-Held liable for illegal transfer of over US$1 million
Days after the US State Department released its 2020 Human Rights Report on Liberia implicating judges and magistrates of the Judiciary Branch of the Government of bribery, the Chief Judge of the Commercial Court has been found guilty of withdrawing over US$1 million illegally. The Judicial Inquiry Commission that investigated Judge Eva Mappy Morgan and found her liable has therefore recommended a year suspension for her without pay and benefits.
The Supreme Court’s disciplinary commission, the JIC, after eight months of Investigation on Wednesday, April 7 said, “Eva Mappy Morgan, respondent, recklessly abused her discretion when she illegally ordered the President of the Liberia Bank for Development and Investment (LBDI) to unfreeze the accounts of Ducor Petroleum Inc.
Sister Mary Laurene Brown: “I may be right or wrong, but I believe that the education system of this country will improve when most Liberians recognized that formal education is important.
Veteran educator Sister Mary Laurene Browne, OSF, has retired after more than two decades as President of the Stella Maris Polytechnic University, an institution which under her leadership has become one of the prestigious institutions of learning for its strict academic principles.
While at the helm of the university, she championed its transformation from being a little-known polytechnic to one of Liberia’s best higher learning institution that has molded some of the country’s best and brilliant minds.
As it contends with ‘141 Complaints of Gross Impropriety, Irregularity
Months after one of the three Judges of the Commercial Court, Judge Richard Klah, was forwarded to the Legislature for impeachment over accusation of bribery, the Judiciary Inquiry Commission (JIC) has vowed to ensure a speedy Investigation of the 141 complaints of impropriety and irregularities against several judges that are pending before that committee.
The Judicial Inquiry Commission is an auxiliary established within the Judiciary Branch of Liberia, with the exclusive power and authority to receive and investigate complaints against judges of courts of record and of non-record in the Republic of Liberia for violation of any provision of the Judicial Canons.