Liberia: House of Representatives Workers Besiege Speaker’s Vehicle in Demand for 17 Months’ Arrears
Liberia: House of Representatives Workers Besiege Speaker’s Vehicle in Demand for 17 Months’ Arrears
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MONROVIA – Several workers of the House of Representatives on Thursday besieged the vehicle of Speaker Bhofal Chambers in demand for their 17 months’ salary arrears.
Thursday’s protest is just the latest of several other protect staged by these workers at the Capitol Building in demand for their money.
They have been demanding the House of Representative remit the Liberian dollar component of their salary which was taken away by the Ministry of Finance through the government’s salary harmonization scheme.
Archie Leproy Ponpon at his residence in West Point
Leroy Archie Ponpon, the activist and employee of the Temple of Justice who set himself ablaze last year over claims of ill-treatment of judicial staffers, has disclosed that he regrets surviving his self-immolation instead of dying as his plan was to set a precedent against bad labor practice.
Ponpon explained that the idea to self-immolate came about due to the writ of arrest issued against him by the attorney general of Montserrado County and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia due to his role to lead his colleagues to protest against unpaid salary arrears.
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Fire-bleached Activist Ponpon in interactive session in his community
The created-black skin color of Mr. Leroy Archie Ponpon, who became popular for his pro-gay right sermons and self-immolation, has been transformed into the complexion of a person with ‘whitish’ pigmentation (albino)
In March, 2012, Mr. Ponpon opened a gay-rights interactive session with students of the State-owned University, two months after co-forming the Movement for the Defence of Gay and Lesbians in Liberia (MODEGAL) with a like-mind colleague Abraham Kamara.
For months on end, judicial workers at the Temple of Justice had endured hardships occasioned by prolonged delay in the payment of their salaries. On more than one occasion they protested publicly. But their protests were met by feigned indifference of Police batons and whips. On another occasion, the leader of the protest action threw…
The Liberian judiciary has once again come under the spotlight in the wake of the US Department of Treasury sanctions slammed against prominent Liberian lawyer, Varney Sherman, currently serving as Senator of Grand Cape Mount County.
According to the US Department of Treasury, Cllr. Varney Sherman âoffered bribes to multiple judges associated with his trial for a 2010 bribery scheme and had an undisclosed conflict of interest with the judge who ultimately returned a not guilty verdict in his favor in 2019â.
The Statement further said that Counsellor Sherman has âroutinely paid judges to decide cases in his favorâ¦â and that his âacts of bribery demonstrate a larger pattern of behavior to exercise influence over the Liberian Judiciary and the Ministry of Justice.â