The Liberia National Police have denied report linking Deputy Inspector General of Administration, Sadatu Reeves to the arrest of the manager of the Palm Spring Hotel in Congo Town.
The LNP notes that the media report indicating that its DIGP Reeves was present at the scene of the chaotic incident is false and misleading, noting that DIGP Reeves is currently in neighboring Sierra Leone on a national duty.
According to the LNP, the Indian national, Najib Kamaz was arrested with forgery charge clarifying that his arrest emanated from the Magisterial Court of Paynesville and not the Liberia National Police.
In a statement issued yesterday on the official Facebook page of the LNP said, “The court on Friday, December 24, 2021 issued a Writ of Arrest for the alleged crimes of forgery against the person of the Palm Spring Manager.”
The statement furthered that as part of the police usual procedures, whenever the court issues a Writ of Arrest for a person, LNP officers join the court’s sheriffs in implementing the courts order, but in the case of the Palm Hotel saga, the Sheriffs and police officers encountered stiff resistance by the security officers in the employ of the hotel, at which time one LNP officer Mathias Deman sustained injury from the security guards of the hotel.
The police maintained that Philip Benson, one of the Hotel’s security guides was arrested in connection to the police officer’s injury.
The Liberia National Police however called on media practitioners to fast-track information so as to avoid biases in discharging their professional duties as citizens of the country to help promote the peace and democracy in the land.