Liberia’s jailed ex-President  Charles Taylor  demands pension from the Liberian government.The jailed president wrote to the country’s legislators demanding his withheld state pension.

Charles Taylor wants an annual state pension of $25,000 (£15,600).

“I am without notice as to why finance ministers of the republic have failed and/or refused to comply with the law of the land as regards my annuities,” Taylor wrote in the letter.

In his letter ,Taylor requested that his pension money be made available to his wife, Victoria, three of his daughters and other family members living in his Monrovia home,The Liberian Times reports

Liberian Senate Secretary Nanborloh Singbeh said the letter would be discussed by MPs next week.The letter purportedly from Taylor says the withholding of his presidential pension is a “mammoth injustice”.

Liberian Senate Secretary Nanborloh Singbeh said the letter would be discussed by MPs next week.
The letter purportedly from Taylor says the withholding of his presidential pension is a “mammoth injustice”.

In may last year , a UN-backed court sentenced him to 50 years in prison on 11 counts of war crimes.He became the first former head of state to be convicted on such charges by an international court since the Nuremburg trials of Nazis after World War II.

By UP