Liberia: Warlord-Turned Senator Prince Y. Johnson is Useless
Monrovia – Senator Prince Y Johnson, the chief of the erstwhile Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia, is useless.
By Selma Lomax, [email protected]
Senator Johnson, FPA has been knowledgeable, collapsed in his toilet throughout bathe and went into coma. He was later confirmed useless upon arrival on the Hope For Women Hospital in Paynesville, household sources confirmed
Family sources confirmed to FrontWeb pageAfrica that the self-proclaimed Godfather of vote-rich Nimba County, instrumental in deciding the previous few elections in Liberia, died instantly at his residence early Thursday morning.
Sen. Johnson was final seen on November 25 when he honored the legacy of the late Gnassingbe Eyadema, former President of Togo, by naming his college’s auditorium after him.
The occasion was attended by a various group of officers, together with conventional leaders, legislators, and college students, celebrating Eyadema’s contributions to goodwill and generosity.
In his remarks, Senator Johnson mirrored on Eyadema’s vital function in fostering peace in Liberia and all through West Africa, labeling him a “man of peace.”
Senator Johnson’s historical past with civil battle
Johnson allied himself with Charles Taylor’s National Patriotic Front of Liberia (NPFL) insurgent group when it launched the First Liberian Civil War in 1989 to overthrown President Samuel Doe. Due to a rift with Taylor, Johnson quickly fashioned an NPFL splinter group, the Independent National Patriotic Front of Liberia (INPFL), which captured, tortured and executed Doe in 1990.
Following continued clashes with Taylor and the pro-Doe ULIMO group, the INPFL was disbanded and Johnson was pressured into exile in Nigeria in 1992, the place he transformed to Christianity and reconciled with the Doe household.
Johnson returned to Liberia in 2004 following the top of the Second Liberian Civil War and was elected to the Senate of Liberia within the 2005 Liberian common election. He based a political occasion, the National Union for Democratic Progress (NUDP) in 2010, earlier than being expelled from it in 2014.
He based a brand new occasion, Movement for Democracy and Reconstruction (MDR) in 2016. He has since been re-elected to the Senate in 2014 and 2023. He was additionally an unsuccessful candidate for President in 2011 and 2017, respectively ending in third and fourth place within the first spherical.
Johnson was born in Tapeta, Nimba County, within the east-central inside of the nation, and was introduced up by an uncle within the capital metropolis of Monrovia. In 1971, whereas dwelling in Monrovia, he joined the Liberian National Guard (LNG), which was reworked into the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) within the aftermath of Samuel Doe’s 1980 overthrow of President William R. Tolbert.
He rose to the rank of Lieutenant, receiving army coaching in each Liberia and the United States, the place he was instructed in army police duties in South Carolina. A stern, usually draconian, disciplinarian, he served as aide-de-camp to Gen. Thomas Quiwonkpa, the Commanding General of the Armed Forces of Liberia,[4] and accompanied him into exile in 1983, after Quiwonkpa was accused of plotting a coup towards Doe.
