{"id":23856,"date":"2022-09-28T10:27:53","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T10:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-sen-karnga-lawrence-threatens-nec-with-lawsuit"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:44:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T10:44:56","slug":"liberia-sen-karnga-lawrence-threatens-nec-with-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-sen-karnga-lawrence-threatens-nec-with-lawsuit","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Sen. Karnga-Lawrence Threatens NEC with Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>The National Elections Commission has been threatened with a lawsuit from the faction of the opposition Liberty Party controlled by Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence.<\/p>\n

The threat, if acted upon, seeks to force the electoral body to avoid \u201cunwarranted intrusion into the internal matters\u201d of the Liberty party, which has been in crisis since its founder, Cllr. Charles Walker Brumskine died.<\/p>\n

The inner fight, primarily over who controls the party, took a severe turn after relationships between the party\u2019s political leader, Karnga-Lawrence, and its chairman, Musa Bility, broke down, leading to both officials declaring each other expelled.<\/p>\n

However, the latest fight, which has now led to a threat of a lawsuit against the NEC, comes as Bility\u2019s faction of the party gains recognition from the electoral body.<\/p>\n

This was contained in a letter from the NEC to Bility recognizing his faction\u2019s collaboration with the Alternative National Congress (ANC) as part of the rebranding of the Collaborating Political Parties \u2014 a development that has not gone down with the Karnga-Lawrence faction as they prepare to challenge the NEC\u2019s decision in court.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe National leadership of Liberty Party, headed by Senator Karnga-Lawrence has learned with utmost dismay of a communication from the NEC addressed to Bility associating the Liberty Party with a bogus collaboration with the ANC,\u201d the Grand Bassa County Senator said in a statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the relentless determination of the NEC to prolong the crisis in the party at the directive of Bility and his benefactors, the Party is constrained to announce a string of political and legal actions to be taken against the unwarranted intrusion of the NEC into its internal matters.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe date for these unspecified political actions will shortly be announced and the government of Liberia, through the Ministry of Justice, will be duly informed. These mass political and legal actions are intended to [show] how the NEC continues to recklessly undermine the stability of a critical opposition political party in the country,\u201d Karnga-Lawrence added. \u201cWe herewith call on all partisans and supporters to stand ready as we pursue the ultimate actions to unmask the devil behind the scene and secure our party once and for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Senator added that from the inception of the party crisis, the NEC, by admission and omission, is the principal enabler of the actions of Bility to disintegrate the Liberty Party. She described it as unfortunate that the credibility and neutrality of the NEC, a supposed integrity institution created by law to protect \u2018our promising democracy\u2019, has been eroded in broad daylight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karnga-Lawrence then accused Bility of securing a criminal appearance bond for the NEC Chairperson Davidetta Brown-Lansanah when \u201cshe was criminally indicted by the Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission for influence peddling and conflict of interest.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBy this latest action of the NEC, it is now even more conspicuous that the Chairman and Members of the Board of Commissioners, have elevated their conspiracy with Bility to render Liberty Party inconsequential to the 2023 General and Presidential Elections by keeping the institution in perpetual conflict.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow could an election management body that is charged with the responsibility to exercise a duty of prudence be so parochial in its judgment?\u201d the Senator wonders. \u201cDid we not notify the NEC that Bility\u2019s latest action violated the very Constitution whose correction he participated in, following his admission to altering provisions of the document? Did the NEC entertain any conference or hearing between the two parties to dispose of the issues raised?<\/p>\n

According to the Senator, the procedures to commit Liberty Party to collaboration require a decision of her office in consultation with the National Executive Committee, and \u201cnot a spontaneous and unilateral decision by a single individual clandestinely operating under the guise of party chairman.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Liberia. The National Elections Commission has been threatened with a lawsuit from the faction of the opposition Liberty Party controlled by Senator Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence. The threat, if acted upon, seeks to force the electoral body to avoid \u201cunwarranted intrusion into the internal matters\u201d of the Liberty party, which has been in crisis since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":23855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,10,16],"tags":[233,237,234,432,2498,2499],"class_list":["post-23856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-liberia","tag-liberia","tag-liberty-party","tag-national-election-commission","tag-senator-nyonblee-karnga-lawrence"],"yoast_head":"\nLiberia: Sen. 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