By Grace Q. Bryant
The Monrovia City Court has arrested some members of the People’s Liberation Party (PLP) for allegedly stealing items valued at US$37,000 from the Party.
“This act of the defendants being criminal, illegal and unconstitutional, and based on that complaint, you are hereby commanded to arrest the living bodies of Jerry Kollie, Oscar Holmes, Evelyn Yarkollie, J. Emmanuel Greene, Abraham Sirleaf and Mohammed Bility, to be identified, and to forthwith bring them before this court for immediate prosecution in keeping with law,” the court mandated.
Meanwhile, defendants Kollie, Holmes, Yarkollie, Greene, Sirleaf, Bility, and others to be identified were charged with Misapplication of Entrusted Property & Theft of Property.
The court’s decision was based on a complaint filed by the Private Prosecutor thru the Republic of Liberia, explaining that the named defendants were entrusted with motorbikes, vehicle, ID card machines and generators totaling US$37,000.
The prosecutor averred further that the defendants received the items in November, 2022 for and on behalf of aforesaid political party but, to the surprise and dismay of the prosecutor the defendant converted these items into their personal use and benefit thus depriving the prosecutor’s institution of its hard earned property.
“In the event the defendants are arrested after official working hours, they should be detained at cthe nearest Police station to be brought before this Court the next working day,” the court concluded.
