IPNEWS – Monrovia: Five days after the National Executive Committee of the All-Liberian Party (ALP) mandated its National Chairman and Political Leader to effect an immediate withdrawal of the party from the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), the ALP and its National Chairman, Mr. Theodore Momo, have sued Mr. Alexander Benedict Cummings of the Alternative National Congress (ANC).
Because of the action by the ALP, the Monrovia City Magisterial Court at the Temple of Justice has ordered Captain Larry Gormoryor to arrest the living bodies of Alexander B. Cummings and others to be identified and bring them before the court to answer to crime of Forgery and Criminal Conspiracy based upon the complaint from Momo.
In the ALP’s folks’ complaint according to the court document in the possession of this outlet, “That during the period of May 2020 up to and including July 2020 in the City of Monrovia, Montserrado County, the within named defendant being there and then in violation of section 15.70 and the New Penal Law of Liberia, purposely connived, conspired, and jointly did alter the framework documents of the CPP, thus deceiving the private prosecutor and the public regarding the content and averments, but that the said defendants out of deception surreptitiously altered same, thereby making it to appear that the party has formerly resolved that issue and others appertaining thereto.”
The court said the alleged act of Mr. Cummings and others being “unlawful, wicked, criminal, illegal and intentional is in violation of section 15.70 and 10.2 of the New Penal Law of Liberia there and then the crimes herein the defendants did do and commit.”
ALP Withdrawal from the CPP
The ALP court action comes just five days after it began action to leave the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), which is a collaboration of four political parties, including ALP, ANC, Unity Party (UP) and Liberty Party (LP).
As it stands this four-party collaboration is on the brink of collapse as the ALP has now begun actions to breakaway. There are reports that UP might leave soon, too. This report is yet to be independently verified.
Few days ago, The ALP in a press release said its decision to pull out was made as a result of a comprehensive review of the party’s participation in the CPP, the uncertainties about the political future of the collaboration, the lack of strong will to implement the findings of the CPP FA Investigative Committee’s findings of the alterations of the CPP’s Framework Agreement, among other issues.
“At the end of a long period of intense deliberation concerning the original purpose, intent, political interest and viability of the ALP’s participation in the CPP, the EC, in its December 23, 2021, extraordinary sitting, voted in majority to pull out of the CPP.”
“Additionally, the EC also decided that the ALP will seek legal action for the unlawful attachment of its leaders’ signatures to a filed (with National Elections Commission) July 14, 2020, photocopy version of what was purported to be an approved (by all parties of the CPP) Framework Agreement of the CPP.”
