Liberian News: ‘I recruited Vote Protection Unit For UP In LDEA’

By Washington Tumay Watson

Monrovia- The former Director of the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA), Col. Abraham Kromah has revealed that he recruited some of those he trained to protect the Unity Party and its Alliance to protect their votes in the LDEA.

According to Col. Kromah, the leadership of the Unity Party and its Alliance requested him to organize a unit named the Vote Protection of Men and Women from the various political parties that were in the alliance to ensure that those votes of the Unity Party were fully protected by providing security.

Speaking on Spoon Talk, Col Kromah said those who were trained to protect the votes during the 2023 presidential elections were recruited into the LDEA as a means of providing them with jobs as their reward contrary to speculations that he recruited ex-rebels and his kinsmen and women into the LDEA.

According to him, at no time did he recruit family members and ex-rebels into the LDEA but those who worked to provide protection for the votes of the Unity Party that allowed them to be in those positions that they were occupying. He refuted allegations that during his leadership at the LDEA as Director, he was engaged in corruption by conniving with drug importers thus jeopardizing the lives of the young generation of Liberia.

Col. Kromah challenged his accusers to provide evidence that linked him to corruption, especially his former Deputy Director for Operations Hassan Fadiga.

He further disclosed that due to his experience and the level of work, he did in the security sector as the Deputy Director for Operations of the Liberia National Police and head of the Criminal Investigation Division (CID) of the Liberian National Police, none of those who are challenging him are doing it because of envy something that is not given credence because they do not have any evidence.