–Union hails Supreme Court’s ruling
Monrovia, December 8, 2017: The Press Union of Liberia hails the ruling of the Supreme Court as a pragmatic solution to a long lasting challenge of the outcome of the October 10 2017 Polls.
The Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, ordered a runoff and a thorough cleanup of the voter roll which has been a source of fraud and irregularities accusations.
The PUL insists that all political parties and supporters must conduct their activities in line with the Supreme Court’s verdict, a press release from the umbrella group for Journalist said on Thursday.
International and bilateral organizations and friendly states to Liberia should earnestly support Liberia’s fast growing democracy while realistically supporting the independence of the judiciary, the
Union indicates.
According to the PUL signed by its Secretary General Daniel Nyankonah, diversity of opinions of justices was satisfying in Thursday’s ruling of the Supreme Court.
The Union is terming it as a revolutionary precedence aimed at invigorating confidence in the judiciary.
“This signals the dawn of a new era for Liberians and the firm discovery of an alternative to violence during national disputes”, PUL President Charles B. Coffey, Jr., stressed.
Liberia is only beginning to develop institutions as part of a post conflict reform with the help of friendly nations after years of outrageous bloodletting.
The Liberian Constitution calls for all disputes arising from the conduct of elections in the republic to be heard by the National Elections Commission in thirty days.
The Elections House only started investigating complaint of irregularities, frauds and violations of laws allegations during the October 10 Polls after the Supreme Court ordered it to halt all
preparations and conduct of a runoff until it had listened to the protest of the Liberty Party.
Meanwhile, the Press Union of Liberia is urging the Sirleaf Administration to make interventions in the economy so as to relieve it of the stress pronounced by the President in her recent address to
the nation.
The Union indicates that Governments’ profits are the maximization of the welfare of its people and not the offering of commentaries on existing problems confronting the state in the absence of prescribing
an antidote.
The cost of living throughout the country is worsening by the day as prices of basic commodities continue to increase against the already low purchasing power of the ordinary Liberian.