-Will CDC Lawmaker, FOKO, Go To Court?

It’s nearly two months now since Police Inspector General, Gregory Coleman, challenged opposition CDC lawmaker, Frank Saah Foko, to file a lawsuit against him on the lawmaker’s claim that the Police Chief wants to kill him and his family.

The Lawmaker had posted on his Facebook page accusing the Police Chief of a plot to eliminate him and his entire family.

“My life is in danger, Police Inspector General Coleman, wants to kill me and my family” Foko, an opposition CDC member of the House of Representatives, alleged in his post that went viral on the social media.

In a sharp reaction to Foko’s claim, Police Inspector General, Coleman, urged him to take the matter off the social media and take it to court.

“Leave the social media and go to court,” the Police chief said. Foko had said he would have complained the Police Chief to the United States Embassy near Monrovia and other foreign missions here on Police IG’s alleged threat to his life, but did not say he will take the matter to court. 

It all started when police teargased protesting residents of Wroto Town whose homes the government had demolished in the Sinkor suburb of Monrovia. 

The Police allegedly fired the teargas, while the Montserrado District-10 lawmaker was addressing the angry residents, who were protesting in reaction to the demolition by the Government of their homes, according to official sources, following prior notice.

While the government said it owns the disputed piece of land and wants to repossess it for development purpose, the opposition lawmaker, who eyewitnesses said fled the scene with jet-speed as the police fired the teargas to disperse the protesting residents, argued that the affected residents had lived on the land for decades and that it belongs to them.

The incident occurred just a few weeks after the Government dislodged occupants of what is known as Seventy-Second Military Barracks in the Commercial District of Paynesville near Monrovia.