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Monrovia – On Tuesday night, a vehicle type identified as a Pathfinder SUV rammed into Liberia’s only blackboard news outlet, Daily Talk, causing extensive damage to its wooden stall, something which is outrightly being ruled out as an accident rather, a deliberate attack on free speech, according to the blackboard newspaper’s Managing Editor, Mr. Alfred Sirleaf.
Daily Talk is famous in the country, and has for some years now disseminated information via blackboard reportage to several Liberians, who usually gather in droves at the news outlet’s ideal location along the popularly commuted Tubman Boulevard, at the intersection of the road leading to the densely populated James Spring Payne Airfield Community.
Although he did not say who and why would someone want to destroy Daily Talk by ramming a vehicle through its ceiling panelled structure, Sirleaf told Punch online service Wednesday, “the guys don’t want us to talk, but we will continue to talk.”
“This was done intentionally I’m not fighting government, I’m just informing and educating the Liberian people,” said Sirleaf.
Alfred claims the car-ramming incident that damaged Daily Talk’s newsstand was the handiwork of someone who do not like the work they are doing at the blackboard news outlet.
He said he was very disappointed and discouraged because as a result of what has happened to Daily Talk, many Liberians, for whom he has made countless sacrifices at the peril of his life, will be deprived a major source of information for some time.
Alfred disclosed that according to information gathered from the security guard on duty Tuesday night, the driver of the Pathfinder SUV whose license plate number was not picked up, came from the direction of Oldest Congo Town and was headed towards central Monrovia when the driver veered off the mani Tubman Boulevard and crashed into the Daily Talk structure, upon which the driver hurriledy fled the scene with his vehicle.
“I don’t think it was an accident. The guy came from Congo Town, avoided the steel pillars and came to the front and hit the board, I want to believe this act was deliberate,” Afraid narrated circumstances surrounding the action of the driver who carried out the car-ramming against Daily Talk.
