A Liberian lawmaker has died at the Korle Bu Teaching hospital in the capital Accra after being flown to Ghana for medical care.
Senator Geraldine Doe-Sheriff is said to have died of cancer.
The Montserrado County’s junior Senator is reported to have passed on at 5:15pm local time on Saturday, February 9, 2019.
She is believed to have been battling cancer for over a year now and was flown to Accra to get treatment.
The late Senator had been a member of Liberia’s Senate since she won her seat on the ticket of the Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) which metamorphosed to Coalition for Democratic Change.
The late Senator chaired the Committee on Transport and co-chair the committee on Commerce, Trade, and Industry. She also previously served as a member of the Ways, Means, Finance & Budget Committee; Social Security, Pension and Insurance; Public Accounts and Audits; Education and Public Administration.
On May 19, 2014, Doe-Sheriff announced she was quitting the CDC, telling the party that she was tendering her resignation with a heavy heart.
During the 2017 presidential elections, the Senator threw her weight behind then vice president Joseph Boakai.
In January 2018, the Senator briefly flirted with the idea of running fo President Pro Temp of the Senate as she brushed off speculations that Senators had overwhelmingly come to a consensus in support of Grand Kru Senator Albert Chie’s bid to succeed Gbarpolu Senator Armah Jallah as President Pro Tempore of that body.
The Senator dismissed suggestions that she was embarking on a losing bid for the post. She argued that those throwing around suggestions that she was unqualified for the position were in error.
Earlier in the presidency of President George Manneh Weah, Senator Doe-Sheriff slammed what she said was attempts by detractors to draw a wedge between she and the President owing to her bolting the CDC for the UP and support of Boakai.