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WITHOUT
FURTHER DELAY, HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP DEMANDS LEGISLATORS TO PASS REFORM
BILL The
Catholic Justice and Peace Commission (JPC) publicly is demanding
the National Transitional Legislative Assembly to pass into law,
without delay, the electoral reform bill submitted to it by the
National Elections Commission (NEC). According
to a press lease issued by the Commission over the weekend, the
commission said, "As the final restoration of genuine peace to
Liberia hinges squarely on the holding of the 2005 General and
Presidential Elections in the country, it would amount to a disservice
astronomical proportion on the part of the current Legislature not
to pass the electoral reform bill into law on grounds that the NTLA
is not clothed with the authority to do so," the JCP release
asserted. In
the release the JPC also reminded the NTLA that the "Same
extra-constitutional arrangement which placed them at the capitol
Building gives them the unfettered authority to take any decision,
including the passage into law of the current electoral reform bill,
without regards to the Liberian constitution, for the purpose of
bringing peace to our common patrimony as provided for under the
Comprehensive Peace Agreement." It
is only when an elected government is inaugurated in January 2006
that those provision of the Liberian Constitution which are being
sacrificed for the purpose of accommodating NTGL will be
resuscitated," the JPC release added. In
the face of heated debate on the Electoral Reform Bill currently
before the NTLA, the Liberian Justice Minister, Cllr. Kabineh Ja'neh
said the holding of elections on time is "critical to
consolidation of peace in Liberia as well as increasing
international goodwill for the nation." The
Liberian Justice Minister told hundreds of citizens who called on
him at his residence to express sympathy for the losses he sustained
and the burning of his home on Duport Road during the recent
Monrovia disturbances. He also pointed out that despite the
legitimate concerns being raised in certain quarters by some
well-meaning Liberians about the Electoral Reform Billl, the need
for lections on schedule is compelling necessity so as to begin
restoring constitutional order to Liberia. |
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