By: TogbaNah Tipoteh
There is plenty talk about what is happening in the National Legislature of Liberia. This talk is about the removal of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and Presiding Officer of the National Legislature. Some persons are saying that his non-removal makes sense, and he should not be removed. Others are saying that his removal makes nonsense and he should be removed. What makes sense is the Constitution of Liberia or the Rule of Law.
The Rule of Law makes sense, but the rule of outlaw makes nonsense. The Rule of Law as found in Article One of the Constitution of Liberia says that all power resides with the people of Liberia. This is so because the people of Liberia want to be governed by the system called Democracy and not by the system called autocracy. According to the Rule of Law, the Speaker can be removed only when the Speaker has gone through the Due Process of Law and is found guilty of violating the Law. This has not been done.
Therefore, what is being done by the self-styled majority bloc is in violation of the Rule of Law. No violation of the Law shall be allowed by the Supreme Court of Liberia. We have a situation where the lawmakers have become lawbreakers, The lawbreakers must be compelled to submit themselves to the Law through Due Process of Law. The people of Liberia are not going to rest until the Rule of Law prevails. So, Speaker For-na-tee (means Wait for your time in Kraowihn) must wait for his time to go through Due Process as mandated by the Rule of Law.
Persons who call themselves the majority bloc must remember that Legislators who did not follow the Rule of Law were not re-elected on October 10. 2023. Lawmakers who become lawbreakers are going to be removed from the National Legislature as was done on October 10, 2023!
The people of Liberia know how to follow the Rule of Law and they are going to vote the lawbreakers out of their offices.
The way that the people perform is to transform the National Elections Commission (NEC) of Liberia through the exposure of their corrupt practices. This exposure is being done through the raising of awareness of the people as was seen in the voting of October 10, 2023, when 76.86% of the voting age population voted. This voting is the transformation of the unfair prevailing electoral system into the fair enduring electoral system. It is only through this transformation that persons with good records can get elected to bring in the system of Justice, the indispensable ingredient for Peace and Progress in Liberia and in any other country.
