Monrovia – Judge Yussif D. Kaba of the Civil Law Court of Montserrado County has placed a stay order on all election activities of the Liberia National Students Union (LINSU).
Report by Augustine T. Tweh, [email protected]
The Writ of Injunction was placed on the institution election activities based on a petition filed to the court by student Ernest Duku Jallah of the University of Liberia.
According to the writ of injunction, LINSU Congress Preparatory committee should refrain from all election processes until investigation is conducted into the matter.
“You are order to temporarily restrain, enjoin, prohibit the respondents to stay and refrain from all further conduction of election of the leadership of the Liberia National Student Union pending the final determination of this case or until otherwise ordered by this court,” writ of injunction adds.
The court also order the leadership of LINSU to appear before it on or before October 8, 2018 to answer to the court stay order or writ of injunction.
The court stay order was placed on LINSU election activities based on a complaint filed to the august body by Ernest Duku Jallah, one of the candidates vying for the presidency of LINSU.
Jallah claimed that the membership of the Congress Preparatory Committee (CPC) has proven to be “bias and on numerous accounts display their utmost preferment for a particular candidate.
According to him, since the establishment of the CPC, members of the committee has made it difficult for other candidates to have access to information regarding the congress, making things also difficult for him to submit his nomination letter.
Duku further lamented that the CPC of LINSU allotted limited time for the nomination process (September 26-28, 2018) and exhibiting attitudes intended to render he and other candidates unqualified for the position.
“Since I got my nomination, I’ve been calling every member of the CPC, but they refused to answer their phones. My phone records can speak to that effect. Moreover, the email that was enshrined on the release from the CPC has also proven to be a fake one as it keeps bouncing back my email containing my nomination letter,” Jallah explained.
In consideration, the actions of the CP, a body that is expected to display high-level of neutrality, Jallah considers the process a “comprised one and a stage-managed event” intended to hand over leadership of the student union to a handful of “selected rascals of the past regime”.
“National youth and students elections should be an open and transparent process offering every qualify and potential candidates the opportunity to participate, if this process is not freely open by mid-day September 28, 2018, I’m going to work with my lawyer to issue a writ of injunction on the entire congress until things a rightfully put in place,” he said.
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