Liberia, Aug. 9 -- Jackson K. Kolako, Deputy Superintendent for Operations at the Monrovia Central Prison (MCP), has gone public with a detailed account of his August 1 arrest, alleging he was detained for nearly a week and pressured to surrender his phones and passwords after he tried to enforce standard visitation procedures during an unannounced visit to an inmate connected to Liberia's ongoing multi-million-dollar drug case.

Kolako's account, posted publicly and addressed to several Liberian media outlets and journalists, has not been independently verified by FrontPageAfrica. It represents his version of events. FrontPageAfrica has reached out to the officials named in the statement for comment and will update this story with any r...