Liberia, Aug. 26 -- A social media advocate says the Justice Minister's official vehicle traces back to drug cartel money. The Ministry says it traces back to a formal request, a government fleet, and a supplier called Dutch Health BV - and that nobody has shown the evidence connecting the two.

By Rodney D. Sieh | rodney.sieh@frontpageafricaonline.com

MONROVIA - There is a particular kind of controversy that does not begin with a scandal at all, but with a vehicle - a white SUV parked outside a ministry, a license plate somebody photographed, a question that starts on social media and ends, a few days later, in front of a Senate committee.

That is roughly the shape of the week Attorney General N. Oswald Tweh has had. He "voluntarily" a...