A political group under the banner, Liberians United To Elect Boakai (LUTEB), has called for the immediate resignation or dismissal of National Election Commission Chairperson, Davidetta Brown-Lasanah, by President George M. Weah before 2023 general elections; writes Ojuku Silver-tongue Kangar, Jr.
The group is a political auxiliary, which constitutes members of all political institutions. “Our attention has been drawn to the way the Chairperson of the National Election Commission (NEC) in person of Mrs. Davidetta Browne-Lasanah, has been conducting herself as head of a very vital integrity institution on whose shoulder the peace and stability of our nascent democracy rest,” Jekeh Forkpa, the group’s National Chairman, said.
The group said Liberians have placed their hope of achieving democratic transition in the electoral process under the doctrine of universal suffrage, meaning one person, one vote, as the most popularly recognized means of retaining or removing occupants of elected public office.
The political pressure group outlined the following reasons for the NEC’s boss to resign or be dismissed by the President: the NEC’s failure to proclaim and publish the result of the 2020 national referendum involving eight propositions; the twenty (20) thermometers scandal, which ripped the Government of Liberia (GOL) of more than US$282,000 due to an overly inflated cost per thermometer on a rental basis; she is hell bent on imposing a biometric voter registration vendor, EKEMP, on the country, and its failure to implement December 15, 2022 as the date to commence voter registration. Barley few hours to that scheduled date, Lasanah-Browne has announced an indefinite postponement of that very vital exercise.
According to Koiyan, the Chairman, they are acting collectively and decisively now to avert an eminent looming Constitutional crisis that would break the smooth chain of democratic election.
“Mrs. Lasanah lacks every ability to preside over the elections,” the group said.