-His Wife Says

Solomon Jaryenneh, the reports say, had travelled to Maryland County in March this year to attend a job-related workshop organized by the National Elections Commission, NEC, but has since not returned home to his family.

Mr. Jaryenneh, whose mobile phones are all off, according to his wife and friends, is an elections magistrate assigned in Sinoe County and his reported disappearance has heightened fear amongst his immediate family, friends and workmates.

“He spent a night with a fellow magistrate only identified as Wilson in Harper  before his phones went off,” a family source said.

NEC’s acting chairperson, Jonathan Weedor, has confirmed the reports and said the Commission was looking into the matter with urgency. 

A similarly incident, it can be recalled, occurred in Grand Gedeh County during the regime of former President George when another election magistrate, went missing in the County.

Jaryenneh’s family is also claiming that they suspect someone may be using Magistrate Iaryenneh’s phone since his mysterious disappearance.

“We noticed that someone has been using his phone because there have been activity on it,” a relative said.

Another account says the missing magistrate’s wife; Hawa S. Jaryenneh, had in April written a communication to acting NEC Chairman, Weedor,  informing him that her husband attended two separate workshops organized by the NEC, one in Harper, Maryland County, and the other, in Ganta, Nimba County

Mrs. Jaryenneh also informed NEc acting chairman, Weedor, that her husband had falling sick and decided to remain in Harper at the end of the workshop to seek treatment and on 2nd April her husband contacted her again to inform her that he was travelling to neighboring Ivory Coast in search of traditional healing.

“Regrettably, since then, I have not heard from my husband. All of his numbers are off,” Mrs. Jaryenneh wrote in her communication to acting chairman Weedor of the National Elections Commission.

There has so far not been any official statement from the Liberia National Police on the reported disappearance of the elections magistrate.