Jonas Coffy

Jonas Coffy accused Former P. M. Evans Paul as being behind recent increase in insecurity in Haiti. "Was it not the weakness of the Haitian justice, a citizen like Evans Paul would have been behind bars a long time ago", said the Director of the Ministry Social Affairs Jonas Coffy reacting about PM's coded statement
"konpoze or dekonpoze"

On Sunday, July 26, 2016, Jonas Coffy, the spokesman of Jocelerme Privert and the Director of the Ministry Social Affairs, on a program on "public interest" in Radio Kiskeya has accused former Prime Minister Evans Paul for his role behind the rising insecurity in the country and destabilizing the government. He has also accused the former Prime Minister for misappropriating public funds during his tenure as the Prime Minister. As per Coffy, it is a shame that our judicial system is so weak that it cannot keep people like Evans Paul behind the bars. Mr. Coffy was reacting to recent comments made by Evans Paul specifically his statement: "konpoze or dekonpoze" or "composed or decomposed" which many people believe to be a coded messages for promoting public violence. Evans Paul has described Coffy's accusation as, ridiculous and fanciful. He is considering filing a defamation suit against Coffy.

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Jonas Coffy heading the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor.

In last September, Jonas Coffy had accused that three advisors, such as, Robert Fritz St. Paul (President of the CSC / CA), and counselors Ariel Joseph Jean and Saint-Just Momprevil, received a whopping sum of US$.500,000 for issuing a favorable discharge certificate to Jacky Lumarque, a presidential candidate of the Truth (Vérité in French) platform. They were bribed by none but the twice President of the Republic of Haiti, René Préval. However, in spite of paying the bribe, Lumarque was ousted from the presidential race for lack of discharge. In response, the three accused have vehemently denied the allegation and have said they will sue for justice against Jonas Coffy for defamation. As per latest news dated May 15, 2016, Jonas Coffy, the leader of Party Anseye Pou Ayiti, has been named to head the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor, replacing Rudy Heriveaux. Both of them have a Fanmi Lavalas background.

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