Liberia: Prison Officer Wants Cocaine Suspects Held Outside Liberia, Hints Prison Break
[Liberian Investigator] MONROVIA - The senior officer who ran daily operations at Monrovia Central Prison says the police operation that pulled him off his post on Aug. 1 was staged in a way that could have set off a mass prison break at a facility holding about 1,800 inmates, including suspects in Liberia's multimillion-dollar drug case.
Monrovia Central Prison's senior officer, Jackson K. Kolako, claims that a recent police operation aimed at drug suspects could have sparked a mass prison break. Kolako, the deputy superintendent for operations, was detained for six days without explanation. He alleges that the police's actions, including the arrest of three of his officers, were planned to provoke resistance and potentially trigger a riot.
Kolako has appealed to President Boakai to transfer the drug suspects to a secure facility abroad, preferably Morocco, to prevent the case from undermining the government's anti-drug efforts. The Ministry of Justice maintains that the decision to remove Kolako was made by the Minister of Justice and Attorney General based on NSA information, and was not a personal or arbitrary decision.
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