Monrovia - On Monday the Supreme Court heard arguments in the Bill of Information seeking a stay order on the pending December 26, 2017 runoff. The Elections body legal team answered saying that the court’s mandates are being gradually followed. Sannoh indicated that in the absence of an agreed methodology of the cleanup of the FRR, NEC created an impression that the FRR is already cleaned. Dean argued that the implementation of the Supreme Court’s Mandate is not an event but a process, comprising three phases: pre-runoff election activities, Election Day activities and post-runoff election activities. Speaking for the Court, Chief Justice Francis S. Korkpor, said: “Any counselor, who files an information before the Supreme Court assigning reasons therefore other than the reasons expressly prescribed by the Rules of the Supreme Court shall be penalized by the imposition of a fine, suspension or disbarment”.

Source: Front Page Africa December 20, 2017 02:48 UTC