Hmmm!
The incident of police
brutality against me occurred on June 29, 2012 in the city of Pleebo. After
medical treatment at two major hospitals in Harper and Monrovia, the case was reported
to the Liberian government in August, 2012 for an investigation.
The first complaint was
filed by my legal counsel to the current Attorney General of the Republic of
Liberia, Cllr. Christiana Tarr. It was hand delivered to her office and signed
for by her Special Assistant.
Normally, when a letter of
complaint is received by an office, a reply (as normally expected) is always
issued. That’s the foundational principle of correspondence. But Cllr.
Christiana Tarr blatantly refused to reply to my legal counsel.
The
second complaint and request for an immediate investigation came from the office
of Sen. John Akel Ballout who is the senior senator of Maryland County. It was
filed and hand delivered in October, 2012 to Cllr. Tarr’s office. It was also received
by her Special Assistance.
But
again, as was in the case of my legal counsel, Cllr. Tarr blatantly refused to
reply to the Senator.
From
all indications, she has been involved in stonewalling, gyrating the facts,
maliciously and willfully misleading the Liberian Legislature and the Liberian
people.
She
has been engaged in lying. Here are few examples:
LIE NUMBER ONE One month after Sen. Ballout’s letter and two
months after my Legal Counsel’s letter that never received a reply, I opine an
OPEN SMS to Cllr. Tarr. In her response to me via SMS, she wrote, “Your
case has been forwarded to the Independent National Human Rights Commission.”
I followed up. When I checked with INHRC, the Commission categorically denied
receipt of any case pertaining to mine from the Ministry of Justice.
LIE NUMBER TWO Rep. Dr. Bhofal Chambers, cited the Minister of
Justice in his Capitol Building office. He asked her if she knew about my case
of police brutality. She told the Lawmaker that it is true that she is aware.
The Lawmaker asked her if she had tried to investigate the case. She said no.
But she promised the Lawmaker that immediately upon her departure from his
office, she would embark upon the investigation. When Cllr. Tarr left Dr.
Chambers’ office, she never took on the case. Each time Dr. Chambers tried to reach
her, she stonewalls..
LIE NUMBER THREE Later on, Hon. Rev. Dr. Isaac B. Roland,
representative of the Karluway District, Maryland County authored another
letter of complaint requesting an immediate investigation in the matter. The Attorney General replied and said that my
case had been forwarded to The Independent National Human Rights Commission
(INHRC). Upon enquiry again, INHRC categorically denied receipt of any
complaint pertaining to my case.
LIE NUMBER THREE On Friday, August 2, 2013, after my radio talk show
where I threatened to repudiate my citizenship at a one-man march, the police
department invited me for talks. Along with the Special Assistant of Sen. H.
Dan Morias, we met with the police. We were told that the police had been instructed
by the Minister of Justice to go immediately to Maryland to investigate my
police brutality case, twelve months later. True to her nature, she gave the so-called
investigating team my complaint. But certain parts of the Complaint were
missing. I knew then, the woman is not up to any good. Indications are, she had
already misled her own team of investigators prior to going on the field. Can
such investigating team findings be credible? You tell me!
As a result of her ongoing acts of
obstructing justice, I submitted a letter of Complaint to the
Senate ProTemp of the Liberian Senate,
Hon. Findley. In the Complaint I explained to the
ProTemp that the current Minister of
Justice has been involved in the business of lying to some
Lawmakers, misleading Lawmakers and
distorting the facts to obstruct justice. As such, I am
appealing to the ProTemp to cite the
Minister to give reason (s) why she
should not be held for
Contemp.
The current Minister of Justice, Cllr. Christiana
Tarr, for some unknown reasons has been
engaged in obstruction of justice as far as my case is
concerned.
Giving this indisputable fact, I have no other choice
but prepare myself to leave this country
and abandon my service to my country. Because, if the
Minister of Justice who is charged by
the Constitution to dispense justice is obstructing
justice, I see no reason why anyone can
think, Including myself, that Liberians can get
justice during her term of office.
If the Minister of Justice, Cllr. Tarr is not a liar,
then I pray ask, what is she doing in respect to
my case.?
Besides what we know she is doing in my case by
obstructing justice, who knows what she has
been involved
in regarding other citizens’ cases.
I am Thomas G. Bedell, a
volunteer worker; working and speaking on the ground in Liberia, a victim of
police brutality and a candidate for citizenship repudiation.
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