Liberia: Kemayah Committee’s Legality Questioned

The prosecution has opened its case in the high-profile Saudi humanitarian rice diversion trial before Criminal Court “C,” with the State’s first witness alleging that former Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah Sr. created an unauthorized inter-ministerial committee to investigate the disappearance of donated rice and subsequently facilitated the removal of the remaining consignment from its lawful custodian.

John Kumeh, an investigator assigned to the Anti-Theft Squad of the Liberia…