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Senators engulf in bitter exchanges as journalist’s equipment seized |
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Written by Julius Kanubah
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Wednesday, 27 August 2008 |
There have bitter exchanges between Acting Senate Pro Temp Lahai Lassana and Senator Isaac Johnson of River Gee County.
The Senate Acting Pro Temp and Senator Isaac Johnson were engulfed in the verbal war in the chamber of the Senate.
It started when Acting Pro Temp Lassana requested Senator Johnson to take his seat and stop walking in the chamber of the Senate.
The order by Acting Pro Temp Lassana led to an angry response from Senator Johnson.
Senator Isaac Johnson warned the Senate Acting Pro Temp that the Chamber of the Senate was not a military area.
However Senator Lassana said he was only ensuring discipline in the Senate.
As a result of the confusion, the recording equipment of Star radio’s Legislative Affairs Correspondent Julius Kanubah was briefly seized.
River Gee County Senator Frederick Cherue seized journalist Kanubah’s equipment on grounds that he was recording a private discussion in the open Chamber of the Senate.
However Gbarpolu County Senator Theodore Momo frowned on the attitude of Senator Cherue saying the Senate chamber is not a private facility.
Meanwhile, the House of Representatives has passed into law the Act establishing the Independent National Human Rights Commission of Liberia.
The House took the decision Thursday following a report by its Judiciary Committee.
The Act is to be sent to the Senate for concurrence.
The Independent National Commission on Human Rights seeks to ensure a speedily justice for victims of human rights violations.
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