Liberia's Justice Minister Accused In Land Case
The Inquirer
Monrovia, Liberia
Distributed by
The Perspective
Atlanta, Georgia
Posted February 6, 2004
A situation that could have again resulted into an all-out built up yesterday
again over the grand-old Vai Town land dispute when the Justice Minister dispatched
police officers to halt a construction work being undertaken by one of the
contending parties to the case.
Apparently acting upon complaint filed by the other party to the popular Via
Town Land case, a deputy Police Inspector identified only as Mason along with
a team of officers accompanied by police arrived on the scene for the second
time with a communication from Minister Kabinah Ja’neh reinforcing his
previous order of January 24, 2004, to the Abraham V. Corneh group to discontinue
any construction pending the Supreme Court consideration in the matter.
But the other party became enraged as Mr. Abraham V. Corneh. Administrator
of the Corneh Estate wondered how a Justice Minister could get involved in
such a case, and without investigating, order the construction project stopped
instead of allowing for a bill of Prohibition from the court.
Mr. Corneh who struggled to explained the story to the police officers on
the scene displayed a map saying it is shocking that Minister Ja’neh
has chosen at this late day to stop us after knowing that where the construction
is on-going is not part of the protracted Via Town case.
Mr. Corneh openly told the police that he had no reason to doubt that Minister
Ja’neh might be aware of what he is doing or might had received bribe
from the contending…