26/03/2024
Fellow Colleagues in the teaching profession, Dr. Jarso Jallah Sargbe, Minister of Education, members of the 4th estate, members of the intelligentsia Community, fellow Liberians, distinguished ladies and gentlemen;On March 19, 2024, what appeared to be a complete comedy was publicly displayed.
We received copies of documents from the Headquarters of the NTAL.
We also listened to the recording secretary to Mrs. Mary W. Mulbah Nyumah, one Dominic Suah reading an anonymous document called Press Statement. Given Mrs.Nyumah’s poor reading skills, she chose to hire a contractor to read for her.
I want to inform Mrs.Nyumah that what she and her supporters are referring to a Press Statement is anonymous and a complete trash pregnant with hardcore lies, misleading information and one that has exposed Cllr. Moiffee Kanneh and the then Judge of the Monrovia City Court, His Honor Judge Jomah Jallah.
I want to encourage the public including you, the media practitioners, teachers and education workers, the Deputy Minister for Administration at the MOE and all Liberians and residents of Liberia to check on the Official page of the NTAL.
The purported Press Statement read by one gentleman called Dominic Suah was not signed by anyone. Except they choose to bring down their trash, I urge you to check.
More besides, it puzzles any reasonable human being on planet Earth to believe that to respond to Press Statements by Mr. Isaac Seh Kamara and me; Mrs.Nyumah chose to bring the 15 county presidents and her so-called Executive Committee Members to Monrovia and hosted them at a local hotel in Sinkor with the help of some external actors. Mrs. Nyumah is now displaying her hidden limitation in the arena of academics.
Let me provide free tutorial for Madam Nyumah. Whenever you bring a document from a legal institution like the NTAL, it has to be officially signed.
Any document intended for public consumption has to be signed so as to show its official nature. Unfortunately, your so-called press statement was not officially signed by anyone.
This makes your document to be a trash or an anonymous paper. I would have chosen not to respond to such a document. However, I decided to respond to you and your hired office boy who read the document on your behalf because he thought to save you from public embarrassment.
The fact that the media was around and the well sponsored Press Conference was carried live on regular and social media, so I have to respond to you. Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, I want to use this medium to inform you that as a professional educator who did all of his academic works independently unlike Mrs. Nyumah, I thought to mark the unofficial paper and assign points to each paragraph based on the truthfulness of the paragraph. Please allow me to do so.
Their unsigned document had these words: “𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 (𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟), 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗿. 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗬. 𝗝𝗼𝗵𝗻𝘀𝗼𝗻, 𝗦𝗿., 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗠𝗿. 𝗜𝘀𝗮𝗮𝗰 𝗦𝗲𝗵 𝗞𝗮𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗮, 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁, 𝗕𝗼𝗺𝗶 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗖𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟲𝟱𝘁𝗵 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟴, 𝗭𝘄𝗲𝗱𝗿𝘂 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆, 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗚𝗲𝗱𝗲𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝘆, 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗜𝘀𝘀𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝟭𝟵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰, @ 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀’ 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮, 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗶𝗮, 𝗟𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮- I award 5 pts to this paragraph.
Members of the National Executive Committee, the Representative Council, the National Secretariat and the hardworking teachers and education workers, we bring you greetings and appreciate you for the level of commitment, dedication and invaluable services to the education sector of our beloved Country, Liberia.
I award 2 pts to this paragraph.Members of the press, we want to use this occasion to address the general public on issues concerning the sequential press releases of Mr. Samuel Y. Johnson, Sr. and Mr. Isaac Seh Kamara, who are former Secretary General and County President of the National Teachers’ Association of Liberia.
As we address the media today, we will present critical information that is needed for public consumption, with the sole purpose of uncovering some of the misinformation and administrative malpractices of these individuals who think that they are capable of ridiculing the NTAL.
I award 3 pts to this paragraph.To our serviceable teachers and education workers in media land, including those who are in remotest parts of Liberia struggling to educate this generation of inspirational leaders, we plead your indulgence to listen attentively as we drill you through with information appertaining to their inactions and misconducts at the level of the National Teachers’ Association of Liberia – NTAL. I award 2 pts to this paragraph.
“On February 8, 2024, Mr. Samuel Y. Johnson, Sr., the former Secretary General of NTAL and Mr. Isaac Seh Kamara, Former President of Bomi County – NTAL delivered simultaneous press statements against the National Teachers’ Association of Liberia – NTAL stating the following:
1. That the past government, through the Ministry of Education, conspired with the NTAL to get at him (Johnson)2. That the National President, Mrs. Mary W. Mulbah Nyumah was offered a blue jeep in November 2020 by an unknown donor in order to compromise advocacies against the LEAP school.3. That the National President, Mrs. Mary W. Mulbah Nyumah pushed the NTAL Constitution aside and decided to usurp the Office of the Secretary General.
4. A demand by Mr. Isaac Seh Kamara, calling for all NTAL’s accounts to be frozen, pending a comprehensive audit before the end of March, 2024, and5. That the National President, Mrs. Mary W. Mulbah Nyumah violated the Constitution of NTAL, and is illegally operating as National President of NTAL.
Given these claims, we the National Executive Committee (NEC) and the Representative Council (RC) in full attendance have jointly assembled at the National Headquarters to deliver this press conference to inform the public through the media and our hard working teachers and education workers that Mr. Isaac Seh Kamara and Mr. Samuel Y. Johnson, Sr. statements are misleading and have no substance of truth.
Mr. Johnson’s assertion as the current Secretary General of NTAL is a total disaster. And in this open manner, we consider such an act as a serious impersonation and total disregard to the teachers and education workers of Liberia”.
I award 2 pts to this paragraph. It is unfortunate that Mrs. Nyumah and her hired reading assistant did not read the July 28-August 2, 2013 NTAL Constitution and the court documents from the Civil Law Court A at the Temple of Justice.
“We want to reemphasize that after thorough investigation, Mr. Johnson was found guilty and dismissed by the 66th National Delegates Convention, held in Voinjama City, Lofa County on December 28 - 30, 2022 on several counts, which include the following:
1. Refusal to prepare documents, such as meeting minutes, programs, etc. as required by the laws of the NTAL2. Refusal to take instruction from the National President and the Representative Council (RC); 3. Taking decisions without consultation (eg. Sending delegates to represent NTAL, without the approval of the National President of the National Teachers’ Association of Liberia. Mannerless approaches the Council and the National President.
Let this also be known that Mr. Johnson is not a due payer; instead, he was hired and fired after four warning letters on December 6, 2014; February 18, 2020, and March 5, 2021. He was also issued four suspension letters on August 27, 2012 (2 months), March 5, 2021 (1 month), July 9, 2021 (3 months) and February 17, 2022 (indefinite suspension).
His service was finally terminated in line with Article 5.5.1., letters L, M & P of the December 29, 2022 amended Constitution, under the title: Duties and Responsibilities of the Secretary General.Article 5.5.1, letter L states that: “The Secretary General shall Prepare reports, documents, and provide all relevant information at all meetings of the Association as/and when required”.
Article 5.5.1, M states that: “The Secretary General shall be subjected to the terms and conditions of service provided by the National Executive Committee.” And letter P says, “His/her appointment shall be terminated based on proven misconduct pursuant to the DECENT WORK ACT OF 2014.
Members of the Press, the decision to suspend Mr. Samuel Y. Johnson, Sr. met the consensus of the Representative Council. And this decision was approved by the 66th National Delegates Convention. Article 3.2.1 letter I under the title:
“Activities during the course of the National Delegate Convention of the Constitution states that there shall be a National Delegates Convention to be convened every four years.
It shall be the highest decision making body for all matters pertaining to the association. Its decision shall be deemed to be final and binding. In reference, Letter I states that: “The appointment or termination of the Secretary General and all senior staff of the Association shall be rectified”.
We want to reiterate that Mr. Johnson’s dismissal is backed by documents, which we have in our possession.
At no time did the entity pay him off, because he was warned severally, received suspension letters and was suspended for time indefinite that led to his dismissal. Moreover, as a law-abiding institution, never did we burglarize the office of the Secretary General; rather, the Court ordered that the office be turned over to the National Teachers’ Association of Liberia.”
I professionally chose to award 0pt to the above assertion on the following grounds: That Cllr. Moiffee Kanneh gave the wrong legal advice to his client Mrs. Mary W. Mulbah Nyumah et all in that I challenged my indefinite suspension since March 28, 2022 at the Civil Law Court A and the Ministry of Labor.
I wonder how Cllr. Kanneh could allow his client to investigate in my absence at a venue that I was not present and found me guilty.
Moreover, how did Cllr.Moifee Kanneh allow his client to act on so-called amended constitution in taking this “fun loaded” decision when he, Cllr. Kanneh submitted a copy of the Kakata 64th National Delegate Convention from July 28-August 2, 2023 amended the constitution which was marked as Exhibit M1 in bulk?
How did Cllr. Kanneh advise his client to even comment on my case at the well-staged-managed convention where the then Minster of Education, Hon. D. Ansu Sonii sat from the beginning to the end”? Is this how the legal system in Liberia works, Cllr. Kanneh?
Is that part of due process, Cllr. Kanneh, to have allowed your client, Mary Nyumah and her supporters to have participated in an investigation with me but without my presence and found me guilty?
I hope the public, especially H. E. President Joseph Nyumah Boakai is taking due note of the likes of Cllr. Kanneh in the corridor of justice in Liberia. I just like to inform Cllr. Kanneh that my cases at the Monrovia City Court and the Civil Law Court A are still pending.
I hope Cllr. Moifee Kanneh will agree with me that the lies and misleading information given by Mrs. Nyumah and her reading helpers are embarrassing to him as a practicing lawyer.
I hope you will inform Mrs. Nyumah, her external supporters and her in-house supporters that their actions in Voinjama as claimed by them and statement made on March 19, 2024 are affront and contemptuous to the both courts. I will stop here because the matter is still in court.
The reading teachers for Mrs.Nyumah revealed this fearful statement “Moreover, as a law-abiding institution, never did we burglarize the office of the Secretary General; rather, the Court ordered that the office be turned over to the National Teachers’ Association of Liberia”.
I could not waste any time in awarding 0 point here. Now this statement has exposed Cllr. Moifee Kanneh and His Honor Judge Jomah Jallah who ordered my detention at the Monrovia Central Prison on May 23, 2022 on the charge of “Felonious Restraint
Thank God that we have saved the video in many areas for the fullness of time. Cllr. Moifee Kanneh, how did you arrive at this? How could you and the Judge order the bursting of my office door when the case for declaratory judgment at the Civil Law Court “A” was still pending?
Is the Civil Law Court “A” not higher than the Monrovia City Court, Cllr. Kanneh? Was it right in the absence of the assignment and hearing of my case both at the higher court and the lower court at the Temple of Justice for you to have done what you did to my office door? We will keep the video from the NTAL March 19, 2024 purported Press Conference as evidence to demand justice soon.
You and your client, Mrs. Mary W. Mulbah Nyumah will account for my belongings at the appropriate time. I foresee trouble at NASSWCORP, Cllr. Kanneh.
If you would rob an individual employee like me in case that has to do with my human rights, I wonder how you would allow the rights of employees and retirees to prevail at NASSWCORP
I really pity social security beneficiaries who will go to NASSWCORP to claim their benefits during your tenure at NASSWCORP. “In a related development, we are also using this medium to inform you about the Isaac Seh Kamara’s situation at the National Teachers’ Association of Liberia.
Mr. Kamara is parading the media landscape, inciting our teachers and education workers, due to his ineptitude and corruptibility while serving as President of Bomi County NTAL Branch. Mr. Kamara is currently indebted to the organization in the tone of 80,000LD, which he promised to have paid before 65th National Delegates Convention that was held in Zwedru City, Grand Gedeh County in 2018.
This money was borrowed to help him to settle his mother’s medical bills, but said amount has not been paid which led to his disqualification to contest as national president during the 65th National Delegates Convention which was a set criterion by the electoral body.
How can such a person demand a reputable institution for audit, when it’s often stated that “he, who comes with equity, must come with clean hands?”
Is he a real advocate or he’s trying to gain sentiment from the hardworking teachers of Liberia? Can such an individual reconcile the teachers and education workers of Liberia? Unfortunately, he can’t, because he’s incapable of echoing the voices of teachers and education workers of Liberia.
How is it even possible for such an individual to call for audit of the accounts of NTAL?I award 0 point to the above. This is embarrassing Mrs. Nyumah to you.
How could you allow a hired reading aide to mislead the public like this? Your many lies will catch up with you.
Were you and some of your blind supporters not at the NTAL 65th National Delegate Convention in the Auditorium of the Zwedru Multilateral High School on August 15, 2018 when Mr. Isaac Seh Kamara and his supporters opted for an amendment of Article X of the July 28-August 2, 2023 amended constitution so that it could allow him to contest the election and I, Samuel Y. Johnson, Sr. Secretary General of the NTAL and the chairman of the Election Committee overruled on ground that it was impossible for the delegates at the convention to amend the constitution because the votes to amend the constitution required 2/3 majority of the delegates present but it did not meet the required number for the amendment of the NTAL Constitution? Your greed and ingratitude have come close to your neck.
To your reading teacher and those who listened to the hidden-hand financial sponsored Press Conference, let it be clearly noted here that Mr. Isaac Seh Kamara was never disqualified because he did not pay loan. This is a big lie. This further demonstrates your intent for you and your cronies to put your interest above the organization.
Mr. Isaac Seh Kamara was disqualified at the NTAL 65th National Delegate Convention in the Auditorium of the Zwedru Multilateral High School in line with Article IX Sentences 2 & 3 which read “Nomination for all NEC Position should be received by the Secretary General one month before the National Convention" Nomination of President should be suggested by at least five local branches from at least two regions.
Nominations for Mr. Isaac S. Kamara was submitted two weeks to the National Delegate Convention which led to his disqualification.
On August 3, 2016, Mr. Kamara received the amount of $80,000.00LD from the NTAL Finance Department at the Central Office with Vocher #5599 signed by Madam Evelyn S. Kolako, Finance officer of the NTAL and approved by Mr. Samuel Y. Johnson, Sr. , Secretary General and Head of Administration at the NTAL ( please see copy and kindly share it with Mrs. Nyumah and her reading aide).
The arrangement for the payment of this money was to be made to the Bomi County NTAL Branch Account. In fulfillment of his promise thereof, on July 11, 2017, he paid $30,000.00LD; on August 15, 2017, he paid $30,000LD; on September 20, 2017, he paid $15,000LD and on October 14, 2017, he paid $5,000LD respectively.
The above amounts totaled to $80,000.00 LD. The then Secretary of the NTAL Bomi Branch who is now the President received the above amounts and issued receipts ( please share these photocopies with Mrs. Nyumah , her reading aide and her hidden sponsors. )Members of the press, all operations of the National Teachers’ Association of Liberia are guided by the Bylaws and Constitution.
According to Article 7.4.1, under the caption Auditors/Audit: “The Auditors shall work with the Finance Committee and the Secretary General. The report of the internal audit shall be confidential until it is discussed by the NEC and the Representative Council. External Auditors shall be approved by the National Delegate Convention”.
Interestingly, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Kamara was part of the 65th National Delegate Convention which implies that they are aware of the audit.
I awarded 0 point here. Given that this is the main issue raised by the 7 out of 11 National Executive Committee members at the Civil Law Court “A” at the Temple of Justice, we will reserve further comments. We hope the Minster of Education, President of the Republic of Liberia, an integrity icon, the Chief Justice of the Republic of Liberia, The US Embassy, and all Foreign Missions near Monrovia and all rights based organizations will not wait for the worst to happen at the NTAL before intervening.
We are appealing to all lovers of justice to intervene in the assignment of our cases at the Civil Law Court A. We strongly believe that the Civil Law Court A has the trigger to pull in this matter. Once our case is assigned and litigation goes on, the truth will be established and the teachers and education workers of Liberia will know the true color of the people that are leading them.
When truth and lie meet, lie will flee. We have submitted the video from the March 19, 2024 Press Conference to our team of lawyers. “ From the above mentioned, we think that this is a serious disservice to the teachers and education workers of this country and we therefore caution our members and all our partners not to make business with them as they are no longer in the positions they claimed to be holding.
In this vein, we like to appreciate our teachers and education workers for their hard works and not being misled by these falsehoods that have the sole will of tarnishing the professional image of our noble NTAL. Solidarity Forever! Thanks and may God bless our NTAL”.
I awarded one point here because of the Name of God that was mentioned. God will judge us all. Meanwhile, I want to inform Mrs. Nyumah that 80% of those who attended that meeting are not pleased with the way things are going at the NTAL.
They have confided in us that they support our legal actions. To prove that we are on top of what is happening at the NTAL, we have copies and minutes of the agenda of the May 18, 2024 purported and resource depletion Representative Council Emergency Meeting for the Press Statements and conferences by Samuel Y. Johnson and others.
The Agenda included: Opening Prayer Accreditation by the Secretary GeneralWelcome Remark—National President Discussion-National President/SGResponses ----Council MembersA.O.BBenediction Furthermore, I like to read and share copies of the minutes from the meeting. The last but not the least, Mrs. Nyumah, let me inform you that two persons outside of the NTAL visited the NTAL Central Office on Tuesday Morning before the meeting. Let them continue until light will finally shine on them. I thank them for the gift.
I still enjoy the confidence of the majority NEC members of the NTAL unlike you. Just so you know. Now is our time. Like the saying goes, 99 days for a rogue, but one day is for the master. The time for the teachers is now. Until then wait n see. I will take only 5 questions.
SignedSamuel Y. Johnson, Sr.Secretary General, NTAL0777388825
