IPNews-Monrovia,Liberia-20 August 2018: Members of the House of Representatives are still defiant to honor a stay order placed on their proceedings for impeachment of Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Justice Kabineh Ja’neh.
It may be recalled nearly a week ago, Justice in Chambers, Associate Justice Sie-A-Nyene G. Yuoh notified the House of Representatives to appear before her on August 18, 2018, (which has since passed) to show cause why the writ of prohibition on their proceedings to impeach Associate Justice Ja’neh as petitioned by the petitioner should not be granted.
Early Saturday, Members of the House on Saturday, (the date set by the presiding Judges in Chambers for Speaker of the House to appear), moved to hold an emergency session in flaunt disregards.
In what same to be a majority block concurrence, moved that that the Supreme Court withdraw its Writ of Prohibition before further dialogue could be held.
One members of the majority block who spoke to this paper and preferred not to be named said that they will not honor the Supreme Court’s stay order because the Supreme Court should have first requested a conference before placing the stay order which amounts to legal procedural errs. The Representative told this paper.
The Associate Justice’s stay order on the impeachment proceedings of Justice Ja’neh emerges from a 14-count petition for the writ of prohibition filed before her by five outstanding Liberian lawyers; namely Cllrs. James E. Pierre, Laveli Supuwood, Emmanuel James, Johnny Momoh and Arthur Johnson opposing the bill of impeachment forwarded to the House of Representatives by two lawmakers from Montserrado County, Acarous Gray and Thomas Fallah.
