MONROVIA – The conflict that erupted last year, and which seems endless between the Speaker of the House J. Fonati Koffa and his so-called minority bloc, and “regime speaker” Richard Koon and his so-called “majority bloc” which purportedly ousted the Koffa leadership, has hit a deadlock as never before. The Supreme Court has ruled quite unequivocally, at least this time all parties say nothing was left ambitious. The President, who is supposed to give effect to the ruling, has gone counterclockwise to it, and the nation remains divided and bitter. the crisis still looms, and even deeper. But is there a common sense approach to the complications? Liberian diplomat, journalist and writer Gabriel I.H. Williams thinks so, as he released a new commentary titled, “Recommendations to End the Political Gridlock at the Capitol in Monrovia” on page 9 of this edition.
Most reactions to the Supreme Court ruling of last Wednesday, April 23, have come out forthright and leaning, either blaming the minority bloc, or the majority bloc or the Executive Branch or the Judiciary. But here comes the “twin mother” reactions from the Charles Walker Brumskine’s Liberty Party: “We particularly call on both sides to the conflict at the House of Representatives to put the interests of the Liberian people first and consider mediation as the ultimate solution to the conflict.” The Analyst reports.
The Liberty Party has added its voice to the flurry of reactions greeting the release of Supreme Court judgment in the long-running leadership crisis at the Legislature, specifically the House of Representatives.
In a press statement signed by the Political Leader, Senate Pro tempore Nyonblee Karngar Lawrence, the LP recalled that for about six months running, Liberia continues to witness a disturbing leadership impasse at the House of Representatives, which continues to cause distractions in national governance, especially at a time when the Government of Liberia under the administration of Pres. Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. is making strides to provide basic social services to our people and restore the destroyed image of our country.
“In the genius of our Constitution,” the Liberty Party said, “we have three separate but coordinate branches of government. It is worthy to note that paralysis in one Branch of the Government, as we are witnessing at the House of Representatives, has the tendency to defeat the principle of coordination as espoused by our Constitution and stall national development.”
The party express its satisfaction with the fact that President of Liberia has acknowledged the outcome of the Supreme Court’s decision in the ongoing impasse, and sees it as a “honorable thing that the majority bloc has filed a motion for re-argument before the Supreme Court”.
“These actions are consistent with the respect for the Rule of Law, without which our democracy will not thrive,” the LP said, stressing that in light of all the foregoing actions that are consistent with respect for the rule of law and good tenets of democracy, “we would like to call on all actors and interest groups to our national governance process to remain calm and give the Court process a chance to reach a logical and judicial conclusion”.
Without laying blame on any party, the LP said calling on both sides to the conflict at the House of Representatives to put the interests of the Liberian people first and consider mediation as the ultimate solution to the conflict, but “vehemently denounce, in no uncertain terms, attempts to inflame and exploit the unfortunate impasse at the House of Representatives for political reasons”.
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