MONROVIA – The Board of Commissioners, (BOC), of the National Elections Commission, (NEC) last Friday reserved ruling in the Grand Cape Mount County electoral dispute case, involving Victor V. Watson of the Coalition for Democracy Change, and the declared winner in the 8 December 2020 Special Senatorial Election in Grand Cape Mount County, Simeon B. Taylor, Candidate of the Collaborating Political Parties, CPP.
This follows, argument by lawyers representing the Complainant, Honorable Victor Watson, led by Cllr. Sheik Salibu Sessy and Cllr. Arthur Johnson versus Cllr. Benedict Sannoh, representing the defendant, Simeon B. Taylor.
The case, grew out of the action of appeal, electoral fraud and irregularities filed by Honorable Victor V. Watson, of the CDC, as Complainant versus the National Elections Commission, first defendant and Mr. Simeon B. Taylor of the CPP as second defendant.
All seven members of the Board of Commissioners heard the appeal case.
Last week, the Hearing Officer in the Grand Cape Mount County election dispute case, Atty. Fumba Swaray, reaffirmed an earlier decision of the Administrative Court at NEC, declaring Mr. Simeon B. Taylor as winner of the 8 December 2020 Special Senatorial Election in Grand Cape Mount County.
In the wake of the announcement, Taylor’s supporters could not hold back their excitement. They stormed major areas in Grand Cape Mount County with celebration.
However, their happiness was short lived as it angered supporters of the defeated incumbent Senator Victor Watson’s people who attacked them with machetes and clubs.
Immediately, after the incident, social media was flooded with pictures of blood stained victims.
Confirming the violent incident in Cape Mount, the Spokesperson of the Liberia National Police (LNP), Moses Carter told FrontPage Africa that no arrest has been made but the Police was exerting frantic effort to arrest those behind the violence.
“We have not arrested anyone yet but my officers are working hard to make sure that perpetrators of the crime be arrested,” Carter said.
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