By: Papie Sheriff Kollie,Jr.
IPNews-Monrovia,Liberia-6 February 2018: The Legislative Press Pool (LEGISPOL) Monday February 5,2018 temporarily lifted the media block-out placed on the Liberian Senate pending an investigation to be commissioned by the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) and the Leadership of the Senate.
The decision by the LEGISPOL followed a meeting with the Pro-tempore of the Liberian Senate, Albert Chie and the President of the Press Union of Liberia, Charles Coffey.
At the meeting, the institutions agreed to set up an investigative team to include representatives of the Senate, Press Union of Liberia and the Legislative Press Pool.
The Legislative Press Pool however maintained that the media blackout will remain on the Grand Bassa County Senator Nyonblee Kangar Lawrence exclusively, pending the outcome of the investigation.
LEGISPOL is meanwhile calling on all its members to resume active coverage of confirmation hearings involving key government officials nominated byPresident George M. Weah.
Two members of the Legislative Press Pool were recently harassed, humiliated, assaulted and brutalized by state security officers on the order of Senator Kangar Lawrence.
It can be recalled LEGISPOL last week issued a blackout to protest the action of Senator Lawrence to prevent the recurrence of such undemocratic tenets that has the proclivity to undermine Press freedom and the rule of law.
