President Ellen Sireleaf Dismisses Overseas Ministers

The President of Liberia, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, has reportedly sacked all of her ministers and other senior government officials who defied her order to return to the west African nation to help in the fight against the Ebola epidemic.
According to an Agence France-Presse report, President Sirleaf had told overseas ministers to return within a week as part of a state-of-emergency announcement on August 6, warning that the extraordinary measures were needed “for the very survival of our state”.
Her office said in a statement that she had “directed that all officials occupying ministerial level positions or equivalent — senior and junior — managing directors, deputy/assistant directors or equivalent, commissioners et cetera who violated the orders are hereby relieved of their positions.”
The statement did not say how many ministers were affected or which ones had been fired.
But a government insider clarified that only deputy ministers and senior officials were involved in the cull, and not cabinet-level ministers. Those not occupying ministerial level positions but “holding important public offices” would have their pay docked until their return, the statement added.
We at The Accra Report will keep you posted as the story continues to develop.
Source: AFP