By Lincoln G. Peters
Sanctioned Monrovia City Mayor and Secretary General of the governing Coalition for Democratic Change, Jefferson Tamba Koijee, says he is not intimidated despite his designation by the United States and subpoena by Criminal Court ‘A’ to testify in the murder case of the late Charloe Musu.
Major Koijee, speaking in response to a reporter’s question on Wednesday, 13th December as he left the premises of the Temple of Justice on Capitol Hill, where he had gone to testify, said that the word intimidation is not found in his chromosome or DNA.
“The name Koijee never gets intimidated. I have gone through the worse thing in this world than anybody can imagine. Currently, I’m an orphan. Nothing can be more traumatizing than losing your parents. I lost my parents at a very young age. And so, nothing can surprise, anything that is before me. I am a very religious person who believes in God. There is no condition and situation that God puts you in without a solution. I’m a strong person”, the young mayor. Who has seen things crumbling around him in less than a week says.
According to Koijee, he is built for difficult movement, adding that he believes that God is using him as an instrument for the general good of people.
“I can’t get intimidated. I have no sense of intimidating in my blood, chromosome, and DNA. And I’m very, very kind. It’s not about being called when to come here, it’s about the loss of the lady. No matter how long, justice will prevail”, he notes in reference to what remains the most brutal murder in February 2023, at the private residence of former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia, Cllr. Gloria Musu Scott in Brewerville, outside Monrovia.
Justice Scott and three family members are on trial for murder, but recent autopsy by a foreign pathologist found instead, a male DNA in the middle left-hand fingernail of deceased Charloe Musu.
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Dr. Matthias I. Okoye of the Nebraska Institute of Institute of Forensic Sciences, Lincoln USA, is a Forensic Pathologist, Scientist Pathologist, Clinical Pathologist, and an Attorney.
On the witness stand Tuesday, 12 December 2023, Dr. Okoye said the late Charloe Musu died of blunt force trauma as a result of multiple stabbing wounds.
He testified that the stabbings were caused by an instrument which is not a knife.
The witness testified that the stabbings were caused/done by a muscular male.
He noted that none of the defendants could cause these wounds.
Dr. Okoye detailed that there was a foreign DNA of a male found in the middle fingernail of the left hand of the victim.
He said all DNA profiles from the victim exclude all the defendants in the case.
Dr. Okoye is a member of the American Board of Medicine and has conducted over twenty thousand autopsies in the USA and Africa including four in Liberia (Angel Togba).
Their trial comes after sanctioned Monrovia Mayor and ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC) secretary general Jefferson Koijee denied ordering the brutal attack in which Charloe was murdered.
Liberia’s former Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) boss Cllr. Jerome Verdier has accused Koijee of allegedly ordering Monrovia City Police official Varlee Telleh to carry out the attack.
Both Koijee and Telleh have denied the allegation that they were responsible for the attack at Cllr. Scott’s Brewerville residence.
Cllr. Scott said she had reported to police authorities two incidents of attacks at her home, but no action was taken before the third incident led to Charloe’s murder.
However, Cllr. Scott and three of her family members were instead indicted by Liberian prosecutors for Charloe’s murder.
Cllr. Scott and Gertrude Newton, Alice Johnson, and Rebecca Youdeh Wisner have pleaded not guilty to the indictment.
Meanwhile, commenting on his presence at the court, Mayor Koijee discloses that he was invited by the defense to tell his relationship with one Mohammed Keita and Varlee Telleh, something he said went on ‘kool and kind’ at the court.
He notes that he he is a respecter of the law even though he didn’t know that he was subpoenaed by the court since an earlier subpoena was denied by the judge.
“I was asked about my relationship with Mohammed Keita, and varlee Telleh. I told the court that I don’t know Mohammed Keita. But, Varlee, it’s straightly administrative because he works in the employ of the MCC. Anything that is required to get to the depth of the case will be given by me. I will give my time and everything because I know what it means to loss a life.
The ruling CDC secretary general who has been sanctioned by the United States Treasury Department pursuant to E.O. 13818 for engaging, or having been a leader of an entity that has engaged in serious human rights abuse and corruption, says nobody deserves to loss his or her life in the form and manner in which the lady lost her life, something, adds, prompted him to come to court on a bike to reach at the court sooner.
The U.S. said Koijee has engaged in corrupt acts, including bribery and misappropriation of state assets and pressuring anti-corruption investigators to halt all corruption investigations.
Koijee: “I’m available at all time. We will make sure that whosoever is associated with the death of the young lady should be brought to justice. What needed to be established was presented. I remain committed to making myself available.” Editing by Jonathan Browne
