By: Jackson Clay, Editor-in-Chief
IPNews-Monrovia: The wife of the head pastor of the Bethel Cathedral of Hope in Congo Town, Bishop Wolo Belleh, Madam Della B. Belleh has being linked to Costa’s Laissez Passer Saga.
Henry Costa, a staunch critic of the Weah led administration, has been person of interest in an ongoing investigation regarding how he obtained a Liberian travel certificate which was later discovered to be forge
It may be recalled, Costa had appeared at the headquarters of the LIS to provide voluntary statement about how he got the document and had promised to make himself available through his lawyer when needed.
But he (Costa) failed to live up to his word and tried to escape the country through Sierra Leone where he was arrested and later released following an intense diplomatic row between the governments of Liberia and Sierra Leone before being release and is currently residing in the United States America.
Addressing a news conference today Monday, January 20, 2020, the Liberia Immigration Service headquarters in sinkor, LIS boss commissioner Robert Buddy told newsmen that Sylvester Tevez Nah informed the LIS investigators that he delivered the controversial Henry Costa Laissez Passer to Madam Della Belleh, wife of Bishop Wolo Belleh, Mrs, Belleh who number was sent to him, by his boss Henry Costa.
Commissioner Buddy stated that Nah also told investigators that all along he did not know he was procuring a Laissez Passer for Henry Costa boss until receiving it from another employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, identified as Monie Hooke Momolu, a dismissed employee of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for onward submission to Mrs. Belleh.
“In few days he (Nah) received the procured document in a sealed envelope and it was at this point, when he (Nah) opened the sealed document and it was a Liberian citizen travel certificate in favor of Henry Costa.”
Nah narrates that the envelope was turned over to Mrs. Belleh, the wife of Bishop Wolo Belleh of the Bethel Cathedral of Hope Church in Congo Town as she completed the entire documentation for Henry Costa after been taken from him Mrs. Belleh’s office assistant, Anthony David,” Commissioner Buddy told newsmen.
However, when contacted Mrs. Belleh, via mobile phone, Madam Belle told IPNews that she reserve all comments until speaking with her lawyer.
“I reserve all comments until I speak with my lawyer,” Mrs. Bellen told IPNews.
Commissioner Buddy, at the smart time informed newsmen that suspect Sylvester Tevez Nah had contradicted statement made by his boss, Henry Costa at the LIS, saying that at no time did he received any money from Costa but only phone numbers belonging to several persons, including his (Costa) cousin, Musa Sackor and Mrs. Belleh, in connection with the Liberian travel certificate.
It can be further recalled Costa had earlier told the LIS through a voluntary statement that he gave US$20 to his operations manager, Sylvester Tevez Nah to procure a Laissez Passer that he used to entered the country on December 19, 2019.
The LIS boss indicated that Nah had denied ever receiving money from Costa neither was he (Nah) in the know about a Laissez Passer procurement process.
“Mr. Costa said he gave Me. Nah, his operations manager US$20 to procure the Laissez Passer, contrary to this statement, Mr. Sylvester Tevez Nah said he was never aware nor did he received any money from Mr. Costa to do or procure a Laissez Passer,” commissioner Buddy noted.
Meanwhile, the Liberia Immigration Service (LIS) boss, commissioner Roberts Buddy asserted that the investigation by the LIS in connection to the fraudulent Liberian citizen travel certificate is intended to unearthed an organize criminal syndicate involving in the theft and falsification of this national travel document.
