UP Withdraws Case against Speaker Koffa

MONROVIA: The Unity Party has withdrawn its Petition for Declaratory Judgment against the National Elections Commission (NEC) as first respondent and the Speaker of the House of Representative of the 55th Legislature, Grand Kru County Representative Fonati J Koffa as second respondent in which the UP wanted Speaker Koffa removed from the Legislature on account of allegations that he possesses Dual Citizenship.

But the incoming ruling party somersaulted Wednesday, January 17, 2024 when its legal counsels issued a “Notice of Withdrawal” to the Civil Law Court undoing its legal action after massive criticisms from the pundits of the outgoing Coalition for Democratic Change and other diaspora Liberians.

In a “Notice of Withdrawal” issued addressed to the Clerk of the Six Judicial Circuit Court, the Civil Law Court of Montserrado County, the lawyers of the Unity Party wrote, “You will please take judicial notice and spread upon the record of the Honorable Court that petitioners in the above titled case has on this date and day withdrawn its petition for Declaratory Judgment with reservation”.

Signed by four legal counselors for the party including Cllrs. Benedict K. Sagbeh,  Moiffie Kanneh, Neto Zarzar Leigh, and J. Cole Bangalu, the party said in its notice of withdrawal that “for so doing this shall constitute your legal and sufficient authority in the premise.”

It can be recalled that the Unity Party, through its Chairman Luther Tarpeh and Secretary General Amos Tweh, filed a petition for Declaratory Judgment seeking the removal of Speaker Koffa from the National Legislature for dual citizenship amidst lousy criticisms.

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