Jackson made the clarification recently in response to a request by the National Council of Elders and Chiefs at the just-ended Security Transition Town Hall Meeting at the Tubman Hall in Sanniquellie, Nimba County.

The Council of Chiefs and Elders had earlier requested that government fully settles the ex-AFL soldiers as UNMIL leaves Liberia.

The Council through its Nimba Chapter head, Chief Peter G. Barloun, believes that failure to properly settle the retired AFL soldiers and integrate them into society has the propensity to threaten national peace and security.

However, the Deputy Information Minister pointed out that the issue poses no threat to the Liberian security sector because it was handled by the Liberian Government few years ago.

“Following the close of the over 14 years of civil crisis, the government pensioned and subsequently resettled over-age AFL personnel in order to build a new energetic defense system made of young, forceful citizens,” Minister Jackson emphasized.

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