Liberia: July 17 Protest Leaders Demand Boakai or Koung Receive Petition, Slam Speaker Koon As ‘Corrupt Regime Loyalist’

Organizers of the July 17 “Enough is Enough” protest have issued a firm demand: President Joseph Nyuma Boakai or Vice President Jeremiah Kpan Koung must personally receive their petition, or no deal.

Mulbah K. Morlu, the lead organizer of the protest, said no other representative from the Liberian Legislature would be accepted, particularly not House Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon, whom he labeled as “corrupt” and a “regime speaker.”

“Richard Koon is very corrupt. He is a regime speaker and reckless…