The Unity Party (UP) Standard Bearer, Ambassador Joseph Nyumah Boakai, says his attention has been drawn to the wanton killing of the daughter of Liberia’s former Chief Justice and Senator of Maryland County, Cllr. Gloria Musu-Scott at her Brewerville residence last week.
The victim, Charloe Musu, a prospective graduate of Starz University, was stabbed to death on Thursday, February 23, 2023 multiple times on her body when strange men burst into the residence of Cllr. Musu-Scott. The assassins also wounded two other occupants, Gertrude Newton and Alice Johnson, during the attack on the residence of the former Chief Justice.
It is against this backdrop that Ambassador Boakai, one of the contenders to President George Weah, said he wants the perpetrators of Charloe Musu’s murder sent to court and prosecuted to face the full weight of the laws of the Republic of Liberia for taking the precious life of the Starz University student in cold blood.
Ambassador Boakai told a news conference, attended by local and international journalists at his Rehab Office in Paynesville, yesterday that the Unity Party, like all other political parties, as well as well-meaning citizens are saddened by the death of the innocent female youth, which has sent waves of fears to every corner of the nation-state.
“We are alarmed and horrified by the death of Charloe Musu and other similar murders perpetrated by people bent on killing innocent people in the country, who are yet to be prosecuted by government to account for their crimes committed against peaceful citizens in Liberia now and in time past,” decried the Unity Party standard bearer.
According to the Unity Party standard bearer, bracing acts of criminality and lawlessness, unfolding in the nation, ought to be curtailed at all costs by the CDC-led administration of President Weah, for it continues to paint a negative image of the country.
At the same time, Ambassador Boakai used the occasion to entreat Liberia’s international partners, ECOWAS, African Union, as well as heads of diplomatic missions in Monrovia, to take note of what he described as the “deteriorating insecurity” problem gradually engulfing the country.
On the issue of peace reigning in Liberia, Ambassador Boakai said Unity Party remains committed and focused in investing in the peace of the country which, he voiced, is under serious threat with lawlessness taking center stage in Liberia.
Not only that, but the Unity Party through its standard bearer condemned in the strongest possible terms the despicable, cowardly attack and an act of barbarity carried out by armed men on the former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and many other attacks on Liberians and residents who remain anonymous and suffer in silence, and whose stories “we do not often hear and whose investigations remain inconclusive”.
Ambassador Boakai further observed, “This act of violence on a member of our Judiciary and many others before now (who do not get the justice they deserve), is an attack on the very foundation of the rule of law and democratic society we are trying to build, following years of violent conflict. Our Constitution mandates and confers responsibility on our government to protect all of us without discrimination. Our government has failed in upholding said Constitutional mandate.”