PHOTO: Mo Ali (in yellow T-shirt) being escorted by his Lawyer after being released from Police custody
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
After spending Thursday night behind bars at the Liberia National Police headquarters in Monrovia, the opposition Unity Party National Secretary General Mo Ali has been released on to his one of his lawyers Cllr. Findley Y. Kangar.
His release came early Friday morning (March 26, 2021), after police authority grossly disrespected the Attorney General Frank Musa Dean of the Republic of Liberia order to release Mr. Ali.
The Attorney General on Thursday afternoon, Justice Minister Frank Musa Dean ordered the unconditionally of the UP Secretary General but high authorities in the police force refused to release Mr. Ali for reasons best known to themselves.
But police justified their actions of disobeying the Justice Minister order on ground that they got the instructions to release Mr. Ali at about 4 Am, something they did.
Police 103 Prince Mulbah was on OK FM early Friday morning, saying that they didn’t get the Minister instruction directly from the Police IG Patrick Sudue, who is on a tour with the president.
And they justified their actions on chain of command and some of those top police authority was seen at the Ministry throughout yesterday in or before the instruction.
The continue disrespect by top officials government to the Attorney General of the Republic of Liberia, many see it as means of telling him to leave the post.
However, some citizens say the disrespect to the Minister has a wilder repercussions in that the police will now start disrespecting county Attorney and other prosecutors.
The opposition Unity Party National Secretary General Mo Ali has been jailed at headquarters of the Liberian National police for several charges on a Facebook post made on both March 1 and 4, 2021.
Political prisoners are people who usually have opposing views on issues.
On Monday, March 22, 2021, the opposition Unity Party executives and some supporters of the CPP escorted Mr. Ali to police headquarters on Capitol Hill in Monrovia for questioning over his Facebook posts.
He was declared wanted by the Police on March 19, 2021, after he failed to appear. But his Lawyer claimed at that time that his client was ill, after assuring the police authority that his client was on his way.
Due to nature of the matter, a team of lawyers representing Mr. Ali asked for two days in order to study the nature of the post of their client especially when Justice Joseph N. Nagbe home Petro Bond attack was added when it was not the topic of discussion.
Speaking to Journalists, Unity Party Chairman Amin Modad said the rights of Mo Ali was totally violated by the George Weah CDC government.