But CDC Says It Has Filed A Bill Of Information To Civil Law Court, Yet It Claims The Case Is “Politically Motivated”

By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com

TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia- Just eight months after losing power at the ballot box, the former ruling CDC party of ex-President George Manneh Weah has been ordered evicted from its Congo Town headquarter by the Civil Law Court of Montserrado County.

The Court has issued a writ of possession on the former ruling Congress for Democracy Change following an action of ejectment.

In the eviction Writ dated March 7, 2024, the Court ordered the Sheriff to evict and eject the CDC from the property and give entitlement to Martha Stubblefield Barnard as its new administrators.

For decades now, the CDC has been occupying the property of the Barnard family through a leased agreement, a decision that was later resisted by the opposite party of the family.

In 2015, the CDCD was dragged before the supreme court of Liberia due to unpaid rent owed to its landlord in the tune of USD$50.000 which the Supreme Court ordered them to pay.

That matter was later settled when two separate families of the property began a legal battle over the ownership of the property that the CDC currently occupied.

There have been claims and counter-claims surrounding the land ownership which began from the civil and probate courts.

Speaking to Journalists in Monrovia today, Thursday, September 12, 2024, the CDC Chairman and former Comptroller General at the Finance Ministry, Jangar Kowo said the party as a law abiding institution wants redress on their Bill of Information filed before Golda Bonah Elliott.

He said the CDC believed that the case before the party was politically motivated as such they are not surprised, but intent to seek redress from the court.

According to chairman Kowo, the CDC is not claiming ownership of the properties so he wondered when the CDC names would be placed on the writ for possession.

He argued that the CDC had been paying its rental to the Bernard family, legitimate administrators of the property of the late Martha Stubblefield Bernard.