Cornelia Kruah-Togba
Cornelia Wonkerleh Kruah | |
|---|---|
| Born | c. 1990 |
| Occupation | politician |
| Known for | Deputy-Minister |
| Political party | Unity Party |
Cornelia Wonkerleh Kruah (born c. 1990) is a Liberian Unity Party politician. She supported Ellen Johnson Sirleaf who chose her as a future leader. In 2024 she became a deputy minister.
Life
Cornelia Wonkerleh Kruah was born in 1990 and even before she was able to vote she was politically aware. She pressured her mother to vote for Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in 2005.[1]
She became an officer of the Order of the Star of Africa in 2018. President Sirleaf recognised her "contributions to the cause of efficient and effective management, benefiting Liberia". Later that year she unsuccessfully contested a seat in the National Legislature of Liberia in Montserrado County. She came third.[2]
In 2020 she was one of two Liberians chosen to be the inaugural fifteen women chosen by the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development to be trained as a woman leader as part of an Amujaes Fellowship.[3][1] She graduated with a degree in Economics from Liberia's Stella Maris Polytechnic and she studied at the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg. She took a master's degree in law in the UK and she was awarded an LLB in law by the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law.
Newly elected President Boakai appointed her as a Deputy Minister in the Department of State in February 2024.[4]
In February 2025 she was in the papers because of a dispute with an employee of her ministry. He believed that he should be paid more and he had taken advice and they had told him to ask Kruah-Togba. Kruah-Togba said that he had repeated asked her and assaulted her. The matter came to anotice after he was videoed under Kruah-Togba's car in protest. He believed that his assistance during the election should be rewarded whereas Kruah-Togba said that she would not be bullied into giving him a payrise.[5]
She announced in April 2025 that the President was supporting a national focus on intellectual property. A national Summit would be organised as IP was important as it affected many areas of Liberia's economy.[6]
References
- ^ a b "Liberian inspired by President Sirleaf Cornelia Kruah Togba Lands Amujaes Fellowship". Retrieved September 29, 2025.
- ^ "Cornelia Kruah-Togba". International Strategy Forum. Archived from the original on January 13, 2025. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
- ^ "Amujae Leaders 2020". Archived from the original on February 5, 2021. Retrieved January 30, 2021.
- ^ "President Boakai Makes Additional Appointments in Government – The Executive Mansion". emansion.gov.lr. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
- ^ Tokpah, Willie N. (February 24, 2025). "Liberia: Deputy Presidential Affairs Minister Resists Pressure to Hire Unity Party Partisan". FrontPageAfrica. Retrieved September 29, 2025.
- ^ Harmon, William Q. (April 24, 2025). "Gov't to Host National Intellectual Property Summit". Liberianobserver.com. Archived from the original on July 20, 2025. Retrieved September 29, 2025.