By AMOS Harris |
Liberia’s Minister of Information Cultural Affairs and Tourism (MICAT), Jerolinmek M. Piah has called on all those affected Agents of the Executive Protective Service (EPS) to channel their grievances through the due process of law, and further stressed that the entity is a unique presidential unit charged with the responsibility to protect the president of Liberia and also to be a law abiding security agent .
Minister Piah spoke recently during the MICAT regular press briefing on Capitol Hill, he noted that the two hundred dismissed EPS agents did not meet the demand requirement.
He further said that the requirement laid down by the executive protective service spells out that Agents should be a Liberian at the age of 18-35 and a high school graduate or above and they should also undergo six months training.
The information boss also revealed that the strength of the EPS agents during former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was four hundred and between 2018 the strength dupe and as such when this new administration took over by Sam Gaye they were concern about the quality of some of the EPS officers.
According to Minister Piah those agents who services were terminated, presented fixed credential including WAEC certificate, and those credential were investigated and the institution found out that those EPS agents were not a high school graduate.
He said if the action taken against the EPS agents is illegal they have the right to take the case to the court for redress.
Minister Piah noted that there is a recourse under the law that can solve the problem of the EPS Agents instead of politicizing the issues , adding these explanations are not to render Judgment.
Meanwhile, he said three hundred former EPS Agents who were in possession of arms were threatening people that if they come across them they will have themselves to blame.
Some of the EPS Agents were arrested noting that guns are given for operation purposes.
