PHOTO: Former VP Joe Boakai
TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia- Some partisans of the main opposition Unity Party (UP) of former Vice President Joseph Boakai today, Tuesday, August 2, 2022 prevented court officers backed by police from entering the party’s new headquarters in central Monrovia to enforce the arrest of some senior UP officials.
As www.newspublictrust.com Garmah Never Lomo reports, the court officers had gone to effect the arrest of their party’s officials or lock the headquarters in connection to debt owed the Worjoloh McClain Enterprise, owners of the UP’s former headquarters. The UP is indebted to the Worjoloh McClain Enterprise in the amount of US$250,000.
The Civil law “A” issued a writ of execution for some senior officials of the Unity Party, which says, ”You are hereby commanded to seize and expose for sale of land, goods, and chattels of the respondent (s) herein named of the City of Monrovia, Montserrado County, and if the sum realized therefrom be not sufficient, then their real property, until you shall have raised the sum of (US$201,250.00) Two Hundred One Thousand, Two Hundred & Fifty United States Dollars,” court record shows.
“And upon receiving from said sale or otherwise said sum of money, you are further commanded to pay over to petitioner herein named the sum necessary to satisfy the judgment therein, and receive unto yourself the said cost and expenses and will make known to this court at this present term,” the writ ordered.
The former ruling Unity Party accumulated the debt from their Old Party headquarters in Congo which led to their eviction in 2021.
This latest development comes days after the UP held its convention in Gbarnga, Bong County reelecting Mr. Boakai as its Standard Bearer and voting out the party’s Chairman and Secretary General, with a new corps of officers elected to steer the UP into the 2023 presidential and general elections.
The party’s lawyer admitted in open court to being indebted to Worjoloh McClain Enterprises, owner of UP’s Old Headquarters in Monrovia’s Congo Town suburb.
According to court record, the Court officers were seen at the Unity Party Headquarter on Board Street to arrest the Party’s new leadership or to close the Party’s Headquarters on Broad Street, until the amount in question can be paid as provided by law.
It can be recalled that McClain contended that the lease agreement has since expired in 2018, but up to and including July 2020, the Unity Party owes arrears of 250,000 United States Dollars for three years, and it has since refused, failed, and neglected to pay the amount.