IPNews-Monrovia: Montserrado County district #16 lawmaker, Representative Dixon Seboe has referred to both Senators Prince Johnson and Abraham Darious Dillon as apparently misplace at the level of the Liberian Senate.
Speaking to journalists over the weekend in the Bangor community outside Monrovia, Representative Seboe said that the two Senators do not know legislative politics within the Liberian Senate.
“The two Senators, one said he received his operational funds and the other said he received pay because he’s being called back, so it’s apparent that the two Senators are misplaced and they do not even know the issues and don’t even understand their own legislative politics within the Liberian Senate.
The Montserrado County district #16 lawmaker and member of the ruling coalition of Democratic Change (CDC) indicated that it is forehead on the part of the two Senators to not have known the clear terms for money they received, thus, calling on their various counties to recalled them from the Liberian Senate.
“I am saying to you if I were to receive money today, Dixon Seboe from New Kru town, will know what that money is for but for the two of them not to know what that money is for, their people have got to be rethinking,” he stressed.
Representative Seboe stated that the issue of lawmakers receiving money for operational funds or sitting fees sound very strange to him, adding that at no point in time did the House of Representative ever received such money.
He clarified that normally when the legislature is called back to work they do not get paid dependent when they are recalled, adding, session is still on going and the legislature was only on an Easter break, therefore coming back would not require sitting fees.
“That’s the law on the book that when you called legislators from their annual break, you pay them for a month that they would be sitting in for, so it did not make sense to me that the President should use money for us to come back from Easter break,” he voiced
He furthered “beyond that point, when we signed our approval plan, we were clear that any resources that is available the first priority should be health issues, so one will argue that if we have got health issues why will you be taking money to legislators, even if it was operational money, the timing is wrong and it just does not make sense to people like us.”
He disclosed that the issue of operational funds at the legislature is something that is don’t holistically and not as individual lawmaker, stating that it was only in this year they as legislators thought to share the operational funds among legislators since for the past years office of lawmakers have been ran by themselves.
“The legislature has to run. Water, papers and toiletries have to be there, for the three years we have been there, nothing called operational funds that came to any individual lawmaker to do operational works those monies came holistically. So if a lawmaker needs papers the office of the chief clerk will supply each office and that is the essence of operational funds. Howbeit, because in this year operational funds have not been given, legislators were considering that if allocations are made and the operational funds are available it should be shared amongst the members of the legislature but up to present that funds are not yet available,” he clarified.
