The Industrial Court docket has dominated that M-Tosh Prints Media failed to supply adequate proof to help its declare that the Nationwide Elections Fee of Liberia (NEC-Liberia) owed it US$877,000.00.
The case, which started with M-Tosh’s submitting of an Motion of Debt in March 2025, centered across the alleged provide of extra election supplies and the corresponding cost dispute.
It may very well be recalled that M-Tosh Prints Media asserted that, past the pre-packed election supplies ordered by the NEC, it imported 1,898 extra election supplies valued at US$877,000.00.
In response to the corporate, these supplies have been delivered to an NEC workers member at Roberts Worldwide Airport and saved within the NEC warehouse, the place the NEC allegedly utilized them.
The NEC denied these allegations, stating that no contractual provision required M-Tosh to import or retailer extra supplies with out specific approval from the Board of Commissioners.
The Court docket carried out an intensive evaluation of the flight cargo manifest and different related paperwork to find out the precise amount of supplies imported by M-Tosh by way of a chartered flight on July 18, 2019.
It was established that the NEC paid for the chartered flight transporting the supplies. Nevertheless, the Court docket discovered that the proof offered by M-Tosh didn’t meet the burden of proof required underneath Sections 25.5(1) & (2) and 26.6(1) of the Liberian Code of Legal guidelines Revised, failing what the Court docket known as the “odor take a look at.”
Decide Eva Mappy Morgan, in her ruling dated December 31, 2025, highlighted that the NEC had already paid M-Tosh US$94,000.00 for 200 election kits used through the Grand Cape Mount County Senatorial Elections.
Moreover, M-Tosh admitted throughout arguments to having acquired US$589,060.00 as cost for supplying 1,970 pre-packed election supplies for the Montserrado County and District #15 by-elections.
This admission, mixed with the shortage of persuasive proof for the US$877,000.00 declare, led the Court docket to dismiss M-Tosh’s case. The judgment absolved the NEC from legal responsibility concerning the disputed quantity.
Regardless of the dismissal, M-Tosh Prints Media has introduced its intention to attraction the choice to the Supreme Court docket. Concurrently, the NEC has indicated its plan to file a cross-appeal, signaling that the authorized dispute might proceed in larger courts. -Edited by Othello B. Garblah.
