Report by Massa Kanneh_masskanneh4@gmail.com
The Mother of the late Odell Sherman and the Liberia National student Union are demanding the immediate arrest of Reverend Emmanuel Giddings for the alleged murder of their daughter.
The body of 21 years old Odell Sherman was found lying in a pool of blood in the compound of Rev. Emmanuel Giddings on May 20, 2019 in Margibi County.
Reverend Giddings has since been libeled by the Liberia National Police as a man of interest into the mysterious death of the 21 years old girl.
Madam Cynthia Sherman, who joined LINSU in a protest on Wednesday said since the demised of her daughter, no police or the gender ministry have contacted her for follow up.
More over the group claimed that the Reverend be arrested since Sotimon School principal and proprietor Rev. Solomon Joah Sr were jailed for beating on a female student.
They are demanding an independent autopsy to be conducted on the remains of her daughter, adding that she does not trust the Government of Liberia on autopsies.
Speaking to reporters Wednesday at the ST. Moses funeral home on Somalia Drive area, Mrs. Sherman accused the CDC government of marginalizing her and her family on the basis of connections.
According to Mrs. Sherman mother of the decease, the government of Liberia has denied the family pathologist brought into the country on the account of him not having license to perform such task after rising over seven thousand United States dollars.
The government has played with our human rights. They have decided to marginalize us because they feel that we don’t have money and contact, and that only Reverend Giddings has it; so from the day our daughter was murder, no suspect. They released Reverend Giddings and his son to their lawyers.
Right now as we speak, Reverend Giddings have security assigned to him. So there is no information concerning my daughter death.
Now they want to temper with the autopsy because that’s the last fact findings they want to do, and that’s how they temper with the investigation.
Why will the Government grant us the opportunity to bring in an independent pathologist for the autopsy, and then when they man got here, the government is saying he cannot do the work because the man does not have certificate to practice medicine in Liberia. They don’t want the man to carry on the work? The government of which we find ourselves, they are very wicked, they are evil people.
My daughter’s body was brought to St. Moses funeral parlor with my husband signature on it, anybody touch that body, the Liberian government will be in serious trouble.
Meanwhile, the Liberian National Union president Mohammed Gandi Kamara is calling for the immediate arrest of Rev. Emmanuel Giddings in order to prevent him from leaving the country.
Gandi said if the government refuses to arrest Rev. Giddings, he will be arrested by the student community.
We are calling for the arrest of Reverend Giddings why the case is ongoing. And besides that, if the government refuses to rrest him, we the members of LINSU, including other student groups will arrest that Reverend.
Beginning tonight, we are deploying all of our militants to keep watch and not to allow the reverend leave this Country.
Gandi told reporters, that authority of the Liberia Nation Police earlier informed the student body, and the family that government autopsies willed be conducted on the remains of the late Odell this Friday.
