The Supreme Court has delivered a landmark ruling in the dispute over replacing officials with tenure by President Joseph Boakai.
In a unanimous judgment read by Chief Justice Sie-A-Nyene Yuoh, the Court said the law providing tenure for some Liberia n officials absolves the president of his power to appoint and dismiss those officials at his pleasure."Therefore this court sees no reason to declare said Act unconstitutional as the Minister of Justice has urged us to do," she said.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday, April 24, delivered a landmark precedent decision in the tenure dispute over five Autonomous Public Commissions and Agencies , whose… The government of Liberia has failed to win four landmark tenure cases regarding heads of four agencies: the Liberia Telecommunications Authority, Governance Commission, Liberia…
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