By Precious D. Freeman
and Grace Q. Bryant
Convict Gloria Musu Scott has disclosed that water has been one of the major challenges inmates is faced with at the Monrovia Central Prison.
Cllr. Scott made the disclosure at the donation ceremony by eminent women of the women situation room over the weekend.
“We are many here and water is a serious problem because it is our long term needs, short term needs and immediate term needs,” she classified water and its usage by inmates.
She therefore called on the Water and Sewer to make an assessment as to whether they can solve the problem, because if there is no immediate measures it will be bad for them adding, “Human being needs water; human being are sustained by water and as an inmate, I see what the girls go through coming out to get water under the heavy pour of rain in the darkness.”
She however called for everlasting solution to the water challenge.
In another tone, she has denied media reports that the government had granted her compassionate release from prison.
According to her, she is disappointed in the media report, adding that it is frustrating for Liberia as a country with many educated people to report unprofessional story without being verified.
“It’s very saddening for us as a country which had existed nearly 200 years since the 1800s when we were founded, and for a professional institution that has a reputation to protect, couldn’t have due diligence to verify and write a story,” she said.
“Where does the President grant compassionate leave? It is so sad, but that is where we are. This is my initial response because some publications mentioned that the President has granted me compassionate leave. Where does that happen?” convict Scott wondered.
But she lamented the inhumane treatment she has been receiving from the Government of Liberia since the loss of 22-year-old daughter Charloe Musu.
Social media was flooded with remorse last week that convict Scott had been given a provisional release from lifetime imprisonment to manage an inventory of her recent house, which had been recently burglarized in Virginia Brewerville.
However, Deputy Information Minister for Technical Services, Mr. Daniel Sando, has apologized to defendant Scott on the government’s behalf for the embarrassment caused her.
It can be recorded that convict Scott and three of her family members; convicts Gertrude Newton, Alice Johnson, and Rebecca Youdeh Wisner are serving life imprisonment after jurors handed a guilty verdict against them on December 21, 2023.
The entire household was held for the gruesome murder of Charloe.
