By Nyantee S. Togba
Monrovia — In a inserting pushback against the authorities’s anti-corruption efforts, Simpson Consultancy, LLC has refused a summons from the Sources Restoration & Property Project Power (AREPT), calling as a alternative for the topic to be placed forward of a court of regulation.
The firm, led by successfully-known legal skilled Cllr. Abraham Wade Simpson, is representing two excessive-profile people–Madam Nora Finda Bundoo and Mr. Francis Tuain Blamo–who were summoned for questioning on April 17 in connection with alleged incriminating evidence uncovered by the job force.
Nonetheless in a formal response addressed to AREPT Chairman Cllr. Edwin Kla Martin, Simpson made sure that his purchasers will no longer appear for what the firm characterised as an “investigative conference,” inserting forward that the correct venue for addressing such allegations is a courtroom–no longer the offices of the Project Power.
“If AREPT believes it has credible evidence of wrongdoing, then due process demands it be submitted to a court of competent jurisdiction,” Simpson wrote in the April 16 letter. “Our clients are ready to defend themselves, but only within the bounds of the law.”
The mosey throws into demand the attain and authority of the newly constituted Project Power, which has been ramping up investigations into alleged misuse of public property and in unhappy health-gotten wealth. Simpson’s response signals what would possibly maybe well well maybe also merely turn out to be a broader apt battle over the steadiness between aggressive asset recovery efforts and constitutional protections.
Citing Article 21 of Liberia’s Constitution and provisions of the Prison Scheme Legislation, Simpson argued that summoning his purchasers without formal costs or court complaints violates their correct to due course of and an even trial.
“This is not an attempt to obstruct the investigation,” Simpson clarified. “Rather, it is to ensure that constitutional safeguards are not brushed aside in the name of expediency.”
Simpson added that whereas Madam Bundoo and Mr. Blamo would no longer appear forward of the Project Power as requested, they stand tantalizing to acknowledge to any apt complaints filed against them in a court of regulation.
