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High Court Judge, Justice Adrian Fisher has dismantled the executive member of one of Sierra Leone’s opposition parties, Coalition for Change (C4C).
Delivering his judgment in the long-running case of the party and its executive members, Justice Fisher stated that they were all serving illegally.
The case was brought before the High Court by Sahr Nyaama and 9 others against Tamba Sandi and 7 others.
In his 10-page judgment, Justice Fisher ruled that the present and current Interim chairman, secretary, and the entire coordinating committee are illegitimate.
He furthered that the five regional chairmen of the C4C party are illegitimate because the mandate upon which they were appointed and continue to act, has elapsed under Article 14c. iv of the C4C Constitution.
Justice Fisher ordered the plaintiff to establish a committee of 21-man Transitional Interim National Officer Elections Committee (TINOEC).
He said the new committee will be made up of the plaintiffs (save for the 1st Plaintiff), Sahr Nyaama.
The other plaintiffs include Dr. Aliue M. Iscandri, Kevin Metzger, Aiah Fanday, Bob Deen Kamara, Ahmed Tajan Bundu, Muctarr Rahmanu, Nenh L. Kamara, Abu Bakarr S. Bangur, and Tamba Gborie.
He said the other members of the TINOEC will be the eight Members of Parliament representing the C4C Party in Parliament and four other members of the party to be appointed by the plaintiff and the Members of Parliament by simple majority.
He further ordered that the TINOEC when fully constituted shall elect from its members, a chairman,n, and a secretary.
Justice Fisher gets out the tenure of the TINOEC, stating that the TINOEC shall maintain the affairs of the bearer.
The responsibilities, he ordered, will be manning the affairs of the C4C party until the next conference when a new executive would have been elected at which time their mandate will expire to ensure the conduct of alllower-levell elections within 21 days of the date of the order by all applicable laws.
He ordered that the TINOEC should ensure that a national conference is held no later than Monday, the 20th Day of March 2023, to elect national officers and a flag-bearer.
