J. Nathaniel Daygbor
28 March 2008
Liberia security officers are indulging into act contrary to standard security operations, dealing in drugs and other narcotics. About three weeks, an officer of the Armed Forces of Liberia was arrested with a bag of Marijuana on the Monrovia-Gbarnga Highway, and now two officers of the Special Security Services (SSS) are in similar deal.
The Liberian government through the office of the Presidential Secretary says the SSS agents were arrested in Gbarnga, Bong County. Bong and Nimba Counties have the highest concentration of narcotic drugs. There are reports that Marijuana is grown in the two counties.
Addressing journalists yesterday during his regular press briefing at the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Press Secretary Cyrus Badio says two officers were picked up on Saturday morning in Gbarnga City, near the Iron Gate Check Point, apparently in en route to Monrovia.
Naming the two officers as Paul Krah and Roberts Carmo, he says they have been turned over to appropriate authorities of the SSS for further investigation, adding "Their services will be terminated and will subsequently turned over to the appropriate authority for prosecution."
But speaking on the same issue on a local radio station, SSS Director, Col. Victor Hleb says the officers have already been dismissed. According to him, the officers have been in the service for a little over two years and are among those newly recruited from the Unity Party Battle Cry Group.
It may be recalled several UP members from the Battle Cry were recruited into the SSS amidst public outcry.
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