By Garmah Lomo
The suspended boss of the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA), Col. Abraham Kromah, has ended his testimony in the US$6m drug case.
On Tuesday, October 8, 2024, Kromah testified that he often uses drugs peddlers and takers of drugs to gather information on George Obi, alias Japan’s residence along the Japan Freeway when he was at the LDEA.
When quizzed by Japan’s lawyers when he, AB Kromah, got to know that “Japan” was involved with dealing drugs, Col. Kromah serving as subpoena witness said he had no knowledge on Defendant George Obi being in affiliation with drugs peddlers, distributors and even managing drugs ban until he (AB Kromah) became a Director General at the LDEA when he got intelligence from state securities and ordinary citizens.
“I had no clue to that until becoming a Director of the Agency and that’s how state securities and other people told me,” he said. “So, I was shock when people told me about him being a peddler, so as an experienced law enforcement practitioner, I did not hold it against Japan.”
Responding to defense lawyer’s question about relationship, Kromah said he did not know at first that Japan was a drugs dealer and distributor in the Japan Freeway area but instead as a car spare parts businessman because he (Kromah) used to carry his vehicle to be fixed.
“Obi has been in the community doing spare parts business on cars; he’s expensive and never gave discount to me as his customer so to find out that he was dealing drugs began very confusing to me when I took over as the LDEA Boss,” AB Kromah further testified.
Recently, Japan on the witness stand accused Col. Kromah of owing his spare parts business US$2,700 and refused to pay after making several promises.
He contended that it was because of Kromah’s indebtedness to him and unwillingness to pay back that led a search and seizure warrant by Kromah to Obi’s house, planting drugs in his compound.
But AB denied the allegation. He said he doesn’t owe Japan any money.
“First of all, I don’t owe Japan. I owed Obi zero cent,” Kromah said. “There is no way Japan will allow me owed him such money because Obi doesn’t allow his customer credit his spare parts. If he did, immediately he will send his boys to you to pay his money even if it’s five cent , you will pay.’
In another development, women honored Col. Abraham Kromah moment after he was discharged from the witness stand by the Judge Blamo Dixon after the defense lawyers had rested with him.
The two women said, the honoring of Col. Kromah was for his unwavering spirit in fighting drugs and they called on President Joseph Nyumah Boakai to reinstate Director Kromah to continue his fight with drugs because their children are dying on a daily basis from this deadly killer called drugs.
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