By Jamesetta D Williams
The Minister of Info, Cultural Affairs and Tourism, Jerolinmek Matthew Piah, has pleaded authorities’s innocence in having palms within the demolition of the Headquarters of Congress for Democratic Change (CDC).
The eviction and demolition of final week, in accordance with Piah, was not an motion carried out instantly by the federal government, however fairly a choice of the courtroom, restating his boss, President Joseph Boakai’s feedback in related style.
Whereas the event has generated heated political and public debate, it is vital for Liberians to grasp that the federal government solely revered the rule of regulation, and that the motion was not a political witch-hunt or a transfer to silence the CDC, Piah stated.
In accordance with him, the courtroom issued the order in response to authorized issues surrounding possession of the property, and the authorities had been merely implementing what the judiciary mandated.
He harassed that below President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s administration, there isn’t any curiosity in utilizing state energy to intimidate or suppress opposition voices.
The Minister emphasised that the federal government stays dedicated to defending democratic freedoms, and that political events, together with the CDC, are free to function so long as they accomplish that inside the framework of the regulation.
His clarification comes amid sturdy criticism from CDC partisans and a few members of the opposition group, accusing the federal government of masterminding the eviction to weaken their celebration; such claims which he insisted are unfounded and deceptive.
