Monrovia – Former presidential candidate and political chief of the Different Nationwide Congress (ANC), Alexander Benedict Cummings, has strongly criticized the Unity Social gathering-led authorities over what he described because the “shameful incarceration” of former Home Speaker J. Fonati Koffa and three lawmakers of the opposition Congress for Democratic Change (CDC).
By Gerald C. Koinyeneh
Chatting with journalists in a short interview, Cummings condemned the arrest and detention of the lawmakers, labeling the police’s actions as a deliberate try to embarrass them.
“I’m very disenchanted within the Unity Social gathering-led authorities for this habits,” Cummings mentioned. “These are legislators. They’ve immunity, and to attempt to embarrass them by placing them in jail is unacceptable.”
Cummings argued that the detained lawmakers are entitled to a stage of immunity as sitting members of the Legislature and, provided that they don’t seem to be flight dangers, ought to have been launched pending court docket proceedings.
“These persons are not going to go wherever. They aren’t going to run away. They need to have been launched and allowed to seem in court docket when known as,” he mentioned. “That is very disappointing, embarrassing, and unacceptable. It’s actually a disgrace on the federal government for treating lawmakers this fashion.”
The arrest of Koffa and the three CDC lawmakers has sparked widespread debate, with opposition figures and civil society actors elevating issues over the federal government’s dealing with of the matter.
