Boakai Names New Justice Minister and Solicitor General in Cabinet Reshuffle
The Capitol Building in Monrovia, seat of Liberia's legislature (file photo; not the Justice Ministry, illustrative of the Liberian government). Photo: David Stanley, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
President Joseph Boakai has replaced Justice Minister Oswald Tweh with Cllr. Betty Lamin-Blamo and named a new Solicitor General, as part of a wider round of cabinet and agency appointments announced this week.
President Joseph Boakai has named Cllr. Betty M. Lamin-Blamo as Liberia's new Justice Minister, replacing Cllr. Oswald N. Tweh, and appointed Cllr. Abrahim Boimah Sillah, Sr. as Solicitor General in place of Augustine Fayiah, the government announced on Wednesday. Both outgoing officials are slated for reassignment elsewhere in government rather than being dropped from the administration.
The Justice Ministry change was announced alongside several other appointments: Angel M. Morris as Deputy Minister for Public Affairs at the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Harrison K. Sorsor as Assistant Minister for Research, Policy and Planning at the same ministry, Alex Chersia Grant as a Commissioner of the Public Procurement and Concessions Commission, Christopher Ben Bailey as Superintendent for Grand Gedeh County, and the reappointment of Benedict Yeke Harleysion, Sr. as chairman of the National Transit Authority board.
The administration described the changes as part of "ongoing efforts to strengthen institutional performance and improve public service delivery," without detailing specific performance concerns tied to the outgoing officials. Women's rights advocates, including the Women NGO Secretariat of Liberia (WONGOSOL), welcomed Lamin-Blamo's nomination as a boost to female representation in senior government posts.
The reshuffle comes as Boakai's government faces separate pressure over the stalled War and Economic Crimes Court legislation, with the president's critics watching closely for whether the new Justice Ministry leadership will speed up or further delay the court's establishment.