- Title: LIBERIA: HEARING AGAINST BRIGADIER-GENERAL DAVID LANSANA
- Date: 25th June 1968
- Summary: SIERRA LEONE FOREIGN MINISTER AND ATTORNEY-GENERAL INTO COURT; LANSANA AND WIFE INTO COURT; LANSANA IN COURT ROOM. Initials JP/VS/CT/OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 10th July 1968 13:00
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- Location: MONROVIA, LIBERIA
- Country: Liberia
- Reuters ID: LVADLK3KE25FMYBK6HT2JLQGG5D2
- Story Text: THE GOVERNMENT OF SIERRA LEONE IS APPLYING TO A POLICE COURT IN MONROVIA, LIBERIA, FOR THE EXTRADITION OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL DAVID LANSANA. GENERAL LANSANA, WHO WAS INVOLVED IN LAST YEAR'S MILITARY COUP IN SIERRA LEONE, HAS BEEN DESCRIBED BY SIERRA LEONE AS A FUGITIVE. HE IS ACCUSED OF WRONGFULLY ARRESTING MR. SIAKA STEVENS, NOW RESTORED AS PRIME MINISTER.
SIERRA LEONE'S FOREIGN MINISTER, MR. L. A. M. BREWAH, AND THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL, MR. R. RENNER, ARE LEADING THE EXTRADITION PROCEEDING IN MONROVIA. THEY HAVE APPLIED FOR EXTRADITION UNDER A TREATY BETWEEN BRITAIN AND ITS DEPENDANT TERRITORIES AND LIBERIA IN 1892. BUT GENERAL LANSANA'S COUNSEL HAS REJECTED THE CLAIM ON THE GROUNDS THAT SIERRA LEONE IS NOW INDEPENDENT.
AFTER STARTING LAST YEAR'S COUP, GENERAL LANSANA FELL OUT WITH HIS BROTHER OFFICERS AND WAS APPOINTED CONSUL-GENERAL IN NEW YORK. WHEN JUNIOR ARMY AND POLICE OFFICERS OUSTED THE SIERRA LEONE MILITARY JUNTA IN APRIL AND HANDED BACK THE ADMINISTRATION TO CIVILIANS , GENERAL LANSANA WAS RECALLED. HE REFUSED TO COME HOME AND WENT TO LIBERIA.
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