al- industries. Shabab, which means The In a video last year, one Youth in Arabic. This reflects militant leader said: "We occupy that it receives its support [the towns] to show that the m o s t l y f r o m y o u n g government of the day is unfair. unemployed people in the BBC Ghana grieves for group of This couple fled their village after their oldest son was beheaded by jihadists teenagers who died at sea Headteacher 'made pupil dig in poo for lost phone’ S o u t h A f r i c a n school as other pupils mocked b y t h e E a s t e r n C a p e headmaster has him afterwards. department pending further Abeen suspended The local education body action. over accusations he forced an told TimesLive it learned of the It is alleged he also 11-year-old boy to dig for a matter with "shame". encouraged other children to missing phone in a faeces- Pit latrines are common in help retrieve the phone, filled pit latrine. South Africa, where it was which is understood to have He is alleged to have estimated last. year that a sixth been accidentally dropped lowered the child by a rope of all schools still use them, into the staff pit toilet at the into the hole used for a toilet, despite their dangers.The beginning of March. promising him 200 rand ($14; headteacher in question at Local media say the £10).The boy's grandmother Luthuthu Junior Secondary alleged incident came to light says he now fears going to School is now being investigated when a local NGO that works to promote school attendance Mourners gathered at the mass funeral on Tuesdaty heard about the incident. mass funeral has Thursday because their body Petros Majola, from Khula been held for 13 was badly decomposed. Community Development Ateenagers whose Two teenagers survived the Project, posted a video that bodies were found off the incident. has gone viral, describing the coast of Ghana just over a It’s a tragedy on a scale the incident in Xhosa, saying the week ago.Twenty teenagers fishing community in Apam has hunt for the phone went on for are believed never to have never witnessed. an hour.After students had r e t u r n e d a f t e r g o i n g Ghana’s coastline is used buckets to remove some swimming off Apam beach in notoriously dangerous because of the waste, Mr Majola is southern Ghana.Seven bodies rip currents in the Gulf of quoted as saying that boy was have not been found. Guinea are very strong, but then lowered in until he was Twelve out of the 13 this tragedy is a stark reminder "knee-deep in the faeces". children were buried on for authorities to reconsider "He used his own hands to Tuesday, as one of the safety measures along the search for the phone, with teenagers was buried on coast. BBC faeces going even above his hands and to his elbow." efforts. ordeal.In 2018, the government According to News24, The boy's grandmother, pledged to get rid of all pit The government has pledged to get rid when the phone was not who has not been named, told latrines in state schools within of all pit latrines in state schools found, the headmaster gave local media that her grandson two years after a five-year-old the child 50 rand for his felt ashamed after his pupil drowned in one. BBC WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2021 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 3 Editorial Commentary ary By Giulio Boccaletti Attack on NEC is an attack on democracy Climate Constitutionalism ONDON – In January, the Netherlands success in transforming one of the poorest regions MONDAY'S (MARCH 15) PETROL bomb attacks on the hosted a digital Climate Adaptation of the US, the TVA faced such strong opposition Summit where representatives of from those who saw it as federal overreach that headquarters of the National Elections in Monrovia is a L governments from around the world discussed no project of its kind has been replicated in the clear declaration of war on democracy in Liberia, and their post-pandemic recovery plans. To take US. Indeed, the response to the TVA sowed the should be condemned by all who subscribes to rule of law advantage of remarkably cheap public finance, seeds of an anti-infrastructure, anti-dam and pluralistic democratic practices. They happened at a many emphasized state-directed investments in movement that swept the world in the second half time when the nation just came from midterm senatorial green infrastructure to promote climate of the twentieth century. election held in December 2020. adaptation and stimulate the economy. Without a shared understanding of where POLICE ARE CARRYING on investigation but we believe Given the increasing evidence that unavoidable individual rights end and collective responsibility strongly that these attacks were carried out with motives. shifts in the climate system are already begins, any systematic transformation of the Whatever those motives are, they do not serve the underway, this focus on adaptation should be landscape will be an uphill battle, whatever the common good of the country. Liberians should not forget applauded. But the constitutional implications intent. Climate-adaption projects cannot become of increased state interventionism should not be a staple of public policy if they are merely that political violence in any form such as the one against underestimated. Any time a state promises to technocratic in nature. Rather, they must embody the National Elections Commission sends out wrong wield power on a society-wide scale – in this a new contract between the state and its citizens. messages with far-reaching consequences. It must be case, to climate-proof the entire economy – the There must be a constitutional arrangement that condemned by all peace-loving Liberians irrespective of sources and scope of its legitimacy will be hotly defines the risks a society is willing to endure, and sides. debated. that sets a threshold for taking collective action against intolerable threats. WHAT WOULD LEAD a group or individuals to launch petrol In many countries’ courts, they already are. In bombs against the electoral house without any reason? Let 2015, Urgenda, a nongovernmental Because modern constitutionalism developed those actors be told in no uncertain terms that violence organization, sued the Dutch government on the alongside smallpox and yellow fever crises, public would not give them what they did not get or cannot get at grounds that it had failed to protect the Dutch health offers a helpful analogy for how such the ballot box. people from the heightened risk that climate arrangements arise. In its 1905 decision in change poses to low-lying countries. The Jacobson v. Massachusetts, the US Supreme Court implication was that a failure to meet national ruled that a community’s right to protect itself POLITICIANS AND THEIR supporters should learn from the emissions-reduction targets constitutes against a deadly epidemic allowed it to take late Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine that the way to get evidence of state negligence. In 2019, the action against individuals who refused to be doubts on electoral matters cleared is by challenging the Supreme Court in The Hague agreed; ruling in vaccinated against smallpox – including by process in court, rather than resorting to hooliganism. The Urgenda’s favor, it compelled the state to legislating compulsory inoculation. late founder of the opposition Liberty Party took his pursue larger emissions cuts. concerns before the law after the first round of the 2017 In most democracies since then, a century of presidential election and got redress from the highest Though the Urgenda case was initially framed as judicial review has produced a large body of court of the land. an application of tort law, it ultimately hinged constitutional doctrines conferring legitimacy on on the obligations of the Dutch state under the state policies to manage public health. These SADLY, SOME UNSCRUPULOUS buffoons believe they can European Convention on Human Rights. And prerogatives have been on full display during the take the law into their own hands to satisfy their selfish because the focus shifted to risks experienced COVID-19 pandemic: government-ordered by the entire population, it became a lockdowns have curtailed individual freedoms in desires at the detriment of the entire population. This is constitutional issue. The Supreme Court’s ways that rarely happen without trial. unacceptable! decision cast the effects of climate change (projected by the science) as an infringement on Citizens have largely accepted these THEY WANT TO take Liberia back to the dark days, which it human rights, and thus ruled that the state has a interventions not just because of past has not fully recovered from. The economy is in shambles duty to act. Presumably, the same duty that jurisprudence, but because of all the social and with scarcity of cash exacerbated by serious insecurity. In applies to climate mitigation (emissions cuts) political history that the legal system has such an environment, people are throwing petrol bombs at will also apply to investments in adaptation. metabolized to get to where it is today. We are the a key public institution. What do they hope to achieve? beneficiaries of decades of debate on the Nonetheless, systematic climate adaptation importance of public health; of large bodies of THOSE BEHIND MONDAY'S attacks should rethink if this is implies a transformation of the physical epidemiological data, which have won the the way they want us to proceed as a people. No one landscape on a scale that is certain to provoke confidence of both courts and politicians; and of pushback. In the early twentieth century, the huge investments in a complex web of institutions Liberian's desire should take paramount over the whole human population tripled with the shift from – government agencies, universities, regulators – nation. The action can be equated to nothing else but rural, agricultural societies to urban consumer that have built trust over time. These and other terrorism! It is too unfortunate. economies. As a result, expectations changed. A factors have helped citizens converge on a set of wealthier, enfranchised population could no principles making public health a top collective THE GOVERNMENT NEEDS to put its feet down firmly. longer tolerate risks (namely, floods and priority. Lawlessness and insecurity is gradually taking over our droughts) that previously had been an accepted society. It must be nipped in the bulb immediately before part of life. Humanity has now reached the critical juncture it becomes too late. where climate change is acquiring normative When the Great Depression arrived, value. The evidence justifying concerted state THE MINISTRY OF Justice along with the Joint Security governments responded with infrastructure-led action continues to grow. But while climate should leave no stone unturned in expeditiously bringing modernization programs designed to control an adaptation is as urgent and salient an imperative unruly environment and prevent it from as public health, it has yet to gain the same level perpetrators to book to avoid a recurrence of the action threatening economic growth and stability. The of broad-based acceptance. that poses serious threat to national security and the proliferation of dams, embankments, and already tumbling economy. canals amounted to an extraordinary display of For climate policy to become more than a sovereignty. The essence of this technocratic technocratic project, governments will need to crusade against economic insecurity was similar invest not just in infrastructure and land-use to what some would like to see in the state’s changes, but also in intellectual capital, response to climate change today. regulatory institutions, research, and education. Now is the time to drive public engagement in the In the United States, the Tennessee Valley debates that will define the boundaries between Authority became the archetype of state-led individual rights and collective responsibility in modernization. Wielding extraordinary the era of climate change. Insofar as limits on the executive power as a federally owned exercise of state power are the bedrock of corporation, the TVA could expropriate land in modern constitutionalism, the societal embrace the name of the public interest and command of climate adaptation represents a significant Published by the Searchlight Communications Inc., UN Drive, P.O. Box 1266 Opposite National Investment Commission. substantial federal resources. Yet despite its constitutional moment. Monrovia-Liberia. Tel: +231-06484201, +231-77007529, +231-886978282 / +231-775407211 Managing Editor: Othello B. Garblah; Editor-In-Chief: Jonathan Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2020. www.project-syndicate.org WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2021 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 4

Opinion By Katharina Pistor O-ped By Robert Skidelsky Green Markets Won’t Save Us Sequencing the Post-COVID Recovery

EW YORK – How can one make wise decisions about a perpetually unknowable ONDON – John Maynard Keynes was a staunch champion of US President Franklin D. future? This question is as old as humankind, but it has become existential in light of Roosevelt’s New Deal. The road to a civilized future, he wrote, went through Nclimate change. Although there is sufficient evidence that anthropogenic climate LWashington, not Moscow – a direct rejoinder to those idealists, including some of his change is already here, we cannot possibly know all the ways that it will ramify in the students, who put their faith in communism. coming decades. All we know is that we must either reduce our environmental footprint or risk another global crisis on the scale of the “little ice age” in the seventeenth century, But Keynes was not uncritical of FDR. Specifically, he faulted Roosevelt for mixing up recovery when climatic changes led to widespread disease, rebellion, war, and mass starvation, and reform. Recovery from the slump was the first priority; social reforms, “even wise and cutting short the lives of two-thirds of the global population. necessary,” might impede recovery by destroying business confidence. Presaging today’s debates about post-pandemic economic-policy priorities, Keynes argued that proper The British economist John Maynard Keynes famously argued that investors are driven sequencing would be the key to the New Deal’s success. ultimately by “animal spirits.” In the face of uncertainty, people act on gut feelings, not “a The advisers in FDR’s “brain trust” were reformers, not Keynesians, and had a different view. weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities,” and it Attributing the Great Depression to excessive corporate power, they thought that the route to is these instinct-driven bets that may (or may not) pay off after the dust settles. And yet recovery lay in institutional change. As a result, so-called Keynesian stimulus was a minor policymakers would have us trust animal spirits to help us overcome the uncertainty component of the New Deal – emergency treatment pending longer-run cures. associated with climate change. Keynes himself repeatedly argued that the New Deal’s extra federal spending was insufficient Humanity has long sought to reduce uncertainty by making the natural world more legible, to bring about full recovery. FDR’s total stimulus package of $42 billion – mostly spent in the and thus subject to its control. For centuries, natural scientists have mapped the world, first three years of his presidency, from 1933-35 – amounted to about 5-6% of US GDP at the created taxonomies of plants and animals, and (more recently) sequenced the genomes of time. Keynes, taking a rosy view of the fiscal multiplier, thought it should be double that. many species in the hope of discovering treatments against all imaginable maladies. The Nobel laureate economist Paul Krugman said much the same about President Barack What maps, taxonomies, and sequences are to chemists and biologists, numbers and Obama’s 2009 stimulus of $787 billion, which came to 5.5% of GDP. On the basis of such indicators are to social scientists. Prices, for example, signal the market value of goods and uncertain reckonings, President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion economic rescue plan, equivalent to services, and the expected future value of financial assets. If investors have largely 9% of current GDP, seems about right. ignored certain assets, the reason might be that they were improperly measured or priced. Keynes was talking about fiscal stimulus. He was famously skeptical of the monetary stimulus With the realities of climate change becoming increasingly apparent, major efforts are attempted by both President Herbert Hoover in 1932 and FDR in 1933 – now called underway to identify and label “green investments.” But as the appeal of such assets has “unconventional monetary measures,” or, more simply, quantitative easing (QE). Then, like grown, so has the problem of greenwashing – when investments are fraudulently labeled now, the goal was to bring about a recovery of prices by printing money. “green” or “ESG” (environmental, social, and governance) on the basis of some vague or meaningless benchmark. The most controversial of these schemes, Roosevelt’s gold-buying spree, was designed to offset the collapse in commodity prices. As FDR explained in one of his famous fireside chats, Here, the latest gimmick is to “go green” by purchasing offsets against one’s “brown” higher hog prices meant higher farm wages and buying power. In fact, large-scale gold buying holdings, rather than actually divesting from them. Similarly, the European Union’s new by the US Treasury and the Reconstruction Finance Administration failed to move the price of regulation on “sustainability-related disclosures in the financial services sector” looks like hogs or anything else. yet another attempt to address climate change without actually paying the full bill for it. Under the law, all financial market participants must publicly disclose their strategies for Keynes’s reaction was scathing. Rising prices are an effect of recovery, not a cause of it, he managing climate risk and their methodologies for labeling an asset sustainable, and argued, adding that trying to raise output by increasing the quantity of money was like “trying financial-market authorities must do more to coordinate their supervisory efforts. But to get fat by buying a larger belt.” All that FDR’s gold-buying program did was to replace gold nowhere is there any word about liability or sanctions. hoarding with currency hoarding. And yet economists continually reinvent the wrong wheel. The 2009-16 QE programs embodied the same misguided theory and similarly failed to boost At the same time, big asset managers have been calling for more standardization, arguing the price level. that rational pricing is too difficult under today’s alphabet soup of competing indicators. Clear, objective numbers convey certainty and transform complex tradeoffs into a simple Likewise, Keynes criticized those provisions of FDR’s National Recovery Administration that calculus. Because the price mechanism allows apples to be compared to oranges, it follows tried to engineer recovery by strengthening the position of labor. This, too, he thought, was that green assets should be comparable to brown. The more prices there are, the greater the wrong way round: the time to saddle business with extra costs was after recovery was the role that markets can play as the ultimate decision-maker. With humanity’s fate in the secure, not before. And while Keynes never challenged FDR’s promise to drive the money balance, politicians can wash their hands of the problem. changers out of the temple, he must have wondered about how this would affect the confidence of a paralyzed financial system. But the problem won’t go away, because standard metrics and indicators do not merely increase legibility; they also mask underlying complexities. They do not only capture and Finally, Keynes worried that mixing up recovery and reform was giving FDR’s administration organize information; they also alter behavior, exerting performative effects in light of the “too much to think about all at once.” This observation should serve as a warning to those who types of information that are included or excluded. Judging by the current excitement see in an economic crisis the chance to push all their favorite schemes, regardless of temporal surrounding green investing, it is these effects that most financial-market participants are consistency. chasing. Keynes’s stress on the importance of proper policy sequencing is highly relevant today. But, as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, the distinction between recovery and reform – and Moreover, we cannot trust that changes we make to social systems will yield the expected consequently between macro and micro policy and the short and long run – is less clear cut results. Recall the fate of Long-Term Capital Management, the Nobel laureate-run hedge than it seemed to Keynes (and others) in the 1930s. fund that tanked in 1998 after its animal spirits collided with the real world. LTCM placed huge bets on its prediction that global sovereign-debt prices would converge. But then For starters, full-employment policy is now obviously linked to employability, which was Russia defaulted, creating spillover effects across emerging markets and driving sovereign- simply not the case in the 1930s. The reason so many people were out of work back then was debt prices even further apart. not that they lacked the skills required by industry, but rather that aggregate demand was insufficient. At the heart of this failure was the option-pricing model, which had been billed as the solution to volatility-driven uncertainty. By purporting to make option prices more Keynes thus wrote in December 1934 that the purpose of the government spending a “small predictable, it created a huge market for options and other derivatives. The sociologist sum of money” was to get “private individuals and corporations to spend a much larger sum.” Donald MacKenzie’s book on this period was aptly titled An Engine, Not a Camera. Although What they spent it on was of no further concern to policymakers. the option-pricing formula drove behavior, it did not capture reality, because it failed to account for liquidity – finance’s lifeline. But in today’s age of automation, no government can afford to take such a cavalier attitude to the sustainability of employment. As early as 1930, in fact, Keynes foresaw technological Nature is even less forgiving than a social system like the market, where a state or central unemployment as a problem that would be outside the scope of demand management. bank can come to the rescue. Earth will not bail us out when things go wrong. By relying merely on disclosures and the price mechanism to deal with climate change, we are Since then, the accelerating threat of job redundancy has enlarged what Keynes called the placing a huge bet on the basis of measurements and indicators that we know to be “agenda” of government. In particular, the state must be centrally concerned with the speed incomplete, if not outright misleading. of technological innovation, the choice of technologies, and the distribution of the productivity gains that technology enables. We can devise as many hedges against potential climate-change scenarios as we want, but there is no hedge for a systemic event. Lacking the political will to confront our own In the coming years, the uncomplicated Keynesian full-employment policy will need to give behavior, we are simply assuming that climate change can be addressed with a minimally way not just to a training guarantee, but also to an income guarantee as the character of work disruptive and financially neutral – or even profitable – update to the current operating changes and the quantity of necessary human labor falls. Sustainable employment may thus system. be very different from what we now think of as full employment.

The COVID-19 pandemic should have warned us against such hubris. Instead, governments Then there is environmental sustainability. Although Keynes understood that the state would in advanced economies have decided to double down on private property rights and need to account for a much larger share of investment, this was mainly a matter of smoothing markets, prioritizing pharmaceutical companies’ patent protections over requests that out fluctuations in the business cycle, not plotting a sustainable ecological future. they assist global vaccine production by sharing their technology. By denying a waiver (Conferences on nutrition always bored him.) He was too much of a liberal, or perhaps simply under World Trade Organization rules, Big Pharma and its political allies are wagering that too much of his time, to believe that the state’s agenda should include deliberately shaping the virus will be contained before it can acquire mutations that will render the current the future through its choice of investment and consumption projects. vaccines ineffective.

Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2020. www.project-syndicate.org Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2020. www.project-syndicate.org WEDNESDAAY r MARCH t 17ic2021l e www .thenewdawnliberia.com Art i c NEW l DA e WN 5 The Crime: African Americans By BamideleAdeoye, DBA The first enslaved Africans landed at Point Comfort, in 1807 Act, which banned the importation of slaves. Research Consultant & Adjunct Prof. what is today known as Hampton Roads. Most of their The find revives a story of unspeakable cruelty, but names, as well as the exact number who remained at also the story of a people who somehow survived “In the house of the brave man, there are Point Comfort, have been lost to history, but their this indignity and many others like it — Richard tears, in the coward’s house no one cries” journey remained engraved in memory. Slavery, the Fausset (The New York Times). — African Proverb original sin of America. The historical record shows how white From the desk of Bamidele Adeoye, The 1807 Act prohibiting the importation of slaves Europeans conquered North America, destroyed DBA. June 1996, updated March 2021. into America did not impede the importation. However, the native population, and then built their new according to smithsonianmag.com, the last known nation’s economy on the kidnapped Africans turned ower leads to arrogance and arrogance slave ship arrived in America and anchored on July 9, into chattel, facts that can hardly be leads to fall, it is very dangerous to be 1860, off Point of Pines in Grand Bay, Mississippi, near refuted.America was founded as a white society Ppowerful and arrogant. Those in power the Alabama border. withChristian roots. Between 1700 and 1740, an never give it away and admit defeat. They plot and estimated 75 to 80 percent of the population scheme to regain their lost power and privileges, On July 9, 1860, one hundred and sixty-one years attended churches — Library of Congress. as described by an African proverb. ago, slave traders stole Oluale Kossola (Yoruba name) or Cudjo Lewis (American name) and brutally ripped Forgiveness is God’s purpose, initiative, action If humans can accept that the earth is round, although our eyes tell us otherwise, why do some people continue to think of themselves and act as if they are “superior” to people of African descent and others or appearance despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary?

The race concept was an idea that early European scientists coined to categorize differences in appearance in peoples living in other parts of the world distant from their own. The word race began, therefore, as a geographically derived concept. Later, some scientists began to speculate about a hierarchy of capacity or worth associated with various races.

Whether due to error, bias, arrogance, fear of the unknown and or deliberate act of misrepresentation of history, European scientists concluded that their racial group was superior to all others. The notion of European racial superiority furnished a ready excuse or justification for conquest, colonialism, imperialism, and abuse.

In 1831, French historian Alexis de Tocqueville summed up the prevailing European’s opinion of Native American Indians (The First Citizens): “Heaven has not made them to become civilized; it is necessary that they die.” Albert Sarraut, French Colonial Secretary speech in 1923, stated that at the start, colonization was not an act of civilization, nor was it a desire to civilize. It was an act of force motivated by interests.

Like cancer, the fallacy that skin color is a substitute for talent, character, intelligence, and humanity. Even worse, the misconception that skin color matters, a legitimate distinction among people, signifies a lesser degree of humanity, was created and maintained. Over the years, that fiction became embedded in the social and political structures of the west. It established and nourished sharp limits on the opportunity, and therefore on achievement. Courtesy: School of Arts, Nigeria

Maponga Joshua III challenged the Europeans to him from his homeland, of the Yoruba people in West and gift to humanity, the bedrock of the Christian reference God for diversity issues based on the Africa, along with 109 other Africans, and brought doctrine of truth, the triune God loves, offers the biblical creation stories or myths. Hating skin color them to Alabama on a ship called Clotilda. act of forgiveness, and seeks reconciliation. is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. According to the Christian doctrine, "The Lord our Honoring it is the appreciation for conscious, The Clotilda’s survivors after the Civil War founded God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have beautiful-love-inspired diversity ? T.F. Hodge. Africatown, a small community just north of Mobile, rebelled against him." “I, even I, am he who blots While Stephanie Lahart emphatically pronounced Alabama. Africatown was a reflection and a reminder out your transgressions, for my own sake, and that her skin tone is exquisite. of where they were kidnapped and stolen in the new remembers your sins no more ..." “Their sins and world. They were very adamant about returning home lawless acts I will remember no more.” On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, someday — Africa. We call our village Affican Town. We kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British say dat ‘cause we want to go back in de Affica soil and There are 44 biblical verses about forgiveness— colony of Virginia and are then bought by English we see we cain go. Derefo’ we makee de Affica where KVJ, the act, and power of forgiveness assuming colonists. The arrival of the enslaved Africans in dey fetch us — Oluale Kossola aka Cudjo Lewis there is an infraction or sin committed, however, the New World marks the beginning of two and a Africatown; Mobile, Alabama. twenty are listed for testimonial. half centuries of slavery in North America. The last known slave ship was found under a muddy stretch of the Mobile River, a wooden vessel of horrors Jamestown was founded in 1607; the Virginia that brought slaves more than a half-century after the CONT’D ON PAGE 10 Colonist was home to about 700 people by 1619. WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2021 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 6 More headline news More headline news LRA Customs turns over cartons Rep. Kolubah cries of fake refrigerant gas to EPA for development fund h e C u s t o m s BlamoKofa, lauded efforts of ensure the expansion of the ontserrado County Department of the the Customs Anti-Smuggling revenue base for Liberia” he Representative Kolubah D i s t r i c t # 1 0 TLiberia Revenue officers for building a strong u r g e d A n t i - S m u g g l i n g disclosed he his has written the Re p r e s e n t a t i v e Authority (LRA) has turned intelligence network which officers”. M Office of President Weah to Yekeh Kolubah has alarmed over twenty-eight (28) culminated in the interception He called on members of investigate his Ministers that the lack of district cartons of fake Maxron 134a of fake Maxron refrigerant gas the business community because donors money should development funding under refrigerant gas to the which was being imported into including importers to move be used for the intended President George Manneh Environmental Protection the country thereby ensuring away from importing harmful purpose in the country rather W e a h p r e s i d e n c y i s t h a n c e r t a i n m i n i s t e r s undermining development in pocketing said money. the country. He noted that the Liberian Representative Kolubah people are suffering amid noted that since President serious economic challenges, Weah came to power, District while a Deputy Minister is #10 has not received any building duplexes at the d e v e l o p m e n t f u n d o r expense of the people. scholarship fund. He stressed that President The Montserrado County Weah should consider a letter Lawmaker spoke over the sent to him because tomorrow weekend while addressing he will be held accountable for members of press on national the Liberian people money. issues confronting the nation. Representative Kolubah said According to him, central it is about time the President government continues to tell should be concerned about the the Liberian people there is no people business and not allow money, but lamented that his ministers to miss use public A group photo after the presentation of the fake products to the EPA

Agency (EPA) for further goods admitted into the and fake products into the scientific testing. Liberian commerce are safe for country, warning, those According to the LRA, the public use. caught in such act will be r e f r i g e r a n t g a s w a s He stated the customs have a dealt with under the laws of intercepted at Bo-waterside duty to protect the Liberian Liberia. border post in Grand Cape people from harmful products The confiscated fake Mount County by officers of that affect their health, or in Maxron refrigerant gas was the Customs Anti-Smuggling this specific case, expose them received by Charles H. Dennis Unit in late February. The to risk of fire. and Eugene of the EPA who fake product was transported Assistant Commissioner Kofa thanked the LRA for the from Guinea through Sierra encouraged the anti-smuggling c o l l a b o r a t i o n a n d Leone to Liberia. team to continue applying their coordination in ensuring a Speaking during the professional skills in tracking holistic border security. - turning over ceremony in smugglers who are bent on Press Release Pa y n e s v i l l e , A s s i s t a n t exploiting the country of lawful Commissioner for Customs revenues. C o m p l i a n c e a n d “Keep being committed to Enforcement, Atty. D. duty in closing leakages to Representative Yekeh Kolubah

some government officials are money. LDEA sends 9 persons to building duplexes across the The lawmaker emphasized country while the people live that his office will work along in abject poverty. with President Weah, but he He alleged that the Deputy should be respected as the court for drug trafficking Minister for Fiscal Affairs at sitting Representative of By: Joseph Titus Yekeryan Detachment which later c o m m u n i t y o c c u p a n t s the Ministry of Finance and District #10 in Montserrado in Bong County charged them with drug brutality meted against Development Planning is County by having him notified of trafficking and forwarded them officers of the agency in the building four duplexes at the d e v e l o p m e n t p r o j e c t s he Liberia Drug to court. rubber factory community same time in his district, and implemented there. Enforcement Agency A d d r e s s i n g a n e w s while raiding alleged drug asked, “Where is he getting T(LDEA), Bong County conference Sunday in Gbarnga, dealers. the money from?” Detachment has arrested L D E A D i r e c t o r o f He said officers of the LDEA nine persons allegedly linked Communications and Public had gone to ride the to drugs trafficking in the Affairs, Michael Jipply placed community following a tipoff The NewDawn Newspaper County. he NewDa the street value of the 216 from some of the community wn New Four persons were earlier kilograms of marijuana to over dwellers that their lives were is onon thethe N Newsstandspaper Dail y. a r r e s t e d w i t h a b o u t two hundred thousand Liberian in danger due to the alleged ewsstand Dail 216kilogram of marijuana in Dollars. sale if marijuana but when y. Totota, lower Bong County He said the LDEA has not slept they reached the community, while in route to market the on any issue of such in the some of the alleged suspects Grab a copy of today’s edition drugs. The LDEA Officers County and that they will resisted the offices from or visit: https://thenewdawnliberia.com/ made additional five arrests continue to be strong in making checking their business areas. of persons said to be linked to sure that Bong County becomes Jipply described the act as the trafficking. an illegal substance-free dishonest and said it has the to corporate with the LDEA national concern with a call to Barely 24hrs after they County. tendency of creating chaos officers in order to help fight c e n tr a l g o v e r n m e n t f o r were arrested, the LDEA The LDEA Communications and undermining the fight track down drugs traffickers. adequate budgetary support forwarded the suspected Boss at the same time against illegal narcotic He said intensifying their which according to him will help traffickers to the Liberia condemned the recent alleged substances across the county. strength at the various ports of beef up their strength. N a t i o n a l Po l i c e B o n g d r u g u s e r s a n d h o s t i l e He also urged inhabitants entries as security officers is a WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2021 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 7 More headline news More headline news Liberians don’t want liberators Gbarpolu election Starts from back page your formed a liberation -GOL reacts to PLP chairman Wilmot Paye party, than you missed out, investigation which the team the rerun. By Lewis S. Teh government as corrupt and evil because gone are the days fears, “may affect the In a communication dated 8 he Government of people. where people will liberate announcement of the results.” January 2021, Associate Justice Liberia through the “How can you brand this this country, we are on course Cllr. Arthur T. Johnson, presiding in Chambers of the TM i n i s t r y o f government as corrupt and evil with the tendence of representing sitting Gbarpolu Supreme Court of Liberia Information, Cultural Affairs people when you served for 12 democracy”, he added in County Representative and Madam Sie-A-Nyene G. Yuoh and Tourism or MICAT has years with 16 Billion passing response to chairman Paye’s senatorial candidate, Alfred ordered the NEC to halt all sharply reacted to comments through and your government statement. K o i w o o d , s a y s t h e actions, pronouncement or attributed to the government can’t give proper account for According to Deputy investigation conducted by announcement on election from by the national chairman of that huge money, when there Minister Fahgon, Liberia has the NEC on the election affected area (s) of Gbarpolu the newly certificated People was no free tuition for made significance strides in violence in Gbarpolu County County, pending the hearing Liberation Party, Wilmot universities, and colleges, when the fight against corruption, will affect the result because and decision of the complaint and bad governance and at there was also complaint from filed before the county’s such, statement by chairman citizens of Gbarpolu in Elections Magistrate. Paye was in the wrong place addition to complaint filed by “By directive of Her Honor and at the wrong time, his client. Sie-A-Nyene G. Yuoh, Associate arguing, “we don’t need any He claims that there was Justice presiding in Chambers, form, or group that calls complaint that Madam Kanneh you are hereby informed to stay themselves liberators, but if brought in Sierra Leoneans to all actions/or pronouncement they choose to become one vote into the elections, adding or announcement on the then they have to get that when the saw the town election of the affected area (s) prepared to bare the filled with strangers when of Gbarpolu County, pending consequences that will come they woke in the morning. the hearing and decision of the after such statement.” But in a query, Associate complaint filed before the Mr. Wilmot Paye, formerly Justice Yussif D. Kaba asks Cllr. E l e c t i o n s M a g i s t r a t e o f national chairman of the Ex- Johnson as to why he had to Gbarpolu County, up to and ruling Unity Party, now bring about complaints from including the hearing and chairman of the People’s the nine other precincts when disposition of appeal by any Liberation Party late Sunday he limited his complaint to party even up to the Supreme evening, while welcoming w h a t t r a n s p i r e d i n Court,” the order dated 8 new members into the party N o m o d a t a h u m w i t h o u t January read. urged Liberians to form a mentioning the case from the Prior to the court’s order, the u n i t e d f r o n t t o nine precincts. rerun had already been democratically take back In responding, Cllr. Johnson conducted on 7 January, their country from those he says they called for a rerun for pending pronouncement of called “evil and corrupt” the 13 voting precincts. But official results when the process Paye. there was no fees for students forces existing in national Justice Kaba notes that such was then halted by the Chamber Addressing reporters on taking national exams?” He leadership to suppress growth call was made without the Justice. However unofficial Monday, March 16, 2021, in a wondered. a n d d e v e l o p m e n t a n d counsel making any reference reports appeared to project special news conference held “We don’t want any form of accumulate ill-gotten wealth to the other places, even Madam Kanneh to have at the Ministry on Capitol Hill, Liberators to come and liberate to the detriment of the though he is praying for the maintained her lead over her Deputy Information Minister our people, because our country citizenry. court to order rerun in places rival Rep. Alfred Koiwood, for Press and Public Affairs has never been held hostage”, Chairman Paye observed he did not reference. though official results are Eugene L. Fahgon, in his Minister Fahgon noted. that for too long, Liberia has Justice Kaba notes that pending the outcome of the introductory remarks said, it “In your statement, you been faced with leadership Cllr. Johnson wants to further election case. was unfortunate for chairman claimd that leadership is complicate the matter by The election violence CONT’D ON PAGE 11 P a y e t o b r a n d t h e missing; if that is the reason why adding the other nine areas. emerged in Gbarpolu after However Cllr. Johnson says angry youth acting on the it is not to complicate the instructions of the Clan Chief matter, arguing that it was stormed voting centers on U.S. underscores detection and surveillance illegal that the NEC had Election Day, 8 December and allowed a rerun when there took away the boxes containing -in pandemics fight was already a complaint filed ballot papers and other voting before the same commission materials. n i t e d S t a t e s asking it not to go ahead with R e p o r t s o f v o t e r s ’ A m b a s s a d o r t o the election because there intimidation flared with many ULiberia Michael was violence. locals reporting the presence of McCarthy says Liberia needs According to Cllr. Johnson, a traditional (country) devil effective disease detection the NEC went ahead and ordered in town by the Clan and surveillance to quickly summarily dismissed the Chief, a diehard CDC supporter, identify infectious diseases complaint, which led him to go which prevented many people when they occur and monitor to the Supreme Court. from accessing the town. the development of an Cllr. Johnson insists that no In December, delegates of outbreak in the country. one participated in the t h e m a i n o p p o s i t i o n He says the surest way to preparation for the conduct of Collaborating Political Parties counter potential epidemics or pandemics is to stop an outbreak where it starts, automated and manual system ensure that Liberia continues to stressing that to do this, for 4,000 tests, PCR master- be a safe travel destination that detection and surveillance mix, PCR calibration and responds timely and effectively are the keys to effectively reaction plates, and dried to emerging and reemerging prevent, respond and contain swab pre-treatment buffer to infectious diseases. The United infectious diseases. enable detection of SARS-CoV- States through USAID’s Global Ambassador McCarthy Embassy of the United States commodities. The PCR test is 2, the virus that causes the Health Security Agenda will spokes when he handed over near Monrovia. the “gold standard” test for coronavirus disease known as continue to be your strong COVID-19 laboratory testing The Infectious Disease diagnosing COVID-19, because COVID-19. partner in this endeavor”, supplies to the Minister of Detection and Surveillance it’s the most accurate and The donation will enable Ambassador McCarthy assures Health, Dr. Wilhelmina project, through funding from reliable test. the National Public Health Liberia’s Minister of Health Jallah, on behalf of United USAID, is supporting the The embassy says the Reference Laboratory to Doctor Wilhelmina Jallah on S t a t e s A g e n c y f o r Government of Liberia to donation includes 2,000 efficiently respond to the Thursday, March 11, 2021 during International Development accelerate COVID-19 detection specimen collection swabs, COVID-19 pandemic. the ceremony. (USAID), according to the efforts by supplying PCR testing extraction reagents for the “Our collective task is to WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2021 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 8 Français Le représentant Kolubah réclame les fonds de développement Éditorial e représentant du Planification du développement empochant cet argent », a-t-il district n° 10 du chargé des Affaires fiscales est mis en garde. Lc o m t é d e en train de construire quatre Il a exhorté le président Montserrado, YekehKolubah, duplex en même temps dans son Weah à agir comme le Le bureau du président de la se plaint du manque de district. « D’où vient cet argent demande la lettre parce que f i n a n c e m e n t d u ». d e m a i n , i l s e r a t e n u développement des district Le représentant Kolubah a responsable de l'argent du Chambre des Représentants a déçu sous le régime du président révélé qu'il avait écrit au bureau peuple libérien. « Il est grand Le bureau du président de la Chambre des Représentants veut vaille George Manneh Weah, du président Weah pour lui t e m p s q u e v o u s v o u s que vaille défendre ce qui est manifestement indéfendable et e s t i m a n t q u e c e l a demander de surveiller ses préoccupiez des affaires du accuser la police d’être responsable du récent accident de c o m p r o m e t l e ministres, « car l'argent des peuple. Il ne faut pas circulation qui s’est soldé par une fausse couche et des blessures développement du pays. donateurs doit être utilisé aux permette à vos ministres graves. Cela est triste et décevant. Selon le représentant fins prévues dans le pays. Il ne d'utiliser l'argent public à Kolubah, depuis que le faut pas que certains ministres CONT’D ON PAGE 9 Pire, le Bureau du président Bhofal Chambersa fait valoir que jusqu'à président Weah est arrivé au présent, aucun décès n'a été enregistré contrairement aux dire de pouvoir, le district 10 n'a reçu certains médias, et qu'aucun véhicule officiel de son convoi n'était a u c u n f o n d s d e impliqué dans l'accident. d é v e l o p p e m e n t . L e législateur du comté de A bon ? C’est maintenant que le bureau du chef du parlement fait une Montserrado a pris la parole distinction entre le détachement de la police nationale du Libéria qui ce week-end lors d’une assure officiellement sa sécurité et les autres voitures de son convoi ? Ces autres véhicules dits officiels sont-ils sa propriété privée ? conférence de presse, où il a mis un accent sur les Ce qui est plus dégoûtant, c'est le fait que M.Walkinsnie qu'il y ait eu problèmes auxquels est aucun mort à la suite de l'accident, même face à la confirmation des confrontée la nation. médecins de l'hôpital JFK selon lesquels la femme enceinte en « Le gouvernement central question a fait une fausse couche, tandis que sa mère a eu les jambes continue de dire au peuple cassées. libérien qu'il n'y a pas d'argent, mais certains Dans un communiqué officiel publié le jeudi 11 mars, le bureau de f o n c t i o n n a i r e s d u presse de la Chambre, qualifiant l'accident de « malheureux », a gouvernement construisent indiqué que l’évènement s'est produit vers 6 heures du matin alors des duplex à travers le pays que des éléments de la garde rapprochée du Président de la chambre alors que les gens vivent dans basse du parlement libérien se rendait au travail. une pauvreté abjecte », a-t-il déploré. « Les victimes de l'incident sont hospitalisées à l'hôpital John F. Kennedy aux frais du président de la Chambre des représentants, le Selon lui, le vice-ministre Dr Bhofal Chambers, qui s'est rendu à l'hôpital pour s'assurer que les des finances et de la victimes bénéficient d’un traitement adéquat », lit-on dans le communiqué.

Selon le communiqué, le président Chambers a invité la famille des UE-Libéria : Fin du victimes au calme et à la prière pour un prompt rétablissement de leurs proches, tout en les rassurant de son engagement à tout faire en 9edialogue politique vue d’un dénouement heureux. Le gouvernement libérien Cotonou entre l'UE et les États Delahousse. Pour sa part, le Bureau du Président Chambers a affirmé que ni le et l'Union européenne (UE) se d'Afrique, des Caraïbes et du Les discussions lors de la véhicule officiel ni le convoi du Président n'a été impliqué dans aucun sont réunis le vendredi 12 Pacifique (ACP), qui permet la réunion ont également porté accident. mars dans le cadre de la mise en place d'une plate-forme sur l'état de l'économie et des neuvième (9e) édition du de dialogue politique régulier et finances publiques et la mise Dans un courriel adressé à ce journaliste jeudi, le porte-parole dialogue politique UE- global. en œuvre du PAPD, créer les officiel du Président, George Watkins, a déclaré qu’aucun décès Libéria, au cours de laquelle Le 9edialogue politique UE- conditions d'une croissance n’était survenu à la suite de l’accident, contrairement aux les deux parties ont discuté Libéria était coprésidé par le économique généralisée et de informations publiées dans les médias. d'un large éventail de ministre des Affaires étrangères la création d'emplois grâce à questions d'intérêt mutuel. Dee-Maxwell SaahKemayah et le des mesures relatives au Donnant sa propre version des faits, Watkins a dit qu’un véhicule Cette réunion s'est tenue chef de la délégation de l'Union climat des affaires et des utilisé par le service de sécurité de la police nationale du Libéria dans le cadre de l'article 8 de e u r o p é e n n e a u L i b é r i a , i n v e s t i s s e m e n t s , l a affecté auprès du président de la chambre basse, conduit par M. l'accord de partenariat de l ' a m b a s s a d e u r L a u r e n t g o u v e r n a n c e , l a Lawrence Williams, un agent de police, est entré en collision avec une Chevrolet Seden bleue blessant ainsi la victime, une femme r e s p o n s a b i l i t é , l a enceinte et sa mère le mardi 9 mars 2021 sur la 20e rue à Sinkor transparence et les mesures Monrovia, tôt le matin. Le véhicule était allé chercher le personnel de lutte contre la corruption. de la sécurité. L'UE et le gouvernement libérien ont également Ce que le bureau du Président aurait dû dire, c’est que le convoi d i s c u t é d e s q u e s t i o n s n’était pas en service au moment de l’accident. La vérité est que le relatives aux droits de président Bhofal Chambers doit être tenu responsable de tous les l'homme, notamment les véhicules qui sont officiellement sous son commandement, où qu'ils conclusions de la dernière soient. s e s s i o n d e l ' E x a m e n périodique universel (EPU) sur Le Bureau du Président dit-il qu'une fausse couche n'est pas une perte le Libéria et la lutte contre la de vie ? Quand commence la vie ? Est-ce au moment de la naissance violence sexuelle et sexiste ou à la rencontre des spermatozoïdes d’un homme et d’un ovule (SGBV), des élections (y d’une femme dans l’ovaire de celle-ci après un rapport sexuel ? compris les leçons tirées des En disant qu'aucun décès n'est survenu à la suite de l'accident, le élections sénatoriales de mi- bureau du chef du parlement veut-il dire que la victime n’était pas mandat de 2020 et du enceinte et que les médecins de l'hôpital JFK ont menti ? référendum constitutionnel, ainsi que de la réforme Une valeur fondamentale des relations publiques est la vérité, dire électorale), des problèmes de les choses telles qu’elles sont pour attirer l’attention du publique. A santé publique (y compris la quoi bon mentir ou dissimuler ce qui est déjà connu ? CONT’D ON PAGE 9 WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2021 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 9 Français Le représentant Kolubah Commentaire Par Giulio Boccaletti réponse du Libéria au COVID- européen de développement 19 et la préparation à la s’est élevé à environ 330 maladie à virus Ebola (MVE)), millions de dollars). des recommandations de la À l'issue du dialogue, les deux C o m m i s s i o n v é r i t é e t parties ont réaffirmé leur réconciliation (CVR), de la volonté de continuer à tenir des Le constitutionnalisme climatique sécurité alimentaire, de dialogues politiques réguliers l'éducation (y compris sur des questions d'intérêt ONDRES – Au mois de janvier, les Pays-Bas ont ressources fédérales substantielles. Or, étant pourtant l ' e n s e i g n e m e n t e t l a commun et de donner suite aux organisé en ligne le Sommet pour l’adaptation parvenue à transformer l’une des régions les plus formation techniques et conclusions et accords conclus Laux changements climatiques, dans le cadre pauvres des États-Unis, la TVA a rencontré une telle professionnels (EFTP)) et de au cours de ces dialogues. Les duquel les représentants de gouvernements du monde opposition, de la part de ceux qui la considéraient l a p r o g r a m m a t i o n d u parties ont également réaffirmé entier ont discuté de leurs plans de relance comme une toute-puissance fédérale, que plus aucun postpandémiques. Afin de tirer parti de coûts projet de ce genre n’a jamais été reproduit aux États- partenariat UE-Libéria sur la leur engagement à renforcer d’emprunt extrêmement faibles pour les finances Unis. Les réactions d’opposition face à la TVA ont en période 2021-2027 (après la encore le partenariat UE-Libéria publiques, beaucoup ont souligné la nécessité effet semé les graines d’un mouvement anti- période 2014-2020, au cours et exprimé leur souhait que la d’investissements directs des États dans des infrastructures et anti-barrages, qui s’est propagé au de laquelle le soutien de dixième édition du dialogue infrastructures vertes, pour promouvoir l’adaptation monde dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. l’Union européenne au politique UE-Libéria ait lieu au climatique et stimuler l’économie. Libéria au titre du Fonds second semestre 2021. Sans une compréhension partagée de là où s’achèvent Les éléments de preuves se multipliant autour de les droits individuels, et de là où débute la responsabilité changements inévitables et déjà en cours dans le collective, tout transformation systémique du paysage système climatique, cet accent placé sur l’adaptation deviendra une bataille difficile, quelle que soit UE-Libéria : est à saluer. Pour autant, les implications l’intention. Les projets d’adaptation au climat ne constitutionnelles d’un interventionnisme accru de peuvent devenir un moteur des politiques publiques s’ils leurs propres fins », a dit le du district # 10 du comté de l’État ne doivent pas être sous-estimées. Chaque fois se contentent de revêtir une nature technocratique. Une législateur controversé, avant Montserrado en lui faisant qu’un État promet d’exercer un pouvoir à l’échelle de démarche constitutionnelle doit avoir lieu pour définir d’ajouter que son bureau notifier les projets de la société – en l’occurrence pour armer l’économie les risques qu’une société est prête à endurer, et pour travaillera avec le président développement mis en œuvre entière face au climat – les sources et le champ de sa fixer un seuil d’action collective contre les menaces Weah, s'il est respecté en tant là-bas. légitimité s’en trouvent vivement débattus. intolérables. que représentant en exercice C’est déjà le cas devant les tribunaux de nombreux Le constitutionnalisme moderne s’étant développé à pays. En 2015, l’organisation non gouvernementale l’époque des crises de variole et de fièvre jaune, la santé Côte d’Ivoire : un hommage des artistes et de la Urgenda a attaqué en justice le gouvernement publique offre une analogie utile pour étudier la manière hollandais pour avoir échoué à protéger la population dont ces démarches constitutionnelles s’opèrent. Dans néerlandaise contre le risque accru que représente le sa décision Jacobson v. Massachusetts de 1905, la Cour jeunesse aux funérailles d’Hamed Bakayoko changement climatique pour un pays de faible suprême américaine a jugé que le droit d’une altitude. Il a été jugé que la non satisfaction des communauté à se défendre contre une épidémie La Côte d’Ivoire est musical. objectifs nationaux de réduction des émissions était mortelle lui conférait le droit d’agir contre les individus toujours en deuil après la « Pour ce volet artistique, constitutive d’une négligence de la part de l’État. En refusant de se faire vacciner contre la variole – mort d’Hamed Bakayoko, qui nous avons une soixantaine 2019, la Cour suprême de La Haye s’est prononcée notamment en légiférant pour la vaccination dans le même sens ; dans une décision en faveur obligatoire. a succombé à un cancer en d’artistes locaux et des artistes d’Urgenda, elle enjoint l’État de poursuivre de plus Allemagne le 10 mars. Ce venant de l’international. Ce importantes réductions des émissions. Depuis, dans la plupart des démocraties, un siècle mercredi, le défunt Premier sera l’occasion pour nous de le d’examen juridique a produit un vaste ensemble de ministre recevra l’hommage célébrer pour tout ce qu’il a Si l’affaire Urgenda a été initiée dans le cadre d’une doctrines constitutionnelles conférant de la légitimité solennel de la nation à la apporté à la jeunesse », action en responsabilité, elle a en fin de compte aux politiques publiques dans la gestion de la santé présidence. La suite se explique Mamadou Touré, reposé sur les obligations de l’État hollandais en vertu publique. Ces prérogatives sont apparues au grand jour de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme. avec la pandémie de COVID-19, les gouvernements ayant déroulera au stade d’Anyama, ministre de la Jeunesse. Et dans la mesure où l’accent s’est reporté sur les ordonné des confinements limitant les libertés dans le nord d’Abidjan, avec De nombreux artistes risques encourus par la population entière, l’affaire individuelles dans une mesure rarement observée sans l’hommage de son parti, le présents est devenue une problématique constitutionnelle. La action en justice. RHDP, et des politiciens qui le Le très populaire Hambak décision de la Cour suprême a considéré les effets du souhaitent. Enfin, les artistes était le parrain, le soutien et changement climatique (selon les projections Les citoyens ont largement accepté ces interventions, et la jeunesse auront l’ami de nombreux artistes qui scientifiques) comme une atteinte aux droits de pas seulement en raison des jurisprudences passées, l’occasion de saluer la sont restés proches de lui une l’homme, et a par conséquent jugé que l’État avait mais également de toute l’histoire sociale et politique pour devoir d’agir. On peut aujourd’hui s’attendre à que le système légal a métabolisée pour arriver jusqu’à mémoire du populaire « fois faites leur renommée et ce que ce devoir qui s’applique à l’atténuation du son stade actuel. Nous sommes les bénéficiaires de Hambak » jusqu’au lever du leur fortune. Nombreux sont changement climatique (les réductions d’émissions) plusieurs décennies de débat sur l’importance de la jour. ceux qui ont tenu à être s’applique également demain aux investissements santé publique, d’importants organes de données La journée d’hommage présents ce mercredi. dans l’adaptation. épidémiologiques qui ont gagné la confiance des national de ce mercredi se « Pour ceux qui ont déjà tribunaux et des dirigeants politiques, ainsi que veut à l’image d’Hamed confirmé leur présence au L’adaptation systémique face au climat implique une d’investissements colossaux dans un tissu complexe transformation du paysage physique dans une mesure d’institutions – agences publiques, universités, Bakayoko. Comme un grand niveau international, nous vouée à susciter des oppositions. Au début du XXe régulateurs – qui ont elles aussi bâti la confiance au fil du écart entre la solennité due à avons Koffi Olomidé, Dadju, siècle, la population humaine a triplé avec la temps. Ces différents facteurs, et d’autres, ont son rang et la ferveur qu’il nous avons Maître Gims, transition des sociétés rurales agricoles vers des contribué à faire converger les citoyens vers un suscitait chez les jeunes et Vegedream, FallyIpupa, Sidiki économies urbaines de consommation, avec pour ensemble de principes qui font de la santé publique une c h e z l e s a r t i s t e s e n Diabaté. Au niveau national, conséquence une évolution des attentes. Plus riche et priorité collective majeure. particulier. des artistes comme Alpha plus émancipée, la population a évolué vers une absence de tolérance des risques (montées des eaux, L’humanité a désormais atteint un stade décisif auquel Après les cérémonies Blondy, Magic System. Je peux sécheresses) qui auparavant étaient acceptés comme le changement climatique acquiert une valeur officielles qui se déroulent le citer Serges Beynaud, Bilé faisant partie de l’existence. normative. Les éléments de preuve justifiant une action matin au palais présidentiel, Didier, Zouglou Markers, etc. », publique concertée ne cessent de se multiplier. Mais si les Ivoiriens ont rendez-vous ajoute Mamadou Touré. Lorsque la Grande Dépression est survenue, les l’adaptation au climat constitue un impératif urgent et au stade Alassane Ouattara L’hommage artistique se gouvernements ont répondu par des programmes de essentiel aux fins de la santé publique, il lui reste encore d’Ebimpé, à Anyama. D’abord poursuivra jusqu’à l’aube modernisation reposant sur les infrastructures, à recueillir le même degré d’acceptation généralisée. pour des prises de paroles de jeudi. Hamed Bakayoko sera élaborés pour contrôler un environnement instable et empêcher celui-ci de menacer la croissance et la Pour que les politiques climatiques deviennent ses amis politiques, qu’ils inhumé vendredi à Séguéla « stabilité économiques. La prolifération des barrages, davantage qu’un simple projet technocratique, les soient de son parti ou non, dans la stricte intimité digues et autres canaux a constitué une spectaculaire gouvernements vont devoir investir non seulement dans puis pour une nuit d’hommage familiale ». démonstration de souveraineté. L’essence de cette les infrastructures et la transformation de l’usage des croisade technocratique contre l’insécurité terres, mais également dans le capital intellectuel, les économique est comparable à ce que certains institutions réglementaires, la recherche et l’éducation. voudraient observer aujourd’hui dans la réponse des L’heure est venue de promouvoir l’implication du public États face au changement climatique. dans les débats qui définiront les frontières entre droits des individus et responsabilité collective à l’ère du Aux États-Unis, la Tennessee Valley Authority est changement climatique. À condition que les limites sur devenue l’archétype de la modernisation conduite par l’exercice du pouvoir étatique constituent le socle du Advertise with us! l’État. Exerçant un pouvoir exécutif extraordinaire en constitutionnalisme moderne, l’adhésion sociétale à tant que société fédérale, la TVA a pu exproprier des l’adaptation au climat peut représenter un moment terres au nom de l’intérêt public, et mobiliser des constitutionnel important. Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2021. www.project-syndicate.org WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2021 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 10 Africans in America must strike a balance between arrogance and confidence to attract African Americans closer to bridge the gaps of silence. And The Crime: Africans must change the precedence of their Cont’d from page 5 relationship with African Americans in America. (1) “Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave A child is a child of everyone — Sudanese you.”— Ephesians 4:32. (2)“For if you forgive other proverb. people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will alsoforgive you.But if ye forgive not men Unfortunately, Africa Union has not officially their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your addressed and apologized, or challenged the adverse trespasses.”— Matthew 6:14-15.(3)“Bear with each effects of slavery on her many children in the other and forgive one another if any of you has a diaspora. Nevertheless, Africa is always appealing to grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord her children in the diaspora to come back home — forgave you.”— Colossians 3:13.(4)“Do not judge, and Africa and help develop the continent. What a you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will contradiction.Despite African Americans' enormous not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be daily challenges, they are the most patriotic Bamidele Adeoye, DBA Research Consultant Americans and also the most advanced Africans in the forgiven.”— Luke 6:37.(5)"Then Peter came to Jesus & Adjunct Prof. “A Leader of Self” and asked, 'Lord, how many times shall I forgive my world. brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven we treat a man who has no position to hold; not how times?' Jesus answered, 'I tell you, not seven times, we respond to the call of the man who wields power, In conclusion, as African Americans demand but seventy-seven times.' "— Matthew 18:21- but how we respond to the call of the man who has no reparation from the government for slavery, it is 22.(6)“You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding power to command us. Religion is not how we treat equally the responsibility of the African Union to take in love to all who call to you.” — Psalm 86:5.(7)“And the rich, but rather what attitude we take towards the initiative to formally apologize to Africa and her when you stand praying, if you hold anything against the poor and the weak amongst us.No wonder there is children in the diaspora for the sin of omission forour anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven a dichotomy between what we believe and what we ancestor's contribution towards the accident of may forgive you your sins.”— Mark 11:25.(8)“Blessed do. history.An overdue apology from the African is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose Union.This action by the African Union will sins are covered.” — Psalm 32:1.(9)“But if you do not This bags the main theme and question of this undoubtedly help bridge the gap of ignorance forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive paper on the crime along with the Christian doctrine. between Africa and Africans in the diaspora created your sins.” — Matthew 6:15.(10) “If we confess our by design. sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to What is the crime of omission or sin committed by cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”— 1 John African Americans' that plagued them since 1619? And, we must continue the humanist African 1:9.(11)“For I will forgive their wickedness and will philosophy and in the spirit of Ubuntu, "I am, because remember their sins no more.” — Hebrew Is slavery African Americans' crime yet to be you are." 8:12.(12)“Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but forgiven? If there is no crime or sin of omission, why dwelling on it separates close friends.” — Proverbs the acts of injustice in every conceivable way? What God Bless Africa! And, God Bless America!! 17:9.(13)“Hatred stirs old quarrels, but love are the Christian teachings on and about forgiveness? overlooks insults.” — Proverbs 10:12.(14)"As far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our Are there some people or groups of people that transgressions from us." — Psalm 103:12.(15)"The you do not want to forgive? Why do we resist forgiving Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though certain people or groups? we have rebelled against him." — Daniel 9:9.(16)“I, “Courts are not even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for That is why the sin of unforgiveness is a sin that Starts from back page my own sake, and remembers your sins no more ..." — needs forgiveness. Interestingly, Archbishop judge that steps out of scale investigation, the Isaiah 43:25.(17)“Then he adds: Their sins and Desmond Tutu titled his book "No Future Without line, that doesn’t Ministry of Justice will lawless acts I will remember no more.” — Hebrew Forgiveness." Is American slavery one of the c o n s t i t u t e t h e be represented, the 10:17.(18) “If You, Lord, should mark iniquities, O unforgivable crimes against humanity? A national judiciary,” arguing that judge will be there,” he Lord, who could stand? But there is forgiveness with crime that contributed, over time, to other crimes a whole lot of good says. You, that You may be feared.” — Psalm 130:3- and forms of injustice — racism, race prejudice, judges are here. C h i e f J u s t i c e 4.(19)“In Him we have redemption through His blood, lynching, exclusion, segregation, discrimination, and He says everybody Korkpor indicates that the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His too many forms of inequality to name. Many of those will not behave the way when judges take grace which He made to abound toward us in all crimes and forms of injustice, inequality, and race that the law says they decisions, there is wisdom and prudence.” — Ephesians 1:7-8 and relations remain. s h o u l d b e h a v e , reason. (20)“He has delivered us from the power of darkness Nikki White, an African American woman in admitting that “some According to Chief and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His Memphis Tennessee, hypothesized that white men step out of line.” Justice Korkpor, when love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, want to acquire some of the physical attributes of “But this is not the someone is put in jail the forgiveness of sins.” — Colossians 1:13-14. black men. While black men merely want the pattern of activities or and the person remains privileges open to white men. What a profound d e c i s i o n s o f t h e t h e r e p e r p e t u a l l y This freedom, the power and ability to forgive deduction from her observations. judiciary, the entire without trial, their others, yet proves to be elusive for many, even the judiciary,” he says. rights are violated. state. They preached the forgiveness of God,yet, I have lingered with this challenging question for According to Chief H e e x p r e s s e s they refuse to forgive others. Thus, they remain over forty years without any substantive answers or Justice Korkpor, it was concerning that local enslaved to the past, trapped in the sin of resolutions for African America’s crime. r e p o r t e d i n a a n d i n t e r n a t i o n a l unforgiveness, and doomed to reap its whirlwind for newspaper Tuesday, 16 human rights groups are ages to come. What makes one culture or God superior to the March that the courts watching the system, other? There is no right or wrong culture, nor God. are causing problem. a n d t h e p u b l i c Lamentably, unforgiveness always stems from a Furthermore, there is no one true religion, or “This statement is defenders here are guilty heart, a darkness in the soul that either does whether the worship is the right One, done the right attributed to the Police authorized under the not know the Gospel they preach or does not care. way. God is as the wind, that touches everything.The Director. [If] you read laws to file motions in The Bible’s teachings on forgiveness are very clear universal truth governing all cultures, Gods, and it, it has no reference, appropriate cases for that salvation, depends on the forgiveness extended religions is the simple philosophy intrinsic in humans'; whatsoever to the high the release of people to others, while failing to see any connection do unto others as you wish done unto you. This court or even some of who are in detention between the citizens as a nation of one people. Even essential principle (The Golden Rule) has either the other courts. I think b e y o n d s t a t u t o r y the Christian Bible commanded the act of forgiveness eroded, lost, selective or wishfully forgotten. the reference is to one period. (Colossians 3:13), stating that forgiveness is not particular judge who is According to Chief optional, and if you have been forgiven, you will Africans in America should let their positive a l l e g e d t o h a v e Justice Korkpor, when forgive others. attitude shine in a way that invites people to come released hardening you see that happening, closer.The goal is to let others know that they are criminal,” he narrates. it means that the legal “Pray then like this: Our Father, who art in heaven, confident without acting superior. Hence, there is a But Chief Justice system is working. hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be thin line between arrogance and confidence. While Korkpor wonders how He notes that it’s the done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our confidence attracts, arrogance repels. this can be that the government that prays daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we courts are the ones for the writ for people forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not Sadly, Africans in America are unsympathetic to causing problems, to go to jail, saying if into temptation, but deliver us from evil.’” the position taken by African Americans after over saying when he got the the court for good —Christians’ Lord’s Prayers. 401 years of barraged devastating injustices. How information and read it reason releases that can any group of people in the history of in the paper, he tried to person, it means the We do what we believe. And wonder what we humankind survive the unrelenting and insidious c o m m e n c e a n j u s t i c e s y s t e m i s do.The test of true religion in is not how we treat the forces without any toxic psychological investigation. working. man who holds a high position in the society but how consequences on their well-being?Therefore, “We will have full WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 2021 www .thenewdawnliberia.com NEW DA WN 11 Enough is enough! Election house By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor Samukai, without further nationally compelling. Liberia i b e r i a ’ s m a i n delays,” the CPP chairperson cannot simply claim to be o p p o s i t i o n said. democratic, and at the same suffers arson attacks LC o l l a b o r a t i n g Senator Lawrence noted that time, permit the actions of By E. J. Nathaniel Daygbor Political Parties (CPP) has our courts and democratic to the best of their abilities, the mid various electoral termed as unacceptable, institutions to bend the rule its compound which set ablaze a CPP will strongly resist, by a disputes and court ongoing legal bottleneck of law selectively, out of double-cabin pickup with combination of political and c a s e s , t h e against its Senator-elect, convenience, or be engaged A license plate, LB-6868 and the legal actions, any nefarious headquarters of the National former minister of defense in lawless behavior.” roof of a garage inside the effort to undermine the rule of Elections Commission (NEC) in Brownie Samukai, stressing “Today, therefore, let the premises. law by cherry-picking decisions Monrovia has suffered serious that enough is enough and it word go forth that the CPP The Commission estimates of the nation’s highest court arson attack from petrol could no longer sit and watch will resist the continued cost of damages from the attack that are enforceable, and bombs certain premises of the the way and manner things corruption of our courts, and at US$45, 000. thereby risk the country’s commission and one of its are being handled, which has the continued use and/or Preliminary investigation peace, security and democracy. vehicles. The attack occurred prevented his certification by abuse of our judiciary to the proved additional unexploded “Let it be known that the CPP late Monday, March 15, 2021. the National Elections detriment of our country’s petrol bombs were found near stands with the gallant men and The day was officially Commission. peace, security and stability. the NEC’s fence on the 10th women of the Armed Forces of observed here as a national Speaking at a press As already indicated, we are Street side of the vicinity. Liberia, who must be justly holiday in memory of Liberia’s conference in Monrovia, commencing a number of The National Elections reimbursed as directed by the first President, the late Tuesday March 16, the political and legal actions Commission is supporting the highest court. Similarly, we Joseph Jenkins Roberts, an c h a i r p e r s o n o f t h e against the continued abuse Liberian National Police in stand with the people of Lofa American. Collaborating Political a n d c o r r o s i o n o f t h e ongoing investigation to bring County whose overwhelming No casualty was reported, Parties, also Grand Bassa independence and autonomy perpetrators to justice. election of a senator of their but information gathered so C o u n t y S e n a t o r , of the National Elections The attack against the choice is without legal dispute far indicates the petrol bomb NyonbleeKarnga Lawrence Commission, and have electoral house is the first since and has been finally determined attack came as a surprise after said, the duty to protect the instructed the membership of the NEC headquarters was by the Honorable Supreme the entire managerial team of our legislative caucus to begin constructed in early 2005 by the the electoral house had left the drafting of electoral United States Agency for reforms intended to address evolving issues in the qualification of candidates as well as protect the expressed will of the people in choosing their leaders, in a timely and credible manner that is not disruptive to the normal flow of government activities and f u n c t i o n s , ” t h e C P P Some of the unexploded petrol bombs found. chairperson stressed. S h e n a r r a t e d t h a t shockingly, to realize their unconstitutional conspiracy against the people of Lofa County, the Movement for Progressive Change (MPC), a ‘moribund’ political party, petitioned the court through Associate Justice Joseph CPP Chair, Senator Nyonblee Karnga Lawrence Nagbe, the Justice in Chambers, to prohibit the enforcement of the final nation’s democracy is not one Court of Liberia.” decision of the full bench of the CPP takes lightly and She said it is also true that the highest court. the premises for home. International Development, commitment to the rule of those in whose hands Liberians The CPP notes the MPC’s Early Tuesday, March 16, USAID. law is not something the CPP have entrusted the power to petition is not only without premises of the National It comes at a time the will accept that anyone or govern democratically will not legal basis but it offers no Elections Commission were off commission is probing series of group can either trivialize, or likely do so without the legal precedence nor does it limit to the public and disputes from the December 8, elect to disregard when it willingness to continuously cite any legal reliance for its employees, as security forces 2020 special senatorial election does not conform to their ensure that they respect the c l a i m . C h a i r p e r s o n c o n d u c t e d p r e l i m i n a r y in which a number of defeated selfish political interests. laws of the country, adding, that KarngaLawrance points that investigation. Later, the NEC candidates have alleged fraud “Therefore, we announce the painful fact is that too many even on the face of these board of commissioners held with others demanding recount today that we stand with the in the country have suffered, blatant legal defects, an emergency meeting. of votes officially announced. Supreme Court in a call for bled and died for the creation of Associate Justice Nagbe, Investigators from the Yet still, in cases where the NEC the full enforcements of both a democratic order in Liberia. a c t i n g a p p a r e n t l y o n Liberia National Police and hearing officer had adjudicated of its final decisions - the first C h a i r p e r s o n N y o n b l e e i n s t r u c t i o n s f r o m t h e other security agencies are and ruled, aggrieved parties to finally determine guilt and Lawrence, who is political E x e c u t i v e , i l l e g a l l y, yet to name any suspect from have taken appeals before the the satisfactory punishment leader of the opposition Liberty u n p r e c e d e n t e d l y a n d the arson attack that occurred Supreme Court of Liberia, therefore, and the second to Party, a constituent member of singularly issued an order to at about 10:30 pm on Monday. something that has prevent finally determine the winner the CPP, continued that the stay the enforcement of the However, several pieces of about half of the 30 members of in the Midterm Senatorial Collaboration and all well- final decision of the full unexploded petrol bombs the Liberian Senate from taken Elections in Lofa County, as meaning Liberians cannot bench, a decision to which he were discovered during the their seats. -Editing by well as the attendant afford to stand idly by and i s a m e m b e r - j u s t i c e , preliminary investigation. Jonathan Browne instructions to proceed to watch the slaughter of the soul signatory, and participated in The NEC on Tuesday certificate the winner, of the democracy and the duty deciding. detailed that unknown Senator-elect Brownie J. to act is one “we consider to be persons threw petrol bombs on

services for the improvement country – we want to welcome Cont’d from page 7 of the living conditions of you to this mass movement – the Liberians don’t citizens, among others. People’s Liberation Party. This deficit, and as such, it is now time for citizens to roll up society, and as such, Liberians Liberia, as the oldest country “To our suffering masses, is the movement of the people; their sleeves and join the new should not sit supinely and on the African continent, to the marginalized, our women this is your movement. We have political movement to help watch their country to go down continue to be grappling with who are in the markets and to roll our sleeves to work to redeem the nation from evil the drain without taking aged-old issues, while other nobody pays attention to, our take our country from the evil hands. decisive actions during this countries are speedily motorcyclists who are forces that continue to stop He observed that for too critical period in the history of progressing. providing services and nobody progress”, the PLP chair rallied. long, selfless leaders have the country. He specifically referenced values – the students, young Editing by Jonathan Browne been lacking in the Liberian He said, it is regrettable for roads, provision of basic social people and farmers across this CMYK eThew French Version Inside N TRULDYa INDEPENDENTwn VOL. 11 NO. 035 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 2021 PRICE LD$40.00 With Emmanuel B. Juduh Gbarpolu election sparks battle at Supreme Court behalf of its senatorial candidate Rep. Alfred Koiwood filed the petition before the Supreme Court for the writ of prohibition against the NEC. R e p r e s e n t i n g t h e presumed leading female senatorial candidate Madam Gbotoe Kanneh, a team of lawyers which includes Liberia’s former Chief Justice Gloria Musu Scott, says “the final result was never announced by NEC.” Madam Gbotoe’s team of lawyers contend that there is no way that the 8 December alleged election violence can By Winston W. Parley area. affect the overall result of the ntense legal battle A nationwide election was election on grounds that the ensued Tuesday, 16 held on 8 December 2020 for 15 rerun in Nomodatahum was IMarch when Liberia’s senatorial seats, but electoral conducted on 7 January S u p r e m e C o u r t b e g a n violence in Nomodatahum, following negotiations and querying lawyers over Gbarpolu County, bordering mediations to which both Gbarpolu County’s stalled Sierra Leone, prompted a rerun sides had allegedly agreed. senatorial election, amidst a to be held on 7 January in the But the team states that it series of legal actions that affected area. is before the Supreme Court h a v e d i s r u p t e d But final result for 7 January because the NEC went beyond pronouncement of final 2021 polls are yet to come out its preliminary findings and results by the National due to legal challenges that announced that it was due to Elections Commission (NEC) have emerged since. conduct a full scale thorough since conducting a rerun on 7 The ruling Coalition for January 2021 in a disputed Democratic Change (CDC) on CONT’D ON PAGE 11 “Courts are not causing problems” saying that one Kessely Mulbah -Chief Justice rejects police chief’s statement was released by the court in the By Winston W. Parley stepped out of line, that doesn’t same way, when he came back iberia’s Chief Justice constitute the judiciary,” Chief in the community and allegedly Francis S. Korkpor, Justice Korkpor said at the killed a member of Kapaukapau LSr., has rejected a Supreme Court Tuesday, 16 night watch team in Kebbah. statement attributed to March before commencing a According to the report, Col. Police Inspector General Col. political case. Sudue stated that when Mulbah Patrick T. Sudue, who is said T h e C h i e f J u s t i c e ’ s was again shot by the LNP anti- to have accused the courts comments came Tuesday after a robbery squad in the leg, here of causing problems in local daily attributed a treated and sent back to the reference to releasing statement to Col. Patrick Sudue court, he was sent to South hardened criminals into the as saying that “The release of Beach prison. communities. these criminals by the court is But Chief Justice Korkpor “The Courts are not causing serious problems for the explains that “even if there is a causing problems. Even if Police and the community.” CONT’D ON PAGE 10 there is a judge who has Col. Sudue is quoted as The NewDawn Press We Offer The Following Printing Services: - Newspapers, Magazines 2 colors Heidelberg printing machines - Flyers, Posters, Calendars - Brochures, Letterhead - Receipts, Invoices - Souvenirs, Gifts - Designs, etc...

Published by the Searchlight Communications Inc., UN Drive, P.O. Box 1266 Opposite National Investment Commission. Monrovia-Liberia. Tel: +231-06484201, +231-77007529, +231-886978282 / +231-775407211 Managing Editor: Othello B. Garblah; Editor-In-Chief: Jonathan K. Browne www.thenewdawnliberia.com; Email: [email protected]