Monrovia Central Prison’s Deputy Chief of operations, Jackson K. Kolako, had thought he was smarter, but was outsmarted by agents of the National Security Agency, NSA, and has been detained at the same Central Prison on allegation of aiding and abetting suspected Columbian drug traffickers to contact their local and international associates.
Investigators alleged that while on duty at the Central Prison, officer Kolako used his personal mobile phone to facilitate communication between the detained suspected Colombian drug traffickers and their local and international networks.
Findings of a preliminary investigation has reportedly uncovered an alleged financial transactions linking Kolako to the suspected cartel.
It is also alleged that records from his mobile money account showed multiple cash transfers believed to have originated from members of the Colombian drug organization, leading to his detention at the Central Police Station on Capitol Hill while the investigation continues.
This Paper has been informed that formal charges have not been brought against suspect Kolako amidst investigation into the allegation.
The development unfolded at a time there are mounting concerns and suspicions that transnational drug traffickers have infiltrated Liberia’s correction institutions and security system.
Recently, President Joseph Boakai dismissed and suspended many senior security officers and officials of government for their alleged link with the drug cartels, while authorities of the Liberia National Police also dismissed a senior Police officer for allegedly receiving a bribe of ten thousand United States Dollars from a member of the drug cartel.
The developments come in the wake of the recent discovery of a consignment of cocaine put at an estimated cost over three hundred million United States Dollars.
As the investigations continued unabated, there are doubts in some quarters that the government has not apprehended the big hands facilitating the trafficking of drugs or working for the cartels, a claim the government has repeatedly denied.
