By Staff reporter

Monrovia-June 23, 2021: The Supreme Court of the Republic of Liberia has condmmens and describes the Collaborating Political Parties CPP recent statement as reckless and irresponsible for accusing the Court, National Election Commission( NEC) in it’s deliberate and unjustified violation of the Liberian Constitution regarding the election case which emanated from Grand Cape Mount County involving CPP’s Candidate Simeon B. Taylor, and the Colition for Democratic Change (CDC) candidate, Victor Watson.

The Supreme Supreme Court considers the statement as reckless, irresponsible and without any iota of truth, as the court has in no way violated any provision of the. Constitution.

The Court on Wednesday June 22, 2021 release noted that the statement of the CPP is an attempt by politicians to unduly draw the court into politics, and to set the people against the court to undermine respect for the rules of law.

The release clarified that the court does not usually dignify false reports of it’s decisions and or actions in the media with a response, it is however constrained at this time, due to the high level of deliberate misrepresentation contained in the CPP’s statement, to set the record straight as follow:

1 The supreme Court has constitutional duty to hear and decide all appeals from the Board of Commissioners of NEC in election cases to ensure that the true desire of the people, through their votes, is protected and upheld.

2 An appeal from the rulling of the Board of Commissioners of the NEC in the referenced case was taken to the Supreme Court by the CDC; the case was argue, and the Court rendered an opinion within the constitutional timeframe of seven(7) days after hearing.

In the said opinion, the Court reversed the final rulling of the Board of Commissioners of the NEC and in it’s Judgment, remanded the case to the NEC and instructed the NEC to take seize of the matter and conduct further investigation into the case.

3 On the mandate and instruction of the Supreme Court, the NEC resume jurisdiction over the case for full investigation, especially in those areas as indicated in the Court’s judgement.

The case was therefore removed from the Supreme Court back to the NEC.

Supreme Court records stated that since that time, no party has filed a complaint with the Court regarding the execution of the mandate given to the NEC by this Court; neither has any party come back to the Court on an appeal.

“So what is the basis of the CPP’s assertion to the Liberian public and the whole World that the Supreme Court is delaying this election case thereby threatening the peace and security of this country?” The release concluded.