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Liberia: Executive Mansion Denies Ellen's Illness Report
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The Inquirer (Monrovia)
29 April 2008
Posted to the web 29 April 2008
C. Winnie Saywah
Presidential Press Secretary, Mr. Cyrus Badio has dispelled a media report that President Sirleaf is suffering from cancer. Mr. Badio said it is unfortunate that most Liberians are unable to seek routine medial examination due to cost attached therefore they miss the concept of such examinations.
He said that to put it squarely, President Sirleaf has a clean bill of health and this is her yearly routine to ensure that she is fully abreast of her medical status noting that medical examinations are not meant to be carried out when one is sick.
The 'Bull' controversy at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) seems to be getting in a state of intricacy as President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf says it is only the decision of the President to dismiss a high presidential appointee.
President Sirleaf through her Press Secretary, Cyrus Badio, yesterday told reporters at his Foreign Ministry office that the President is of the view that such appointment when confirmed by the Liberian Senate could be dismissed only upon presidential approval or recommendation of the agency concerned.
According to Mr. Badio, though TRC Chairman Jerome Verdier has out rightly told the President that the legislation of the Commission gave him as chairman some extraordinary powers, President Sirleaf said the issue has taken a different dimension and requires a legal redress, therefore it needs to be researched.
He said President Sirleaf holds a different view on the removal or suspension of highly placed appointees therefore she is seeking a stance from her legal advisors but allows Commissioner Pearl Brown- Bull the right to her decision.
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President Sirleaf expressed her feelings of the wave at which the events at the commission is taking and that it is her belief that the misunderstanding at the commission could be solved soon but, the Presidential Press Secretary in exact words from President Sirleaf said, "in this case of a TRC commissioner, the President had no part to play in the decision of Commissioner Bull to take the TRC to the Supreme Court."
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