The much expected 'Economic Sabotage' case involving the former Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL), yesterday failed to resume at the Criminal Court "C" as was widely expected.

According to court records, the case involving the former NTGL chairman and the state could not proceed because court officers have been finding it difficult to serve the accused with a notice of assignment for the resumption of the case just less than five days after the accused sacked his legal counsels to represent him in the case.

According to information that emanated from the court yesterday, a sheriff from the Criminal Court "C" at the Temple of Justice, visited the Manba Point resident of the former chairman few days ago, with the purpose of issuing him the notice of assignment for the continuation of the case, but accordingly some aide to the former NTGL Chairman informed him that Bryant was not in the vicinity of the compound.

Captain Robert B. Toe, a sheriff of the court in his returned informed the court that he visited the home of the former chairman on three separate occasions but was informed that Chairman Bryant was nowhere around.

The sheriff explained that whenever they went to the home of Chairman Bryant the securities assigned there, normally informed them that the former Head of States had left his residence and has gone to Temple of Justice court for the trial.

According to sheriff Toe, recalled in his returns that during one of these visits to Mr. Bryant's residence, when he was accompanied by the court's Bailif Daniel Kpakolo security assigned at the former Chairman's residence refused to allow them enter the primacy.

But when this paper contacted Mr. Bryant yesterday on the issue, he declined to comment of the failure of the case to resume and simply told this paper that he can not say anything further from what he said in his recent press statement.

The failure for the case to resume yesterday comes in the wake of a decision taken by Mr. Bryant that he was immediately dismissing his lawyers in persons of Cllr. Theophilus C. Gould and Cllr. Samuel Clarke because he felt that they could no longer put up an adequate defense before the court to represent his in the case in the wake of a suspension order hanging over them from the Supreme Court.

The former NTGL Chairman was something this year accused and subsequently charged by the state for allegedly misappropriating over US1million of state fund when he headed the NTGL before elections and induction of the current government.

When he announced that he was sacking his lawyers on November 27, 2007, Chairman Bryant said he does not want to risk the lives of his lawyers and their dependants in the wake of the decision of the Supreme Court decision to suspend them.

Mr. Bryant alleged that the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf led government was trying to use the Supreme Court to disgrace and put him in jail for corruption promising that he would represent himself in court.