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| The Late President Gyude Bryant |
REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA
MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
MONROVIA, LIBERIA
Press
Release
For
Immediate Release
(MONROVIA, THURSDAY MAY 8, 2014): The Government of Liberia
has released the Protocol for the signing of the Book of Condolence and funeral
arrangements for the Former Chairman of the National Transitional Government of
Liberia (LNTG), His Excellency Charles Gyude Bryant.
The Book of Condolence for the late Former
Chairman will be opened on Monday May 12, 2014 in the Foyer of the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs beginning at 9:O’clock ante meridian (AM) to 5:O’clock post meridian
(PM).
A Foreign Ministry release quotes the Protocol
as saying that President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf will lead Members of the Cabinet
in signing the Book of Condolence, to be followed by Vice President Joseph N.
Boakai, the Speaker and Members of the National Legislature, and the Chief
Justice & Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of Liberia.
Former Heads of State and Former Vice Heads
of State of Liberia, the Doyen and Members of the Diplomatic Corps, Consular
Corps, and the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United
Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) as well as heads of international organizations
will then follow in the signing of the Book of Condolence.
According to the release, the Clergy and Imams,
other officials of Government including Heads of Public Corporations,
Autonomous Agencies, Bureaus and Commissions, former officials of Government, heads
of political parties and civil society organizations to be followed by the
general public on Tuesday, May 13, 2014.
The remains of the Former Chairman will be
removed from the Samuel A. Stryker Funeral Parlors at 4 PM and taken to the
Trinity Cathedral on Broad Street for one night of wake keeping commencing at 6
PM on Tuesday, May 13, 2014.
On Wednesday, May 14, 2014, beginning at 10
AM, funeral rites over the remains of Former Chairman Bryant will be said at
the Trinity Cathedral on Broad Street, Monrovia, to be followed by internment
at the Crozierville Cemetery in Montserrado County.
The Former Chairman of the NTGL died on April
16, 2014 at the John F. Kennedy (JFK) Medical Center in Monrovia. He was
Liberia’s last interim leader who led the country to democratic elections in
2005 after serving from 2003 to 2006.
Signed:
Horatio
Bobby Willie
ASSISTANT MINISTER/PUBLIC AFFAIRS