Monrovia – Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah has arrived on the Monrovia Metropolis Courtroom, the place he becoming a member of lots of of supporters to indicate solidarity with opposition lawmakers charged in reference to the December 2023 “arson assault” on the Capitol Constructing.
By Obediah Johnson
Weah’s presence follows a name made on Sunday, June 8, by a number of opposition leaders, together with Alexander B. Cummings, political chief of the Different Nationwide Congress (ANC), and Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, political chief of the Motion for Financial Empowerment (MOVEE), urging supporters to collect peacefully on the courthouse in a present of help for the accused.
Wearing a blue go well with, white shirt, and pink tie, Weah arrived on the courthouse in a black SUV, accompanied by a contingent of private safety. He didn’t converse to reporters and solely briefly acknowledged a handful of supporters who had gathered exterior the courthouse gates to welcome him.
The lawmakers, who’re going through trial at this time, embrace Speaker J. Fonati Koffa (District #2, Grand Kru County), Abu B. Kamara (District #15, Montserrado County), Dixon Seboe (District #16, Montserrado County), Jacob Debee (District #3, Grand Gedeh County), and Priscilla Cooper (District #5, Montserrado County).
They’ve been formally charged by the Liberia Nationwide Police (LNP) with arson, prison facilitation, and prison conspiracy in relation to the hearth that gutted the Joint Chambers of the Capitol Constructing, the official seat of the Nationwide Legislature, on December 18, 2023.
Authorities from each the LNP and the Liberia Nationwide Fireplace Service (LNFS) concluded that the hearth was a deliberate act of arson, prompting a months-long investigation that culminated in costs towards the 5 lawmakers.
4 of the accused—Koffa, Kamara, Seboe, and Debee—have been remanded to the Monrovia Central Jail over the weekend, the place they spent two nights. Consultant Priscilla Cooper, a member of the ruling Unity Occasion, was launched into the custody of her authorized counsel on medical grounds.
The lawmakers are anticipated to seem in courtroom at this time.
