Daylite mail assistant6/9/2023 But the dispute reemerged in 2018 after Gayflor Washington, an assistant minister at the Ministry of Education and member of the Washington family, claimed 400 acres of land the townspeople of Luyeama said was outside of their boundary. The conflict started in 1971 and was settled in 1978. “That is the only way the problem will be solved.”įorkpa denied the accusation, and after a two-month trial, the court acquitted him of the charge.įorpka’s ordeal is the latest in a 50-year-old land conflict involving Luyeama and Washington Village. “That this small number of people in this village, we only supposed to surround them and kill all of them,” Forkpa Washington, his accuser, alleged that he said after Washington and other men from the village had gone on the land, according to documents from the Zorzor Magisterial Court. LUYEAMA, Lofa County – John Forpka, 55, a resident of Luyeama, was jailed in August after a townsman from the neighboring Washington Village accused him of terroristic threat over a parcel of farmland between both communities. Banner Image: Luyeama Town in Zorzor District, Lofa County.
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