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Liberia Supreme Court Rules Against Boakai Over Tenured Positions

The Supreme Court has delivered a landmark ruling in the dispute over replacing officials with tenure by President Joseph Boakai. In a unanimous judgment read by Chief Justice Sie-A-Nyene Yuoh, the Court said the law providing tenure for some Liberian officials absolves the president of his power to appoint and dismiss those officials at his pleasure. "Therefore this court sees no reason to declare said Act unconstitutional as the Minister of Justice has urged us to do," she said.

Following his inauguration, Boakai made nominations when the tenures of those holding the positions had not expired. "The nominees' names for the petitioners' current positions are ordered to be withdrawn," said Chief Justice Yuoh.

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