Liberia: Lawyer Suspension Hinders Sogbie Supreme Court Case

Monrovia — The Supreme Court of Liberia has granted the request filed by River Gee County petitioner Jonathan B. Sogbie for more time in his complaint filed before the high court. Petitioner Sogbie prayed the court to give him time to get a new lawyer after his lawyer was suspended from law practice for three months by the high court.

River Gee candidate of the Alliance for Peace and Democracy (APD) complained that the National Elections Commission authorities in River Gee County in person of Asst. Magistrate Moses Nyanatoh and senior magistrate Belden Flomo rejected the APD original list of polls watchers on grounds that they had received instructions from NEC central office that individuals who are registered to vote in assigned polling stations can serve as poll watchers at the assigned centers.

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