Rescue Alternatives Liberia (RAL) Executive Director, Jarwlee Tweh Geegbe, has condemned last week's incident between officers of the Liberia National Police (LNP) and residents of the Rocky Hill Community adjacent the Ducor Palace Hotel.
He said the incident involving the police and people of the Rocky Hill Community was unfortunate, adding that the action against the Ducor residents witnessed the ugly regime of the past.
The civil society group Chief Executive stressed that it was unlawful for the police officers to brutalize what he considered peaceful people who were exercising their constitutional rights as required by the laws of the country.
According to Geegbe, investigation conducted by the Rescue Alternative Liberia (RAL) revealed that during the trouble between the police and Ducor residents, ten (10) persons were severely flogged allegedly by the police.
He made the statement in an interview with this paper last wee barely a day after the incident between the police and the residents of the Ducor Hotel occurred.
Speaking further the RAL Boss then called on the Government of Liberia to ensure that those officers who allegedly melted wounds on the residents of the Ducor Hotel are prosecuted.
But Deputy police Boss for Operations, Al Karley has since rejected claims of brutality against the residents of the Ducor Palace Hotel by officers of the Liberia National Police (LNP).
However, the Government of Liberia has so far demolished seven (7) houses around the troubled zone of the Ducor Hotel.
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This story makes me think about what happen in Canada few monthes ago. There was a disputed land in which, the owner had deals for. The Government offered him $100,000 for his house and the land. His house was built a long time and had devalued. However, he refused, and took the Canadian Government to Court for one Million Dollars($ 1,000,000). He lost the case base on the property value. Although, he had all his documents. He lost both the settlement offer him by the Government and also,his case in court.He is now renting in his old age when he could have gotten a better place to live and retire.
To conclude my point, the masses at that Rooky Hill Community was given settlements and some took it. Others wanted to be trouble makers. Unlike the Canadian with all his papers,most likely they do not have deals for the land and property they want to fight for. If they do, let them go to court. If in a Great Country like Canada, people can be taken off their lands when they one to be stuborn, how about Liberia, where development is so much in need off. They will be better off taken what the Government gave them as settlement package then to be trouble makers. They will lost what so ever way.