By Lincoln G. Peters
U.S.-sanctioned Monrovia Mayor Jefferson Koijee has told a trial court that he has a working relationship with Mr. Varlee Telleh, in a testimony provided during the ongoing trial over Charloe Musu’s brutal murder.
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 that led to Charloe’s murder.
Both Koijee and Telleh have denied the allegation that they were responsible for the attack on Liberia’s former Chief Justice Cllr. Gloria Musu Scott’s Brewerville residence where Charloe was murdered.
However, Cllr. Scott and three of her family members were instead indicted by Liberian prosecutors and they are being prosecuted for Charloe’s murder.
Cllr. Scott and Gertrude Newton, Alice Johnson, and Rebecca Youdeh Wisner have pleaded not guilty to the indictment.
Last week, defense lawyers’ Pathologist Dr. Matthias I. Okoye said he found a male DNA in the middle left-hand fingernail of deceased Charloe Musu.
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.
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The witness testified that the stabbings were caused/done by a muscular male.
At the request of the defense team, the court subpoenaed Koijee to testify in the case. Regarding phone numbers of interest, Mayor Koijee said he doesn’t have a specific number for a particular employee within the employ of the Monrovia City Corporation (MCC).
But he said he has two numbers which are 0779-229-900 and 0776-407-969.
Mr. Koijee said his most regular number is 0779-229-900, adding that he presented his communication and that if the defense council was still in doubt, his numbers are available.
He added that the court can communicate with him anytime or can even subpoena his numbers through the GSM company anytime to prove his innocence.
“Two numbers were being submitted and those numbers are my numbers, it was predicated upon that the police investigated, and they gave me a police clearance,” he said.
“So, I will pray this court that I have been vindicated from the police with a clearance. If the defense has further interest, my other number [is] still available.
He said he wants them to subpoena it as well and they can verify it.
“But as it is now, the police have vindicated me with clearance,” Mayor Koijee said.
Mr. Koijee also pleaded to the court to subpoena TRC boss Cllr. Jerome Verdier to testify in court concerning his involvement in the murder of Charloe. Equally so too I am recommending to the court to subpoena the cdc chairman Mr. Mulbah Morlu who made a public statement accusing the former chief justice Cllr. Gloria S. Scott of murdering Charloe Musu, it was in that pronouncement of cdc chairman Morlu on the cdc headquarter when the police investigating team redirected to the former chief justice as the murderer of Charloe and avoided chasing the main murderer.