February 15, 2016
On June 29, 2012, the violent
wing of The Liberia National Police (LNP) referred to as “Emergency Response
Unit” (ERU) brutalized me in the city of Pleebo and left me in a pull of blood.
According to them (police), they did so on the order of the Government. Why? Because,
as a social justice advocate, I was fighting for the poor and other downtrodden
people instead of working for the Government.
After the brute force applied
against me, I was admitted at the J. J. Dossen Hospital. I stayed there for
four days in Harper City. Then I was referred to The J. F. K. Memorial Hospital
in Monrovia on July 4th, 2012. I remained at JFK for three
additional days receiving medical treatment.
After I was discharged from
the hospital, I took on the Liberian government. Its police had brutalized me.
And it said it did so on the Government’s order. The matter reached The
Judicial Inquiry Commission of the Supreme Court where it still rests.
Sad indeed, no one denounced
the vicious and brute force used against me as a peaceful and unarmed social
justice advocate.
Everybody remained mute. Why?
Apparently, because I am not a family member of theirs, friend and/or a
comrade.
Even though my fight for
social justice is not yet over, I continue on all by myself.
That brings us to the Atty. Allison
and Harry Greaves situation of untimely death. I believe had everyone joined me
to alarm when I was brutalized, we would have saved the Allison and Greaves
family the pain and agony.
Again, today is another day.
Nathaniel Toe, assistant
(development) superintendent of Maryland County brags that President Sirleaf
gave him power to incriminate anyone in Maryland as perceived enemy of her
government. When Toe said this, he didn’t bite his tongue.
Now Toe’s claim is coming to
past.
Each time he carries out broad
daylight corruption in Maryland, nothing comes out of it.
I remember, when I first
arrived from the United States to begin my volunteer work, I personally saw Toe
openly in the public insulting the former Minister of Internal Affairs (MIA)
Hon. Ambulai Johnson and former superintendent of Maryland County, Hon. Sieteba
Neufville.
This man openly insulted these
two top government officials without fear of being held for disrespect and
insubordination. All effort to discourage him from insulting the people the way
he did, was up to no avail. In fact, he blew off the hook and opened a never-to-be-forgotten
scene. People assembled and watched him humiliate these two top Government
officials.
The man has been in the
business of insulting Government officials in the public. And nothing has been done
to discourage him.
At one point, Toe belittled former senator John A. Ballout
in the public in Pleebo. And nothing was done about it. He then did the same
thing to Rep. Bhofal Chambers as well as Sen. Morias. In all of these cases,
nothing has been done to this man who
goes around insulting people at will and robbing the county of its funds.
Indicatively, it is true when
he says, he has President Sirleaf behind him as a support base to do all he
wishes against whoever is a perceived enemy of the Sirleaf government.
So do you see why I fear for
my life?
This man has told me numerous
times, at least, as a scare tactic, that President Sirleaf approves and
supports his evil deeds in Maryland County.
Recently, he telephoned the
Executive Mansion and informed it that I have “badmouthed” Vice President
Boakai and am “recruiting” for Alex B. Cummings. He (Toe) considers this as an
“antigovernment” activity.
To add more insult to the
injury, the current superintendent, Madam Betsy Kuoh-Toe, has endorsed all Toe’s
lies, hypocrisies, insults and lack of innocence.
How do I know this? Recently,
Toe was insulted by a man working in his office. He (Toe) and Supt. Kuoh-Toe,
suspended the man for three months, placed a hold his salary that long and
worse of all, they banned the man from entering the Government building for
three months. To add insult to the injury, they seized the young man’s personal
belongings in his office. To date, no accounting for his personal belongings
that were removed from his office. Hitler Germany, right? It seems like it!
By such act by the
Superintendent’s office, I can assure every Marylander, very soon, we may have
incidents where citizens and residents alike will be lied on, taken to prison
and some may end up mysteriously dead and found somewhere in no man’s land. And
nothing will come out of it!
Therefore, I am here to
declare that self-defense is a right not a privilege.
Under the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights of the United Nations Charter, it is highly respected. And
intend to pursue it to the letter.
Anyone who comes at me in a
dangerous way and my life is threatened as it is the case with Madam Kuoh-Toe
and Nathaniel Toe, I reserve all rights to reply in equal manner. For action
and reaction are equal but opposite!
T. Gbuo-Mle Bedell
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