MONROVIA, LIBERIA-The Supreme Court has finally issued the writ in connection to the Bill of Information filed by the embattled House Speaker Cllr. Fonati Koffa, following a month-long delay.
The Court’s March 4 writ has instructed Representative Richard Koon, the Speaker of the 55th House of Representatives, and others to file their returns on or before March 14, 2025, at 9 am.
The intent of the Speaker and others’ return to the High Court is to show cause why the embattled House Speaker Koffa’s request as pray for should not be granted as provided for by law.
Cllr. Koffa’s Bill of Information is seeking an interpretation from the Supreme Court’s recent judgement regarding the impasse at the House of Representatives.
Cllr. Koffa’s application to the Court was triggered by Justice Minister Oswald Tweh’s interpretation of the Supreme Court’s judgement to President Joseph Boakai, which led to the Executive Branch doing business with the Majority Bloc headed by Representative Richard Koon as their Speaker.
In another development, the Presiding Justice in Chamber at the Supreme Court has cited prosecutors and defense lawyers for a legal conference for Monday, March 10, 2025, in connection to ex-Finance Minister Samuel Tweah and four others corruption case at the Criminal Court ‘C’.
Associate Justice Ceaineh Clinton-Johnson’s March 6, 2025, citation to both parties’ lawyers placed a stay order on Tweah and others’ criminal case.
This means Judge Roosevelt Willie will not proceed with the juror selection on Friday, March 7, after selecting only five jurors since the process began on March 3, 2025, at Criminal Court ‘C’ that witnessed forty-six prospective jurors rejected from sitting on the case.
Justice Clinton-Johnson’s pending legal conference was triggered by a petition for a writ of prohibition filed by ex-Finance Minister Tweah and four others seeking to stop Judge Willie from hearing their corruption case on grounds that they acted under the orders of ex-president George Weah and the National Security Council as such they are immune from prosecution under the 1986 Constitution.
ELBC Judicial Reporter further said:” Monday’s legal conference will determine whether the Justice in Chamber will grant or decline to issue the alternative Writ of Prohibition as prayed for by ex-Finance Minister and four others as provided by Chapter 16, Section 16.22 of the Civil Procedural Law of Liberia.
