The Sixth Judicial Circuit Court of Montserrado County on Tuesday, August 2, 2022 issued a writ of execution for the Unity Party (UP), by and through its former Chairman, Amin Modad, and all other authorized representatives, in relation to summary proceedings to recover possession of real property for the Worjoloh McClain Enterprises Incorporated, represented by its Chairman of the Board, Dr. Randolph A.K.W. McClain.
The writ noted, “You are hereby commanded to seize and expose for sale the land, goods, and chattels of the respondent(s) herein named of the City of Monrovia, Montserrado County, and if the sum realized therefrom be not sufficient, then their real property, until you shall have raised the sum of US$201,250 (two hundred one thousand, two hundred & fifty United States dollars).
“In addition thereto seizure and sale, and if you cannot find said lands, goods and chattel of said respondent(s), you are hereby commanded to arrest the living body(ies) and bring them before any judge of competent jurisdiction to be dealt with according to law; unless they will pay the said sum of money or show property(ies) to you to seize and sell for same.
“And upon receiving from said sale or otherwise said sum of money, you are further commanded to pay over to petitioner herein named the sum necessary to satisfy the judgment therein, and receive unto yourself the said costs and expenses and will make known to this court at this preset term.”
The writ was dated June 14, 2022 and signed by Victor G. Gailor, Clerk, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Civil Law Court, Montserrado County.
However, the sheriffs who executed the court’s mandate noted in their returns that they were resisted by scores of UP partisans at the party’s new headquarters on Broad Street, stopping them from entering the gates and instituting the arrest or closing the office as mandated by the court.
Explaining what transpired between the court officers and the UP partisans during the evening hours, Evan Boima Tuku, the newly elected Secretary General of the Unity Party Youth Congress, said he was the only elected official at the party headquarters when the court officers went to effect their mandate, but requested the party militants not to allow them entry based on their refusal to cooperate.
According to Tuku, the court officers went to their party headquarters with a writ which they refused to turn over to him or any other person, but insisted that they see the Chairman or shut the headquarters down. He said he informed them that the chairman was not around and that he was the only elected official on the ground, but the sheriffs insisted that only the chairman they could turn over the writ to. That being their demand, he said, he requested that he close the offices and follow them to the court, but again they refused.
“At this point, I instructed the militants of the party to put them out of the compound,” he explained.
He claimed that the writ has a political undertone. According to him, they got elected only a few days ago and have not even received turnover notes from the outgoing leadership, “but some elements loyal to Madam Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf who have been doing business with the George Weah administration want to bring the new leadership to public ridicule and making it look like without Amin Modad the party cannot survive, which is not true. This is why I told the court sheriffs that what is between us the McClains is a debt and our new headquarters has absolutely nothing to do with the matter”.
It can be recalled that Dr. Randolph McClain evicted the Unity Party from their Congo Town headquarters sometime last year on contention that the lease agreement between them for his property had since expired in 2018, but up to and including July 2020 the Unity Party had not paid him a dime, thus accumulating an arrear of US$250,000 and neglected to pay the amount.
After the eviction, leaders of the Unity Party, then headed by Amin Modad as Chairman, secured a compound for the party on Snapper Hill, Broad Street, where the party is currently located. But it appears like, since the UP relocated, it has not made any effort in paying its arrears to the Worjoloh McClain Enterprise.
The Hot Pepper made effort to contact the former Chairman of UP, Amin Modad, to ascertain as to whether there is any agreement in place to have the McClains paid, but could not reach him up to press time. Text message sent by the editor was not also responded to. Investigation continues.