By By: Staff Writer
The Senate’s demand for answers over one of Liberia’s biggest reported drug seizures detonated Wednesday in a full open hearing that laid bare the rot inside the Joint Security Taskforce Committee. The rot became impossible to ignore when Police Chief Gregory O.W. Coleman, himself a member of the probe, openly took cover for Michael Brown — a convicted narcotics trafficker who was secretly freed, rehired at RIA, and named again as a central person of interest.
Coleman told the Senate that Brown, a key suspect, “has fled the country and cannot be found for interrogation.” That claim collapsed under scrutiny. Investigators confirm Brown is still in Liberia and is being tracked daily at his Monrovia residence.
IG Coleman Shielding Michael Brown??
Coleman’s statement has ignited a firestorm over whether the Police IG has a personal allegiance to the alleged kingpin. If not, then why is he mobilizing to protect him while hard evidence points to Michael Brown, alias “Rahem Bah,” as the mastermind of the shipment with operatives planted inside RIA Security and the Joint Security itself?
Coleman’s evasive testimony raised more red flags than reassurance and spiraled into a direct confrontation with Senator Samuel Kogar after the senator demanded Coleman’s immediate suspension for trying to bury the truth from the public.
“You don’t have evidence, you just come and talk loosely,” Coleman snapped at Kogar in a hostile outburst on the Senate floor.
With Liberia watching closely, public confidence is shattering. Citizens are denouncing the probe as a cover-up designed to sacrifice small players while protecting the powerful figures at the top.
