THE CASE RELATING to burning the Joint Chamber of Capitol Building, the assembly hall of members of the House of Representatives and Senate began on Monday, June 10, 2025, at the Monrovia City Court on Capitol Hill.
FOR HEARING, THE accused lawmakers appeared before the sitting magistrate, as their legal counsels filed a property value bond amounting to US$440,000 each, thereby allowing them to go home until the case is scheduled for hearing.
THE CASE HAS and continues to claim national and international attention. It follows the official indictment of the accused lawmakers, including former House Speaker J. Fonati Koffa and four others.
OBVIOUSLY, THE CASE, which represents the beauty and strength of the rule of law, tends to test the power of the Judiciary. It shows that the ‘law is the law’ in all dimensions and realities.
IT PROVES THAT no one is above the law, no one can subdue the law with his or her title, no one can drag the law under the rug and no one can enslave the law under any condition.
HENCE, ALL EYES are anxiously gazed at the ongoing process which is certainly expected to unveil the burners of one of the nation’s sacred places, especially the place where the first branch of government honorably sits and presides.
NO DOUBT THE law is higher and taller than even those who enforce it. Equally so, there is no power user taller and higher than the law.
THE STRENGTH OF any nation is unarguably determined by the strength of the law, because the law remains the greatest guiding tool of any society, without which, no society can grow and develop socially, politically and economically.
AS THE LAW is gently taking its due course through the real legal path, we only hope that the court room will do justice to the law by doing the right thing without bias.
IT IS OUR fervent hope that there will be fair and impartial rendering of justice, void of political influence. We eagerly hope that justice will be made to rise above the dust and shine with flying colors.