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Written by Our Senior Staff
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Tuesday, 07 August 2012 01:48 |
“Liberian public officials need to admit their ignorance in dealing with foreign crooks who use Liberians’ hospitality to run dirty deeds which later tend to annoy the citizens when the deeds are discovered,” several Liberians who have followed a reported Danish journalist’s e-mail exchanges for a position of Liberia’s Honorary Consul in the Central African Republic years back told the In Profile Daily.
A learned Corporate Lawyer, Cllr. Varney Sherman, whose name is mentioned in the e-mail exchange reportedly played a professional role and at a crucial juncture announced his decision to terminate the assistance he was rendering the Danish Journalist Mads John Brugger Cortzen to secure Honorary Consul position in Central African Republic on behalf of Liberia.
Whether the claim is true or not, fraudulently purchasing a Liberian diplomatic position and passport for US$150,000 as Journalist Crotzen is being quoted appears to speak to some of hidden villain deeds that keep retarding Liberia’s progress.
“We thought it was only during the war years that criminals were opportune to make away with Liberian passports,” some Liberians said Monday on Broad Streets while reading two separate local dailies- FrontPageAfrica and Focus that published related accounts of Journalist Cortzen’s clever venture.
The Liberian Government seemingly furious about Crotzen’s reported criminal enterprise, has threatened a court action against him, only when he attended a recent film festival in Central African Republic, claiming to be a Liberian Ambassador possessing a Liberian Passport.
While the film festival has exposed the unscrupulous deed of Journalist Cortzen, the government could well be on the way seeking or tracing from whom the Danish Journalist purchased the Liberian Passport.
Unless otherwise established and substantiated, pundits and concerned Liberians are being pricked to direct accusing fingers at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs which has the responsibility to issue passport to Liberians as such.
A quotation of Journalist Cortzen that he “wanted to expose how corrupt was the Liberian diplomatic corridors,” teases the Liberian governance system that has been boasted to be extremely improved over the last six years of this regime.
“Let the government pursue this case and bring all connected to the lamplight,” one political commentator noted.
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