MONROVIA, Oct. 13 -- Days after a jury at Criminal Court "C" adjudged her guilty in the Saudi Rice corruption case, former National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) official Rosetta L. Gbassay Bowah has rejected the verdict, declaring her innocence in a Facebook post.

By Selma Lomax, selma.lomax@frontpageafricaonline.com

In the lengthy statement, she thanked family, friends, colleagues and fellow clergy for an outpouring of prayers, encouragement, solidarity and love since Friday. She said the support had "renewed my confidence in the face of circumstances that were clearly intended to break me." As the legal process continues, she said, she wishes to reassure her supporters of her "absolute innocence" and her confidence that "the trut...