STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
On June 29, 2012, the murderous arm of The
Liberia National Police notoriously known as the Emergency Response Unit,
physically brutalized and psychologically tortured me in the city of Pleebo,
Maryland County.
Magistrate Wesley Korko of the Pleebo
Magisterial Court ordered the ERU to tear gas, handcuff, drag, beat, physically
& psychologically torture and rob me of my personal money and then lock me
up in jail while I was bleeding for 24 hours.
After medical treatment in two hospitals, J. J.
Dossen in Harper, Maryland and J. F. K in Monrovia, my lawyer and Congressional
Caucus off Maryland filed a complaint on my behalf asking for an immediate
investigation in October 2012. Up to the present, the Ministry of Justice has
been involved in stonewalling, lying Maryland filed a complaint on my behalf
asking for an immediate investigation in October 2012. Up to the present, the
Ministry of Justice has been involved in stonewalling, lying, distorting the
truth and misleading the Congress of Maryland Lawmakers. Supplementary to that,
the Liberian government continues to launch a campaign of silence in the face
of the facts and pains expressed and declare to it. And that contravenes the
spirit of national healing, reconciliation, justice for all and peace.
After I have realized that all my appeals to the
Liberian government have fallen on deaf ears, I now have decided to take the
case to the international community for justice, thus my one-man protest march
for positive action against police brutality on August 14, 2013.
This March will begin from Downtown Monrovia to
the US, EU, ECOWAS, UNMIL offices and then to the Capitol Building where I will
interface with my Congressional Caucus
to deliver a Statement and inform them of my intent to repudiate my citizenship.
During
my One-Man Protest March for “Positive Action” against police brutality, I will
summon all peace-loving and anti-police brutality groups and persons and those
who have a practical nature, all who possess idealism, dynamism and immense
sense of patriotism and human rights, all who believe in goodness, truth and
beauty, to unite to support my antipolice brutality campaign and call for
justice so together we can built a new society where each of us will have a
peaceful and tolerant future. Our intent
in this new society is for all of us to work for ourselves and enjoy what the
Creator has bequeathed to us, those things that until now we have been deprived
of by the Government of Liberia which holds and abuses judicial power in its
hands. We have arrived at a decisive moment in time when it is no longer
possible to go on sustaining injustice in this country.
We have the right to live without
the fear of injury or being killed by the police. Our peaceful demonstration
will compel the Justice Ministry to quit distorting and hiding from the truth
and depriving people of justice. For Truth is the most important Core
Democratic Value. Our democracy depends on truth; our government and its
citizens MUST tell the truth and establish a bond between both of them. Truth
MUST be the glue of that bond.
The right to live is a human right.
The Government's primary responsibility is to protect lives and safety of its
citizens not to destroy it. The Liberia National Police is destroying lives
with impunity. IT MUST STOP NOW!
I will call on Christendom; we call on Islam;
and we call on all religions built on justice to join our just cause and send a
signal to the Liberian government that police brutality is wrong! We cannot
sustain anymore injustice in this country at the hands of the notorious
murderous police that is killing and subjecting youths, students, women, men, human
rights advocates, the poor and armless and defenseless citizens and residents
of this country to brutality and death.
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