Liberia: Ex-Ulimo fighter tells court he refused bribe from Hassan Bility "to testify against Massaquoi"
Nigeria, March 29 -- MONROVIA, Liberia-As with the trial before a Finnish district court, acquittal hearings for Gibril Massaquoi, the Sierra Leonean accused of grave human rights violations in Liberia, bribery allegations have begun to dog his acquittal hearings.
"L-1," Tuesday's lone witness, did not mince his words when the told the Turku Appeals Court Hassan Bility, a top Liberian human rights advocate, offered him $US200 five years ago as an inducement to testify against alleged war perpetrators George Boley, Alieu Kosiah and Mr Massaquoi, Mohammed Jabateh, commonly known as "Jungle Jabbah" and Agnes Reeves Taylor.
"When Hassan came back from the US, he picked me up from N-Zoe to go for a meeting at Mamba Point," said L-1. "During ...
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