Former President George M. Weah has accused the administration of Joseph Boakai of “undermining” the rule of law by engaging in a “witch-hunt” of officials who served during his time in office, threatening to use both “legal and political” means  to resist calls for their arrest.

Information Minister Jerolinmek M. Piah has, however, denied the witch-hunt claim, noting that officials of the intergrity institutions that conducted the investigations which led to the arrests were appointed by the Weah administration, not Boakai.