Claim: “Liberia's Drug Enforcement Agency has suspended officers who recently failed drug tests aimed at restoring the institution's Integrity.”
Source: Shine Liberia
Verdict: True
Full Text: On November 12, 2025, Shine Liberia, a Liberian Blog that operates actively on Facebook, made a post thanking the Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency for suspending officers who failed Drug Tests. In their post, the blog claimed that “Liberia's Drugs.
Enforcement Agency has suspended officers who recently failed drug tests aimed at restoring the institution's Integrity.” The post, which was later taken down, generated 149 reactions, 15 comments, and 2 shares.
The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) is a semi-autonomous agency under the supervisory authority of the Ministry of Justice, responsible for effective and efficient enforcement of laws pertaining to controlled drugs, substances, and precursors, including essential chemicals. LDEA plays a drug-crime focused role in national law enforcement. The agency implements measures to protect the territorial borders of Liberia from the importation and exportation of drugs and controlled substances.
Drug testing for government officials isn't new under the current administration. In February 2024, President Boakai did his drug test and was tested negative along with an array of government officials, particularly from the Executive branch according to a press release from the Executive Mansion.
“The President of the Republic of Liberia H.E. Joseph Nyuma Boakai has tested negative of drugs and other illegal substances after he led an array of government officials to undergo the examination at the Executive Mansion.
President Boakai’s action to avail himself to the examination conducted by the renowned Wellness Partners Clinic under the auspices of his Committee on Drugs & Substance Abuse headed by the Ministry of Health is in fulfillment of commitment made that he would leave no stone unturned in combating the prevalence of drugs and other substance abuse.”- the release stated. Link to the press release can be found here.
Verification: To verify the claim, we contacted G. Olando Demey, the Public Relations person of the LDEA and he confirmed the claim. “Yes, It's right.”- Olando replied.
We reviewed the LDEA’s official Facebook page and found evidence of the claim in a September 22, 2025 live Facebook press conference link here and a September 23, 2025 press release link here.
“I am pleased to report that the testing process for LDEA headquarters and Bomi County has been completed.
However, it is with disappointment that we inform the public that six officers assigned to Bomi County tested positive for illicit drug abuse.
These officers include: Larwou Yekeh, C. Tony Granett, Nyumah Millimono, Lawrence J. Fejue, Milton Berh, all volunteers, and Roosevelt T. Kollie, specimen #M-43SEC-3, who is an employee of LDEA.
These volunteer officers are hereby discharged from all activities of LDEA. Roosevelt T. Kollie is being suspended indefinitely with immediate effect and turned over to the LDEA’s Professional Standards Division for investigation.” - the press release stated on September 23, 2025 via LDEA Facebook page.
The LDEA Head statement on the six officers suspension can also be found from 2:46 to 3:58 of a September 22, 2025 press conference.
Conclusion: The claim that officers of the LDEA were suspended due to Drug Test failure is True according to information gathered from the LDEA Public Relations and a video from the Empire TV Bassa which the LDEA Boss is heard making the announcement.
