Monrovia – Liberia’s Supreme Court has acknowledged that the first round of the country’s presidential and legislative elections were, to some extent, characterized by fraud, irregularities and disregard of the New Elections Law. The Supreme Court defined fraud as a generic term, which embraces all the multifarious of human ingenuity to desire and resort to by an individual to gain an advantage over another by false suggestions or by suppression of the truth. On this note, the Supreme Court, said it cannot sanction a rerun as the evidence provided do not merit the annul of the October 10 elections. However, as precondition for the runoff election, the Supreme Court has mandated and ordered to fully comply with the standards of publications of the Final Register Roll (FRR) as in keeping with law. Meanwhile, the NEC is expected to tell Liberians when they are going to head to the polls to vote.

Source: Front Page Africa December 08, 2017 03:22 UTC