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Liberia's President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has broken her silence on recommendations submitted by her country's truth and reconciliation commission two weeks ago that she be banned from holding public office for thirty years.

The president was said to have provided financial, political or leadership support to former warring factions during the Liberian war.

President Sirleaf had admitted in February to providing some financial support to Charles Taylor when he was a rebel leader but has remained silent since the report was released.

Yesterday she addressed a crowd in the town of Gbarnga to mark Liberia's independence anniversary.

Network Africa's Jonathan Paye-Layleh listened to her and Akwasi Sarpong asked him what the President had to say.