The former leader of the defunct Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL) now Senior Senator for Nimba County, Prince Y. Johnson, has again unleashed another shocking revelations as regards the fifteen years civil war that took place in Liberia saying that certain super powers including America had provided US$10m. to him (Johnson) and others to execute the 1990 war.
Senator Johnson told members of the Liberia Council of Churches (LCC) in their meeting with former faction leaders over the weekend that the US$10 million was allegedly negotiated and arranged for by a group of Liberians based in the United States of America under the banner of the Association for Constitutional Democracy in Liberia (ACDL) of which he said both Dr. Amos Cladius Sawyer, Cllr. James Verdier, and others were part in the USA.
According to Senator Johnson, out of the US$10m negotiated for, US$5m was spent to buy arms and ammunitions to launch the civil war in Liberia with Mr. Charles Taylor as the head.
He told the LCC meeting held at the S. Trowen Nagbe United Methodist Church that, he is disappointed as to why the TRC had decided to exclude the names of Dr. Sawyer and his likes such as Dr. H. Boima Fahnbulleh which according to him it was Dr. Fahnbulleh and others who allegedly trained people in Libya to come and overthrow the late President Samuel Doe through the Thomas Quiwonkpa 1985 invasion.
He pointed out that the TRC does not mean well for the restoration of real peace and reconciliation in Liberia by recommending few people and living out people like Dr. Amos Sawyer, Fahnbulleh, Cllr. Verdier himself among others.
Senator Johnson said he is no longer interested in any war again, but rather total peace and forgiveness, he will resist any punitive actions against him as recommended by the TRC.
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Nothing new here dude: Africa has always been the playground of geopolitical power games.
Spare us the banal "revelations."
War is an expensive venture. To wage war, you need money.
All wars in Africa are funded by INVADERS and their strategic, political and economic enemies of INVADERS.
And, this didn't start yesterday.
And, apparently, there is nothing Africans can do about it, which automatically posits African non-being.
Nothing has changed since the incursions of the nineteeth century.
Glory then to China and India, who, though rivals in certain realms, can say to any INVADERLAND: "Get lost!"
All these warlords thought that the TRC was a joke. They went to the TRC to lecture us and to protect each other, now that the recommendations are out they are trying to recant their stories and expose each other. I don't care whether what Killer Johnson is saying is true or not, it is simply too late; he had his chance. Why didn't he call-out Sirleaf when she repeated said she only gave $10,000 to the NPFL? Some of us with only half a brain knew that that was lie, the amount is very small. It is interesting, that the threats of death and imprisonment did not make these people talk, only now that they run the risk of not holding a government job for 30 years is when they are all singing like birds.