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LIBERIA: PARLIAMENTARIANS BANNED FROM TRAVELLING January 4, 2006
Kizza Harajah
(SomaliNet) The UN has stopped four members of the liberian parliamebt from travelling to Ghana. This is because of their linkages with former president, Charles Taylor.
As a result, they missed a workshop on the role of the parliament organised by the World Bank.
The victims of the ban were: Jewel Howard Taylor and his former son-in-law Edwin Snowe, managing director of Liberia's Petroleum Refinery Corporation , General Kai Farley, a former rebel commander, and pro-Taylor militia commander General Adolphus Dolo, widely known as "General Peanut Butter."
About this issue, Snowe says; "Our ! denial is quite frustrating; it's beyond our own imagination. I've been accused by the UN for almost two years now. I was married to Mr. Taylor's daughter and we have a child. So if that's an ongoing tie, then it's unfortunate. There's nothing I can do about it. I have no regrets."