President George Manneh Weah on Thursday, May 6, 2021 dispatched a special delegation of the Government of Liberia (GOL) to the Republic of Cote D’Ivoire to mitigate the situation involving several Liberians living in Cote D’Ivoire.
According to a Foreign Ministry release, Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, Sr., headed the delegation to Cote D’Ivoire. Members of the delegation are Cllr. F. Musa Dean, Minister of Justice; Gen. Daniel Ziakahn, Minister of National Defense; Atty. Samuel Dakena, Security Sector Reform Coordinator; Jefferson Karmoh, National Security Advisor; Edward Sharpe, Deputy NSA Director; Sylvester Pewee, Assistant Minister, Public Affairs, MFA; and Charles Johnson, EPS Team Leader.
The release quoted Minister Kemayah as saying that the situation is an attempt to cause chaos and undermine the democratic gains subsisting between the countries of the Mano River basin.
It can be recalled that the Ivorian army said it killed three armed men and captured another during Wednesday, April 21, 2021 pre-dawn attack on the N’dotre base, with security sources adding that a Liberian passport and driver’s license were found on two of the dead assailants.