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Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>Despite some commitments to co-exist, Liberia\u2019s brutal civil war had left years of bitter relationships between citizens from Nimba and Grand Gedeh Counties because there were events when the war took tribal lines, and Liberians killed each other senselessly.<\/p>\n

<\/b>Grand Gedeh County Senator and former Liberian top warlord Thomas Yaya Nimely has opened ethnic wounds in an outburst against the maltreatment of his kinsmen by the people of Nimba County.<\/p>\n

In Senate chambers this week, Nimely explained that Grand Gedeans have opened their arms of friendship with Nimbaians, allowing intermarriages and property acquisition in his county, but Nimbaians are not reciprocating.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, we can boast more than 17,000 Nimbaians in Grand Gedeh County. They are in every village and town, digging gold, setting traps, marrying our sisters, loving our wives\u2014they are all over the place,\u201d said Mr. Nimely.<\/p>\n

He directed his complaint to Nimba County\u2019s political \u2018godfather,\u2019 Senator Prince Yormie Johnson, another former Liberian warlord under whose rebel command then-sitting President Samuel Kanyon Doe was brutally murdered.<\/p>\n

\u201cNimba County is not reciprocating. You are not accepting Krahn people into Nimba County. That is a serious problem for me,\u201d Senator Nimely complained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we accept you and your children, your brothers are buying land, and they\u2019re living with us, and we are inter-marrying, you should have that moral and religious obligation to accept us,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

Senator Nimely said every Krahn person who lives in Nimba will have to lie that they are either Grebo or Kru.<\/p>\n

Citing some examples, he told a story of a Nimba lady who was so much in love with a Krahn man that she decided to take him to her parents.<\/p>\n

Sen. Nimely said that upon realizing that their daughter had brought a Krahn man, the lady was told that the man had to leave Nimba.<\/p>\n

However, he narrated that the man died from poisoning through liquor in one week after the lady refused to allow her man to leave.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Sen. Nimely said another Krahn man also died from liquor poisoning in Nimba.<\/p>\n

In response, Nimba Senator Prince Yormie Johnson said what his colleague did was not good but to disgrace the people of Nimba.<\/p>\n

Johnson said he had just heard from Nimely that someone from Grand Gedeh had been poisoned, noting that they both visit each other\u2019s offices, and it was not fair to bring the matter in public.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat you said today was a disgrace to the people of Nimba. I have been here long, that did not come to your attention, to our attention,\u201d said Johson.<\/p>\n

He questioned Grand Gedeh Senator Zoe Emmanuel Pennue and why he did not reveal this information if he knew of Grand Gedeans being poisoned by Nimbaians.<\/p>\n

Sen. Johnson argued that during the past election, Sen. Nimely urged the people of Grand Gedeh not to vote for his Nimba kinsmen.<\/p>\n

Johnson lamented that Nimely has again indicted the people of Nimba for not allowing the people of Grand Gedeh to migrate to Nimba.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone is allowed to migrate [to] whatever county they want to go to. If you keep yourself conservative and don\u2019t travel and settle there, well, it\u2019s up to you,\u201d said Johnson.<\/p>\n

He called on his colleague, Sen. Nimely, to maintain the peace in spoken words and in all that he does.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Liberia. Despite some commitments to co-exist, Liberia\u2019s brutal civil war had left years of bitter relationships between citizens from Nimba and Grand Gedeh Counties because there were events when the war took tribal lines, and Liberians killed each other senselessly. Grand Gedeh County Senator and former Liberian top warlord Thomas Yaya Nimely has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":55710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-55711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-liberia","tag-liberia"],"yoast_head":"\nSen. 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