Monrovia – Former Home Speaker Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa and three sitting members of the Home of Representatives had been remanded to the Monrovia Central Jail on Saturday following their look on the Monrovia Metropolis Court docket on a number of expenses linked to the December 2024 fireplace on the Capitol Constructing.
By Willie N. Tokpah
Alongside Koffa, Representatives Dixon Seboe, Abu Kamara, Prescilla Cooper, and Jacob Debee II face a spread of expenses, together with arson, legal mischief, reckless endangerment, tried homicide, legal facilitation, and conspiracy.
FrontPage Africa gathered that Rep. Cooper appeared visibly shaken through the court docket proceedings and was not among the many lawmakers taken into non permanent detention. It stays unclear whether or not she was launched on bail, as no pleas had been entered through the preliminary listening to.
The court docket has but to rule on bail, and proceedings are anticipated to proceed within the coming days.
At a press convention on June 6, Police Inspector Basic Gregory Coleman alleged that the 5 lawmakers supplied monetary and logistical assist for the assault, which occurred amid a heated management disaster inside the Home of Representatives.
The hearth, which broken one wing of the Capitol, erupted throughout a interval of heightened tensions between ruling and opposition lawmakers. Seven lawmakers had been initially questioned; two had been launched with out cost, whereas the remaining 5 had been detained in a single day and escorted to court docket below tight safety.
The case has sparked widespread debate over due course of and potential political motivations. On Friday, main opposition figures condemned the incarceration of the lawmakers and referred to as for the rule of regulation to prevail.
