Monrovia, Aug. 13 -- Two months into Liberia's biggest-ever drug cases, a troubling question remains unanswered: who is actually being held accountable?

By Gerald C. Koinyeneh, gerald.koinyeneh@frontpageafricaonline.com

Foreign nationals arrested in the record US$317 million Duazon warehouse cocaine bust have become the most visible faces of the investigation, while Liberian suspects named in writs of arrest-including suspects in the earlier US$19 million Roberts International Airport cocaine case-have largely disappeared from public view, with little visible movement toward trial.

At the same time, the scandal has moved deeper into Liberia's security establishment. A deputy police commissioner was dismissed after allegedly admitting t...