When the Law Is Not the Law Part II — Caveat for the Justice Minister: The Law Is No Respecter of Persons!
Was Justice Minister Musa Dean’s diktat to NEC to refrain from certificating Brownie Samukai as winner of the Lofa County Senatorial elections within the pale of the law? This is the haunting question that is weighing heavily on the minds of the public. The National Elections Commission as an independent and autonomous body does not and is not to take instructions from the Justice Minister, according to most lawyers this newspaper has spoken to. As a lawyer, the Justice Minister ought to know that there are bounds beyond which he cannot overstep. And those bounds are the independence of the...