By Worlea Saywah Dunah
Speaker Koffa, Rep Kogar, Leader of Majority, & Deputy Speaker Fallah
I see Article 33 as central, crucial and overarching for the Justice in Chambers, the Executive and the Senate who all have to decide by next week if Speaker Koffa cannot attain quorum which is to garner 37 members under his gavel on how to relate to the House of Representatives in relations to the working of the government of Liberia particularly and specifically as to where lies the Plenary of the House of Representatives.
I will urge readers, commentators, talk show hosts, talk shows callers, social media posters, social media posts commentators etc to read Articles 29 – 49 of the Liberian Constitution of 1986 and read on parliamentary leadership.
One may ask what you think, to which I can say that the views of all of us are totally irrelevant; you can shout, yell, cuss etc it’s of no strength as the matters of leadership and rules rest exclusively with the 73 Representatives that make up the 55th Legislature of Liberia. Thus our man Fahnbo used to joke dangerously, “you get le numba!”
This is Mitch McConnell world, jungle, a relentless drive with his majority even if just one.
Then too Deputy Speaker Fallah looms large, perhaps dominant, over the outcome of this leadership dispute in the days ahead- in fact he sits still but like a colossal and the other two, Koffa and Kogar, looks up at him in freight least they find for themselves an undesirable outcome.
But I can safely say that a constitutional crisis simmers based on the actions of the Executive, the Judiciary and the Liberian Senate in how they interpret Article 33 and other laws, rules, precedents governing parliamentary and legislative leadership contests such as the ongoing one. I’m following