Civil Law Court Judge Issues Writ March 7, Ordering Sheriff To Effect Eviction
PHOTO: FLASHBACK Ex-Pres. Weeah at the CDC party headquarters with his supporters
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia- Former Liberian President George Manneh Weah and his former ruling CDC party will soon have no national party headquarters to operate from in Monrovia’s Congo Town suburb, as the Sixth Judicial Civil Law Court Annex A has ordered the party’s eviction after a private Liberian citizen won a lawsuit against them.
In a judgement, the Court has issued a writ of eviction seeking the removal of the former ruling party CDC from their headquarters located in Congo Town.
This move follows the Supreme opinion against CDC after the court affirmed the lower court verdict against them in the action of ejectment filed by Ebrima Varney Dempster on behalf of Martha Stubblefield Bernard.
Weah and his CDC lost political power recently, after the former ruling Unity Party of now President Joseph Nyuma Boakai defeated Mr. Weah in the November 2023 presidential runoff election. Boakai’s own UP faced similar fate of court eviction, after the Liberian owners of their former party headquarters near the China-built Ministerial Complex won a lawsuit against the UP.
The March 7, 2024 Civil Law Court writ issued by Judge Golda’s Elliot, which is in this Reporter’s possession, ordered the Sheriff to evict, eject, and oust the defendant’s Congress of Democratic Change from the headquarters.
She however instructed the sheriff in her second writ to arrest the living bodies of the corporate officers and the administrators of the defendants if they failed to pay the over 54 thousand United States dollars and over 13 thousand Liberian dollars to the Plaintiff as rental fee for the property.
According to her failure to have the money paid the sheriff have been order to arrest the living body of the corporate officers and administrators of the Defendants and bring them before the court to be dealt with according to law; unless they pay the sum of money or show property.
As a stance the property in question is being claimed as an entitlement by the late William Thomas Archibald L. Bernard, Nancy Freddy Bernard Freeman, Bernard represented by its Executor/Administrator. Murary Bernard, Vivian Bernard, William Bernard, Leona P. Bernard Archibald F. Bernard and Martha Stubblefield Bernard, by and thru its administrator, Ebrima Varney Dempster.