The NEWS (Monrovia)
2 April 2008
Monrovia — The Liberty Party (LP) of Counselor Charles Walker Brumskine has taken exception to a ruling of the National Elections Commission fining the party US$2,500, and has sought legal recourse from the Supreme Court.
In a release issued Tuesday evening, the party said it was charged by the Elections Commission for seeking to impair or abolish Liberia as free democratic society and endangering the existence of the republic; for retaining, organizing, training and equipping groups to use and display physical force and coercion to promote the party's political objectives.
The LP release further said that ECOM charged the party for referring to the Chairman of ECOM, Mr. James Fromoyan as a stooge of the Unity Party; ECOM also alleged that the party told Commissioner Elizabeth Nelson during the Margibi by-elections that it would be a thorn in her flesh, ensuring that there was no cheating, as well as other allegations of what the Commission regarded as election offenses.
"The party challenged the jurisdiction of the commission as to the first and second counts above, which, if true, would constitute treason, and therefore refused to appear further on the basis of the complaint involving treasonable offenses," the release averred.
"The party instead requested the commission to forward the matter to the Ministry of Justice for criminal investigation," the LP release noted.
"Notwithstanding, the commission entered a default judgment against the party and fined it US$2,500. The ruling has been appealed to the Supreme Court," the release concluded.
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