Making remarks at the official closing of the February Term of Court, Judge Blamo Dixon accused Director Captan of making demeaning comments against his personality.
“I am saying this to everyone to hear it. Anyone who is closer to Mr. Monie Captan, Chairman of the LEC should tell him to retract those negative comments that he made on OK FM in recent time,” the Judge demanded.
Judge Dixon stated, “I give him 24-hour ultimatum to proceed to OK FM and retract those negative comments. It will interest you to know that Director Captan is a former Minister of Foreign Affairs in Liberia.”
Judge Dixon said he heard from a source that Director Captan who is the CEO of LEC went on the airwaves, particularly OK FM and make comments pertaining to a case that he disposed long ago involving a man only identified as Victor.
“I didn’t listen to him directly when he made those statements. But someone told me after he made those negative comments and defendant Victor also went to OK FM to rebut Director Captan statement,” Judge Dixon explained.
Judge Dixon asserted that, “Under our law, when you are working for a company and they accuse you of a criminal offense, it should be investigated and after the entire investigation and you proceed to court, you will have to provide witness and go back to the company.”
However, he narrated that because Director Captan does not want to meet Victor, he went on OK FM to provide negative comments against him.
“He doesn’t know the magnitude and effect of those negative comments he made. However, anyone who is closer to him should please tell him to retract his statement or will find issues with me” Judge Dixon urged.
Judge Dixon explained that there was a case sometimes ago concerning LEC for power thefts against one Victor Yuoh and he presided over that case from the beginning and put him under bond.
He said that the defendant pleaded not guilty and he demanded jurors’ trial but by then, the Supreme Court had suspended jurors’ trial because of the COVID-19 so he had to wait until the COVID-19 subsided.
Judge Dixon noted that when the COVID-19 subsided, the Supreme Court ordered them to reinstate jurors’ trial but executed jurors’ sequestration.
“The case that was brought before the jurors after Victor Yuoh who had stayed in jail for two years on allegation of power theft was involved with an alleged amount of US$350,000. Because of the alleged amount in the case, he could not raise a bond but the bond he raised, I signed it and freed him and the time I told him to come, he refused, so I charged him with Bill Jumping and I put him back in jail and I went out of town for two years,” Judge Dixon explained.
He stated that when he came back, he resumed the case and while in the case, the jurors came down with a non-guilty verdict in favor of the defendant because they felt that there was no magnitude in the case.
“The amount in question of US$350,000 could not be established by LEC. The amount was speculative and it was also guessed by LEC and they could not provide evidence to prove the amount,” he concluded.
The Criminal Court “C” has given the chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Liberia Electricity Corporation (LEC), Monie R. Captan a 24-hour ultimatum to retract his statement made on a local radio station in Liberia.
