With Some Describing The Noisy Atmosphere As “Kindergarten Class, Disgraceful”
PHOTO: Some top Lawyers including LNBA President Cllr. Rennie and ex-President Cllr. Gongloe trying to advise their colleagues to be civil
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
Monrovia, Liberia- In a disgraceful moment, the Liberian National Bar Association (LNBA) Law Day program was described as a flop.
The Law Day, which is celebrated every May 3rd every year, turned into what some described as “a complete kindergarten class”, in the presence of the Ghanaian Ambassador to Liberia and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
The observance of the Law Day program started with parade by members of Liberian National Bar Association from the ELWA Junction and ended at the Paynesville Town Hall.
During the ceremony, lawyers were seen disturbing the ceremony continuously without respecting the presence of their invited guests.
“Have it quiet colleagues,“ the LNBA’s current President Cllr. Sylvester Rennie and past President Cllr. Tiawon Gongloe told their members but yet, the advice could hold water.
The noise continues to the extent two lawyers namely Cllr. Emmanuel Turay and Cllr. Nya Gbaintor were pointed out of the crowd when they both joined into a commotion.
Cllr. Gbaintor said the commotion between he and Cllr. Turay came about when the prexy for Cllr. Barbu who was on stage delivering the key note address, he Cllr Gbaintor said, the prexy of Cllr. Barbu was reading like an elementary student. Following his comment, Cllr. Turay told him not to criticize his colleague in which he got angry asked Cllr. Turay why he shouldn’t criticize someone who is not reading like a lawyer and Cllr. Turay told him to shut up his mouth.
Following the statement from Cllr. Turay, the entire place erupted into even louder noise for about fifteen minutes, which forced the keynote speaker to pause his speech get the attention of the audience even though it didn’t happen.
Due to the continue disturbance, Cllr. Turay was escorted outside with police and some senior lawyers, while Cllr. Gbaintor refused to go outside but he rather changed his seat.
Not only the two years’ names mentioned above, but the entire was continuously noisy still the end of the program when Cllr. Gongloe told them that they should be respecters of law as it written at the back of their T-shirts Adherence to the Rule of Law.
As the program went on, lawyers were walking in and out of the hall without regarding the presence of their guests, something which Cllr. Gongloe described being disgraceful to them as professional people who people look up to be respecters of the norms and virtues they preach.