owned by a Madam Annie Yancy, widow of her deceased
husband, J. Nyema Constance, Sr., which act was described as a
“further testament of proved misconduct, gross breach of duty,
inability to delineate between right and wrong…”
12.Upon receipt of the Petition of Impeachment, the House promptly set up a
Special Ad-Hoc Committee (hereinafter referred to as “the SAC”) and
entrusted same with the mandate to handle the petition. The Applicant claims,
this was done in clear violation of the rules of the House which vest the
mandate to handle all matters involving judicial officials at the committee
level, in the House’s Committee on Judiciary.
13.The Applicant, as soon as the House begun the proceedings of impeachment,
rushed to the Supreme Court of Liberia to file a Writ of Prohibition to stop
what he considered a threatened violation of his rights in that by Article 43 of
the Constitution of Liberia, the legislature is compulsorily required to
prescribe the procedure for the impeachment proceedings, which shall be in
conformity with the requirement of due process.
14.On 30th November, 2018, the Supreme Court of Liberia delivered its opinion
in the Prohibition Petition filed by the Applicant on 6th August, 2018. Three
Justices forming the majority of the Court, included Ad-Hoc Justice J. Boima
Kontoe against whose decision the Applicant had issued a Remedial Writ in
the matter of “Ecobank v. Austin Clarke case”, being one of the grounds
listed for the Applicant’s impeachment.
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