While The High Court Fines 3 CDC Lawyers US$500 Each In Eviction Case
WHEREFORE AND IN VIEW OF THE FOREGOING, the informant’s bill of information is dismissed and denied.
By Garmah Never Lomo, garmahlomo@gmail.com
TEMPLE OF JUSTICE, Monrovia –The Supreme Court of Liberia has upheld a ruling of the Civil Law Court that the former President George Manneh Weah’s CDC party be evicted from the property its currently occupying as headquarter in Monrovia’s Congo Town suburb, denying a Bill of Information filed earlier.
The Supreme Court judgement stated: That the bill of information filed by the informant (CDC) having failed to allege “interference with the Judgment or Mandate of this Court by a judge or a judicial officer, or any other reason expressly prescribed by the rules of this Court, the counsel for the informant is hereby fined and ordered to pay United States Five Hundred Dollars (US$500.00) into government’s revenue within seventy-two (72) hours as of the reading of this Judgment”
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WHEREFORE AND IN VIEW OF THE FOREGOING, the informant’s bill of information is dismissed and denied.
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. Court Orders Weah’s CDC Evicted From Its HQ Owned By A Private Liberian Citizen – News Public Trust
The full Bench of the Supreme Court of Liberia on Wednesday, May 28,2025 fined three lawyers for refiling case through a Bill of Information that the same court rendered decision in 2016.
Counsellors A. Ndubuisi Nwabudike, Thompson M. Jargba and James N. Kumeh are to pay the sum of Five Hundred United States Dollars (US$500.00) within 72 hours as of the reading of this Judgment. The Clerk of this Court is ordered to inform the parties of the Court’s Mandate. Costs are ruled against the informants.
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 high court in its ruling said, When this case was called for hearing, Counsellors A. Ndubusi Nwabudike, Thomson M Jargba and James N. Kumeh appeared for the informant and . Counsellors J. Johnny Momoh and Joseph N. Tegli in association with F. Juah Lawson of the Renaissance Law Group appeared for the respondent.
The court said:
Having reviewed the records, heard the arguments and contentions advanced by the Counsels representing the parties, and considered the relevant laws applicable thereto, it is hereby,
That the 1st respondent’s (Interstate estate of Martha Stubblefield Bernard) acceptance of Three Hundred & Sixty Thousand United States (US$360,000.00) as rental arrears from the informant for the period 2018-2023 to prevent the informant’s removal, ouster, and eviction from the subject property, was an implied enforcement of the 2016 Judgment of the Supreme Court, and thereby established a landlord-tenant relationship;
That the informant’s filing of a bill of information with a request to have it joined in the appeal pending undetermined before this Court between the 1st respondent and the Estate of Danielle P. Tucker Bernard while the informant is a tenant of the 1st respondent, is preposterous and impermissible since the informant cannot question the title of its landlord;
In September 2024, the Civil Law Court 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 CDC 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 ownership of the land which began from the civil and probate courts.