Pennsylvania, Phidelaphia, Monday, December 26, 2022: The Political leader of the People’s Liberation Party (PLP), Dr. Daniel E. Cassell, 56, has died.
According to family and PLP sources who confirmed the news to PUNCH, Dr. Cassell died early Monday morning of heart attack at his Pennsylvania, Philadelphia home in the United States of America.
The trained mental health professional was a renowned businessman who not only founded the Kwenyan Professional Health Services, but was licensed a professional counselor in Pennsylvania, and a licensed clinical drugs and alcohol counselor in New Jersey, which enabled him to begin his career in private practice. After a year in private practice, his agency was approved by the New Jersey Division of Child Behavioral Health as an intensive in-home and community provider.
Dr. Cassell would later enter Liberian politics in 2022 by announcing his candidacy for the presidential slot in the 2023 elections through his People’s Liberation Party.
As the political leader and vision bearer of the PLP, Dr. Cassell would become one of the fiercest critics of the Weah government, seizing on every opportunity to lament over what he termed as the excessive bad governance of the Weah-led government.
To back his words with deeds that his PLP actually came to redeem the people of Liberia, Dr. Cassell in a relatively short time started to greatly impact the lives of thousands of Liberians across the country through the provision of cheap and affordable public transport system, reconstruction of bridges across the country, provision of grants to vulnerable populations, as well as making scholarships available to needy deserving student.
As his fame soured at home with the citizens, Liberians were rudely awakened in March of this year when news broke out that Dr. Cassell was facing investigation in the United States of America on fraud charges.
The news of Dr. Cassell facing investigation over fraud became prominent following Internet reports indicating that the PLP leader had been arrested on Thursday, March 17, 2022 by the Clayton County Sheriff’s office for fraud.
It is not yet established what might have triggered the PLP political leader’s health situation leading to his “untimely death”. It is also not clear whether the status of his fraud investigation might have anything to do with his health situation.
But what is certain is that Liberia’s opposition camp is suddenly bereft of a maverick politician whose lamentations against bad governance continued to irk the governors, while he himself continued to put his money where his mouth was.
