J. Nathaniel Daygbor
29 April 2008
It appears that the media reports in Monrovia have compared Executive Mansion to sharply clarify that the Liberian leader Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has successfully passed her medical tests in the United States.
Presidential Press Secretary, Cyrus Badio has disclosed that President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has been given a clean bill of health. "The President, let me state unequivocally, is fit fiddle", he said.
Speaking at his regular press briefing on Monday at the Foreign Ministry, Mr. Badio said the weeklong medical examination of the President was conducted at the Bridgeport General hospital in Connecticut, USA, under the supervision of several physicians, all workers at the Bridgeport Yale University System.
"Let me add here that the President's son, Dr. Adama Sirleaf, is also a Physician at the hospital", he added. He disclosed that as part of the medical examination, the President endured a stress test, with an intensity closed to a similar one she underwent in preparation for the 2005 elections.
According to him, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is currently holding informal meetings with a number of U. S. government officials, noting that the President is also meeting with members of the international senior lawyers' projects, a team of international lawyers assisting government on a pro bono basis, with negotiation involving a few potential concessions.
He also disclosed that President Johnson-Sirleaf is expected to deliver a keynote address today in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church.
The conference hosts about 300,000 delegates. Badio said the President will return to New York Wednesday to honor an invitation at a forum to be held under the auspices of the International Crisis Group.
"The President, who served as a Board Member of the ICG a few years ago, will receive an award from the group. The President concludes her trip to the United States Friday, with an address at Indiana University where she is to receive an honorary degree", he said.
Badio statement comes in the wake of the media report that President Sirleaf is diagnosed with Cancer, a life-threatening sickness.
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