Liberian Football Association challenger Cassell Kouh is accused of bribing voters with $50,000 each

October 25 – Liberia has recently endured a bloody civil war. The war crimes conviction of former head of state Charles Taylor is the first conviction of a former head of state in an international court since the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders.

Liberia's football policy has been similarly aggressive and with the FA presidential election due in 2026, the fight has already begun.

The current president of the Liberian FA (LFA) is Mustapha Raji, who was first elected in 2018 and has announced that he will run again in 2022.

He is competing against FC Fassell President and CEO Cassell Kouh (pictured).

Kouh is allegedly trying to destabilize the LFA by getting members to vote against Raji's proposals. He is also accused of offering cash for votes.

On April 5, 2024, Kuoh invited a group of voting LFA stakeholders to the Mamba Point Hotel in Monrovia, where he declared his intention to run for the LAF presidency and told the club presidents present at the meeting that he would offer $50,000 each Dollars will be made available to 42 clubs that will vote before the election in 2026.

Kouh has a criminal past. A former LFA vice president of operations, he pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Caroline in connection with a gold and diamond investment fraud scheme in which victims were defrauded of more than $9.5 million. He was given a seven-year sentence, which he served in federal prison for wire fraud. The scheme, one of the largest diamond frauds in the world, defrauded numerous victims.

Rochell Woodson, president of Kneeling Warriors FC and a vocal supporter of Raji, has been a major critic of Kouh, saying his criminal record should disqualify him from running and that he cannot be trusted.

Kouh's reaction was insulting. He made derogatory comments toward Woodson on a football chat show that drew widespread criticism, and on social media he threatened to publish nude pictures of Woodson.

Woodson writes a complaint for FIFA ethics.

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