Liberia: Pro-Tyler Lawmakers Block Campaign for Speaker's Recusal

Lawmakers in support of House Speaker Alex Tyler, comprising 53 members of the House of Representatives, have maintained that it is unconstitutional and against their Rules and Procedures for the Speaker to recuse himself when he is presumed innocent following his indictment for allegedly receiving US$75,000 as bribe to change the PPCC law to favor London based Sable Mining Company to get a mining concession for the Wologizi Mountain.

In a heated argument which lasted for about three hours, and while Speaker Alex Tyler was administering the regular order of business for the Thursday, June 16 session, Margibi County Representative Emmanuel Nuquay, called the Speaker to order and requested that he recuses himself as presiding officer while he is in court for a criminal offense.

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