Mary Broh threatens to sue GoL

Former Monrovia City Mayor and GSA former Director General Mary T. Broh has threatened defamation suit against the Liberian Government, days after she was imprisoned for corruption.

By Lincoln G. Peters

Monrovia, June 30, 2025: Madam Broh, who described her indictment as “sad and laughable,” over the weekend threatened to take legal action against the Joseph Boakai regime through the Ministry of Justice and the Assets Recovery and Retriever Taskforce over alleged defamation.

She told journalists in an interview over the weekend that she has no history of corruption during the years she has worked in government; therefore, the government will be sued to provide clarity regarding her character.

She argued that the indictment brought against her by the state is incorrect because she had provided the documents that are being used for their investigation. The former Monrovia City Mayor, who has a holiday named in her honor, argued that if she were guilty of the allegations, she would have withheld the said documents.

“It’s so laughable, and it’s so sad that you will have an appointed Agency by the President of the Republic of Liberia, witch-hunting people. This is the last person they will find corrupt. You can take it to the bank. At the end of the day, I will sue somebody. Yes, they invited me too. You should see the bloody letter they were sending me. But, I warned them,” she foamed.

According to her, nobody knows what the government’s asset recovery team is doing, warning that if they are not careful people will sued them.

“You know the letter they sent me, talking about criminal conspiracy, and so I am under investigation. I say what? We were told to bring the rice in because it was going to a different place. So, they needed our intervention, and we don’t know anything about the rice being procured or where it came from. They only put it in the GSA warehouse. So, if you want to know the best story, ask. I didn’t kill my President for rice. If they come, I can give them documents, but we don’t know anything. The transaction took place at the end of President George M. Weah’s administration,” she argued.

Over the weekend, several top government officials of the former ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) government, of ex-President George M. Weah, were indicted, detained, and sentenced to the Monrovia South Beach for over three hours amid multiple crimes, especially corruption.

On June 25, 2025, the Government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Justice and the Asset Recovery and Property Recovery Task Force, led by its Chairman, Cllr. Edwin K. Martin indicted the past government officials.

The defendants faced charges ranging from theft of property, economic sabotage, misuse of public funds, illegal disbursement of public funds, expenditure of public funds, misapplication of entrusted property, abuse of office and power, and criminal conspiracy, among other offenses.

However, those indicted by the state include, Mary Broh, former Director General, General Services Agency, Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Varney A. Sirleaf, former Minister of Internal Affairs, and Telma Sawyer, former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs/Administration, and wife of deceased interim President, Dr. Amos C. Sawyer.

The state also indicted Mr. Augustine Tamba, Deputy Director for Operations at the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA); Augustine Kollie, Director for Disaster Victims at NDMA; Henry O. Williams, former Executive Director; Rachievego M. Doe, NDMA Communication Director; and Edris Bility, former GSA Deputy Director/Ops.

Furthermore, the state also named Mamie Davies, Assistant Director, GSA, Momolu Johnson, Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs/Adm., Rosetta L. Gbassay Bowah, Logistics Officer, NDMA, Wayfa Ciapha, purported CEO, Group of Seventy-Seven, Evelyn Ghee, Warehouse Manager, and others to be identified, of the City of Monrovia, Liberia, as defendants and indictees.

” INDICTMENT WRIT OF ARREST REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA, TO: MAJOR AUSTINE SEINAVULA, SHERIFF, MONTSERRADO COUNTY, R.L. OR HIS DEPUTY, GREETINGS: YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED TO ARREST THE LIVING BODIES OF ALL THOSE MENTIONED IN THE WRIT AND OTHERS TO BE IDENTIFIED, DEFENDANTS, NAMED IN THE ABOVE ENTITLED CAUSE OF ACTION, CHARGED WITH THE Commission OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED CRIMES, BASED UPON THE INDICTMENT PREPARED AGAINST THEM BY THE GRAND JURY DULY SELECTED, EMPANELLED, AND SWORN TO INQUIRE IN AND FOR THE PEOPLE OF MONTSERRADO COUNTY, REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA, AND TO FORTHWITH BRING THEM BEFORE THIS HONORABLE COURT, (FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, CRIMINAL ASSIZES “C” FOR MONTSERRADO COUNTY), SITTING IN ITS MAY TERM, A.D. 2025, ΤΟ ANSWER TO THE SAID CHARGES MENTIONED SUPRA” the write noted.

Based on the Court’s mandate, on Thursday, June 26, 2025, the Liberian National Police and the Sheriff of Criminal Court “C” arrested and detained former Foreign Minister Kemayah, along with Madam Broh and other co-defendants, who were subsequently sentenced to Monrovia Prison.

According to the indictment, the defendants caused the government to lose 25,054 bags of donated rice valued at $425,918. The rice, donated by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in April 2023 through Fouta Corporation Inc., was intended for disaster-affected communities.

The court had ordered the defendants held at the Monrovia Central Prison pending trial. They are expected to be represented by prominent lawyers, including former Associate Justice Kabineh Ja’neh, Cllr. Pearl Brown Bull and Cllr Milton Taylor. –Edited by Othello B. Garblah.