Liberia: Several Police Officers Under Interrogation Over Record Cocaine Seizure
Sources within the Liberia National Police identified the three officers as Olufemi Briggs, chief of intelligence; Waddell Kwabo, chief of highway patrol; and Anthony Blade, who heads major crimes. Investigators are examining whether the three helped move the narcotics, the sources said. A fourth man, NSA operative Jamal Robert, is also under interrogation.
- ▪Sources within the Liberia National Police identified the three officers as Olufemi Briggs, chief of intelligence; Waddell Kwabo, chief of highway patrol; and Anthony Blade, who heads major crimes.
- ▪Investigators are examining whether the three helped move the narcotics, the sources said.
- ▪A fourth man, NSA operative Jamal Robert, is also under interrogation.
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MONROVIA — Liberia’s police intelligence chief, two other ranking officers and an operative of the National Security Agency have been detained and are being interrogated over the country’s largest ever cocaine seizure after suspects arrested in the case named them to investigators, The Liberian Investigator has learned, as the NSA is now seeking to take the investigation out of police hands. Sources within the Liberia National Police identified the three officers as Olufemi Briggs, chief of intelligence; Waddell Kwabo, chief of highway patrol; and Anthony Blade, who heads major crimes. Investigators are examining whether the three helped move the narcotics, the sources said. A fourth man, NSA operative Jamal Robert, is also under interrogation. None of the four has been charged.
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