Posted by A former speaker of Liberia’s lower house of parliament during the power sharing government of Charles Gyude Bryant has accused the former Ghanaian President Jerry John Rawlings of masterminding the killing of former President Samuel Kanyon Doe in 1990.
Appearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Thursday, Mr. George Dweh, a former executive of the defunct rebel LURD faction, said Mr. Rawlings used the first commander of the erstwhile ECOWAS Peace Monitoring Group (ECOMOG), General Quianoo, a Ghanaian, to execute his plan.
Testifying before the TRC Thematic and Institutional Public Hearing, the former transitional speaker said Rawlings implemented the plan by setting up the former Liberian leader to be killed by former rebel commander Prince Y. Johnson at the Freeport of Monrovia.
According to Dweh, the former Ghanaian president had vested interest in the Liberian conflict, and wanted to see Charles Taylor seize power.
He said Rawlings was drawn into Liberian politics while at the same time playing a mediatory role in Liberia as ECOWAS Chairman.
According to Dweh, Rawlings exercised his political influence and interest for former president Taylor in the Liberian conflict when he pressured him and the late ULIMO-J leader Roosevelt Johnson to disarm in a bid to allow Taylor seize power by force of arms.
He said associates of former president Rawlings made offers to him and the late Roosevelt Johnson for them to allow Mr. Taylor assume power in Liberia through the barrel of the gun.
He said they rejected the offers to the displeasure of former president Rawlings because of the role he (Rawlings) played in the death of their kinsman Samuel Doe.
Source African Press Agency
