SUPREME COURT JUDGES MISSING IN ACTION?

Report reaching this medium have its that judges of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone who are expected to preside over petition filed at the aforesaid court, by the main opposition All People’s Congress (APC) and the People’s Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC) against the Electoral Commission for Sierra Leone (ECSL) are reported to have disappeared into thin air.

They are nowhere to be found filed within the walls of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone.

Allegations are that Supreme Court judges made themselves unavailable to ensure that the petition matters filed by both opposition political parties are deprive of the right to be heard before a competent court. One of the matters have to do with the competence of the ECSL chairman, Mohamed Konneh, regarding his alleged failure to resign his position from the Financial Intelligent Agency as filed by the leader and presidential standard bearer of the PMDC, Charles Francis Margai. The other matter filed by the presidential candidate of the APC, Dr Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara are centred around previous concerns and complaints his party has been presenting to the elections management authorities, which were all swept under the carpet.

As mandated by the laws of the country, Supreme Court Judges, should have placed an immediate injunction on the activities and operations of the ECSL until twenty-one (21) days, investigate the said matters and advise otherwise.

Ironically, by all indications, the incumbent, Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) would not want such to happen under their watch, as the said outcome of those matters will negatively militate against their interests, with just days to Saturday 24 June elections.

Sources close to the walls of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone have it that Supreme Court Judges have taken cover within the scheme of things in the Sierra Leone Judiciary before taking the risk to respond to anything with the proclivity of directly affecting the interest of their paymaster.

Moreover, allegations are labelling Supreme Court judges as pro-SLPP; therefore, they will not want to be captured in a controversial judicial web that will jeopardize their chances should in case the SLPP make it through the approaching polls for the second term.

Similarly, as it was in the days of the APC’s Supreme Court, when former president, Ernest Bai Koroma ‘unconstitutionally’ sacked his former Vice President, Chief Samuel Sam Sumana, the same Supreme Court and all other courts are presently being referred to by many as ‘SLPP courts.’

As a result, the APC presidential candidate, Dr. Samura Mathew Wilson Kamara has engaged regional and international bodies in respect of petitions his party has filed against the anomalies of the ECSL.

It is widely rumoured that the main opposition, ACP has also approached the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court for a redress of petition matters in the highest court of the land which Supreme Court Judges are deliberately dragging feet do due diligent to.

The British Government and the European Union (EU), this medium is reliably informed will consider the matter raised by the APC and will put out a statement with regards their position soonest on the said issue.