An ex-general of the defunct Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL) of Sen. Prince Johnson has threatened to arrest and turn over the Nimba senator to the International Criminal Court over his refusal to cater to their well-being since the end of the civil war.
The INPFL was a rebel group that participated in the First Liberian Civil War under the leadership of Sen. Johnson.
It was a breakaway faction of former president Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL).
Young Gblorgbay claimed he and several former generals of INPFL in Nimba County began the “revolution” with Sen. Johnson but the Nimba senator has abandoned them despite winning two elections.
We have turned to armed robbers to survive while Senator Johnson is enjoying the dividends of the civil war, Gblorgbay said.
Senator Prince Johnson has on several occasions justified his decision to participate in the deadly civil war in the country that killed more than 250,000 people.
The ex-INPFL general, who is regarded to many in Nimba as a ‘son’ to Senator Johnson because of his involvement with INPFL during the country’s decade long civil war, said he would arrest Senator Johnson and turn him over to the International Community to face the War and Economic Crimes Court for acts committed during the war.
“Senator Johnson has done nothing for ex-generals who fought along with him during the civil war. He has won two elections as senator of Nimba County since the end of the war in 2003. We have turned to armed robbers.
I will lead ex-generals to arrest him and turn him over to the International Community to face the War Crimes Court”, Gblorgbay told local media recently.
The Nimba senator declined to respond to Gblorgbay’s claims when contacted by FrontPageAfrica Wednesday.
Continuous call for war crime court
In recent weeks, Liberians have been calling for the establishment of a War and Economic Crimes Court to try those responsible for grave crimes committed during the country’s civil war.
Gblorgbay who is now a palmwine tapper in Nimba is said to have received some handouts from Senator Johnson some years back but claimed the senator Johnson is not seeking their welfare.
It is however unclear whether Gblorgbay will receive any package from the Liberia National Bureau of Veteran Affairs since in fact he did not retire peaceful
Sen. Johnson, who is serving his second nine-year tenure at the National Legislature, captured and killed former president Samuel Doe in the latter part of 1990 as one of Africa’s deadliest wars raged against the first native president whose 1980 coupe ended over 130 years of Americo-Liberians’ reign.
Most agonizing in the eyes of those who watched the captured, tortured and subsequent killing of the country’s former president was the spectacle display Johnson exhibited as he sipped what appeared to be a Budweiser drink while chopping off Doe’s ears.
