The resident Judge of the 13th Judicial Circuit Court in Kakata, Margibi County, Mardea Tarr Chenoweth is craving the indulgence of the Legislature to passed the non-billable drugs law.
Judge Chenoweth making remarks at the opening of the August term of Court in Kakata recently said the law is passed, it will help save the country, and its young people as well as back them as judges.
“So for me, if our Lawmaker them could really pass law to make this thing, for me almost like the rape law it will be alright to save our country and save our children” she said.
According to her, drugs is killing the Liberian society leaving the country heading to the future without decent young men.
She added that handsome children (boys) as well as women are into drugs business.
Judge Chenoweth asserted judges are left with no option but to grant suspects bail due to the current law.
“For me, this is the profession we choose we come to court we do our work, but once drugs is bailable we got problem” she lamented.
The Judge also recommended that if the laws are passed the judiciary should be allowed to implement them without interference from the other two branches of government (the executive and the legislature).
She said one branch of government can’t do the work adding, that’s why there are three branches and as such, they all should coordinate and work for the benefit of the country.
In a related development, Judge Chenoweth has revealed that there is a high level of lawlessness in the county to the extent that nobody respects authority not even each other.
“And another thing is the lawlessness in our country is too much, nobody respects authority, nobody respects each other; the lawlessness too much” she emphasized.
The Judge made reference to the refusal of marketers to leave the back of the Kakata police station despite its recent demolition exercise carried out by the City Mayor of Kakata in order for them (marketers) to be relocated to the Kakata general market in Lango Town.
Judge Chenoweth: “The authority say don’t sell to this place, this place is not good, right behind the Police station is that place to sell all on the road? When you look the people bring politics in.
For her part, the County Attorney of Margibi, H. Deddeh Joemah Wilson has alarmed that drugs is gradually taking over the country.
“Drugs is gradually taking over this nation and the infect of it is so bad, our generation is trying what happens to the next generation after us?
Strangers will rule this nation because the mental state is not correct, they can’t perform; they will not be honorable enough to represent Liberia at the international level” she continued.
She admonished judicial actors as well as justice actors to work together for the nation because no one else will do it for them adding that this is where people go for justice.
Madam Wilson argued that if they cannot stand together their children’s children will not have space in the nation.
She emphasized that it’s important that justice actors work together to insure that Liberia reclaims the respect and honor it had before and to also insure that criminals give the Liberian people peace.
