The New Republic Liberia (Monrovia)

Liberia: Senator Calms Nerves in Anti-Kilby Street Protest

By Agnes M. Tarr, 21 November 2012

It took the intervention of Senator Mobutu Nyepan of Sinoe County to calm the nerves of anxiety of dozens of students demanding the reinstatement or resignation of Auditor General Robert Kilby who returned to the streets Monday to make further push of the "Kilby Must Go' campaign which began last week.

The students who have resulted to street protest as the only option to push AG Kikby to do either of the two demands came out in their numbers before the building housing the General Auditing Commission (GAC) but were interrupted by Senator Nyepan.

Midway into the protest which was more vociferous than the previous one of last week, the Senator made a timely intervention by calling the heads of each of the groupings into a close-door meeting.

Though what was discussed and agreed upon were not disclosed, the protest was dispersed right away and went away the students in a peaceful and orderly manner.

The groupings represented the All Political Youth of Liberia, Liberia National Student Union LINSU, Federation of Liberian Youth (FLY) and the Student Unification party of the University of Liberia.

Recently the Auditor General Robert Kilby of the General Auditing Commission {GAC} dismissed over forty employees from the GAC for what he referred to as budgetary constrain of the GAC.

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  • goodguy
    Nov 22 2012, 04:54
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    kilby who is known to be very unqualified is not operating all by him self. NOCAL don't want the corruption truth to come out, so RS have given enough money to kilby to be used as severance pay. all the businesses these people owned are on record. time will tell, I am sorry for kilby even though he is a compromise candidate pushed by the protemp and the csa boss yet he is creating bad news for himself.