Following a massive fire inside the West African country’s legislature, police have questioned the embattled speaker of Liberia’s House of Representatives.
On Wednesday morning, residents of Monrovia, the capital, awoke to the sight of flames and dense black smoke coming from the Capitol building.
The legislature’s joint chambers were completely damaged by the fire, but nobody was inside at the time.
Gregory Colman, the head of Liberia’s police force, said four people, including Speaker Jonathan Fonati Koffa and Representative Frank Saah Foko, have been hauled in for interrogation.
Thick smoke as a massive fire erupts at the Capitol building in Liberia
The fire happened the day after a heated protest against intentions to remove Koffa from his position as speaker.
