Chief Justice, His Honor Yamie QuiQui Gbeisay’s comprehensive personnel verification and credentials audit in the judiciary has been resisted.
Employees greeted the reform with resistance and criticisms on Thursday, August 28, 2025.
The resistance of the reform followed a 2019 employment data from the Civil Service Agency (CSA).
The judiciary and the CSA formally launched the comprehensive personnel verification and credentials audit for the judiciary.
During the occasion, CSA Director General, Josiah Joekai, placed the average workforce of the judiciary at 1,517, as recorded by the 2019 data.
Based on the numbers or data provided, the entire Supreme Court Conference Room filled with employees of the judiciary and judges, shouted in unison: challenging the inaccuracy of the data.
“We cannot ourselves to be used because that data has about a six year expiration date.”
According to some of the employees, who spoke on animosity, the data Joekai quoted doesn’t fit in a contemporary time, because the numbers of employment had gone on from that time till present. The CSA is aware, because it is from the data, civil servants are being paid.
“For Joekai to say that the current workforce of the judiciary that they are paying is 1, 517, using a 2019 data for 2025, is wicked and evil, because the data is not accurate and comprehensive. He knows the numbers, therefore, let him stop the deceitful act and witch-hunting,” the employees added.
Chief Justice Gbeisay, on Wednesday, August 27, 2025, ordered a comprehensive Personnel Verification and Credential Audit across the judiciary.
The exercise is being executed in partnership with the CSA. It commenced on August 28, and will continue through September 4, 2025. The audit will initially focus on the 1st and 6th Judicial Circuits in Montserrado County, including the Temple of Justice and several magisterial courts.
According to a statement from the Judiciary’s Public Information Office, the audit aims to ensure that all judiciary personnel possess the requisite academic qualifications and professional experience to effectively carry out their duties.