Ministry of National Defense (Liberia)

The Ministry of National Defense (MOD) is the government ministry responsible for the maintenance of the national defense and the governance of the military of Liberia, the Armed Forces of Liberia.

Ministry of Defence of Liberia
Agency overview
Formed25 February 1955 (1955-02-25)
JurisdictionGovernment of Liberia
HeadquartersBarclay Training Center, Monrovia
Minister responsible
  • Major General Daniel Ziankahn, Minister of Defense
Agency executives
  • Tibli Olandrus Dickson.[1][2], Deputy Minister for Administration
Websitemod.gov.lr

History

An amendment to the Liberian Constitution allowed the previously named War Department to be renamed the Department of National Defense on February 25, 1955.[3] Then, during the early years of President William Tolbert's Administration after 1971, all departments were renamed Ministries and thus the organization became the Ministry of National Defense. Retired General Ziankahn remains the Minister of Defence.[4]

List of ministers[5]

Secretaries of War and the Navy (1848-1971)
  • Joseph Jenkins Roberts (1848-1876)
  • Reginald A. Sherman (1876-1892)
  • Colonel Anthony D. Williams, Jr. (1892-1900)[6]
  • George B. Padmore
  • Robert T. Sherman
  • Wilmot H. Dennis
  • Columbus Harris
  • Isaac Moart
  • James F. Cooper
  • B.W. Payne
  • James W. Cooper
  • Momolu Massaquoi
  • Joseph Dennis
  • Henry Reed Cooper
  • J. Foulton Dunbar
  • Wilkins Tyler
  • Isaac Whisnant
  • Ernest C.B. Jones
  • Ernest J. Yancy
  • Harrison Grisby
  • Robert A. Brewer (c. 1967-1971)[7]

Ministers of Defense (1971-present)

Building

The Ministry's three-story building used to be located on Benson Street in downtown Monrovia, but upon the conclusion of the DynCorp army training effort in Liberia, moved to the Barclay Training Center, also located in central Monrovia, in July 2009. In early August 2009 the Ministry's Comptroller was dismissed, apparently for misappropriating US$50,000 intended for paying soldiers of the rebuilt AFL.[17]

See also

References
  1. http://www.mod.gov.lr/content.php. http://www.marshallcenter.org/mcpublicweb/en/component/content/article/4-cat-mc-news/653-art-mc-new-09-02.html, accessed 2018
  2. http://www.mod.gov.lr/content.php?/forum/viewtopic/id/375
  3. 'Looking at the LNG Brigade,' Armed Forces Day Brochure, 1973-74, Ministry of National Defense, via University of Liberia Library.
  4. Ministry, Front page
  5. "About the MOD – Ministry of National Defense". Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  6. Liberia. American Colonization Society. 1897.
  7. Pathé, British. "Liberia: Nation Celebrates 120 Years Of Independence". www.britishpathe.com. Retrieved 2022-12-27.
  8. Dunn, Elwood D.; Beyan, Amos J.; Burrowes, Carl Patrick (2000-12-20). Historical Dictionary of Liberia. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-5931-0.
  9. (PDF) https://www.fordlibrarymuseum.gov/library/document/0126/1489712.pdf. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. Dunn, Beyan & Burrowes 2001, p. 112.
  11. Stephen Ellis, The Mask of Anarchy, Hurst & Co., London, 2001, p.118 or 255. Allison was charged and later convicted of ritual killing. Ellis cited Kappel and Korte, Human Rights Violations in Liberia 1980–90: A Documentation, Liberia Working Group, Bremen, 1990, pp.223-5
  12. Huband 2013, p. 134.
  13. Williams 2002, p. 129.
  14. Ministry of National Defense (Liberia), Armed Forces Today, Vol. 2, No.1, February 11, 2008, p.21-23. Note that this list is a composite of both the MND listing and Dunn, Beyan, and Burrowes. Dunn et al list Pearson and Karpeh which the MND does not.
  15. "TLC Africa Internet Magazine". www.tlcafrica.com. Archived from the original on November 3, 2004. Retrieved 2019-09-25.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  16. New Dawn (23 January 2018). "Liberia: Weah Appoints Army Chief of Staff As Minister". AllAfrica. Retrieved 5 February 2022.
  17. Corruption at Ministry of Defense? (Comptroller Sacked for 'Eating' US$50,000 Soldiers' Pay ), August 9, 2009
  • Dunn, Elwood D.; Beyan, Amos J.; Burrowes, Carl Patrick (2000). Historical Dictionary of Liberia. Lanham, MD.: Scarecrow Press, Inc.
  • M. Burleigh Holder, "The Hand of God," Xlibris Corporation, April 2006.
  • Huband, Mark (2013). The Liberian Civil War. Taylor and Francis. ISBN 9781135252144.
  • Williams, Gabriel I.H. (2002). Heart of Darkness. Trafford Publishing.
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