Thomas Nimene Botoe

Thomas Nimene Botoe (December 25, 1912 – August 20, 1969) was a Liberian politician, Governor of the Kru Community in Monrovia.

During the presidency of William V.S. Tubman, he was accused of a role in "The Plot That Failed".^[1] Along with Nettie-Sie Brownell, Gbaflen Davies, and S. Raymond Horace, he was charged with sedition and high treason, and jailed and tortured.^[2] He was eventually pardoned by Tubman along with the other leaders and finally exonerated by President William R. Tolbert Jr, in 1974 after Tubman's death. A street named Botoe Avenue in New Kru Town was dedicated in his honor.

References

^ Boley, G. E. Saigbe. Liberia, the Rise, and Fall of the First Republic. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1983.
^ Wreh, Tuan, and William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman. The love of liberty. 1976.

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[1] Boley, G. E. Saigbe. Liberia, the Rise, and Fall of the First Republic. London: Macmillan Publishers, 1983.

[2] Wreh, Tuan, and William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman. The love of liberty. 1976.

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