-Concurred Local Government Act Back to HoR for ActionThrough a unanimous vote, the Senate at its first extraordinary day of sitting yesterday, September 4, agreed to send the House of Representatives’ (HoR) “Impeachment Notice ” to the Judiciary Committee, with the mandate to review any rule of the Senate on impeachment and related matters. The notice of impeachment for Supreme Court Associate Justice Kabinneh Ja’neh was submitted to the Senate last Thursday, August 30, but following heated arguments among Senators, Senate Pro-Tempore Albert Chie “seized the matter,” informing his colleagues that the leadership of the Senate would hold a meeting to discuss the notice of impeachment. Article 43: “The power to prepare a bill of impeachment is vested solely in the House of Representatives, and the power to try all impeachments is vested solely in the Senate. No person shall be impeached but by the concurrence of two-thirds of the total membership of the Senate. As far as we are concerned, I want to remind the Senate and the public that the Senate does not have any impeachment bill in its possession on this Senate floor from the House of Representatives,” Grand Bassa Senator and Liberty Party political leader Nyonblee Karnga-Lawrence warned.

Source: Daily Observer September 05, 2018 02:26 UTC