Monrovia, May 26 -- House Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon has confessed that the removal of former Speaker Jonathan Fonati Koffa was driven by political motives rather than the ethical breaches previously cited by lawmakers.

By Emmanuel Weedee-Conway, emmanuel.weedee-conway@frontpageafricaonline.com

Speaking during a community engagement in the West Point community on Friday, May 23, Speaker Koon publicly apologized to Liberians for the prolonged legislative crisis that followed Koffa's ouster, a crisis that nearly paralyzed the House of Representatives for seven months.

"Let me apologize for the tension we created that embarrassed the government and you, the Liberian people," Koon stated. He admitted that the decision to remove Koffa stem...