(MFWA/IFEX) – On 4 July 2004, a group of police officers acting on the orders of Police Director Chris Massaquoi beat Bernard Warity, deputy information minister for administration in the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) headed by Charles Gyude Bryant. Warity sustained bruises on his body and is being treated at the St. Joseph […]
(MFWA/IFEX) – On 4 July 2004, a group of police officers acting on the orders of Police Director Chris Massaquoi beat Bernard Warity, deputy information minister for administration in the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) headed by Charles Gyude Bryant.
Warity sustained bruises on his body and is being treated at the St. Joseph Catholic Hospital in the capital, Monrovia.
Speaking to MFWA-Liberia from his hospital bed, Warity explained that the incident occurred at 6:00 p.m. (local time), when he was returning from watching a World Cup qualifying soccer match between Liberia and Togo. The police director was also returning from the match when he allegedly ran into Warity’s car with his jeep. According to Warity, Massaquoi got out of his vehicle and ordered his bodyguards to drag and flog him. He claimed that the police director refused to recognise him despite his vehement appeals and desperate attempts to identify himself as a government official.