Liberia: Senate to Investigate Allegation of Sexual Harassment before Conducting Hearing for Liberia's Foreign Minister-designate

MONROVIA, Sept. 22 -- Senator Dan Morais, (Maryland County-IND) chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs chose what many described as an unprecedented path when he called off a Senate confirmation proceeding for Ambassador Dee Maxwell Kemayah, Foreign Minister-designate until allegation of sexual harassment against him is looked into.

Report by Henry Karmo, [e-mail]

Amb. Kemayah who serves as Liberia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations was accused of sexual harassment by a Liberian staff of the mission in New York immediately after his nomination was announced.

Senator Morais in his short statement adjourned the hearings minutes after it had commenced and informed Ambassador Kemayah th...