George Boley

Dr.George Eutychianus Saigbe Boley (born 7 December 1949) is a Liberian politician and former warlord.[1] He is a member of the Krahn ethnic group. Boley was a junior minister in the administration of President William Tolbert, but was briefly jailed for his associations with opposition groups. He was released on the morning of the 1980 military coup that brought Samuel Doe to power. Boley later became Minister of Presidential Affairs and Minister of Education under President Doe. After Doe's murder in September 1990, he went into exile in the United States, but was deported by the US government in 2012 [2] after being accused of committing atrocities during the civil war including commanding armed child soldiers.[3] He returned to Liberia and took over the leadership of the Liberia Peace Council (LPC), a rebel group that participated in the Liberian Civil War.

Boley participated in the country's first post-war presidential election, held on 19 July 1997. Representing the National Democratic Party of Liberia (NDPL), he won only 1.26% of the vote.

References
  1. "George Boley, Liberian Warlord, Is Finally Under Arrest". The Atlantic. 27 January 2010.
  2. "Liberia ex-warlord George Boley to be deported from US". BBC. 7 February 2012.
  3. pages/Gary-Craig/818017588256577?ref=aymt_homepage_panel. "Feds say former Clarkson man lied to help Liberian warlord". Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Retrieved 10 April 2019.

He was Elected in the October 10th 2017 Presidential and Legislative Elections to Represent his home County of Grand Gedeh District # 2 in the House of Representatives comprising the 54th Legislator of The Republic of Liberia..He is also an avid reader who runs a commercial pastoral farm named Country Farms in his native County of Grand Gedeh in Southeastern Liberia.


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