By Garmah Lomo
Temple of Justice on Monday October 12,2020, was a place of brutality by Police officers against Judicial Staffers who staged a peaceful protest in demand of their 12months salaries.
One of the officers violently put his hands in the trouser of a female Staffer of the Judiciary in an attempt to send she and her colleagues outside of grounds of Temple of Justice.
A police officer bearing batch number #4715 tone apart the black Jan trosure that the female protester was wearing after placing his hands in her blouse thus destroying the lady’s brac stripe.
Liberia Public Radio correspondent at temple of justice said when the aggrieved Judiciary Staffers started their peaceful protest, officers of the LNP managed to convince them to leave from the entrance leading into the building of Temple of Justice and the protesters listened and went by the police instruction.
Our correspondent said after moving inside the Temple of Justice, the protesters started beating drum and were resisted by the police
Something the protesters said was violations of their rights and began lying on the floor.
LPR reporter on the scene added that officers of the LNP then began walking and dragging the peaceful outside of the gate in front of the Executive mansion leaving three persons fainting at the result of wounds they sustained.
Workers at the Temple of Justice last Friday began their peaceful protest last Friday disrupting the graduation of the James A. A. Pierre Judicial Institute with the beating of drums as part of protest in demand of their arrears.
For her part, Cllr. Peal Brown Bull has told the aggrieved Court Staffers to remain calm as she went upstairs to negotiate with the Justices.
Cllr. Bull during an interview with judicial regret the “manner in which the staffers have been treated” without pay something she described as “theft of service”.
She said the justices should remember that they are up today, they might be down some day and they as protesters may be taken over.
Cllr. Bull added that she would remember the legacy of Chief Justice Korkpor as “bad” if the plight of staffer are not addressed.
However, appearing at the Temple of Justice was Finance Minister Samuel Tweah informed the protesters that the Chief Justice Francis S. Korkpor was not owing them a penny but the Government in fact was due the Chief Justice some months arrears.
Minister Tweah disclosed that insulting the Chief Justice in demand of salaries was unacceptable.
Liberia’s Finance Minister disclosed that the harmonization process combined both the United States dollars and the Liberian dollars to one.
He added that “there is nothing called US and Liberia salaries as being perceived by the judicial staffers”.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court opened today by means of Zoom with Judicial Staffers staging a protest in demand of 12 months salaries
