28 November 2007
Women from Grand Bassa County over the weekend staged a peaceful street demonstration in Buchanan City, Grand Bassa County against the gruesome murder of the Plantation Manager of the Liberian Agricultural Company (LAC).
The Belgium expatriate, Bruno Michaels was shot and killed in District #3, Grand Bassa County on Saturday, November 17, 2007 by unknown armed men when he led a team of surveyor to conduct the company's expansion program.
The women under the banner "Concerned Bassa Women" paraded through the principal streets in Buchanan. According to them, the demonstration was intended to draw the attention of the central government and its partners to investigate the murder of LAC Plantation Manager, and to bring the culprits to justice.
In an exclusive interview with The Analyst in Buchanan, the spokesperson of the women, Madam Dehsaywrehn Tokpa maintained that the killing on Bruno has far-reaching consequences on the country, noting that it has the propensity to scare away potential investors.
The group head said they were disturbed and troubled by the killing of the LAC Plantation Manager, demanding that the government and its partners set up an independent body to investigate the matter.
This body, the women said, must include the corporate family of LAC, the Bassa people and others so as to serve as a deterrent to other would be criminals.
"We are in the street to make sure that central government and its international partners act immediately to have the killers of Bruno Michaels arrested to face justice, and to save our beloved country from the hands of few criminals' she said.
Madam Dehsaywrehn Tokpa stressed that the women of Grand Bassa County will not rest their peaceful demonstration until they see to it that the killers of the Belgium expatriate are arrested and persecuted in line with competent court of jurisdiction.
She said if nothing is done by government to have the perpetrators of this grusome murder to book, Liberia stands to loose immensely from the good will of the international partners who are doing everything possible in helping the nation in its reconstruction drives.
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