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Africa-Press – Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>Rivercess County Senator-elect and former Managing Director of the National Port Authority (NPA) Bill Tweahway has described moves by critics seeking to stop him from taking his seat in the Liberian Senate as \u201csheer stupidity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Tweahwah, a designee of the United States Treasury Department for alleged siphoning of public funds was elected alongside other US sanction officials as Senators in the October 2023 Presidential and Legislative elections.<\/p>\n

However, there have been calls that he and fellow US designees (Senators-elect Nathaniel McGill, and Prince Johnson) should not be allowed to take up their seats in the 55th Legislature because of their designations.<\/p>\n

But speaking after being certificated by the National Elections Commission (NEC) on Friday, December 8, Mr. Tweahway said before any elected official can be stopped from taking his seat, that person must have been judged and found guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

He said in the absence of a trial and a guilty verdict one cannot stop an elected official from taking his or her seat based on an alleged crime.<\/p>\n

Tweahway and Pal former Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Nathaniel McGill now Margibi County Senator-elect have come under the \u201cRed Flag\u201d following their victories after failed attempts to stop them from contesting the 2023 polls.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s \u201csheer stupidity\u201d before a man can be stopped from taking over any seat in an electoral process, you must have been judged by a court of competent jurisdictions who tells if one is guilty or not about an alleged crime,\u201d Tweahway explained.<\/p>\n

He indicated that he has not been convicted of the allegation of corruption brought against him by the United States Government, and therefore, cannot be denied his seat as senator of Rivercess County.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never been convicted of the crime and nobody has Judged me, \u201c and therefore, I will assume my seat, and work to develop my county, and there\u2019s no law to back that,\u201d Tweahway, averred.<\/p>\n

Nicknamed the \u201cElephant,\u201d Tweahway indicated his preparedness to go to court if anyone decides to go beyond the root of the matter.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m ready to go to court if anyone decides to take issue. But I haven\u2019t been convicted and will take my seat. Until I\u2019m found guilty after facing prosecution, I\u2019m the Senator of Rivercess County,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cRivercess is underdeveloped, and we are going to the senate to help develop Rivercess as part of our commitment to our roots. As we did in Montserrado County Electoral District # 3 as Representative back then, building the first senior high- school, a Townhall, Public Latrines, among several other developments, \u201cwe\u2019ve come with that same expertise to help develop Rivercess,\u201d Tweahway adds.<\/p>\n

Bill Tweahway, who served as Montserrado County District # 3 Representative from 2011 to 2017, is returning to the Capitol Building, in a second tenure, this time as a senator in the upper- house, with the noose of corruption allegation and a US designee hanging around his neck.<\/p>\n

Tweahway and other Ex-officials including Nathaniel Falo McGill, Margibi County Senator-elect and former Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, and former Solicitor General Cllr. Cyrenius Cyphus, were in August 2022, sanctioned for their involvement in public corruption by the United States Treasury Department.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Liberia. Rivercess County Senator-elect and former Managing Director of the National Port Authority (NPA) Bill Tweahway has described moves by critics seeking to stop him from taking his seat in the Liberian Senate as \u201csheer stupidity.\u201d Mr. Tweahwah, a designee of the United States Treasury Department for alleged siphoning of public funds was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":48626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-48627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-liberia","tag-liberia"],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cSheer stupidity\u201d - Liberia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rivercess County Senator-elect and former Managing Director of the National Port Authority (NPA) Bill Tweahway has descr ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/sheer-stupidity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cSheer stupidity\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rivercess County Senator-elect and former Managing Director of the National Port Authority (NPA) Bill Tweahway has descr ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/sheer-stupidity\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Liberia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-12-11T17:18:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-11T18:07:24+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2023\/12\/sm_1702305310.218628.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"563\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/sheer-stupidity#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/sheer-stupidity\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"\u201cSheer stupidity\u201d\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-12-11T17:18:58+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-11T18:07:24+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/sheer-stupidity\"},\"wordCount\":545,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/sheer-stupidity#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2023\/12\/sm_1702305310.218628.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Liberia\",\"Liberia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/sheer-stupidity#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/sheer-stupidity\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/sheer-stupidity\",\"name\":\"\u201cSheer stupidity\u201d - 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