Liberian president Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has moved to put distance between herself and a former close aide implicated in alleged corruption involving the African country’s flag.
She said yesterday she would be “deeply wounded and hurt” if the allegations that Willis D Knuckles, her former minister for presidential affairs, had solicited bribes from the managers of the Liberian flag proved to be true.
If the evidence, in a chain of emails purportedly between Knuckles and Yoram Cohen, president of US-based Liberian International Ship and Corporate Registry (LISCR), proved authentic, it would be a “despicable act of betrayal”.
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