MONROVIA: Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has termed as foolish and a diabolical lie, a recent news article reported against her by the Hot Pepper newspaper bordering on reports of mysterious disappearance of 16 billion Liberian Dollars.
By Nyantee G. Togba_nyanteetogba@gmail.com
Recently, the Hot Pepper newspaper in its publication quoted the former Liberian Leader as saying she could not remember anything, because she was already 80 years old.
Former President Johnson Sirleaf told an OK FM interview on Monday, October 29,2018 that her mind is well functioning and at such she could not utter such assertion to any investigators on the 16 billion Liberian Dollars.
The Ex-Liberian leader further termed the headline reported by the local daily as sensational and a propaganda that must not be taken seriously.
“Anybody who said that need to go and look at themselves. Do I look like some to say am 80 years I can’t remember, come on! You got a foolish paper here that is always doing sensational things and those sensational things are not true so, we accustomed to that.
There is absolutely no fact to that, I am very strong, my mind is functioning well and so, that’s trick of propaganda and nobody should listen to that, she said”
She further disclosed during her recent interaction with the investigative team, that everything she did as President was documented and such the investigative team must revert to the Ministry of States for Presidential Affairs for any decision she made.
Meanwhile, Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has been inducted in the International Women’s Forum Hall of Fame.
The IWF’s Hall of Fame provides a global stage with which to honor and celebrate the leaders of nations, industry, enterprise, academia, the media, the arts and science.
Comprised of more than 6,800 diverse and accomplished women from 33 nations on six continents, the IWF builds better global leadership across careers, continents and cultures by connecting the world’s most extraordinary women of significant and diverse achievement.
On the issue of women political participation in Liberia and Africa, Madam Sirleaf said the rising female political activism in recent years is a global phenomenon.
Women are fighting to challenge the patriarchal political party structures designed to keep women as political outsiders.”
She furthered that the growing trend in female political participation across the globe is exciting but the challenges remain.
The lingering vestiges of the structural barriers which historically precluded women from offices unfortunately still exist.
