Isaac Musa

Isaac Saye Musa (also spelt Musah, He was an officer in the Armed Forces of Liberia in the early 1980s, reaching the rank of First Lieutenant of the Military Police. He was detained for a period after the 1985 failed coup d'état attempt, and went into exile after being released. As of 1992 he served as the Joint Chief of Staff for the NPFL.

In government On October 20, 1993, NPFL named Musa as new vice chair of the Council of State (to become the executive branch of the Liberian National Transitional Government), replacing Dorothy Musuleng-Cooper. The Council of State, with Musa as one of vice chairmen, was installed on March 7, 1994.

Commenting on Musa's entry into the provisional presidency of the country, journalist Gabriel I. H. Williams argued that "[Musuleng-Cooper] was also replaced, as deputy chair of the state council by the NPFL's notorious battle group commander, Isaac Musa [...] Musa, one of the most feared NPFL warriors who prided in calling himself the "Red Devil," happened to be one of the most erratic persons around during the crisis." Musa's arrival to the capital Monrovia was met with tensions from displaced communities from Nimba County. The ECOMOG peace-keeping force protested against the incident, and (now President-elect) Taylor reprimanded Musa for the action.

Death Musa died at the John F. Kennedy Memorial Hospital in 2008. Isaac Musa was listed, along with 22 others, as "Dead Perpetrators" by the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission (LTRC), presented by the Commission as 'perpetrators who the LTRC [determined] were responsible for various forms of human rights abuses [...] and war crimes but died before the conclusion of the LTRC.'