This is not one of my usual topics. I normally focus on
arts and culture but I just couldn’t resist sharing this piece of information
with you.
Ok, you got me, it wasn’t the physical cash that was
burned to ashes but goodness gracious, 4 million is a lot of dollars to be burned in the form of marijuana. Liberia’s
Drug Enforcement Agency destroyed nearly 300 kilograms of marijuana on Friday
evening in a suburb of Monrovia, the nation's capital.
According to
officials, the drugs were smuggled into the country by Perry Dolo, a member of
President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s motorcade staff. He used one of the government vehicles to transport
the marijuana from Sierra Leone. How
sad? Thank goodness, the president did the right thing by burning the drugs. Of course, she didn't physically burned it herself but it looks good on her leadership.
Perry Dolo was arrested shortly after crossing the
border. Liberia’s Information Minister, Lewis Brown, said the burning was to show that there will be no tolerance for drug-related crimes.
"You can be in the center of a convoy, but if you break the law, there will be no hiding place for you," he said. "That convoy will not hide you. We will arrest you, we will properly investigate you, and, we will prosecute you if found guilty. This crackdown will continue. It’s a nationwide crackdown."
Hope the government come around to doing the same when it comes to corruption. Of course, don’t burn the money found embezzled by government officials, please invest it in the development of the nation.
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