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| Professor Alhaji G.V. Kromah, affectionately known |
Vojama,
Lofa County - Reports surfacing in the offices of FrontPage Africa say the standard bearer of the All Liberian Coalition Party and professor of the University of Liberia Alhaji G. V. Kromah is recovering from carbon monoxide poisoning and his bodyguard found dead as a result of the same incident.
Family sources informed FrontPage Africa late Tuesday night that the episode occurred last Saturday evening in Voinjama where the professor had gone to partake in the party’s primary exercise.
According to family members, the situation unfolded when the professor was taking a nap along with his bodyguard who inadvertently forgot to turn off an indoor generator that did not have external vents before falling asleep causing him Kromah suffocate. His body guard did not survive.
As family members later discovered the stiff body of the professor’s bodyguard in his room, Kromah was instantaneously rushed at the Tellewoyan Memorial Hospital for emergency medical attention where he reportedly spent two days before being rushed to Monrovia for further treatment.
Details of professor Kromah’s health could not be totally verified by FrontPage Africa following the incident, but hospital sources have cited the professor’s condition as serious.
Kromah, currently chairman of the board of the Liberia Broadcasting System, has previously served as a special assistant to the Vice President and later Assistant Information Minister during the regime of President William R. Tolbert, before becoming Director General of the Liberian Broadcasting System in 1982 and Minister of Information in 1984 under President Samuel Doe. He went into exile in June 1990, months after the civil war began in Liberia.
He later co-founded the United Liberia Movement for Democracy(ULIMO) a resistance armed group that forced Charles Taylor to a negotiating table that eventually brought tangible political solution to the Liberian conflict. ULIMO split into two factions in 1994, with Kromah leading one faction known as ULIMO-K. Its power base was in northwestern Liberia, in and around Lofa County.
After the war ended, Kromah contested the 19 July 1997 presidential election representing the All Liberia Coalition Party(ALCOP). He placed third, winning 4.02% of the vote. Prof. Kromah ran again as the party's presidential candidate in the 11 October 2005 elections in which he was again defeated, receiving 2.8% of the vote.
