By Edward Kollie| Contributor
Hours after his released from Police Custody, Unity Party Secretary General Mohammed Ali says he stands by his social media post that landed him detention for one night at the headquarters of the Liberian National Police.
Mr. Ali was incarcerated at the LNP on Thursday and release Friday morning over two Facebook posts which the police believe can be linked to the recent arson attacks on the home of Associate Justice Joseph Nagbe and the headquarters of the Liberia National Police.
On March 1, Mr. Ali posted to Facebook: “Dear National Elections Commission (NEC), we understand the ploy. But try it and you will see what is gonna be the end result”.
And on March 4, he again wrote on Facebook, “I don’t believe in the integrity of the Supreme Court. Most of the justices there have been corrupted. Justice Nagbe is a hardcore tribalism.”
Mr. Ali one-night incarceration raise concern in the public after a reported order from Justice Minister Frank Musa Dean was ignored by the Liberia National Police whose spokesman Moses Carter vowed to keep Ali Incarcerated for 48 hours.
Speaking to reporter after release Mohammed Ali said he stands by the content of his Facebook posts while warning the Elections Commissions to do what is right or face political and legal.
Ali mentioned that they will continue speaking until government institutions responsible to uphold the rule of listen do what is right.
He said action of the Police is an attempt by the Liberian government to silence the opposition community ahead of the general elections in 2023 but vowed to continue speaking on critical national issues.
Ali indicated that he was stopped from leaving the police headquarters by hundreds of officers after been advice by his lawyers to leave due to failure of Police Investigators to show up after almost an hour at the police headquarters.
He noted that after few minutes of commotion the police then read their charge against him which include arson, criminal mischief, and attempted murder and placed him cell at around 3PM local time.
The Unity Party Secretary General indicated it was in the spirit of unity and togetherness that leaders of the Collaborating Political Parties escorted him the LNP headquarters.
Meanwhile Ali has termed as baseless and unfounded comments attributed to Minister of State for Presidential Affairs Nathaniel McGill that CCP was behind the arson attack at the home Associate Justice Joseph Nagbe and the office of the National Elections.
Ali indicated that contrary to Minister McGill assertion it is the CDC that hold the record of creating instability in the country during their days’ position, accusing the CDC of staging several arson attack.
He described Minister McGill as joker who does not understand his term of reference noting that the Minister was one of those behind his incarceration.
At the same time the Collaborating Political Parties has condemned what it term as a political witch hunt and an attempt to crack down on freedom of speech.
The CPP in a release noted that the decision of the police to have kept Ali in jail for a night against the reported order Justice Minister, Frank Musa Dean, to have him release further highlights the travesty of justice and lack of adherence to the laws of the country by the Weah-led administration.
According to CPP it is regrettable for the police headed by Patrick Sudue, to demonstrate what the CCP regards as partisan nature in the execution of its duties ignoring that the fact that this has the tendency to speedily dissolve the country into insecurity.
The Collaborating Political Parties called on the government to stop what it said was the intimidation and harassment of opposition figures and focus on the fixing of the deplorable state of the country’s economy and security.
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