Gloria Sheriff Doe, President of the Sierra Leone community in Liberia has in an interview with complained harassment and suppression of Sierra Leonean migrants living in Liberia for residential permit and other documents.
She said they are mostly arrested and detained except for the intervention of the community which she said is mostly costly to them.
The cost of the residential permit in Liberia according to Mrs. Doe is 250 U.S dollars and 100 dollars renewal fees.
She stated that it's difficult for many Sierra Leonean migrants living there which has resulted in regular embarrassment.
At a meeting attended by Sierra Leone's ambassador to Liberia, Eddie S Massally, the deputy ambassador Jonathan Saffa and the head of chancery Sia A. Tejan and Liberia security personnel including immigration Services, Ambassador Massally expressed concern over the security and protection of Sierra Leoneans residing in Liberia.
He noted manner in which his citizens a being arrested and detained for documents including Residential and Work Permits, and raised on how these issues could be addressed.
The deputy ambassador Jonathan Saffa and an online sales group calling itself QNET, which has a branch in Sierra Leone, was the caused of the situation that most Sierra Leoneans in Liberia are faced with. He stated that the company has been defrauding Sierra Leoneans of thousands of dollars in the name of traveling abroad or on the pretense of giving them scholarship opportunities.
He said it was only arrival in Liberia that they realized that the company was not genuine and at that time they would been stranded and would then call in the embassy for support.
The head of chancery, Sia A. Tejan with the representative of the Monrovia City Council to ask the mayor to talk to the relevant authorities to grant Sierra Leoneans residing in Liberia the opportunity to take the covid-19 vaccine.
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