FROM ARCHIVES: ENCOUNTER WITH GENERAL PRINCE YORMIE JOHNSON

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Recall the gory video scene of the killing of then President Samuel Doe of Liberia. There was the beer-guzzling Prince Yormie Johnson sitting in judgment over the captured and tied up Doe who was begging for his life: “Yormie, two people fight, one win. Spare me, Yormie please.” The selfsame Yormie Johnson used to live in exile in Ikoyi, Lagos, and I once had a memorable encounter with him.  No appointment was fixed with the former warlord. No telephone calls. Nothing. I simply appeared unannounced at…

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