Those Grand Gedeans said “the days of marginalization are over” for their county and southeast region. All we saw was a rehabilitation of road: road that was destroyed by their rockets,” he said. The 18 Grand Gedeans were arrested and charged by state security in 2011 and 2012 during cross-border scuffle in neighboring La Côte d’Ivoire. Four of the remaining nine Grand Gedeans convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment were granted executive clemency by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. The Grand Gedeans were accused in 2012 of carrying out mercenary activities in that sisterly nation.

Source: Front Page Africa January 18, 2018 02:26 UTC