A female resident of Gardnersville has complained the township commissioner Dio Himmie Elliott to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for allege harassment, intimation and abuse of power.
Mrs. Fatu Service said Commissioner Elliott is in the constant habit of insulting her in public and issuing terroristic threat against her.
The complainant recalled that in recent time, the commissioner ordered Drugs Enforcement (LDEA) officer to arrest and detain her in a cell holding hardened male criminals and drug traffickers as though she has committed said crime.
While she was being taken to jail, the complainant allege that the Gardnersville commissioner follow her saying “even Joseph Boakai, the President of Liberia will not be able to release you”.
Mrs. Fatu Service explained further that she was made to remain standing for several hours as there was no enough space in the crowed cell to accommodate her and other inmate.
Sharing her ordeal and hash treatment behind bar with this paper in tears, the complainant disclosed that she remained in the standing position in the cell despite appeals by bystanders and well-wishers to have her release.
She explained that the clear intent of the arrest was to bring her to public ridicule and make it to appeal as though she is a drugs trafficker, only because the commissioner want to illegally take possession of her husband properties.
Mrs. Fatu Service disclosed that Dio Himmie Elliott is known for using his position as commissioner of the township to dislocate resident from their land and sell it to others only to satisfy his thirst for money and wealth.
She maintained that those who try to resist him are publically molested, harassed and detain on false charges, such as possessing drugs and other banned substances.
Fatu Service said, she was detained in a male cell in order to expose her to sexual harassment by the inmates and link her to drug trafficking.
The complainant in her complain, called on women around the country to rise up against abuse of women right by condemning the attack on her freedom.
When contacted, Commissioner Elliott admitted ordering the arrest but stressed that the action had no other anterior motive rather than to discipline her for showing disrespect to authority.
He explained that the complainant in a clear attempt to molest him in front of his family, arrived at his resident one morning unannounced and began raining insult on him, allegedly taking possession of a piece of land belonging to her husband Mr. Koko Service.