By: Rev. Trocon Lanford, Sr. Pastor, Effort Baptist Church
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IPNews-Monrovia: It is certainly shocking to hear how people speak erroneously about history.
How dare anyone speaks of Former President Edward James Roye as a Nigerian or at at least a foreigner?
If he was, how would you call all the other settlers who returned from US? Just because history records Roye’s lineage as a descendant of the Igbo people of Nigeria, doesn’t fit him in any category of a foreigner.
Does history or your reasoning tells you that all of the other settlers who were returned were all previously taken from Liberia and returned back to their place of their ancestors? Many of the other returnees (settlers) had lost contact with the origin.
They were born in the USA and had no contacts as to which parts of Africa their grand parents or great grand parents had been transported from. Edward J. Roye was born in 1815 in Newark, Ohio.
He lived in the US until he w return to Liberia at age 31. Roye participated in Liberian politics and became one of the few persons to serve Liberia in the three branches of government as former Speaker of the House of Representatives, former Chief Justice and former President.
The case Edward J. Roye is totally unlike your issue you want to defend. To be continue.
