Liberia: Why the LDEA Has Become a Liability for Boakai

MONROVIA — Every leadership scandal at Liberia’s drug agency in the past 31 months has involved a man appointed by President Joseph Boakai, and on Monday, he had to remove another, suspending his officer in charge over ethical concerns and assigning the agency to his own military adviser.

That is the political cost borne by the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency to this government, and it is now greater than anything the agency has achieved. Boakai appointed Maj. Gen. Daniel Dee Ziankahn Jr. as…