IPNEWS: Veteran human rights lawyer-turned politician, Cllr. Tiawon Saye Gongloe, has said at no time did he personally receive a cent from suspended State for Presidential Affairs Minister, Nathaniel McGill, as had been alleged by a caller on the Joy FM Radio in Monrovia.

A caller on a recent talk show on the radio station claimed that despite his criticisms that President George Weah and his senior officials of government, including Minister McGill, are robbing the Country of badly needed resources, he, Cllr. Gongloe, is a beneficiary of some of the monies allegedly stolen by the suspended Minister of State for Presidential Affairs.

The unknown caller said he remembered a time when Minister McGill gave Cllr. Gongloe an unspecified amount of money after an appeal he made to him.

In response to an Independent Probe Newspaper’s inquiry on the caller’s claim, Cllr. Gongloe, immediate past President of the Liberia Bar Association, clarified that it was the Bar Association that wrote President George Weah in 2019 ahead of that year’s African Bar Association’s Convention and that the President responded to the Convention Committee headed by Cllr. Bema Lansana through Minister McGill.

“I have never personally received one cent from McGill”, Cllr. Gongloe said to this paper in a text message.

Gongloe, who is aspiring to contest the 2023 presidential election, is among opposition politicians demanding President George Weah to dismiss and not suspend the three senior officials of the government, including his Minister of State, Nathaniel McGill, who were recently sanctioned by the United States Treasury Department on claims of rampant corruption. President Weah suspended the State for Presidential Affairs Minister, McGill, National Port Authority Managing Director, Bill Twehway and Solicitor General, Syrenius Cephus a day after US Ambassador, Michael McCarthy announced the Treasury Department’s imposed sanctions.

Revered for his uprightness and impeccability in public service, Cllr. Gongloe, a former Minister of Labor and Solicitor General of Liberia, is now armed with a symbolic broom to demonstrate his determination to sweep corruption out of Liberia if he is elected Liberia’s next president in 2023.

Now 65, Gongloe returned to the Country recently after a lengthen tour of the United States to share his vision with Diaspora Liberians. Writes David N. Targbe