IPNEWS: Reports reaching the authoritative Independent Probe say armed robbers’ attack against former Chief Justice Gloria M. Scott, has left one person dead and valuables taken away from her home.
According to the reports, the attack which is third assassination attempt of the former Chief Justice, occurred at her home in the Brewerville, a suburb of Monrovia, with the last two weeks leaving her daughter dead and another in critical condition after several stabbed by her attackers and is now undergoing treatment at a local clinic in Monrovia.
Recently report emerged that the home of the former Chief Justice was intruded into by unknown persons on the 8th and 9th of February 2023.
The latest intrusion brings to three the number of attacks against the former Chief Justice.
Sources tell IPNEWS that the lastet attacked happened Wednesday, February 22 between 10 and 11 pm.
The attackers made away with her laptops phones and other personal effects.
Police spokesman Moses Carter told IPNEWS that intense investigation is underway to establish the intend of the attackers and bring perpetrators to justice.
Carter assured public that the incident will be thoroughly investigated.
It may be recalled late November 2022, former Liberian Chief Justice Cllr. Gloria Musu Scott blasted members of the Legislature after the passage of joint resolution on the national housing and population census. She had termed the passage as a ‘ way of bastardizing the Constitution’.
“The Joint Resolution by both chambers of the Legislature is in a way of bastardizing the Constitution of Liberia,” she said on a night-time radio talk show Friday, 12 November 2022.
The resolution 003/2022, passed by the Legislature, authorized the Executive Branch to extend the conduct of the National Housing and Population Census from 7 November 2022 up to 15 January 2023.
The plenary of both houses decided to allow the appropriate authority to ensure adequate preparation for the conduct of the census.
Through the joint resolution, the lawmakers appropriated an additional amount of US$200,000 to the Liberia Institute for Statistics and Geo-Information Services (LISGIS) to address the current challenges it faces.
But Cllr. Scott said this should not be encouraged because it’s a constitutional non-compliance and violation.
The constitutional lawyer described the action of the Legislature as a bad precedent being set that undermines the function of the Constitution.
She said the way the census is proceeding, the possibility is that the National Elections Commission (NEC) might not use the data from the census.
She also thinks that the elections might not be held on the second Monday in October because of the delay of the census and the breach of the constitutional mandate.
Cllr. Scott accused the Legislature of not exercising its constitutional oversight responsibility because lawmakers have accepted … to always come out with resolutions that are not good for Liberia.
“What the Legislature has done is a bad precedent that has been set,” she noted.
But responding to the joint resolution, Cllr. Scott said the lawmakers have set a bad precedent.
She contended that the Constitution lays down a timetable and mandates for the conduct of the census.
“The Constitution provides that after ten years a census should be conducted. For ten years, we knew … that this time will come, a constitutional duty for [the] census would need to be implemented. But we have not planned for it,” said Cllr. Scott.
She said the resolution from the Legislature is a constitutional violation, and that the government should make sure that there is check and balance.
She stressed that the census is important because it is used for planning, political and constitutional purposes.
She added that it is used to determine constituents for the next election thresholds to find electoral districts.
With the delay in the conduct of the census, Cllr. Scott wondered when will the NEC use the information that will be gathered to demarcate electoral districts.
“I am looking down the road, it seems like we might not use the census 2023, or we might not have the election on the second Monday of October as provided by the constitution because of all this,’’ she concluded.( courtesy of PUNCH TV)
