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Liberia: Supreme Court Puts Stay Order on the Certification of the Lofa County Senator-elect Brownie Samukai Liberia: Supreme Court Puts Stay Order on the Certification of the Lofa County Senator-elect Brownie Samukai Share Monrovia Former Defense Minister Brownie Samukai faced another hurdle in taking his seat as Lofa County’s senator last week when the Supreme Court of Liberia temporarily halted his certification by the National Election Commission (NEC). The nation’s highest court’s decision against Samukai, of the Collaborating Political Parties (CPP), was trigged by a Writ of Prohibition filed March 2,2021, by O’Neil Passewe, chair of the Movement for Progressive Change. ....
Liberia: Supreme Court Gives Embattled Brownie Samukai Greenlight for Certification for the Senate Liberia: Supreme Court Gives Embattled Brownie Samukai Greenlight for Certification for the Senate Share Monrovia Lofa County Senator-elect Brownie Samukai heaved a sigh of relief Wednesday, February 24, 2021 as the Supreme Court upheld the ruling from the National Elections Commission (NEC) declaring him winner of the December 8 Special Senatorial elections. Candidates James K. Marley, Hamet Kromah and Gayflor Tarnue had petitioned the Supreme Court to halt Samukai’s election, claiming election fraud and irregularities. But the three-member panel of the Supreme Court in its series of hearings and judgements delivered within three hours Wednesday said candidates Tarnue, Marley and Kromah were unable to prove the allegations of fraud and irregularities, which they claimed marred the exercise in District#4 in Lofa County. ....