-UP WANTS TO DESTROY OPPOSITION
Former Bomi County Senator, Sando Johnson, has accused the ruling Unity Party of an attempt to destroy the opposition community with an intent to steal or rig the pending 2029 presidential and general elections.
Mr. Johnson provided no further details, but warned that any attempt by the current regime to steal the elections will be resisted. The former Bomi Senator made the remarks Wednesday night on the night time radio program, ‘Night Time Heat’ on Prime FM Radio in Monrovia.
Johnson, a member of the former ruling National Patriotic Party of jailed Liberian former President, Charles Taylor, made the remarks in reaction to the arrest of former First Lady, former Senator and former Vice President, Jewel Howard-Taylor, in connection to her alleged link to drug cartels.
Madam Taylor, standard bearer of the NPP, was on Wednesday prevented by state security personnel from boarding a plane to Accra, Ghana, where she had been officially invited reportedly by a women group on grounds that she was invited by the Police as a person of interest in connection to an ongoing investigation into circumstances on how a huge consignment of cocaine worth over three hundred million United States Dollars entered the Country and who are involved.
The former Vice President was on Wednesday charged with multiple crimes and remains in the custody of the Police where she spent the night as a prime suspect to be forwarded to court soon.
Mr. Johnson has condemned the arrest and said it was politically motivated, further accusing the government of shielding its own officials, but pursuing members and former officials of the Weah’s regime with which the Taylor’s NPP formed a coalition during the 2023 presidential elections.
Former President Weah himself on Wednesday issued a statement, warning that he will return to the Country soon to mobilize partisans of his former ruling CDC and other Liberians to resist what he says was anLoo nrt attempt by the Boakai’s regime to go after and intimidate his party officials and his former officials of government.
“I will soon return to Liberia to mobilize CDCians and other Liberians to legally and politically to resist the government,” the former President said.
In a similar development, the opposition CDC has condemned the Liberia National Police for its invitation to Gbarpolu County Senator, Amara Konneh, referring to the move as an attempt to intimidate and silence critical voices.
Senator Konneh has in a barrage of social media posts demanded accountability and transparency in the ongoing investigations, but is at the same time accusing the Police or the Government of selective justice in the matter by shielding whom he says are the real doers, but pursuing the innocent and the meek.
The CDC in a statement signed by its national chairman, Attorney Jangar Kowo, accused the government of using law enforcement institutions to suppress legitimate public scrutiny.
