As an alternative of serving to to take care of correct decorum within the sacred chambers of the Home of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on Guidelines, Order and Administration was a perpetrator of disruptive conduct that noticed him being requested out of session by the gable of Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon.
By Emmanuel Weedee-Conway
Bong County Electoral District 2 Consultant was thrown out of plenary proceedings throughout the 10th day sitting of the primary quarter of the threerd session of the 55th Legislature on Thursday for an act not amenable to self-discipline or management.
The unanticipated state of affairs occurred throughout the appearances of Liberia’s Minister of Schooling, Dr. Jarso Maley Jallah, and the Deputy Minister for Authorized Affairs on the Ministry of International Affairs, Cllr. Jeddie Armah, who was cited by the Home of Representatives together with their legal professionals to point out why they shouldn’t be held in contempt for ‘gross disrespect.’
Following the presentation by each officers from the Government, Speaker Koon requested a movement to be proffered for a manner ahead; therefore, the primary movement was made efficiently, which relieved Schooling Minister Jallah of a potential contempt of the Home. However when it got here to the movement on the deliberation of Deputy Minister Armah, Rep. Kolleh premised his thesis on what appeared to be a battle of curiosity problem.
The Bong County lawmaker in his kickoff assertion described Deputy Minister Armah as his ‘personal senior counsel,’ thus inflicting spiking uproar from the ground of plenary with members accusing him of being conflicted.
In accordance with our legislative reporter on the Home, Speaker Koon made a immediate intervention by asking the Home’s Guidelines and Order Chair to succumb to the chance to proffer the movement, however he refused to face down, arguing that he had carried out no unsuitable and that his place didn’t counsel any degree of battle of curiosity.
“I cannot give out the mic. What have I carried out? What have I carried out that’s conflicting with my pursuits? Mr. Speaker, it’s important to cease this; this isn’t truthful, completely this isn’t truthful to me. You need to have allowed me to land my concept, however for individuals to insinuate that I’m conflicting for recognizing somebody as a senior counsel is unfair,” argued Rep. Kolleh as he dared not lend the chance to anybody else.
The state of affairs dragged on for a number of minutes, with the Bong District 2 lawmaker rejecting calls from the Speaker and different colleagues to provide time to a different member to make the movement as a substitute.
On the heels of what many imagine was an ‘embarrassing state of affairs’ earlier than the visitors, Speaker Koon was left with no different various however to make use of his gavel to ask his Guidelines and Order Chair out of session, although he returned to session after a number of minutes of being open air.
And when calm was restored to the ground, one other movement was proffered and endorsed for the witnesses to look in an govt session (secret session) as a result of what lawmakers imagine was a delicate matter that might not be mentioned within the open.
However an final result of the dialogue was for the matter to be turned over to the Committees on International Affairs, Schooling, and Judiciary to report back to plenary inside one week, however with the International Affairs Committee taking the lead on the matter.
Accordingly, the Ministries of Schooling had been invited by the Home to look earlier than it on Tuesday to reply to points relating to a Liberian pupil who was allegedly sodomized in India.
The preliminary invite comes on the heels of a communication from Margibi County Electoral District #2 Consultant Ivar Okay. Jones through which he reported a dreadful incident of alleged sodomy perpetrated on a Liberian pupil learning in India.
In his letter, Rep. Jones disclosed that on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, his workplace obtained a misery name from a household alleging that their son, Tambason Samuel (NOT HIS REAL NAME), a pupil at Kalinga College in Naya Raipur, India, was drugged and sodomized by an Indian citizen.
However on the preliminary scheduled date for his or her look, Minister Jallah failed to point out up on the grounds that she was attending a critical event with a overseas visitor within the curiosity of the federal government’s ECEL program.
Alternatively, the Minister of International Affairs submitted a written excuse, informing Plenary that her Deputy for Authorized Affairs would seem in her stead. And though the Deputy Minister appeared, he unceremoniously departed the Capitol with out notifying the Home Secretariat.
It was based mostly on this that the Home of Representatives mandated the 2 officers to come back with their authorized group to point out trigger why they shouldn’t be held in contempt.
