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Liberia: Nimbaian reacts to Benoni Urey indictment of cannibalism
May 19, 2008
Michael Kpayili
 A prominent son of Nimba County has sharply reacted to comment made by former Maritime Commissioner Benoni Urey indicting Citizens of Nimba County over testimonies made by former Liberian President Moses Blah in the ongoing Charles Taylor trail in the Hague.
The former Assistant Gender Minster and Assistant Transport Minister designate Wilmot Paye says former President Moses Blah testimony has absolutely no ugly print on any tribe or community in Liberia and anyone fells implicated must challenge his acquisition in similar form. He said former President Moses Blah being a long time friend of Charles Taylor was providing adequate information for the survival of Liberia and not to satisfy any group of Liberians. He said Benoni Urey and other Liberians benefited immensely from the tyrannical regime of Charles Taylor by acquiring unwarranted wealth at the disadvantage of suffering Liberians and at such, the public confession and exposure of their ugly deeds worried them.
In sharp reactionary comment to former President Moses Blah statement that cannibalism and brutality were the trade marks of Taylor’s Executive Mansion Guard Unit, former Maritime Commissioner Benoni Urey attributes Blah’s testimony as indicting his kinsmen since they were in control of that unit. He overwhelmingly linked citizens of Nimba County to cannibalism since the heads of the Executive Mansion Guard unit originated from Nimba County.
In the ongoing trail in The Hague, Blah testified that he has seen a Man named Nelson Gaye from the Gio tribe who was attached to the unit as head of the unit eating roasted human hands. In addition to this incident, Blah said he heard of another incident involving Gaye where he had eaten the intestines of a farmer, cooked together with the man’s own cassava harvest. Blah said Gaye had not been a member of the guard unit at that time, but according to Blah, you wouldn’t join that unit if you do not eat human beings. The head of the unit at that time was Cassius Jacob, another citizen of Nimba County. It was against this testimony that Benoni Urey summarily indicted Nimbaians into committing widespread cannibalism.
The statement Mr. Wilmot Paye described as Garbage judgment. Benoni Urey is believed to have acquired sufficient money during the days of Charles Taylor. He is considered wealthy as the result of single handling Liberia’s Maritime funds during the regime of Charles Taylor. His recent statement has sparked ugly feelings among citizens of Nimba County.
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