By Grace Q. Bryant
Cllr. Gloria Musu-Scott denied police assertion that she was refusing to cooperate with investigators.
Justice Scott said following the unforeseen incident at her residence, she has repeatedly worked with three separate teams of police investigators and wonders why authorities of the LNP were misinforming the public that she had refused to cooperate with police investigators.
“That same day, they came and talked to me and the following day another team of police came and talked to me. On Friday, the week following the incident, the Justice Minister and a team of investigators talked to me also. At that time nobody had told me that they needed to talk to other members of my household,” Cllr. Scott explained
She expressed that, “Many people do not know this; the night of this incident, when the Redemption Hospital declared the little girl dead, I went straight to the home of the Justice Minister, and it was at that time he assigned two police officers with me. The next day, I encountered police investigators. Even now, this seems like an unending nightmare,
“Taking into consideration various media reports of police that I was refusing regardless of prior investigation with me, this is the time I began to simmer down the cause in law school we were told that only a fool takes upon himself a defense. So, all that had been in the media both locally and internationally of my refusal to cooperate with the investigators, this is what I’m speaking to,” she told journalists.
Cllr. Scott blasted, “From my experience and training when the investigation is conducted, the investigating institutions are allowed to proceed with their work, and even when they are giving an update to the public, you do not speak to secure the investigation; to protect the integrity of investigation. But the whole narrative that had been out there that Cllr Scott had refused to cooperate with the police investigator is what I’m speaking to. This investigation is critical and from my training and experience, this investigation must be handled professionally,” the former Chief Justice stated.
Cllr. Scott said as for the allegation regarding the alleged attackers, the source of the information will respond to that, but she cannot remember the perpetrator who on the night of the incident, killed her daughter, Charloe Musu.
According to her, she encountered the person physically in the eye with the pepper spray because it was the question of life and death noting, “She didn’t die by herself but when I encountered this person, I engaged their eyes and I put the pepper spray,” she noted.
Meanwhile, the Secretary General of LNBA said his client did justice by answering to the questions and they are on course adding, “We believe in the professionalism of the Liberia National Police and we will take the best outcome of what Liberians expect from this matter.”
He maintained that “Right now former Chief Justice Scott is helping the Liberian National Police to get to the bottom of the investigation and I think all Liberians should wait for the outcome of this investigation.”
