NYPD Arrest Accuser for Disorderly Conduct

IPNEWS: Liberia’s permanent mission in New Yorke, United States of America was on Monday, November  6, a messy scene, when officers of the New Yorke Police Department were called to stop an unruly scene at the Mission.

In a live video circulating social media, Mrs.  Wynee Cummings Wilson, the accuser of Foreign Minister Dee-Mazwell Kemayah, alleged sexual harassment resisted efforts by some of the staff at the Mission to prevent her entry at the mission on orders of Minister Kemayah.

Mrs. Wilson alleged that Mrs. Maggie Gibson-Glay, Secretary to the Permanent Representative, and another staff identified as Sarah, were instructed by Minister Kemayah to prevent her entry into the mission even though she remains a staff of the Mission, a claim denied by Mrs. Glay.

The altercation lasted for several minutes prompting the intervention by both Deputy Foreign Minister Henry Fahnbulleh, and officers of the New Yorke Police Detachment 17 to bring the situation under control but to no avail resulting in the arrest of Mrs.  Wynee Cummings Wilson after she refused to adhere to NYPD orders to vacate the premises of the mission until the matter could be settled by authorities of the government of Liberia.

There has been no immediate response by the NYPD nor the government of Liberia to IPNEWS’s inquiry about the actual charge of Mrs.  Wynee Cummings Wilson, following her arrest.

Before Monday’s altercation at the Mission, sources at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Monrovia told the authoritative Independent Probe that Minister Kemayah is allegedly “interfering” in the day-to-day operations of the Liberian Permanent Mission to the UN.

It is also alleged that since he is unable to travel to the U.S., where police are reportedly prepared to question him over the sexual harassment allegations lodged against him, the Liberian Chief diplomat has resorted to “intimidating tactics” to generate confusion that will ultimately breed internal confusion to silence a few perceived not to be alongside his way.

According to information obtained from confidential sources at the Foreign Ministry in Monrovia, Foreign Minister Kemayah has issued personal instructions to a driver at the Liberian Permanent Mission to regularly pick up Deputy Head of Mission Maggie Gibson Glay from her residence to the mission for work in disregard of standing orders from the Acting Head of the Mission Ms. Cecelia McGill that only the Acting Head of Mission is assigned a driver.

The decision, according to the source, effectively undercut the authority of Ms. McGill who has reportedly drawn the ire of Minister Kemayah over her refusal to conspire to write an official letter to the U.S. Government to try to keep the spouse of the Foreign Minister in the U.S. after Ms. Kemayah was declared “persona non grata” by the State Department and asked to voluntarily leave.

Ms. Kemayah and her family left the U.S. in March and are reported to be in the West African sub-region without a new assignment but being paid by the Government of Liberia as a U.S.-based diplomat.

For more than two years now there has been silence since September 14, 2020, when Mrs.  Wynee Cummings Wilson a staff at the Liberian Permanent mission in New York, complained about being ‘sexually harassed’, by the now Foreign Minister of the Republic of Liberia, Dee- Maxwell Kemayah

Barely 48 hours after the accusation, the government of Liberia acknowledged it had officially received a complaint of sexual harassment from the staff at Liberia’s Permanent Mission in the United States, against then Ambassador Dee-Maxwell Kemayah, yet little has been heard about the status of the investigation.

In her communication to the Ministry of Gender investigation session in September 2020, Mrs. Wynee Cummings Wilson alleged that then Foreign Minister designate, Ambassador Dee-Maxwell Kemayah sexually harassed her.

In a state radio interview on Monday, September 14, 2020, Deputy Presidential Press Secretary, Smith Toby said the Ministry of Gender has been mandated to investigate the allegation. However, Mr. Toby disclosed that President Weah had not withdrawn the appointment of Ambassador Kemayah as Foreign Minister Designate in the face of the sexual allegation.

Kemayah’s Legal Team Denies Allegations

According to the complaint, Ms. Wilson alleged that on several occasions Mr. Kemayah would lock his office door and ask her to kiss him but she refused.

Kemayah’s legal team took exception to the claims and wondered why would Ms. Wilson waste too much time without reporting the event to the police until he (Kemayah) was nominated for the Foreign Minister position

“This lie of hers is so outlandish. This is not in the Ambassador’s nature.

“Throughout his more than 28 years of experience in the private, public, and international arena, this is the only allegation ever,” the legal group said.

According to Kemayah’s legal team, every time Ms. Wilson tells her story it becomes more and more embellished.

However, she has never mentioned that she has been disciplined by the Ambassador and staff at the Mission.

Ms. Wilson and the Secretary even agreed to have every communication between them documented because according to the Secretary, Ms. Wilson always gives different versions of what her boss, the Secretary, tells her.

The team added that Ambassador Kemayah has told Ms. Wilson on numerous occasions to get close to her boss, the secretary, but she has allegedly refused to work with Mrs. Maggie Gibson-Glay, the Ambassador’s Secretary.

“As we stated in our September 4, 2020 email to Ms. Wilson our client denies these false allegations. All further communications shall be directed to this law firm so that the Ambassador can continue to focus on his work.”