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Africa-Press<\/a> – Liberia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Liberia\u2019s Supreme Court has ordered the National Elections Commission (NEC) not to certificate convicted former Defense Minister and Lofa County \u2013 Senator-elect Brownie Samukai until the disability imposed on him based on his conviction for a felony is removed according to law.<\/p>\n

The nation\u2019s highest court made the decision Friday, 20 August, ending nearly nine months of legal battles which have already prevented the convict from being seated as Lofa\u2019s Senator following the 8 December 2020 Special Senatorial Election he won.<\/p>\n

The court\u2019s decision over the weekend came just a day after Mr. Samukai, through his lawyers presented a cheque of 176,276.05 USD, completing the full payment of the fifty percent of his share of Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL) soldiers\u2019 personal pension saving funds that he and two other convicts were ordered to restitute or face jail terms each.<\/p>\n

Of the two separate prohibitions filed against Samukai\u2019s certification, the high court has granted Justice Ministry\u2019s petition but denied the one filed by the businessman Simeon Freeman\u2019s Movement for Progressive Change (MPC).<\/p>\n

Associate Justice Jamesetta Howard \u2013 Wolokolie did not sign the judgment, but the rest of the four Justices did sign. The court said it would be wrong to certificate Samukai because he and his deputy Joseph P. Johnson and Nyumah Dorkor have not served the sentence and satisfied the penalty imposed on them.<\/p>\n

On 19 August 2021, citizens of Lofa County paid the remainder of Samukai\u2019s portion of the AFL soldiers\u2019 personal pension saving funds, bringing to a total a little of US$191,000, of the former defense minister\u2019s 50 % portion of the soldiers\u2019 money following an initial deposit of US$18,000.<\/p>\n

Samukai and two other former officials who served the Ministry of Defense under the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf regime were convicted for misappropriating the soldiers\u2019 pension fund and were asked to restitute the amount or face a jail sentence. The initial 50% payment had been due and sentencing would have been carried out had this payment not been made.<\/p>\n

The money was paid into the Armed Forces of Liberia Welfare Account at the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Sinkor branch. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court upheld a ruling by the Criminal Court \u201cC\u201d and sentenced Samukai, Johnson, and Dorkor to serve a term of two years each in a common jail.<\/p>\n

However, the Supreme Court ruled in the corruption case that the sentences shall be suspended provided that the convicted officials restitute the full amount of US$1.147, 656m or (pay) 50 percent within the period of six months, and following that, make appropriate arrangement to pay the remaining percentage in one calendar year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Liberia. Liberia\u2019s Supreme Court has ordered the National Elections Commission (NEC) not to certificate convicted former Defense Minister and Lofa County \u2013 Senator-elect Brownie Samukai until the disability imposed on him based on his conviction for a felony is removed according to law. 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