The Inquirer (Monrovia)
28 March 2008
The widow of former President Charles Taylor's first Vice President, Enoch Dogolea, has reacted to statements made during witnesses' testimonies before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the ongoing trial of Mr. Taylor in The Hague concerning her husbands death.
Madam Regina Dogolea warned that all those who are using the peaceful demise of her husband as a means of defaming other characters, money making or on the basis of spreading falsehood should desist and allow his soul to rest in perfect peace.
She said that her attention is being drawn to attributes of her husband's death in some of the witnesses' accounts during the TRC hearings conducted in Monrovia.
The late VP's widow said her husband was sick and as his sickness intensified, the government then played its part for which her family is grateful but her husband met his fate while undergoing treatment in Abidjan, Cote d Ivoire.
She consented that former President Taylor set up a committee to probe into the death of her husband in an apparent effort of erasing the minds of the public that Mr. Dogolea was beaten and that the committee has long since completed its work noting that his body was flown back home where appropriate funeral ceremonies were arranged and was buried by the government.
Madam Dogolea spoke kindly of the support, cooperation and protection of all security apparatus during the tenure of her husband dismissing statements that security personnel assigned to her family complained about harassment, life being threatened or lest to speak of an attempted flogging on his person.
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