Liberia: After Ngafuan Exit, Brownie Samukai Last Man Standing

Monrovia — The resignation of Liberia's Foreign Minister Augustine Ngafuan has left Defense Minister Brownie J. Samukai as the only surviving member of the Sirleaf Cabinet original appointees in 2006. He is also the longest serving Defense Minister in the country's history. The Defense Minister was part of a class of high-profile appointees that included Dr. Antoinette Sayeh, a former World Bank colleague of Sirleaf in the key job of finance Minister, and a rival presidential candidate and career educator, Dr. Joseph Korto as Minister of Education.

The 2006 class also included human rights activist, Samuel Kofi Woods, who campaigned against the excesses of her predecessor, Charles Taylor, at labor and later Public Works, and journalist turned businessmen, the late Willis Knuckles, at public works. Dr. Richard Tolbert, was appointed as head of the National Investment Commission(NIC), Ambassador George Wallace, a career diplomat, now retired as foreign Minister, Frances Johnson-Morris, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Ambullai K. Johnson, Minister of Internal Affairs, Jackson E. Doe, brother of the late Samuel Doe as Minister of Post and Telecommunications, Dr. J. Chris Toe, Minister of Agriculture, Eugene Shannon Minister of Lands, Mines and Energy, Jamesetta Howard-Wolokollie, Minister of Youth and Sports, Jeremiah Sulunteh, Minister of Transport and Morris Dukuly, Minister of State for Presidential Affairs.

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