Liberia: Ponpon's Self-Lighting Generates Mixed Views

The decision by Leroy Archie Ponpon to set himself ablaze before the office of Chief Justice Francis Korkpor on November 2 has generated mixed reactions with some blaming the Chief Justice while others are shifting the blame on security officers at the Temple of Justice, for allowing the impasse to escalate to the point it did.

Some views suggest that when Ponpon was on the grounds of the Temple of Justice, it was time that the officers serve him his writ of arrest and have him arrested, which accordingly would have prevented him from setting himself ablaze; instead, everyone stood by witnessing only an elderly man serving Ponpon the writ of arrest as he (Ponpon) appeared determined to set himself ablaze.

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