Liberia: Speaker Koffa Poised to Resign Monday Noon

Monrovia — Speaker J. Fonati Koffa will resign from his post at noon Monday, May 12, stepping aside nearly seven months after the legislative crisis began.

Koffa’s decision was disclosed Sunday to the Rule of Law Caucus, a group of lawmakers who have opposed the actions of a breakaway bloc led by Rep. Richard Koon, which had seized control of the House late last year. That group’s activities were declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in a ruling issued April 23, which reaffirmed Koffa…