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My life is in danger. Individuals introducing themselves to be security officers are in hunt of me. They continue to make threats of death, arrest and torture via mobile communications. And physically, they walked into the premises of the General Auditing Commission (GAC) to arrest me and actualize their threats made. Without any warrant, they attempted arresting me to take me away, while I was at work on Saturday, May 22, 2010 in the interest of the Government and people of this country.  

To be more specific, at 5:46 p.m., May 21, 2010, I received a call from a man who introduced himself as an operative of National Security Agency (NSA) and informed me that he wanted me to report myself to NSA office and that if I failed to report myself as he requested, I would be dragged and flogged as instructed by the President's son, Fomba Sirleaf. He told me on the phone that he was authorized to met out those actions against me because, according to him, I made a statement against the mother of their boss, Fomba Sirleaf, when I said on record that the Executive Mansion and the  Minister of Finance are behind the "sexual harassment" allegation made by one Ruth Yeaher against the AG intended to defame the AG and derail the staff’s mental composure to produce more audit reports for the realization of the fight against the systematic corruption deeply entrenched in our country.

Distinguished Members of the Fourth Estate, welcome to this important press briefing intended to provide clarity and insight on what appears to be sustained volleys of antagonism against the General Auditing Commission (GAC) by the Government and its auditees.

There is no need to be superfluous about these attacks; and since there will be time for questions and answers, let me say that AG Morlu and the GAC have endured too many aggressions in the last 3 years from people and groups who are clearly allergic to transparency and accountability. Each time there is an audit, Government officials take the airways of radio stations and center-spreads of newspaper to attack the Auditor General, calling him “incompetent”, “rebel”, “witch hunting”, “unprofessional”, amongst other invectives.

INTRODUCTION

Once again the General Auditing Commission is attracted, though not perturbed, by yet another diversionary tactics perpetrated by people who think that finding shield in frivolous allegations and designing scare tactics can cause Auditor General John Morlu and his able staff to succumb to the whirlwind of fraud, waste and abuse prevailing in this country. Recently reclassified Audit Trainee Ruth Bailey-Yeaher, without the fear of God and respect to womanhood, has wildly and baselessly claimed sexual harassment against her by the venerable Auditor General of Liberia, Mr. John Sembe Morlu, II.

The GAC would have chosen to leave Ruth Yeaher’s claims un-responded to not only because of its sheer emptiness and nonsensicality but also because of the fact all well-meaning people acknowledge that the accused Auditor General bears rare and sterling moral qualities. But because the allegation bears the face of organized scare tactics, blackmail and terrorization of audit indictees and their protégés, which the public has seen since the birth of the Morlu-headed GAC, we find it necessary to react and expose the charade, hidden motives and shadows that have driven the false “sexual harassment” alarm made by Madam Ruth Yeaher.