–As Late PRES. SAMUEL KANYON DOE FAMILY Remember September 9, 1990

IPNEWS: A traditional proverb that says, ‘the evil that man does, lived after him, so, was the case in which Liberia’s 20th President Samuel Kanyon Doe was killed in cold blood on September 9, 1990, by bloodthirsty rebel leader of the Independent National Patriotic Front, now Nimba County Senator Prince Johnson.

At the end of the Cold War, his previously unwavering support from the US after a 1980 Coup evaporated and, as Liberia erupted into civil war, Doe was left vulnerable to the hands of a dirty murder when West African troops particularly from Ghana, watched on.

It’s been 32 years since Doe was captured on a visit to the headquarters of ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) in Monrovia at the Freeport Port of Monrovia.

Hours later, he was dead, though Liberia’s civil war would continue for another 13 long years, the late Samuel Doe with an hour was stripped to his underwear, interrogated on film, and his ear was sliced off while bloodsucker leader Prince Johnson nonchalantly presided over the affair.

Since then, this bloodsucker termed Evangelist, Prince Johnson, still serves at Senior Senator of Nimba county and remain unapologetic by declaring that the murder of late President Samuel K. Doe was necessary to liberate the people of Nimba county.

On December 2021, On International Anti-Corruption Day, designated Senator, Price Y. Johnson commonly known as PYJ, for pay-for-play funding with government ministries and organizations for personal enrichment.

The U.S. Government indictment stated that as part of the scheme, upon receiving funding from the Government of Liberia (GOL), the involved government ministries and organizations launder a portion of the funding for return to the involved participants. The pay-for-play funding scheme involves millions of U.S. dollars. Johnson has also offered the sale of votes in multiple Liberian elections in exchange for money.

Johnson is designated pursuant to E.O. 13818 for being a foreign person who is a current or former government official, or a person acting for or on behalf of such an official, who is responsible for or complicit in, or has directly or indirectly engaged in, corruption, including the misappropriation of state assets, the expropriation of private assets for personal gain, corruption related to government contracts or the extraction of natural resources, or bribery.

Exactly 32 years after Samuel Doe’s bloody death, his legacy continues to reverberate in Liberia. Prince Johnson, for instance, is today a Liberian Senator, while a range of actors tied to Doe’s overthrow, including former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, still enjoyed paradise.

The late President Samuel K. Doe came to power in 1980 by virtue of being the highest-ranking of the coup members and began his reign in a brutal fashion. Ten days after President Tolbert met his brutal end, thirteen of the most senior officials of the Tolbert government were stripped down to their underwear and publicly executed on a Monrovia beach.

Doe’s new government briefly flirted with Libya, before aligning firmly with the US.  This position was rewarded with massive foreign assistance from the administration of President Ronald Reagan and a state visit to the White House in 1982. Furthermore, until 1985, Liberia was the largest per capita recipient of US aid in sub-Saharan Africa, receiving more assistance from the US in 1981-1985 than over the entire previous century – though by the time rebels Charles Taylor and Prince Johnson moved to overthrow Doe at the twilight of the Cold War, this support had evaporated.

Before that, however, Doe won fraudulent elections in October 1985 and then, just a month later, faced a major coup attempt led by a former comrade. Doe survived the failed overthrow, but this tumultuous period caused domestic political calculations to change greatly.  The army quelled an uprising soon after and proceeded to launch reprisals and perpetrate human rights violations against the Gio ethnic group, which was seen as widely supporting the coup.  By 1990, forces under Doe were committing ever greater atrocities and primarily consisted of members of his own Krahn ethnic group.

When a 28-year-old Master Sergeant took power in 1980, he set in motion a series of events that reverberates in Liberia to this day.

In 1980, Samuel K. Doe, a 28-year-old Master Sergeant, assumed power in Liberia in a blaze of glory. In a surprise night-time attack on the Executive Mansion overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, Doe and his accomplices brutally murdered President William R. Tolbert Jr, ending 133 years of rule by black American settlers and their descendants (known as Americo-Liberians).

Having discarded with Tolbert, Doe became Liberia’s first president of “exclusive indigenous heritage”.