Liberia: Court Showdown Looms As Finance Minister Seeks Delay in U.S.$350,000 JFK Negligence Case

Monrovia — Outrage continue to mount against the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning after legal standoff over justice for a Liberian woman left permanently injured by a botched surgery at the John F. Kennedy Medical Center took a new turn Tuesday, April 7, as Finance Minister Augustine Kpehe Ngafuan intervened, requesting more time for the government to respond to a long-overdue Supreme Court judgment.

Karen Gaydou Sehkehporh, whose life was irreversibly altered following the failed…