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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Wade C.L. Williams, wade.williams@frontpageafricaonline.com
Monrovia-
C
omments attributed to Dr. James Adama Sirleaf,
one of President Ellen Johnson-Sirleafs sons in the
Wall Street Journal Monday, is hitting the nerves of
many Liberians describing Dr. Sirleafs assertions
that he will not risk Ebola infection by leaving his nine and
seven-year-old children in America and return to Liberia just
to appease Liberians, as disgusting and unpatriotic.
The WSJ quoted Dr. Sirleaf as saying: The symbolism of me
going there and potentially getting Ebola when I have a nine-
and a seven-year-old at home isnt worth it just to appease
people, Dr. Sirleaf told the Wall Street Journal. Ive made
a commitment not to live in Liberia for many reasons, and I
think my contribution means more.
The statement generated buzz on talk radio Monday with many
criticizing Dr. Sirleafs choice of words especially contrasting
his mothers call on the International community to rally
support and help Liberia fght the virus.
Appealing for Aid
Liberias resources over the time have been used to ensure
that this individual gets all of what he is enjoying today, said
Alvin Wesseh a resident of Monrovia. For him to make such
a remark, that his son, a single individual is better than the
thousands of Liberians, who have lost their lives to this deadly
disease is sad. This is the same man who few weeks ago came
into this country and insulted the Liberian people that they
were buffoons.
President Sirleaf on Sunday told the world that the global
community has a stake in preventing an unfolding catastrophe
in Liberia. She called on nations to provide more medical
experts and supplies to confront Ebola epidemic that has
spiraled out of control in Liberia Guinea and Sierra Leone.
Liberians say the Presidents call amounts to nothing when her
own son, a physician, decides to remain in the U.S while other
people continue to volunteer their service to the fght against
Ebola.
In an Op-Ed in the Washington Post Monday, headlined: The
long-term cure for Ebola: An investment in health systems,
Sirleaf lamented that many more lives will be lost before this
dreadful outbreak is beaten.
The President reminded the world that the deadly virus has
claimed the lives of 96 health workers and infected more than
209 others. Recovering is going to be hard. This is a huge hit
for a country that had barely 50 doctors to care for a population
of 4.4 million at the start of this outbreak.
Citing Uganda Amid Distrust
More than ever, Sirleaf went on to say, Liberia would need to
rely upon the assistance from partners such as the United States
and Britain, and global health organizations such as the World
Health Organization, UNICEF and Gavi, to help rebuild our
health systems, invest in health facilities, staff and equipment
and restore immunization levels. And its not just Liberia
any African nation with a fragile health system is potentially
vulnerable to this terrible disease. After all, infectious disease
knows no borders.
Critics are also compounded by the Presidents use of Uganda
as a case study when some offcials in the administration
secretly tried to get the World Health Organization last week to
drop Uganda Doctor Dr Atai Omoruto, one of several Uganda
doctors currently working in Liberia to help curb the outbreak,
as a consultant because she had been strongly advocating for
the government to resolved lingering issues with healthcare
workers benefts. Uganda has lost three of its citizens in
Liberia to the virus.
Sirleaf said: Uganda has demonstrated after several terrible
outbreaks, the key to preventing a major outbreak is a health
infrastructure robust enough to be able to respond quickly and
effectively when cases frst appear. Medical staff in Uganda
now have the training and means to recognize symptoms
and isolate patients immediately, and they have access to
appropriate equipment and protective clothing. Similarly,
social mobilization networks are in place to get information
out to the people to reduce the risk of spread, while laboratory
facilities can confrm cases swiftly. It is a highly effective setup
that was created with considerable help from the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, but it relies wholly upon
having strong health infrastructure.
Acknowledging that Liberia is utterly ill-equipped and
unprepared, the President appealed to the world to come to
Liberias aid. The United Nations has said it is going to take
$1 billion to stop this outbreak. Of course, thats our immediate
priority. But at the same time, countries like Liberia need long-
term investment to build up our health systems to prevent
outbreaks of this scale from ever happening again. We owe it
to the thousands of citizens and health workers who have so far
lost their lives to be prepared.
This is why many are baffed at the President sons comments
of not willing to risk his own life while others are risking theirs
and more are being asked to.
One of those is Richard Darfuah, who lamented that Dr.
Sirleafs statement shows the level of disservice advocates like
him continue to speak of in Liberia. Many people feel that
when we say this we hate people that are in power but this
clearly shows that because why would you want to ask other
people to serve and you dont want your own son or you dont
want to leave your family.
Darfuah lamented the loss of his friend, Dr. Thomas Scotland,
an intern who lost his life to Ebola at the JFK last Saturday.
I just came in yesterday and they were telling me and this is
somebody who all along was telling me the level at which he
was frustrated with this government when it comes to the level
of support, a man who just graduated from the medical school
has now left his three children, his wife, he has nothing for the
future for them. So if the presidents son says so, in deed this
is the level of disservice those in leadership try to show to the
Liberian people.
Not Suffcient Reason
In 2005, Dr. Sirleaf returned to Liberia to join his mother on
the campaign that led to her election later that year. He was
shocked at the state of the countrys public health care. We
needed clinicians, he said. We needed everything.
In 2007, Dr. Sirleaf founded Heartt Foundationan acronym
for Health Education and Relief Through Trainingto recruit
medical specialists and residents to spend a month practicing
in Liberia and teach at its only medical school. Heartt sent 70
doctors in 2009 alone to Liberia to train students.
The foundations last team of four doctors left Liberia in
March, just as cases of Ebola were surging. The JFK hospital,
where most of the Heartt physicians worked, was ill-prepared
for the epidemic. Many healthcare workers died and Dr. Sirleaf
and his friends were left with no alternative but to leave, when
even local nurses and doctors were abandoning their duties.
The head of JFKs emergency room and the chief of its internal
medicine department were among the frst Liberian health
workers to die from Ebola.
But Tracy Weinnakpei a resident of Monrovia said it is not
suffcient reason for Dr. Sirleaf to abandon the country when
other people were still sacrifcing.
I think the comments made by the Presidents son; has the
propensity to scare international doctors away from Liberia,
she said. If he as the son of the President will be saying he
cannot come to Liberia to help fght Ebola, but would rather do
it from afar, I think it is scaring.
Ironically, Dr. Sirleafs comments come at a time when the
countrys leading hospital, JFK has instructed more than 100
health workers to report to the Ministry of Health and Social
Welfare where they are most likely to be ordered to report to
various Ebola Treatment Units around the country.
Some nurses at the JFK acknowledged that management is
requesting them to return to the Ministry of health and Social
Welfare for reassignment.
The plan by the JFK management comes days after health
Minister Dr. Walter Gwenigale threatened to dismiss all nurses
and other medical workers who refuse to work in the various
Ebola Treatment Units around the country, saying that they
would be replaced by those who are willing to work.
Dr. Gwenigales position is said to have the backing of the
President and the frst family.
Sources confded to FPA that the nurses are being forced to go
and work in the ETUs something some of them are said to be
rejecting prompting the current action against them.
Many Taken Aback
But some Liberians are taken aback by the criticisms befalling
Dr. Sirleaf.
Abdul Dorley, says Liberians have the history of being very
ungrateful. Im disappointed in the manner in which some
people discussed our president because her son gave his reason
for not coming here. Mr.
Adama Sirleaf told us that the reason why he will not come is
because of his children. You see a brother making interventions
helping Liberians and you insulting him?
While visiting Monrovia in August, Dr. Sirleaf encouraged
lawmakers to focus on passing over the knowledge attained
on the prevention of the virus to their constituents, stressing
that the awareness campaign is a volunteer work that is
intended to help educate the citizens through their lawmakers.
Dr. Sirleaf came to Liberia in August to set up a protocol
for identifying suspected Ebola cases and treating patients
without touching them and in collaboration with AmeriCares,
a Connecticut-based emergency relief group, Heartt shipped
crates of protective gloves, goggles and gowns to doctors in
Liberia. The largest shipment so far was a plane carrying more
than 60,000 pounds of gear that arrived last month.
President Sirleaf said it is the duty of all global citizens to send
a message that millions of West Africans will not be left alone
to fend for themselves and her son chooses to do it from afar.
The World Health Organization said Friday that Ebola has
killed almost 2,500 people in Liberiamore than half the
global death toll so far. The WHO warned that Ebola could be
infecting 10,000 people a week by December if it spreads into
larger West African nations, such as neighboring Ivory Coast
although Liberia is beginning to show some signs of a slide
with ambulances making fewer pickups and isolation units
reporting a lot of empty beds in some areas.
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EDITORIAL
PRESIDENT ELLEN JOHNSON-Sirleafs apology to Mike Rawlings, the
Mayor of Dallas has been heard around the world. Her poignant appeal
for international aid in separate letters to U.S. President Barack Obama,
letter to the world aired on the BBC and her Op-Ed in the Washington Post
Monday hit home her rallying cry for all well-meaning people to come to
Liberias aid. It is the duty of all of us as global citizens to send a message
that we will not leave millions of West Africans to fend for themselves,
President Sirleaf declared Sunday.
IN AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED Monday, the Wall Street Journal one
of President Sirleafs son, Dr. James Adama Sirleaf, as saying that the
symbolism of him returning to Liberia and potentially getting Ebola when
I have a nine- and a seven-year-old at home isnt worth it just to appease
people.
THE TIMING OF the statement is suspect. At a time when the John F.
Kennedy Medical Center is ordering more than 100 health workers to report
to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare for reassignment, most likely
to Ebola Treatment Units(ETUs), the Presidents son is taking aim at the
wrong group of people at the wrong time.
JUDGING FROM the experiences of the past few months, it is more than
likely that some of those who are being reassigned could lose their lives in
the process.
ADAMA SIRLEAF WHO HAS made multiple trips to Liberia in the past
with his Hearrt Foundation to perform free surgeries, pulled out his medical
training group due to mounting risks to doctors, the WSJ reported.
TO HIS CREDIT, Dr. Sirleaf, of all the Presidents sons, has made perhaps
the most contribution to Liberia since his mother became President, taking
time out of his Albany, Georgia residence where he is Director of Phoebe
Putney Memorial Hospitals Emergency Department to pay multiple visits
to Liberia with his Hearrt Foundation.
OVER THE YEARS, the foundation has been focused on the improvement
of care at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center (JFK) and training of local
practitioners and providers
THE FOUNDATION HAS also established a teaching program that
trains practitioners and trainers at the John F. Kennedy (JFK) hospital in
partnership with the Tubman National Institute for Medical Arts and the
AM Dogliotti College of Medicine. The teaching program encompasses
both didactic and clinical learning components. National staff (mid-level
providers, nurses, medical students, newly graduated physicians) are paired
with international experts who provide support for clinical care and bedside
teaching in addition to didactic learning covering key information needed
to successfully implement the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) as
designated by Liberias Ministry of Health.
THE FOUNDATION has also been involved in rebuilding basic health
services
SINCE August 1, 2008, HEARTT has placed an additional 2-4 physicians
(per specialty) on the ground for continuous year round support of its
programming for a total of over 70 doctors per year providing clinical and
teaching services at JFK, representing a 50% increased to the total numbers
of doctors that are available to provide much needed clinical and education
services in the country.
IN THE WAKE OF Ebola, the Hearrt Foundation has provided shipments
of personal protective equipment, IV fuids and other life saving supplies
worth more than $500,000 to hospitals, clinics, and treatment centers
around Liberia.
THIS IN OUR VIEW is a commendable gesture and one which much
appreciation is due to Dr. Sirleaf. However, we feel strongly that Dr.
Sirleafs statement regarding not wanting to risk leaving his nine and seven-
year-old children in America just to appease people, was in poor taste and
warrants and apology to the hard working men and women who are risking
their lives to save others and dying daily in the process.
THE MESSAGE DR. SIRLEAF is sending suggest that it not OK for him
or his family to be at risk but that it is OK for those poor, struggling and
underpaid health workers to die in the process.
RELATIVES OF PRESIDENTS, particularly the current Liberian President
Must know when to speak and when to simply shut up. This is one of those
moments when Adama Sirleaf should have taken the no comment route
and kept doing what has set him apart from the rest of the Presidents
children.
IN ONE SINGLE sound bite moment, Dr. Sirleaf dampened much of the
good works he and his Hearrt Foundation has done in the past and continues
to do for the health sector in Liberia.
THIS COMING in the midst of what many see as a glaring insensitivity
by the government to the plight of health workers on the front lines of the
Ebola crisis.
HEALTH MINISTER DR. WALTER GWENIGALEs statement last
week that under no circumstances would he allow the leaders of the health
workers who have been advocating for better incentives and benefts for
their peers, would return to work, has not gone down well and he appears
to have the backing of not just the president, but the frst family as well.
THE INSENSITIVITY DID not stop there.
COMMENTARY
A
llow me some minutes of your busy schedule to differ with
you on an issue of the law that, you were discussing with a
radio talk show host the other morning. If my memory serves
me right, I think it was the host of the 107.9, who is referred
to as M. D. Affectionately.
In that program you were critical about the statement the Chief Justice
of the Supreme made concerning the emergency powers that we the
people of Liberia give the President under a state of emergency. Your
opinion was that he should not have said anything concerning the issue
until it comes before the court for determination. I respectfully disagree
with you.
By the way of introduction, I worked with the judiciary and a practicing
lawyer of at least six years of experience below my belt. My job does not
allow me the opportunity to part take in your public discussions, thus I
would prefer, if you consider this an exchange of information between
us. You may refer to me as the SPIDER (Nom de plume) herein.
I am in no way defending what he said, which I believe was in the right
spirit of the law, but rather attempting to bring to you an exercise of
legal discussion Herein. I will endeavor to provide legal citations, both
statutory and constitutional, in support of my assertions.
Quoting what he said from a copy of the New Democrat, Tuesday,
Oct. 14, 2014 edition, page 9 To contain the spread and bring an end
to the Ebola virus, The President of Liberia, pursuant to the powers
vested in her by the Constitution, declared a state of emergency on
August 6, 2014. Under a state of emergency, certain constitutional as
well as statutory rights may be suspended. The declaration is required
to outline the specifc rights that are or to be affected. However, the
constitution recognizes that during the state of emergency, like what
now obtains in our country, our courts shall remain functional in order
to guide against any accesses by the Legislative or Executive branches
of the Government. The Judiciary remains seized with the duty and is
authorized even in the environment of the state of emergency to determine
the obligations, responsibilities and liabilities of the Government to the
citizenry alleging violation of their constitutional rights not suspended
under or otherwise affected by the declaration of the state of emergency.
And it ends courting Articles 26 of the Constitution.
He continues with the Writ of habeas Corpus Which shall remain
available and exercisable and shall not be suspended during a state of
emergency. Therefore our courts are opened and shall remain opened at
all times for regular operations and entertain any petition for the writ of
Habeas Corpus, if any there may be fled.
He goes further to say that, Under Liberian law, The Republic of
Liberia, as a party litigant, has no special rights and enjoys no special
privileges that are not available to ordinary persons. The Republic may
bring to court or vice versa. The Republic is subjected to all applicable
procedural rules of court as well as applicable substantive laws and shall
be treated as such.
He gives the acception to the above as during the case whereby there is
a compromise of national security or a vital national interest. Finally,
he assured the public and citizenry at large of the committement of
the judicial branch of government to up hold the law. In what way,
does this comment support the President request for what is termed as
absolute powers?
Amongst other things our headlines have painted a colorful picture of
the judicial Branch through its heads as siding with the President. This
speech has also come under lot of criticisms from people who have
no knowledge of legal and constitutional matters, and some of whom
are lawyers surprisingly. The focus point of an argument that, he has
compromised his neutrality. This is not true.
What then is considered the neutrality of a justice, Judge and magistrate?
Article 75, of the constitution gives the Supreme Court the power to make
rules of courts for the purpose of regulating the practice, procedures and
manner by which cases shall be commenced and heard before it, and all
other subordinate courts. Thus, these rules of courts become statutes in
support of this provision. In these statutes, judicial canon ten and twenty
eight (Essential Conduct of a Judge and Self interest) provides for a
judge to be temperate, attentive, impartial, and since he is to administer
the law, interpret it and apply it to the facts, he should be studious of the
principles of the law and diligent in endeavoring to ascertain the facts.
Canon twenty eight A judge should abstain from performing or taking
part in any judicial act in which his personal interests are involved. If he
has personal litigation in the court of which he is assigned, or is resident,
he need not resign his judgeship on that account but he should of course,
refrain from any judicial act in such a controversy
Impartiality herein refers to the issue before the judge. That is, he must
have no previous knowledge of the issue at bar before it is brought
before him. The issue above, is a national one and not of a particular
case. In the above statement, is there an issue of a right that has been
violated, or in his attempt to educate the public as a member of one of
the three branches of government, is there a matter of self interest? We
say no. Our reliance are Articles 3, 6, 10, and the Canon 27.
Besides being The Administrative head of the Judicial Branch, The
Chief Justice is also the head of the third branch of government and has
the constitutional mandate to exercise his opinion in relations with the
power of coordination and check and balances of the branches. How
does waiting mutely and being conscious of an impending constitutional
controversy makes his advice not impartial? If he had expressed his
opinion on a matter that had violated the rights of a particular individual
or any group for that matter, before said matter was brought to the
Supreme Court, then his neutrality can be considered.
Let then turn our attention to Judicial Canon 27, This statue provides
that, A judge has exceptional opportunity to observe the operation of
statutes, especially those relating to practice, and to ascertain whether
they tend to impede the just disposition of controversies, and he may
well contribute to the public interest, by advising those having authority
to remedy defects or procedures, as the result of this observation and
experience.
We too have this fear that the public as a whole has for creating a
tyranny. But this will not be justifed if we were not to consider the
precarious situation our nation fnds itself. This fear has justifcations
based on past experiences. This is the reason, the Fourth Estate has
a pivotal and very important role in how information is given to the
public. Someone said that the pen is mightier than the guns. Many
journalists have considered this statement, as a kind of revelry between
those who used the pen to provide information and the states ability
to suppress it. Have it dawned on you that your strength as The fourth
Estate, makes you more powerful? And that what you say or write can
break or make a nation? (Rwanda)(Germany).
Is it not clear, that your nomenclature has an origin with responsibilities
to the state? Providing the wrong information at the right time or the right
information at the wrong time or not providing them at all, may have
serious consequences to the state? You have a legal duty to understand
the consequences of what you report. Most especially, during time of
national emergency. It is not the government alone that has this fght.
You the press are also at the frontline whether you believe or not.
Have you considered that the presidents quest for a restricted press
today may be as a result of the lack of trust for the press also? The Fourth
Estate is the fourth branch of government though, neutral. You are the
channel of information assimilation. This lack of trust between you and
the state is confusing some of us. Check this up. Chief Justice takes
sides, With Ellens power quest. Headlines, New democrat (Tue Oct.
14 2014) then it claims towards the achievements of social justice.
The Nigerians say, yeeah, chinekay!!!. Is this headline saying the
truth or are you reporting what you want the public to know? You are an
intelligent person and owe the Liberian people the truth. How are you
different from the government you are accusing if what you report is not
the truth? Your interpretation of a version of the Chief justice statement
is very far from what he was saying. Did you considered that if there
was a civil unrest today, what you said could lead to consequences that
may not be favorable for him? Only because you did not tell the truth.
THE CHIEF JUSTICE
CRITICS OFF THE MARK
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleafs son Must Apologize to
Healthcare workers in the Front lines of a deadly virus
DR. JAMES SIRLEAFS
POLITICALLY-
INCORRECT
EBOLA MOMENT
LAST WEEK, FrontPageAfrica profled Dr Atai Omoruto, one of several
Uganda doctors currently working in Liberia to help curb the outbreak.
HER JOB WAS at risk only because she made efforts to improve the condition
of health care workers in Liberia. Some senior health administrators actually
made efforts to have the World Health Organization sent her back because in
their view she was meddling in Liberian affairs. How Sad.
YET, IN HER OP-ED in the Post Monday, President Sirleaf heralded
Uganda as a case study for Liberia when she wrote: But while these are
very much welcome developments, they are nevertheless responses to an
outbreak already out of control. After all, military feld hospitals would not
be needed if adequate health-care services were in place. And, as Uganda has
demonstrated after several terrible outbreaks, the key to preventing a major
outbreak is a health infrastructure robust enough to be able to respond quickly
and effectively when cases frst appear.
ADDED SIRLEAF: Medical staff in Uganda now have the training and
means to recognize symptoms and isolate patients immediately, and they have
access to appropriate equipment and protective clothing. Similarly, social
mobilization networks are in place to get information out to the people to
reduce the risk of spread, while laboratory facilities can confrm cases swiftly.
It is a highly effective setup that was created with considerable help from the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, but it relies wholly upon
having strong health infrastructure.
THE PRESIDENT ADMITTED that Liberia is utterly ill-equipped and
unprepared. What is so tragic is that, until this outbreak, Liberia had made
signifcant progress in building up its public health systems. With help from
organizations such as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, we have reduced childhood
mortality by two-thirds since 1990, thanks largely to expansive immunization
programs.
SO WHY SHOULD the world help Liberia when we are not willing to help
ourselves? When we attempt to throw out good, decent and hardworking
people simply because they are advocating for our own good: If the health
workers are happy, they will be motivated to work with all of their hearts, even
a frst grader knows that.
WHY SHOULD the world help us when a Presidents son, even if he is angry,
makes a remark condescending toward those on the front line of this crisis.
DR. ADAMA JAMES SIRLEAF Must take back his words and apologize, not
to his critics but for the hardworking health workers like the late Dr. Thomas
S. Scotland, a 2013 University of Liberias A.M. Dogliotti Medical College
graduate who was an intern at JFK.
DR. SIRLEAF must apologize, not to his critics but to the many other nurses,
doctors and health workers who have no choice but to risk their lives on the
front lines of Ebola, saving others.
NO ONE IS ASKING Dr. Sirleaf to suit up and risk his life but in the same
vein, he must not demean in a condescending manner, the works of those who
are risking theirs without the luxury of choice.
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EDWARD ROYE TOP COMMENTER LIBERIA
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Madam Tah's resignation is wrongly timed. investigating the head
of the national security boss, I am not aware of the NSA being a part
of the justice ministry. the justice ministry controls and manages
the: national police, immigration bureau, DEA, national fre service,
NBI but not the NSA. the NSA head reports directly to the president
and not anybody else. that is statute that created it. the NSa boss is
subject to impeachment should there arise something questionable
about his/her activities. so, Cllr. Tah, I think u should have allowed
the Liberian senate to institute investigation about the NSA boss.
in this case, I think u made a mistake. the NSA and the former SSS
now EPS are not under the justice ministry. Cllr. Tah , u have never
been proactive in the execution of your duties and responsibilities.
countless audit reports were passed to u for prosecution but u
always said there was no evidence, u swept it under the carpet. only
the former boss of LTA(Bropleh) u arrested in his morning robe
and dragged to prison. Tell the Liberian people, your real reason
for resigning.
R_FILIPS (SIGNED IN USING AOL)
You are funny in that where the NSA takes on the function not
assigned its mission, the Justice ministry must step in to investigate
or indict. NSA's role is limited to data collection and coordination. It
cannot directly affect an arrest in a matter that is within the purview
of the Ministry of justice.
Please see below other responses:
1. The post of NSA director is not an elected post and serves at the
pleasure of the president of Liberia. Only elected offcials can be
impeached.
2. The constitution empowers the minister of justice to investigate
all reports of criminal activities. The NSA director is suspect of
converting or illegally seizing personal values of complainant - an
act inconsistent with the administration of justice.
3. one of the reasons Minister Tah resigned is the lack of cooperation
from the President. How sure are you that she was not undermined
by the president in doing her job? Do you expect the ministry of
justice to turn blind eyes?
JESSE FAHNGON TOP COMMENTER METROPOLITAN
STATE UNIVERSITY
Who determines a person right to resign, referenced, timing?
JAMES YONLY UNIVERSITY OF LIBERIA
A sycophant infected with drum major instinct is waiting take the
Job. Any way. to many Liberians, holding a post in government
is about getting a pay check with fnger full of fringe benefts.
Then there they go, bullying their mother or father if the president
demands so. thank you Madam. You've made the difference
DEGAN BALLAYAN TOP COMMENTER CUSTOMER
SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE AT CURRENTLY WORK AT
HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS, COLLEGE PARK - GEORGIA
Madam now former Minister of Justice, you probably did the right
thing, though sort of late. Having studied law in both the United
States and Liberia, even helped to re-write some of the laws on the
books in Liberia as I was informed or read, you should have kept
your integrity intact at all times, regardless of the fies that were
making noise in the market or in the political arena. Principles count
in every job or in appointed positions - especially in government.
To just sit there pushing paperwork, conducting legal businesses
of behave of the people in the same, corruption practices was not
reputable. In other words, the same more, same more, cancerous,
epidemic impunity continue to exist. This is unacceptable in the 21
century!! Why allow a mountain of cases go unresolved in a country
of 43,000 square miles.
HARRIS GBAHN TOP COMMENTER WORKS AT SELF-
EMPLOYED
Whom is Madam Tah accusing of preventing her from doing her
jobs? What I know is, it is only the Constitution of Liberia that can
prevent her from performing her duty when she is not in the right
direction, because no one, not even the President is above the Laws
of the Land. Moreover, her justifcation for her resignation here
is still not clear. The frst said resignation letter submitted to the
President was understood by the public to be her reaction to the
action of the Legislature by stopping her from practicing her career;
if there were any motives besides that, it is today we are getting to
know. Again, her present resignation letter will be considered by
Liberians as a deliberate and long-awaited plan so as to exit from
the government and fnd her way out to America because of the
fear of Ebola. What I believe is that if she loves her people and her
country, and as a cardinal government offcial, and even if she has
been encountering so many problems from her boss as alleged, this
is not the right time to resign. No matter what she explains now it
will be considered by the public as a point of cover-up for her fear
for Ebola.
DISTRUST, BETRAYAL PUSHED
TOUGH SKIN TAH OUT OF EJS GOVT Letter for BBC Radio
:
Dear World
I
n just over six months, Ebola has managed to bring my country
to a standstill. We have lost over 2,000 Liberians. Some are
children struck down in the prime of their youth. Some were
fathers, mothers, brothers or best friends. Many were brave
health workers that risked their lives to save others, or simply offer
victims comfort in their fnal moments.
There is no coincidence Ebola has taken hold in three fragile states
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea - all battling to overcome the
effects of interconnected wars. In Liberia, our civil war ended only
eleven years ago. It destroyed our public infrastructure, crushed our
economy and led to an exodus of educated professionals. A country
that had some 3,000 qualifed doctors at the start of the war was
dependent by its end on barely three dozen. In the last few years,
Liberia was bouncing back. We realized there was a long way to go,
but the future was looking bright.
Now Ebola threatens to erase that hard work. Our economy was set to
be larger and stronger this year, offering more jobs to Liberians and
raising living standards. Ebola is not just a health crisis across West
Africa, a generation of young people risk being lost to an economic
catastrophe as harvests are missed, markets are shut and borders are
closed.
The virus has been able to spread so rapidly because of the insuffcient
strength of the emergency, medical and military services that remain
under-resourced and without the preparedness to confront such a
challenge. This would have been the case whether the confrontation
was with Ebola, another infectious disease, or a natural disaster.
But one thing is clear. This is a fght in which the whole world has
a stake. This disease respects no borders. The damage it is causing
in West Africa, whether in public health, the economy or within
communities is already reverberating throughout the region and
across the world.
The international reaction to this crisis was initially inconsistent
and lacking in clear direction or urgency. Now fnally, the world has
woken up. The community of nations has realized they cannot simply
pull up the drawbridge and wish this situation away.
This fght requires a commitment from every nation that has the
capacity to help whether that is with emergency funds, medical
supplies or clinical expertise.
I have every faith in our resilience as Liberians, and our capacity as
global citizens, to face down this disease, beat it and rebuild. History
has shown that when a people are at their darkest hour, humanity has
an enviable ability to act with bravery, compassion and selfessness
for the beneft of those most in need.
From governments to international organisations, fnancial institutions
to NGOs, politicians to ordinary people on the street in any corner of
the world, we all have a stake in the battle against Ebola. It is the duty
of all of us, as global citizens, to send a message that we will not leave
millions of West Africans to fend for themselves against an enemy
that they do not know, and against whom they have little defence.
The time for talking or theorizing is over. Only concerted action will
save my country, and our neighbours, from experiencing another
national tragedy. The words of Henrik Ibsen have never been truer:
A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a
single deed.
Yours sincerely,
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
The Editor,
F
irst of all, thanks a million for all of the information that you
have been reporting thus far from mother land, Liberia. I am
home away from home. My physical body is in California
but my heart is in Liberia. Again, thanks to you and your
staff/co-workers for doing a great job. I appreciate your work!!
BLOOD Transfusion, blood from Ebola survivors does work. Use
it!!! The survivors are the blessed ones. They have the gold in
their blood that enabled them to survive this serious disease. Use
it!!!
I am a Liberian residing in Sacramento, California. I am not in the
medical feld but I have been following if not all, but most of the
publications on Ebola outbreak in other countries and now in West
African countries - Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. From what I
have been reading,
1. Blood transfusions worked on several patients infected with
Ebola during a 1996 outbreak in Kikwit, Congo. Only one of the
eight patients died. All were seriously ill with severe asthenia,
four presented with hemorrhagic manifestations, and two became
comatose as their disease progressed.
From my elementary math class at the Bible Way Mission School in
Liberia, when you do the division: 1/8 = 0.128 = 12.8%. The result
was signifcantly lower than the overall case fatality rate (80 percent)
for the Ebola outbreak in Kikwit and now in the 3 countries in West
Africa.
Three Americans who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia
and were fown to the United States for treatment all recovered. One
of the Americans, Nancy Writebol recovered. I dont know if she
received blood in Liberia as well.
2. In late July 2014, Dr. Kent Brantly received a unit of blood from
a 14-year-old boy who had survived Ebola in Liberia and recovered.
3. Dr. Kent Brantly gave blood to Dr. Richard Sacra, a Boston
physician. He recovered.
4. Dr. Kent Brantly gave blood to Ashoka Mukpo, a U.S. journalist.
He is recovering.
5. Dr. Kent Brantly gave blood to Nina Pham, one of the nurses
from Dallas. She is recovering. As I saw on the news today, she was
sitting up and looking very great (thanks be to the Almighty God)
when she was being transferred to Maryland.
Again, my people, from my elementary math class at the Bible
Way Mission School in Liberia, when you do the division: 4/4 = 1 =
100%. The success result here is real, its a fact.
What are we waiting for or what are we waiting on? This is a life
and death situation. I saw 25 photos of Liberians who recovered
from Ebola on Yahoo news this morning. 25 blessed ones. They
have the gold in their blood that enabled them to survive this serious
disease. Use it!!! Call them in, take some BLOOD and check them
for other diseases like HIV or hepatitis C. If it clears, please use it to
treat other Ebola patients. As far as I am concern right now, Ebola is
by far worse than HIV or hepatitis C.
Blood Transfusion, (blood from survivors work) from what I have
been reading, it works. Use it!!! Use the blessed ones. They have the
gold in their blood that enabled them to survive this serious disease.
If you have any questions, ask Dr. Kent Brantly. He is a medical
doctor, he has experienced the work of the blessed one and he is also
one of the blessed ones.
From: Warnerlyn Becky Warner
Warnerwarner164@gmail.com
EJS LETTER TO THE WORLD:
EBOLA HAS BROUGHT
LIBERIA TO A STANDSTILL
BLOOD TRANSFUSION, BLOOD
FROM EBOLA SURVIVORS DOES
WORK. USE IT!!!
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Selma Lomax, selma.lomax@frontpageafricaonline.com
Al-Varney Rogers/0886304498/FrontPageAfricaonline.com
Monrovia -
D
econtee Davis,
serving lunch to the
kids in the dining
room of a new center
run by Ebola survivors for Ebola
orphans, immediately stopped
and ran upstairs upon hearing
two-week-old Sam cry.
Little Sam was crying to have his
diaper changed. "As soon they
[two babies] are crying, when
we are in the kitchen or doing
something else, the children will
yell and say 'your children are
crying, Davis said.
Sam's father died from the
Ebola virus, while his mother
is critically ill at the Ebola
Treatment Unit run by Doctors
Without Borders (MSF).
While Sam is the youngest
child at the Kelekula (Willing
Heart) Interim Care Center and
he requires a lot of attention, he
is not the only baby. Davis also
has to look after Ansu, a three-
month-old boy whose father was
a military member and died from
the virus and whose mother later
died at MSF after having been
rushed there for treatment.
I have started a new baby mother
life. It is not easy at night, they
will cry when their diapers are
wet and if they want to eat, they
will cry but taking care of them
bring back memories when I was
a baby mother, Davis said.
Davis said the caretakers bathe,
feed and put the babies to sleep
in the morning. "If they refuse to
sleep we put them on our back,
Davis said.
UNICEF says at least 3,700
children in Guinea, Liberia and
Sierra Leone have lost one or
both parents to the disease.
Children who are Ebola survivors
or have lost their parents to
Ebola are often rejected by other
relatives for fear of infection.
"These children urgently need
special attention and support, yet
many of them feel unwanted and
even abandoned, said Manuel
Fontaine, UNICEFs Regional
Director for West Africa.
Eight-year-old Abraham
Kolubah is a survivor who
came to the home after he was
discharged from JFK ETU and
no family member was willing to
accept him in their home.
Abraham, who manages to
survive from Ebola, lost both
parents but looking at him eating
his meal and joking with other
kids one could imagine that he
does not know that his family
has been torn apart as the result
of the outbreak.
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LIBERIAS EBOLA SURVIVORS FILLING IN THE GAP FOR ORPHANS
"Orphans are usually taken in by a member of the extended family, but in some communities, the fear surrounding Ebola
is becoming stronger than family ties. - Manuel Fontaine, UNICEFs Regional Director for West Africa.

[Decontee Davis Head of Kelekula interim Care Center] [Davis sharing the kids lunch]
"Orphans are usually taken in
by a member of the extended
family, but in some communities,
the fear surrounding Ebola is
becoming stronger than family
ties, Fontaine said.
The Willing Heart Center has
existed for less than three weeks
and the work there is proving
to be challenging but Davis
is confdent that she and her
colleagues can handle the task.
The facility is managed by Ebola
survivors and supported by Child
Fund, UNICEF and the Ministry
of Health and Social Welfare.
This home is call Willing Heart
because we are willing to do
what we are doing, nobody force
us to do it, this is our contribution
to our country, Davis said.
Davis, 23, heads the center which
looks after both Ebola orphans
and children, whose parents are
at ETUs,
Taking care of the kids, Davis
couldnt help thinking about her
two-year-old son back home.
"Arriving at the home most of
the kids are usually afraid. We
tell stories and talk to them,"
Davis said.
Most of the kids think that
they are spending time or on
a vacation, she said. "Some of
them ask me when they will go
home.
As the Ebola virus sweeps across
Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea
many children are fnding
themselves alone in the world,
ostracized by communities
afraid of the contagion of the
virus, and without family to look
after them. But people like Davis
are bent on giving these children
a new life.
Davis said on October 7 she
received the frst three children
at the center, and they had to
leave for treatment as they began
showing signs and symptoms of
the virus.
I started this home with three
kids. Their parents came down
with the virus and they are
critically ill. On the October
seven, the oldest sister Famatta
came down with fever. We did
observe her on the 8 and isolated
her. We got no response so we
call the ambulance and they took
her to ELWA-2. Than the other
two came down with fever and
on October 10 we took them
to Island Clinic [ETU], Davis
continued.
Davis says the children's' tests
proved that they were positive
and down with the virus. "We are
praying that they come through
because we know how it feel
been down with this virus."
Gbarnga, Bong County -
I
f there is a time a people
usually come together with
singleness of purpose to
achieve a goal, one of such
times is when there is an urgent
need to turn a situation once in
their disfavor to their favor.
The Congress for Democratic
Change (CDC) Bong Chapter has
remained in disfavor and many
have come to expect that the
coming special senatorial election
is one CDC, the acclaimed most
populous party in the county, will
lash on, to salvage its intrigrity.
But the drum of disunity,
squabble and power tussle which
has continued in the camp of
the Bong Chapter of the party,
since the emergence of the
former Accountant of Cuttington
University, Augustus Flomo, as
the partys senatorial candidate for
the upcoming special senatorial
election in the county does not tell
of a party ready to wrestle power
off the grips of the incumbent,
Senator Jewel Howard-Taylor.
The inability of the party to form
a united front in a county they so
much desire to win has continued
to cause many analysts to query
the seriousness of the party ahead
of the December 16 senatorial
election.
It is like no description can best
describe the situation of the party
in the county than that of a house
divided against itself. In the
history of mans existence, failure
has remained the consequence
of any divided group of people,
be it in interest or in purpose.
And Abraham Lincoln puts it, A
house divided against itself cannot
stand. Even the weakest are made
strong when they are united.
After the emergence of Flomo as
CDC candidate, some partisans of
the party resisted his on ground
that it was against the norm of
the party. The formulation of the
group of CDC partisans under
DIVIDED HOUSE?
CDC Bong Chapter Battling for Unity Ahead of Special Senatorial Election
the banner Aggrieved CDCians
speaks volumes.
Even as the National Executive
Committee of the party has
presented a certifcate to Flomo as
fag bearer of the CDC and urged
all members of the party in the
county to remain united and forge
a common front, Delino Kollie
head of the Aggrieved CDC
partisans is contemplating on
supporting Flomos rival ahead of
the senatorial election.
Some analysts have come to say
that the CDC started getting things
wrong when the party seemingly
avoided the participation of
aspirants for the primary.
They argue that an election of
such could not be recorded in a
serious party where there is unity.
According to Mulbah Morlu,
National Vice Chairman for
Operations of the party, the party
is determined to win almost all the
15 counties in Liberia. But the
situation in Bong County, from the
onset, tells that the Bong Chapter
of the CDC is not as united as it
should be.
Commenting on the situation of the
Bong CDC, Nat Seton, a Gbarnga
based politician said except the
partys stakeholders were able to
resolve the controversies in the
party in the county, CDC may not
achieve the desired result.
According to him, there was no
way CDC in Bong County, with
the aggrieved partisans forming
alliance, could make something
out of the election.
You also have to understand
that these partisans have their
supporters, Seton said. On the
other hand, William Scout, a
Gbarnga indigene who resides
in Monrovia argued that Senator
Taylor remains a candidate to beat
despite the controversies over her
nationality. Senator Taylor, as
the NPP candidate, is a force to
reckon with and nobody should
be surprised to see her emerge
winner, he said.
Reacting on the recent claim that
some CDC partisans would either
defect to the opposition candidate
or work for the incumbent senator,
Victor Wesseh, the head of a
faction of the CDC in the County
said: Kollie and his cohorts can
defect if they so wish or work for
anybody they want to, but one
thing they should understand is
that the venom of a viper does
nothing to the back of a tortoise.
Im always in Bong and I strongly
believe the crack in the Bong
chapter of the CDC will do no
harm to the emergence of Flomo,
Wesseh said.
Before the present situation, the
Bong Chapter of the party was
polarized into two factions. The
party battled with protracted crisis
with two faction leaders locked in
a battle for supremacy.
The promise of working in unity
and harmony as promised by
the party leaders in the county
is yet to be seen. With the recent
development, some analysts have
come to say that the inability of
the party to resolve the various
issues in the party and ensure a
united CDC in the county will
defnitely have an adverse effect
on its chances of defeating Senator
Taylor.
At the moment, George Philip
Mulbah of the Justice of the Peace
Commission (JPC) has been
saddled with the responsibility to
reconcile warring members of the
party.
According to Morlu, Mulbah
would work with two other Civil
Society Organizations in the
county. The effort so far, might be
said to have only yielded a slim
result with Emmanuel Kokoya,
who is only one out of the eight
aggrieved partisans, reconciling
with Flomo.
Those who are concerned are now
waiting to see how the Mulbah
led reconciliation committee will
be able to unite the remaining
aggrieved partisans, their
supporters and many other CDC
members in the county, who are
anti Flomo candidature.
It is in the hand of CDC Bong
Chapter either to come together
and rally round Flomo since he
has been recognized by the partys
National Executive Committee
or remain divided and forget the
senatorial seat, Seton said.
While the drum of division and
disunity in the Bong chapter of the
CDC continue sounding in high
crescendo and many chieftains
of the party and party members
continue dancing to it, the Bong
Chapter of the CDC remains a
house divided against itself and
only December 16, has the answer
to whether it will stand or fall?

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Monrovia -
T
he Country Director of the United Nations Development
Programme in Liberia has urged Community dwellers to
support efforts being made to increase contact tracing and
identifcation in the fght against the deadly Ebola virus in
the Country.
Dr. Kamil Kamaluddeen said UNDP will continue to provide more
support to the Governments national response in Ebola affected
Communities as it relates to Active Findings in Communities in
Montserrado County. Dr. Kamaluddeen was speaking during an
assessment of activities in District 7 by a team from UNDP Regional
Bureau visiting Liberia to assess the Ebola situation.
This visit is important because UN wants to continue helping
Liberia until the Ebola crisis is over initimated the UNDP Country
Director. The RBA Mission was led by UNDP Director for Policy
and Programme Support Magdy Martnez-Solimn and he was
accompanied by the Deputy Director for UNDP Regional Bureau for
Africa Ruby Sandhu- Sojon.
District 7 on Ashmun Street is among several communities where
UNDP is providing support in the area of contact tracing and
identifcation. UNDP support is being channeled through the Incident
Management Committee on Ebola. in the training of 1,820 Active Case
Finders Volunteers who are to be deployed in various Communities to
conduct contact tracing and identifcation
Monrovia and its environs are stratifed into 12 zones. So far, 8
communities have been targeted which include West Point, Banjor,
Police Academy, VOA, Ashmun Street, New Kru Town, Soul Clinic
and Caldwell. Volunteers trained in these areas undertake door to
door awareness, identify the sick and the dead, establish contacts and
support psych-social counselling for the affected.
Briefng the RBA Team on activities in District 7, The Coordinator
for Contact Tracing, Mosoka Fallah said his team of Community
volunteers has been working for the past one month, with quarantined
families, by providing food, health care and other necessary items to
keep them strong in the time of their quarantine. He also disclosed
that as part of the efforts to protect residents of districts, they are
conducting the mapping of homes and involved with creating
awareness as they carry out conduct tracing and identifcation.

UNDP SUPPORTS CONTACT
TRACING IN COMMUNITIES
Population Hailed For Their Cooperation
RASF formally unveils key projects to fll gaps left by the pandemic
T
he Robert A. Sirleaf
Foundation (RASF)
has formally unveiled
two interventions
amidst the Ebola crisis,
which has paralyzed virtually
everything in Liberia.
RASF policy analyst Francis
Grant named the interventions
as the establishment of districts
task force (making use of
existing structures where it
exists) and support to vulnerable
groups to help alleviate
economic burdens.
According to Grant, RASF will
be working in the communities
to help spread the dos and donts
about the disease, especially
the stigmatization faced by
survivors.
Ebola has killed more than 4,500
people in the world's worst
outbreak in Liberia, Guinea,
Sierra Leone and Nigeria.
But the World Health
Organization (WHO), which
declared Senegal Ebola-free on
Friday, offcially freed Nigeria
of the virus on Monday after six
weeks with no new cases.
Speaking in Abuja, WHO
Representative Rui Gama
Vaz said it was a "spectacular
success story".
Nigeria won praise for its swift
response after Liberias Finance
Ministry offcial Patrick Sawyer
transported the disease there in
July.
According to WHO, problems
with data gathering made it
hard to draw conclusions about
the evolution of the epidemic
in Liberia, with the number
of cases in Monrovia almost
certainly signifcantly under-
reported.
The United States is deploying
up to 4,000 troops to West
Africa to help contain the virus
with bulk of troops destined for
Liberia.
They will build 17 Ebola
treatment units (ETUs)
nationwide, a task that should
be completed by the end of
December, according to Ben
Hemingway, the team leader for
USAID's Disaster Assistance
Response in Liberia.
Six such units are already up
and running, he said.
"We see the ETUs as a referral
system, but there will also
be community care centers
established throughout the
counties. The idea is that you
will be able to get care closer
to home so that if you are
confrmed with Ebola you will
be able to be moved to the unit
(ETU) for a longer care there,"
Reuters quotes him as saying.
And RASF is looking forward to
joining their skills and resources
in helping the international
community to declare Liberia
free of Ebola.
Community and peer
engagement have always proven
to be the best approach when
it comes to citizen rally for a
cause. In order to get grassroots
participation for actions in
Liberia, youth, religious,
traditional and community
leaders are usually easy entry to
the minds of their constituents.
District and community
taskforce will serve as
an effective medium for
developing and communicating
awareness messages. With
this approach, communities
will take ownership of the
process of the process because
they feel a part of it. The
established structures will also
be used to track early signs and
symptoms of Ebola which will
subsequently be reported to
the appropriate authorities for
appropriate action, Grant told a
news conference on October 17.
According to him, RASF is
hoping to reach out to 250,000
residents nationwide.
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
closed all schools and some
border points hot on the heels of
the pandemic late July.
This has affected economic
activities, especially teachers
who work for privately-owned
schools.
Grant said RASF will provide
grant to teachers and market
women.
The economic burden the virus
has put on the economy cant
be overemphasized. The state
of emergency has dampened
economic activity thereby
imposing a major reduction
in the income of marketers
who are mostly women. This
component of the program will
provide additional micro cash
grant to enable them jump start
their businesses.
As part of reducing the spread
of Ebola, the government has
announced the closure of all
schools. This has affected many
but most especially teachers of
private schools.
This component of the
program will provide cash grant
to teachers [of community-
owned schools] with a focus
on Montserrado County, which
continues to register the highest
number of cases in Liberia. This
is to act as a means of advancing
other options of livelihood until
the reopening of schools, he
stressed.
Grant said their interventions
will also target barbers and
beauty care providers in addition
to health workers, marketers
and teachers.
RASF has been contributing
to the fght against Ebola
with awareness campaigns in
several communities with the
distribution of food and non-
food items (buckets, cartoons
of Clorox or chlorine, soap and
delta).
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Danesius Marteh, danesius.marteh@frontapgeafricaonline.com

RASF policy analyst Francis Grant
FEAR STILL LINGERS IN A VILLAGE
RAVAGED BY EBOLA IN BONG
Barlaketela, Salala District,
Bong County -
T
he signs of a deadly
struggle remain:
Scattered around the
houses of the Ebola
dead lie empty pill packages,
their plastic casings punched
through.
Nearby in the mud are used
packets of oral rehydration salts.
The pills did not work and the
hurried trip to the hospital, if
there was one, came too late.
Inside house after house, Ebola
has claimed its victims: In
Barlaketala, out of a population
of perhaps 300. 38 people died;
over there, seven, including three
children. A few yards away, an
old man lives alone, his wife
now dead.
In another, seven people are
dead, the village teacher said.
In a long low house nearby, 16
died, all from the same family.
Outside yet another, two tiny
girls, one age 6 and her sister
7, sit pensively in front, their
parents gone.
And there are more. So many,
said Sekou Sheriff, the 35-year-
old village teacher, clutching his
little daughters hand. We lost
too many people.
Barlaketala is the most
devastated village in Bong
County, according to the Bong
County Health Team. The area,
a mud-brick community of rice
and cassava farmers deep in the
forest, is quiet now. We wanted
to abandon this village, Sheriff
said.
There are still people here,
but the village appears frozen.
Inside the darkened houses, the
scant belongings of the victims
ragged clothing, sandals,
a rare radio sit untouched
weeks later. No new cases have
surfaced here in nearly a week,
but fear that the deadly virus
still lurks has kept everything in
place.
Nothing appears to have moved
since the deadly tide swept
through. The County Ebola Task
Force, desperate to contain an
epidemic that has claimed about
50 lives in the county alone, has
effectively cordoned off this part
of the county.
Two districts adjacent to the area
were put under quarantine by the
county leadership a few months
ago, shutting down much of the
traffc on the muddy road cutting
through the Ebola zone.
Now, a region has been cut off
from the rest of the country
because of the roadblocks,
warned a local leader, Salala
District Commissioner Karmo
Kanneh raising worries that if
the epidemic does not decimate
the region, a subsequent shortage
of food, trade and supplies will.
Our fear now is that closing
these roads risks having more
people die of malnutrition and
even starvation than by Ebola,
Kanneh told FrontPage Africa.
The sweeping quarantine, much
like the one imposed on parts
of county, underscores a basic
reality in the battle against
the epidemic: Neither the
government nor the international
health organizations on the front
lines seem able to stop it from
spreading through the afficted
areas. So many villages have
been struck, with so few health
workers and other resources to
try to halt the advance, which
governments have resorted to
closing off entire regions in
hopes of containing the damage.
Every week, we get one or two
new villages with infections,
said Dr. Sampson Azouarkoi,
head of the Bong County Health
team.
The government quarantine
comes too late for Barlaketela,
where the scourges mark is
everywhere along the wide
muddy road that runs through the
palm-fringed village.
At the back of Sheriffs house,
where nine people died, the
stained and torn farming clothes
he wore blue jeans and
T-shirts still hang from a line.
Nobody has dared to remove
them.
People are afraid; we asked
them to burn them, James Suah,
a teacher from the area who is
helping to organize an Ebola
response on behalf of local
offcials.
The sheet on Suah bed is still
rumpled and the pillow still
askew. Poking out from the
simple wood bed frame are his
sandals. He refused to go to the
hospital. He was afraid to go,
said Sheriff. After the death of a
villager he was found in a sitting
position at the edge of his bed,
hunched over, his head bowed
down.
So many of the farmers have
died that the residents said this
years planting season is not
likely to occur. This farming
season, we cant do any work,
said Jaya, the teacher. We have
lost too many people.

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I cannot see my husband sick and not touch him. Or I
cannot see my child sick. Ebola might as well kill us.
A REVEREND'S QUARANTINE SPREADS THE WORD
EBOLA IN CHURCH
N
ight clubs have shut their doors. Soccer leagues have been suspended. And a strict curfew is
keeping the streets empty at night.
But there's one place in Monrovia where people continue to gather despite the threat ofEbola
: Sunday church service.
Since Ebola broke out in Liberia's capital city, more people have started coming to Sunday service at
Trinity Cathedral, says the Very Rev. Herman Browne. And like many priests across Monrovia, Browne
has been spreading the word about Ebola prevention through his sermons.
But Browne's message this week was personal. It came from his family's encounter with the virus.
For the past three Sundays, the reverend had been under a volunteer quarantine. This week he returned to
the pulpit and explained to his congregation what happened.
It all began when his wife, Trokon Browne, went to see a close friend. "The friend ... broke down, fell on
the foor and started to cry," Herman said. "Some illness had returned to her, and she was explaining it to
Trokon."
These were warning signs about Ebola. Trokon knew that. But her nurturing instincts kicked in. She
embraced and fed her friend anyway.
"I said that was a crazy thing to do," Herman said to his congregation, "because the lady was vomiting
and had diarrhea."
Two days later, the Brownes learned that the friend had Ebola.
One of the reasons Ebola continues to spread in Liberia is that people who know they've been exposed to the
virus often keep it a secret until they're desperately ill and highly contagious. They fear the embarrassment,
the stigma and the prospect of losing their income.
But the Brownes went public.
"I left work immediately, wrapped up everything, called the treasurer, the bishop, my colleagues," Herman
said. Then Trokon and Herman quarantined themselves for 21 days.
Even their children were not allowed to come upstairs until the couple knew they did not have Ebola.
Herman said he was hoping his congregation would learn a powerful lesson from his family's experience:
"Once you slip mentally, in terms of being aware and conscious, the smallest slip could cause you grave
harm," he said after the church service.
That's a message Liberians have heard constantly from the government. But many people in Monrovia
say they don't trust the government. They consider it corrupt. So the messages can have more of an impact
when they come from a spiritual leader.
Herman Browne began educating his congregation about Ebola long before it affected the family directly.
And it's clear the message has been received at the church. People sanitize their hands before entering
the cathedral. A priest delivers the Holy Communion wafers with tweezers. The church program tells the
congregation: "Do not hide sick persons."
But Trokon Browne says those are relatively easy steps. What's harder, she says, is to keep a safe distance
when a friend or family member is sick, perhaps with Ebola.
"I cannot see my husband sick and not touch him. Or I cannot see my child sick," she said. "Ebola might
as well kill us. So it's still very hard. Trust me, it's still very hard."
It's also hard for some people to accept the way Ebola appears to punish those who are trying to follow
Christian teachings, Herman Browne said. That's why some in his congregation consider the disease
demonic.
"Those who don't care and those who don't want to express their care are those who survive. Those who
actually care are those who die," he said. "At the heart of it, for some of us with religious eyes, is an anti-
care, anti-love message. And that can be very draining."
This time, the message is less harsh. Trokon wasn't infected. And her sick friend is one of the lucky ones
who survived Ebola.

Jon Hamilton/NPR
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MOLAJ IDENTIFIES WITH COMMUNITIES,
DONATE PREVENTIVE EVD ITEMS
Monrovia -
A
s the Ebola death
toll continues to
increase across
Liberia despite
interventions by international
partners, the Movement for
Labour Rights and Justice
(MOLAJ) has presented
hands washing buckets with
detergents to 32 communities
in six counties.
MOLAJ is working on a
campaign project to combat
Ebola at the workplace and the
community in collaboration
with the Ministry of Health &
Social Welfare and the Liberia
Labour Movement with an
initial support from the United
Steel Workers Humanity
Fund. The organization intents
to ensure workers and their
families are saved from the
Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) by
providing them with awareness
education and preventive
measures at the workplace and
the community, and supplied
with hands washing materials
(buckets, chlorine etc.) and are
taught how to mix and use the
hand washing materials. This
is an attempt to break the spread
of the virus and eventually get
rid of the EVD out of Liberia.
The donation of the items
which is put at a little over 12
thousand two hundred seventy
fve United States Dollars
affected Margibi, Bong, Grand
Bassa, Nimba, Cape Mount and
Bomi counties respectively.
The Project Advisor of
MOLAJ Mr. David D. Sackoh
told FrontPageAfrica that three
thousand nine hundred seventy
three persons amounting to fve
hundred ffty fve family heads,
including one hundred eighty
one public places benefted
in the six counties from the
gesture. Mr. Sackoh said his
entity also mapped targeted
workplaces and communities
where Ebola cases have been
registered by the government
and other international
organizations like the World
Health Organization (WHO) of
the United Nations, and together
with the respective trade
unions, selected volunteers
from local union leadership,
shop-stewards shop-foor
members and Community
Based Youth Organizations
in those areas to carry out
the project. Application for
training of the volunteers was
then sent to the Ministry of
Health & Social welfare where
Seventy Five (75) volunteers
received a weeklong Training
of Trainers (TOT) by experts
from the MH & SW. The
volunteers were deployed
in the areas and workplaces
where they live and each
team was given the task to
do Eight (8) communities
and reach out to at least 200
people in each community
with Ebola awareness and
preventive measure education
and supply of a few hands
washing buckets. The training
took place in the boardroom
of the United Workers Union
of Liberia. According to him,
the national labor center
underscored that the fght
against Ebola goes beyond
the normal and traditional
trade union services to union
members, but engaging in
vigorous Ebola awareness
education and preventive
measure campaign, and
making people to accept the
facts, with supply of hands
washing materials is inevitable
in the fght as the best way to
break the virus transmission
thereby getting rid of Ebola
in the country. The Liberia
Labor Congress expressed
condolence to doctors and
nurses who have died from
Ebola and other fallen workers
and call for support to the
awareness and preventive
measures campaign because
without such action to break
the virus connection chain, the
worlds best doctors will come
to Liberia yet more people will
be infected and more people
will die. Mr. Sackoh also
commended Firestone Natural
Rubber Plantation in Margibi
County, Sim Darby Rubber
and Oil Palm Plantations in
Bomi & Grand Cape Mount
Counties, and Arcelor Mittal
Iron Ore Mining Operations in
Nimba, Grand Bassa and Bong
Counties, China Union Iron
Ore Mining in Bong Mines,
Bong County, Putu Iron Ore
Mining (PIOM) Silvertal
International in Grand Gedeh
County for continuously
educating their employees and
community dwellers around
their operation sites about the
danger of the deadly Ebola
Virus.

LEYMAH GBOWEES FOUNDATION OFFERS
GRANT FOR EBOLA AWARENESS
Monrovia -
D
espite the havoc
the Ebola disease
has caused since
its outbreak in the
country in March, efforts have
been exerted by both local as well
as international organizations to
contain the deadly virus from
spreading further. One of those
organizations that has come in to
help the government in its fght
against this deadly Ebola virus
is the Gbowee Peace Foundation
Africa of Nobel Laureate
Leymah Gbowee.
On Friday the foundation
offered a grant in the amount of
US$45,000 to 86 communities
based organizations, including
radio stations in Montserrado
County and that of the rural
parts of the country. This latest
program called the Gbowee
Peace Foundation Africa Ebola
outreach and awareness initiative
held under the theme: Small
Grant support to local and rural
community based organization
and media institutions is
intended for these communities
based organizations to go out
and educate dwellers of how
to prevent themselves against
the deadly virus. Before the
presentation of the grants at a
program held at Musus Spot
in Congo Town on last Friday,
an hour-long training was held
for the benefciaries. They
were educated on some of the
key messages. These messages
will in turn be disseminated to
various communities around the
country. Madam Gloria Davies
Wayne facilitator of the Gbowee
Peace Foundation Africa who
provided the lectures, told the
benefciaries of the grant that
Ebola was real and one could
survive from it. She said early
symptoms of Ebola are fever and
headache followed by vomiting
and diarrhea. She stated that one
of the most important aspects in
the fght against the Ebola virus
was contact tracing and that the
purpose of that was to identify
any person who may have come
in contact with someone who
tested positive or died as a result
of the disease. Ebola is real.
We can work together to help
it from further spread, said
Madam Wayne, whose lecture
ended with applause from the
communities based organizations
with members in the hall where
the program was being held.
The Executive Director of the
Gbowee Peace Foundation
Africa W. E. Saydee Tarr told
FrontPageAfrica shortly after
the grant was offered that Nobel
Laureate Gbowee was saddened
of the Ebola outbreak in the
country and this was why she had
decided to lobby the Diaspora
with other partners for funding
to help take care of the Ebola
situation in the country. She also
stated that GPFA in the course of
the Ebola outbreak in the country
had donated up to 6,000 pieces of
medical supplies to the National
Task Force on Ebola. She said
while plans are underway by the
foundation to help other health
centers across the country deal
other illnesses order than Ebola.
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EBOLA
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NATIONAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION
FINAL LIST OF CANDIDATES
2014 SPECIAL SENATORIAL ELECTION
20 - October - 2014
No Last Name First Name Middle Name Gender Party
1 Allison Frances Johnson Morris F ANC
2 Anderson Sr. Dwolu Murvee M MPC
3 Dakinah Gbatokai F.M. M IND
4 Jones Michael Abou M IND
5 Kamara Duannah A. M CDC
6 Lansanah Lahai Gbabye M NPP
7 Nyei Abraham Abraham M LTP
8 Saytumah Morris Gato M UP
9 Tolbert Neh Dukuly F IND
10 Washington Hajah Sheri F LP
BOMI
20 - October - 2014
1 Harris Sumoward Edwin M LP
2 Lamin Gertrude Tene F UP
3 McGill Nathaniel Farlo M CDC
4 Momo Jr. J.S.B. Theodore M APD
5 Naatehn Sr. Daniel Flomo M ANC
6 Tokpa Alaric K. M NDC
7 Zinnah Fatuma Mamie F PUP
GBARPOLU
20 - October - 2014
1 Armstrong Elizabeth G.M. F IND
2 Darblo Sr. Matthew V.Z. M NDC
3 Kandakai Henrietta Victoria F GDPL
4 Kromah Fodee M CDC
5 Massalay Abel Momodu M NPP
6 Momo James Kormah M ULD
7 Segbo Jesse Zinnah M LP
8 Sherman Varney Gbotonambi M UP
9 Taylor Simeon Boima M ANC
10 Ware Sr. Mohammed Abraham M LTP
11 Watson Victor Varney M PUP
GRAND CAPE MOUNT
20 - October - 2014
1 Badio Samuel E.S. M IND
2 Bartu Amos Yonkon M NDC
3 Chie Albert Tugbe M IND
4 Kpanie II Joseph N. M ANC
5 Slopadoe I Gbenimah Balu M APD
6 Sneh Rosalind Segbe Tonne F UP
7 Weah Patrice Pokar M MPC
GRAND KRU
20 - October - 2014
1 Bedell Jr. Gabriel Gahie M IND
2 Bestman Pennoh Wreh M LTP
3 Gbollie Saah Richard M NPP
4 Jah Clarice Alpha F LP
5 Josiah John Fayah M NDC
6 Kaine Roland C. M ULD
7 LLoyd Edna Araminta F UP
8 Nyumah J. Stanley M ANC
9 Sharpe William Garway M GDPL
10 Slocum William R. M APD
11 Sonii Ansu Dao M CDC
12 Tengbeh B. Abraham F. M MPC
13 Tornonlah Jim Womba M PUP
MARGIBI
20 - October - 2014
1 Blama Sr. Nathaniel T. M LINU
2 Cuffy-Brown Celia F IND
3 Fahnbulleh Miatta Aries F IND
4 Freeman-Sumo J. Musu F IND
5 Kouyateh Sheikh Al Moustapha M LTP
6 Neyor Christopher Zeohn M IND
7 Sanvee Benjamin Robert M LP
8 Sirleaf Robert Alvin M IND
9 Supuwood James Laveli M PUP
10 Sylla Ali M UP
11 Weah George Manneh M CDC
MONTSERRADO
20 - October - 2014
1 Beyan Gladys G.Y. F GDPL
2 Carbah Francis Mazuwu M UP
3 Jallah Joseph Kpator M APD
4 Kortimai Galakpai Woizee M CDC
5 Kparkillen Stanley S. M ANC
6 Kromah Alhaji G.V. M IND
7 Kupee Sumo G. M PUP
8 Sannoh Fomba Varlee M IND
9 Zargo Stephen J. H. M LP
LOFA
20 - October - 2014
1 Dunbar Numehn Owen M IND
2 Flomo Augustus Jonathan M CDC
3 Gbarbea Jr. James Yarkpawolo M ANC
4 Gbaryan Jefferson M LTP
5 Howard-Taylor Jewel C. F NPP
6 Jackson Ranney Banama M UP
7 Juah Edwin Tokpa M NDC
8 Kerkula Sr. Martin Fahnlon M GDPL
9 Kpangbai Mator M. F. M MPC
10 Sagbeh Benedict Kpakama M VCP
11 Saybay James Karpee M LINU
12 Siakor Franklin Obed M LP
13 Tokpa Henrique Flomo M IND
BONG
20 - October - 2014
1 Barsi-Giah Siokin Civicus M ANC
2 Findley Gbehzohngar Milton M IND
3 Kaipay Jonathan Lambort M LP
4 Murray Solomon James M CDC
5 Smith Gabriel B M IND
GRAND BASSA
20 - October - 2014
1 Allison Frances Johnson Morris F ANC
2 Anderson Sr. Dwolu Murvee M MPC
3 Dakinah Gbatokai F.M. M IND
4 Jones Michael Abou M IND
5 Kamara Duannah A. M CDC
6 Lansanah Lahai Gbabye M NPP
7 Nyei Abraham Abraham M LTP
8 Saytumah Morris Gato M UP
9 Tolbert Neh Dukuly F IND
10 Washington Hajah Sheri F LP
BOMI
20 - October - 2014
1 Anderson II James N. M NPP
2 Ballout Jr. John A. M UP
3 Bedell Thomas G. M ANC
4 Brown J. Gbleh-bo M IND
5 Chambers Bhofal M CDC
6 Jackson Abraham Botimo M ULD
7 Kla-fleh Roosevelt S. M LP
8 M Roland Isaac Blalu PUP
MARYLAND
20 - October - 2014
1 Banney Jay Jonathan M PUP
2 Banwon D. Onesimus M LP
3 Burgess Sr. J. Josephus M ANC
4 Geedeh Jerry Vogar M APD
5 Paye Francis Saturday M NDC
6 Reeves Teplah P. F CDC
7 Schaack Rosana Glaypohkpay D.H. F MPC
8 Smith Wellington Geevon M UP
9 Toe Emmanuel S. M ULD
10 Tomah Minnie Travers F IND
11 Tompoe - Ziankahn Bob M VCP
12 Wilson Victor Missiongar M NPP
RIVERCESS
20 - October - 2014
1 Jarbah Klahn-Gboloh M MPC
2 Mueller Michael Geegbae M IND
3 Nyenpan Mobutu Vlah M APD
4 Quiah Oscar Jaryee M IND
5 Teahjay Juojulue Milton M UP
6 Tobii Richmond Nagbe M CDC
7 Wleh Sr. Delcontee Juah M NPP
SINOE
20 - October - 2014
1 Gbeisay Sr. Yamie QuiQui M CDC
2 Gongloe-Weh Edith Lianue F LP
3 Johnson Prince Yormie M IND
4 Korto Joseph D. Z. M NDC
5 Teah John Leagar M NPP
6 Weato Peter Y. B. M ANC
NIMBA
20 - October - 2014
1 Bardyl Charles Korkor M PUP
2 Cooper Michael A. M LTP
3 Davis Sr. G. Saygbegee M NPP
4 Johnson Daniel G. M ANC
5 Saydee Geetor Sarku M ULD
6 Saytue Sr. Andrew Nyenpan M IND
7 Sogbie Jonathan Boycharles M APD
8 Wesseh Conmany B. M UP
9 Yeaher Alexander P.B. M CDC
RIVER GEE
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IN BRIEF
OSCAR PISTORIUS
TO FINALLY LEARN
HIS SENTENCE
STELLENBOSCH, South
Africa (AP)
O
scar Pistorius will
fnally learn his fate
Tuesday when a
judge is expected to
announce the Olympic runner's
sentence for killing girlfriend
Reeva Steenkamp.
Pistorius could be sentenced to
years in prison, or he could be
given a suspended sentence and
a fne and receive no jail time
for shooting Steenkamp multiple
times through a toilet cubicle
door in his home.
More than seven months after
Pistorius' trial started, Judge
Thokozile Masipa will announce
what punishment she has decided
on after fnding him guilty of
culpable homicide, which is
comparable to manslaughter, but
acquitting him of murder.
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WORLD NEWS
NBC'S SNYDERMAN FACES
CREDIBILITY ISSUES
FEDERAL POLICE
TAKE CONTROL OF 13
TOWNS IN MEXICO
NEW YORK (AP)
T
he quarantine against
possible Ebola
exposure ends this
week for Dr. Nancy
Snyderman, but the troubles
clearly aren't over for NBC
News' chief medical editor.
An admitted lapse in the
quarantine, combined
with a curiously imprecise
explanation, unleashed a furious
response. NBC must now
decide whether Snyderman's
credibility is too damaged for
her to continue reporting on
Ebola or other medical issues
and, if so, for how long. The
network would not comment.
MEXICO CITY (AP)
T
he Mexican
government announced
rewards Monday of
1.5 million pesos
($111,000) for information on
43 students from a rural teachers'
college who have been missing
since Sept. 26.
The government ran full-page
ads in Mexican newspapers with
pictures of the 43 young men.
The government also offered 1.5
million pesos for information on
those who had abducted or killed
the students.
The government says it still does
not know what happened to the
students of the radical teachers'
college, after they were rounded
up by local police and allegedly
handed over to gunmen from a
drug cartel.
U.N. QUESTIONS ISRAEL
ON PALESTINIANS' RIGHTS
GENEVA (Reuters) -
U
.N. experts
questioned Israeli
offcials on Monday
over alleged rights
abuses ranging from the
demolition of Palestinian houses
to mistreatment of detainees and
limited Palestinian access to
water.
Israel's delegation defended its
record before the United Nations
Human Rights Committee, which
examined respect for civil and
political rights in Israel, the Gaza
Strip and the West Bank. Each
U.N. member state is reviewed
every four years.
NIGERIA DECLARED EBOLA-FREE,
HOLDS LESSONS FOR OTHERS
ABUJA/LAGOS (Reuters) -
N
igeria was declared
free of the deadly
Ebola virus on
Monday after a
determined doctor and thousands
of offcials and volunteers helped
end an outbreak still ravaging
other parts of West Africa and
threatening the United States
and Spain.
Caught unawares when a
diplomat arrived with the
disease from Liberia, authorities
were alerted by Doctor Ameyo
Adadevoh, who kept him in
her hospital despite protests
from him and his government,
and later herself died from the
disease.
They then set about trying to
contain it in an overcrowded
city of 21 million where it could
easily have turned a doomsday
scenario if about 300 people who
had been in direct or indirect
contact with him not been traced
and isolated.
"This is a spectacular success
story," Rui Gama Vaz from the
World Health Organization
(WHO) told a news conference
in the capital Abuja, where
offcials broke into applause
when he announced that Nigeria
had shaken off the disease.
"It shows that Ebola can be
contained, but we must be clear
that we have only won a battle,
the war will only end when West
Africa is also declared free of
Ebola."
This year's outbreak of the
highly infectious haemorrhagic
fever thought to have originated
in forest bats is the worst on
record.
It has killed 4,546 people
across the three most-affected
countries, Liberia, Guinea and
Sierra Leone and travellers have
from the region have infected
two people in Texas and one in
Madrid.
It was imported to Nigeria when
Liberian-American diplomat
Patrick Sawyer collapsed at the
main international airport in
Lagos on July 20.
Airport staff were unprepared
and the government had not set
up any hospital isolation unit,
so he was able to infect several
people, including health workers
in the hospital where he was
taken, some of whom had to
restrain him to keep him there.
Lagos, the commercial hub of
Africa's most populous nation,
largest economy and leading
energy producer, would have
been an ideal springboard for
Ebola to spread across the
country.
"Nigeria was not really prepared
for the outbreak, but the swift
response from the federal
government, state governments
(and) international organizations
... was essential," said Samuel
Matoka, Ebola operations
manager in Nigeria for the
International Federation of
Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies (IFRC).
The U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, which
was involved in managing the
outbreak, said offcials and
volunteers reached more than
26,000 households of people
living around the contacts of the
Ebola patients.
"STAND YOUR GROUND"
Adadevoh, doctor on call at
the First Consultants hospital
in Lagos where Sawyer was
brought, prevented the dying
man from spreading it further,
Benjamin Ohiaeri, a doctor there
who survived the disease, told
Reuters.
Ebola is much more contagious
once symptoms become severe.
"We agreed that the thing to do
was not to let him out of the
hospital," Ohiaeri said, even
after he became aggressive and
demanded to be set free.
"If we had let him out, within 24
hours of being here, he would
have contacted and infected a lot
more people."
Sawyer was reported only to
have malaria, Ohiaeri said.
But Adadevoh noticed he had
bloodshot eyes and was passing
blood in his urine -- telltale signs
of hemorrhagic fever. She left
instructions by his bed that under
no circumstances should anyone
let him leave.
At one point, Sawyer ripped off
his intravenous tube and a nurse
had to put it back, according to a
source close to the hospital staff.
She later got infected and died.
Sawyer then became aggressive
and had to be physically
restrained.
Ohiaeri said a Liberian
government offcial on the phone
had even threatened negative
consequences if they did not
release Sawyer, saying that
holding him was tantamount to
kidnapping.
"The lesson there is: stand your
ground," he said.
Once the hospital contacted the
ministries of health in the state of
Lagos and the federal ministry in
Abuja, authorities quickly set up
and equipped an isolation unit.
Lagos state governor Babatunde
Fashola rushed back from a
pilgrimage to Mecca to handle
the crisis, Ohiaeri said.
Nigeria used an existing health
surveillance system for Polio
for contact tracing, so was able
to trace and isolate Sawyer's
primary and secondary contacts
quickly. Mobile technology
meant live updates could be
made to the contact list.
"Everyone played their part.
We're so proud," Ohiaeri said.
IFRC's Matoka said contact
tracing of suspected cases was
key to preventing the disease
from spreading into communities
where it would have been harder
to control.
Israel says that its obligations
under international covenants do
not extend to the two Palestinian
territories but the U.N. panel and
International Court of Justice
disagree.
Committee member Cornelis
Flinterman noted that the
committee was meeting soon
after the latest Gaza confict,
when Israeli forces killed about
2,000 Palestinians, including 500
children, and displaced hundreds
of thousands in July and August.
Israeli ambassador Eviator
Manor said the Jewish state was
forced to launch air strikes after
Hamas militants fred 300 rockets
and kidnapped three Israeli
teenagers, later found dead.
"PUNITIVE HOUSE
DEMOLITIONS"
Yuji Iwasawa, an panel expert
from Japan, said the resumption
of a policy of punitive demolition
of houses was a concern.
"We have reports of Palestinians
and Bedouins compelled to
give consent to demolition in a
coercive environment as a result
of (Jewish) settlers' harassment
and violence."
"We have information that
Palestinians have been evicted
from their agricultural land
which impacts on their livelihood
and access to food," he said.
Colonel Noam Neuman, head
of the Israeli army' international
law department, said in response
that since 2013 there had been
an increasing number of militant
actions in Israel and the West
Bank.
"Israel's policy of using house
demolition for the purpose of
deterrence is implemented only
in exceptional circumstances,"
he said.
The U.N. panel also questioned
the seizure of West Bank land
by the Israeli army and called for
Palestinians in detention to be
given prompt access to a lawyer
and independent medical exam
before being brought before a
judge.
"The policy of illegal annexation
of Palestinian land in the West
Bank and inaccessibility to
natural resources constitute a
clear violation," said Ahmad
Amin Fathalla, an Egyptian
expert.
Emi Palmor, director-general
of Israel's justice ministry, said
that Israel had made progress
in upholding human rights but
"more needs to be done".
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MOURINHO REVEALS WHY
HE ALLOWED JUAN MATA TO
JOIN MANCHESTER UNITED
LIVERPOOL PLOT AYEW BID
AS BALOTELLI CONTINUES TO
FRUSTRATE BRENDAN RODGERS
MOURINHO FURIOUS
WITH SPAIN AFTER
COSTA BREAKS DOWN
T
he Spain midfelder
moved to Old
Trafford in January
for 37.1m despite
being namedChelsea's player
of the year the two previous
seasons.
This season he has played six
times for Louis van Gaal's side,
scoring twice.
But the Portuguese insists Mata
was not 'fundamental' to his
plans so the sale made sense.
He said: With these assets
or players who are not
fundamental for me, its where
you meaning, my club have
to do the best possible job for
me.
Im not the sort of manager
that says no, not to Man
Utd. Sell Mata to Juventus or
Barcelona but not Man Utd
Jose Mourinho
T
he 24-year-old is
coming to the end
of his contract with
the Ligue 1 club
meaning Brendan Rodgers
would be able to snap up
the Ghanaian star on a free
transfer at the end of the
season.
Rodgers is becoming
increasingly frustrated with
miss-fring Mario Balotelli,
who is yet to register a
Premier League goal, and
could turn to Ayew in the
summer or try and bring him
to Anfeld for a cut-price fee
in January.
London (AFP) -
J
ose Mourinho has
criticised the treatment
of some of his Chelsea
players on international
duty after the manager
revealed Diego Costa will
miss Tuesday's Champions
League clash with Maribor.
Mourinho confrmed Costa
who also missed the 2-1
weekend victory at Crystal
Palace - aggravated an existing
hamstring problem during the
last international break with
Spain when he faced Slovakia
and Luxembourg in the space
of four days.

THE PERFECT PARTNER

A
nd the Belgium
striker reckons
his own season
will now kick off
properly with the England
youngster back in action for
Everton.
Barkley made his frst
appearance of the season after
overcoming a knee ligament
injury picked up in pre-season.
He may not have got on the
scoresheet, but he was the
inspiration as the Toffees beat
Aston Villacomfortably thanks
to goals from Phil Jagielka,
Lukaku and Seamus Coleman.
The England midfelder looked
like he had never been away in
the frst half with some moves
that had the Villa defence all
over the place and Blues fans
out of their seats.
He teed up Lukaku for the
second after the break and
the Belgium striker, who has
struggled with just two goals
before Saturday since his 28m
move from Chelsea, believes
Barkley is the key to fnding
his own form.
The forward said: He is like
a friend and brother to me off
the pitch and I am very happy
that he is back on it because
he brings something that the
whole team needs.
He has that rawness, that skill,
that power. He is a perfect
partner for me to play up front
with and I am very happy that
he is back.
There are loads of players
who can help me, but he has
something that none of us
have. I cant explain it. He is
the best player in our team.
And his stardom wont stop
with Everton according to
Lukaku, who believes the
attacking midfelder can
take over from Rooney with
England.
The Manchester United striker
is likely to end his international
career as this countrys highest
ever scorer, but his successor
as talisman is already waiting
in the wings.
Roy Hodgsons assistant Ray
Lewington was at Goodison
Park to witness Barkleys
return and he could only have
been impressed by this display
which lasted just over an hour.
Lukaku added: He will be
somebody that the England
team will rely on. At the
moment, they rely on Wayne
Rooney but I think that will be
Ross in the future.
The Everton striker believes
that Barkley can force England
boss Hodgson to play him in a
No.10 role ahead of the likes of
Ross Barkley can replace Wayne Rooney as England's star, says Everton's Romelu Lukaku
Liverpool duo Raheem Sterling
and Adam Lallana.
He added: There are a lot
of players who want to play
No.10 for England and when
he is 100 per cent ft I think he
is the one who can play there.
If Rooney is playing up front
because he is the captain, then
I think Ross will be Englands
No.10 defnitely.
Everton boss Roberto Martinez
was more cautious about his
20-year-old star in the making.
And he hinted ahead of next
months Euro 2016 qualifer
against Slovenia and friendly
with Scotland, Hodgson should
not necessarily hand him an
instant international return.
The Spaniard said: Of course
he will want him in the next
England squad, but Ross still
cant play 90 minutes and we
will have to see how long it
takes for him to do that.
We have six games in three
weeks so we need to give what
the player needs. Hes been out
for 14 weeks so we need to be
careful.
But he admits that Hodgson and
Lewington can get something
different from Barkley that no
other player can provide.
He added: He is a unique
player. My feeling with Ross
is you are not going to fnd
another like for like the way
he is in that role is unique.
You dont see another player
like him in any other team
because you dont get that
balance of physicality and
technical ability, so he is
diamond.
But we need to give him
time to develop and we need
to give him knowledge. And
understanding and allow him
room to grow and allow him to
fulfl his potential.
Everton came into the game
with just one Premier League
win under their belt and none at
home, but they were in front in
the 18th minute when Jagielka
headed home Leighton Baines
cross.
Barkley then slid the ball to
Lukaku three minutes after
the restart with the Belgium
strikers shot squirming under
Villa keeper Brad Guzan.
The win was confrmed with
Baines providing a second
assist, this time for fellow full-
back Coleman who returned
from injury to turn in the low
cross with 14 minutes to go.
Villa rarely threatened Everton
goalkeeper Tim Howard and
boss Paul Lambert will be
glad to see the back of a run of
four defeats against Arsenal,
Chelsea, Manchester City and
the Toffees.
The Villa boss said: The start
has been really good but we
have had a run of games where
it has been gruelling. But that
is the frst time we didnt play
well enough to win a football
game.
The run of games has been
really hard and there are no
easy games in the Premier
League. But we have a good
side and if we play at the level
we have been before we will
win more than we lose.
ENRIQUE SHRUGS OFF MESSI
SUB SNUB CONTROVERSY
L
uis Enrique refused
to be drawn into an
argument over Lionel
Messi 's apparent
refusal to be substituted
inBarcelona 's victory over Eibar.
Messi scored Barca's third goal
in the 3-0 win at Camp Nou on
Saturday and head coach Luis
Enrique appeared to signal to the
striker his intention to bring him
off.
However, the Argentina
international - who needs just
two goals to become the all-time
leading goalscorer in La Liga -
seemed to ignore those calls and
Neymar was withdrawn instead.
Luis Enrique was reluctant to
discuss the issue ahead of Barca's
Champions League clash with
Ajax on Tuesday and insisted it
was normal to consult a player
before making a decision over a
possible change.
"I don't want to really get into
this kind of discussion," he said.
"We have to worry about so
many different things when we
talk about substitutions, who's
on a yellow card, who's injured.
"Sometimes I make mistakes. I
don't want to get into the kind
of argument about how you've
interpreted this substitution.
"Before we make substitutions
we like to ask the players how
they're feeling, whether they've
take a knock, whether they're
in trouble, we make decisions
depending on what they tell us.
"Particularly when it's the
last change as it's the last one
you've got. I think people have
interpreted things the way they
wanted to about what happened
the other day.
"But for me it's all about the
confdence I have in the players,
what I see on the pitch and what
the players have told me is
happening. I won't change that,
that's how I will act during my
tenure as Barca coach."
Having lost their last Champions
League match at Paris Saint-
Germain, Barca need to get
their Group F campaign back
on track against the Eredivisie
champions.
Luis Enrique is keen for his men
not to take the Dutch side lightly
and pointed to Barca's 2-1 loss
to Ajax in Amsterdam in last
season's group stage as proof of
their quality.
"We're going to have to play
a very good game," he added.
"We don't want Ajax to let their
virtues to fourish and they have
many virtues.
"They are a side that like to
take risks, bring the ball out
of defence; they play the ball
well and put opposition under
pressure.
"We saw last year they can cause
diffculties for Barca, in fact they
did beat Barca. So it's a game
where we need to be at our best."
The former midfelder also
confrmed Sergio Busquets will
undergo tests prior to Tuesday's
game to determine if he is ft
enough to start.
"We will conduct medical tests
on Busquets tomorrow [Tuesday]
morning to see if he will be able
to play. We are used to playing
every three or four days, and the
most important match for us at
the moment is one against Ajax,
not the Clasico."

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F
ifa now believes its code of ethics was broken when
the Brazilian Football Federation (CBF) gave away
commemorative watches at the World Cup.
The independent ethics committee was informed of a
potential breach in June that a specially-made Swiss Parmigiani
watches, valued at US25,000, were distributed by one of the
CBF's own sponsors to various people, including executive
committee members (ECMs).
The Sunday Times, which has broken several stories relating to
alleged corrupt practices within Fifa, says each ECM received a
watch on arrival at the fve-star Grand Hyatt hotel in Sao Paulo.
Fifa president Sepp Blatter and Uefa president Michel Platini
argued in September there was no breach of the ethics code.
"What is wrong? Wrong maybe that, according to court of ethics
perhaps, the value? But what is the value?" Blatter asked.
The new ethics rules, which were adopted in 2012, banned
executives receiving gifts of more than "symbolic or trivial
value".
ECM Jim Boyce of United Kingdom, who frst denied receiving
a watch, confrmed that the watches were placed at the bottom
of their gift bags.
"I got the shock of my life when I found that damned watch,"
said Boyce as Germanys Theo Zwanziger made similar claims.
The duo have since returned the watches.
Of the ECMs who received the generous gift, three reported
them to Fifa: Amercias Sunil Gulati, Moya Dodd of Australia
and Jordan's Prince Ali bin al-Hussein.
In doing so they caused yet more embarrassment for Fifa, which
had to cancel a plan to give each ECM two further watches
worth up to US$42,000 at the end of the tournament.
Fifa's offcial timekeeper Hublot formally provided watches as
part of its sponsorship contract.
However, ethics committee chairman Michael Garcia said it
would not permit them to be given out under its compliance
rules.
The Parmigiani watches were given to 28 ECMs, 32 FAs chiefs
whose countries took part in the World Cup and fve other
members of the South American associations and FAs presidents
from around the world.
Did Liberia beneft?
Liberia were represented at the World Cup by LFA president
Musa Bility and vice presidents Musa Shannon and Cassell
Kuoh.
But the trio couldnt respond to a FrontPageAfrica inquiry on
whether they received the Parmigiani watches and possible date
of return.
When contacted, LFA secretary-general Alphonso Armah said:
I am not aware of it.
But speaking on condition of anonymity, a Liberian football
offcial said Liberia received a watch valued at US$5,000 as
the expensive watches were given to people of certain category.
Garcia had ordered all offcials to return the watches by October
26 or face disciplinary proceedings.
In a statement the ethics committee said those receiving gifts
"should have checked they were appropriate and should have
either returned or reported it. Fifa's code of ethics plainly
prohibits such gifts.
Blatter and Platini, who said he would have donated the value of
his watch to charity, have obeyed Garcias order.
Some media reports have put the CBFs watches at more than
US$1.6 million.
Fifa orders Brazils US$25,000 watches to be returned; have Liberia obeyed?
Sepp Blatter Musa Bility Parmigiani Watch Michel Platini
Danesius Marteh, danesius.marteh@frontpageafricaonline.com

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