In twisting fortunes, the man once hired to prosecute this paper for libel against the President, Mrs. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has been charged with criminal libel, sedition and criminal malevolence against his former client after his occasional newspaper, The Plain Truth, published a story claiming that the Liberian Government was arming dissidents in volatile neighbouring Guinea.

Also carrying the same charges is Mr. Michael Menkine, a commercial printer who printed the nwspaper with a story headlined: "Ellen's Government supplying Guinean dissidents? Junta alleges..."

The Press Union of Liberia President Peter Quaqua has questioned the imprisonment of the commercial printer, saying this forms an intimidation tactic against the media. The PUL rejected what it said is the intimidation of printing houses for publications that the sate disapproves.

Mr. Sayma Syrenius Cephus, who served briefly as Press Secretary with former President Charles Taylor and remained in his government, claimed his sources in Conakry, Guinea, told him Liberia was arming dissidents against Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, shot recenty in flown to Morrocco, where he remains as fears of instability with possible spillover here and other neighboring countries limping from war.

Called at the Ministry of Justice for clarifications, Mr. Cephus offered his defences in his letter to Minister of Justice dated December 12 2009:

He wrote: "If they could finance a war, wrecked an d entire nation and ruined the lives of its people and reduced them to refugees across the world and turned them into pathetic beggars and still walk the street with their heads high up as heroes and leaders of our country, it is certainly not difficult for them to use the wheels of the law to sledge-hammered people like us who have seen through their hypocrisies and viciousness and refused to dance to their whims and caprices "