Liberia: Senate Mediates Between Speaker Koffa and Aggrieved Representatives

Monrovia — In an effort to resolve the ongoing impasse within the House of Representatives, Speaker Cllr. Fonati Koffa has withdrawn his writ of prohibition filed with the Supreme Court against members of the Anti-Koffa bloc. This move followed the intervention of the Liberian Senate, which established a mediation committee to address the internal conflict.

Speaker Koffa initially sought the Supreme Court’s intervention to prevent what he described as “illegal separate sessions” by a faction of…