11/15/2025
---EX-AFL SOLDIER WANTS GOV'T KEEPS EYES ON TRANSPORTATION OF HUMAN REMAINS (CORPSES)
---As Drug Fight Intensifies.
Three months after he advanced series of strategies to strengthen the fight against drugs, Captain Jerry K. Kollie, former soldier of the Armed Forces of Liberia, has again, recommended new set of intelligence measures to further tighten the already intenfied fight against illicit drugs and other controlled substances.
Speaking Friday, November 14, 2025, in Paynesville, following his regular "Say No To Drugs" meeting with some community youths, Captain Kollie called on the government to, through relevant security agencies, adopt an effective mechanism to monitor the movement, preservation and transportation of corpses (dead bodies) into the country.
Kollie said, from his training as a soldier, particularly a military intelligence officer, there is high possibility that drug cartels could, or are infiltrating families, hospitals and funeral homes to exploit a very sensitive but yet vulnerable avenue of human cargo transportation to snuggle drugs into the country.
He expressed fear that drug cartels, traffickers and dealers could use, or perhaps using their huge financial capacities and influence to tempt some bereaved family members to allow them conseal drugs in the coffins (caskets) or the lifeless bodies of their relatives and loved ones, and then transport them to Liberia, in a highly possible syndicate of financial inducement between foreign and local hospitals and funeral homes.
Captain Kollie suggested that if, due to financial constraints, the government is unable to deploy intelligence agents out of the country to monitor and track the movement of corpses (dead bodies) in foreign hospitals, funeral homes and airline and vehicular transportation facilities, those measures can still be achieved at ports of entry, hospitals and funeral facilities in Liberia.
He also called on the government, particularly the Legislature, to increase budgetary support to the Navy and Coast Guard of the Armed Forces of Liberia to enhance patrol and monitoring on Liberia's territorial waters because, maritime transportation is one of the avenues used by drugs traffickers.
It can be recalled that Captain Kollie, on August 10, 2025, seventy-two hours after the massive "Say No To Drugs" march, issued several suggestions or recommendations to the government on how to enhance the fight against drugs.
Among several measures, he urged government to review diplomatic immunities and other exception protocols for senior government officials because intelligence reports suggest the high possibility that some unscrupulous officials were abusing their immunity at airports and other ports of entry to either smuggle or facilitate the smuggling of drugs into the country.
Kollie also recommended that Government, through the Foreign Ministry, works closely with foreign counterparts and diplomatic missions to ensure that diplomats, or people acting under diplomatic cover, do not abuse their immunity and other privileges to import or traffic drugs in Liberia, a call which he said is also based on the possibility that some foreign diplomats are abusing their immunity to smuggle drugs or facilitate the trafficking of drugs.
The ex-AFL Captain also challenged the National Security Agency (NSA), Executive Protective Service (EPS), Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA), and the Liberia National Police (LNP), to look closely at all official motorcades/convoys, including those of the President, Vice President, Speaker, Chief Justice, President Pro-Tempore, and other senior officials that are traveling under es**rt. This, according to him, is because illegal or illicit activities could be taking place in those motorcades (convoys), maybe not necessarily to the knowledge of the es**rted VIPs.
He emphasized that exceptions and considerations on traveling local and international bishops, inmans, clerics, and other high-profile religious leaders, must be reviewed, because there are reasons to believe that people could be hiding behind the Bible, Quran and other religious symbols to smuggle drugs.
Jerry Kollie, a vocal anti-nacautic activist, stressed the need for celebrities, in all categories, to be subjected to regular routine search with no preferential treatment at all ports of entry, to avoid people hiding behind their celebrity status to evade thorough search, because there's possibility also, that some of these celebrities could be abusing their fames to carry drugs.
He called on families alert authorities about the suspected criminal behaviors or activities of their relatives, friends and loved ones, because and refrain from shielding their suspected criminal because they benefit from their unlawful acts.
