Since he was booted our last week by his colleague as Speaker of the Liberian Parliament, many are wondering if Edwin Melvin Snowe will take hold of his Representative position for Montserrado.
Even though he has challenged his removal, but the former Speaker flamboyancy is said to be weltering away following the taken away his bodyguards and other benefits that befits the position he previously had.
Over the weekend he was seen driving his private vehicle from his ELWA suburb home, this time without escort and flashes lights. a situation many discribed as "disgraceful", a lady who spoke to our reporter immediately after the former Speaker's vehicle drove off said, "Life is funny, cam you imagine Snowe is moving with escorts."
Another gentleman who claimed to be a neighbor of the former Speaker said he has noticed over the past weeks that the Former Speaker is on a daily basis receiving strange guests including people he discribed as Juju men and other visitors he also described as 'White Garment people".
"I want to believed the former is consulting these people for his come back in the House of Representatives. I have noticed that he is spending lots of money for his come back," Moses Kollie told the GNN.
The embattled Speaker raised moral and constitutional questions when he implied that his peers, perhaps incapable of taking independent acting against gross administrative inefficiency and inadequacy, were instigated by President Sirleaf through bribery to remove him.
“President Johnson-Sirleaf has undermined past governments and now she wants to undermine her own government,” Snowe said, vowing that he would remain unaffected by whatever the President to undermine him.
He said of his colleagues: “They're rebels continuing their rebel activities. We must uphold the constitution. We will not give in to pressure”.
He said even if the President was not guilty of instigating the lawmakers against him, the fact that she condoned the use of state-owned LBS to broadcast live the proceedings at the Unity Conference Center confirmed her support for the Virginia outcome.
“President Johnson-Sirleaf will not allow LBS to give live coverage to a group of cabinet ministers plotting against her,” media reports quoted the embattled speaker as saying.
He said the president was on record for undermining past regimes such as the Tolbert, Doe and Taylor governments. Now, according to him, the President was undermining her own government by plotting to overthrow head of another branch of government.
Meanwhile, Information Minister-designate Lawrence Bropleh has reacted to Snowe’s allegation, saying the Executive Branch of government has nothing to do with problem at the House of Representatives. He challenged the Speaker to provide evidence of the involvement of the Executive Branch into the saga.
Also denying the involvement of the Executive Mansion in the removal of Snowe, Presidential Press Secretary Cyrus Badio reportedly told newsmen yesterday: “Whoever the legislative body chooses as speaker or to lead, the Executive would work with them.
But it’s not that we are against Snowe and whatever that is taking place there has nothing to do with the Executive branch and it is totally in the authority of that body to decide what they want. Our only thing is that it is done in keeping with the laws of the land. As of now, there’s nothing we can do.”
Already, some Liberians have begun reacting to the decision to remove the speaker.
Cllr. Dempster Brown, Human Rights activist, has indicated his preparedness to pursue the case to the Supreme Court, but his legal colleague, Melvin Page, has discredited the decision to remove Snowe.
“President Johnson-Sirleaf has undermined past governments and now she wants to undermine her own government,” Snowe said, vowing that he would remain unaffected by whatever the President to undermine him.
He said of his colleagues: “They're rebels continuing their rebel activities. We must uphold the constitution. We will not give in to pressure”.
He said even if the President was not guilty of instigating the lawmakers against him, the fact that she condoned the use of state-owned LBS to broadcast live the proceedings at the Unity Conference Center confirmed her support for the Virginia outcome.
“President Johnson-Sirleaf will not allow LBS to give live coverage to a group of cabinet ministers plotting against her,” media reports quoted the embattled speaker as saying.
He said the president was on record for undermining past regimes such as the Tolbert, Doe and Taylor governments. Now, according to him, the President was undermining her own government by plotting to overthrow head of another branch of government.
Meanwhile, Information Minister-designate Lawrence Bropleh has reacted to Snowe’s allegation, saying the Executive Branch of government has nothing to do with problem at the House of Representatives. He challenged the Speaker to provide evidence of the involvement of the Executive Branch into the saga.
Also denying the involvement of the Executive Mansion in the removal of Snowe, Presidential Press Secretary Cyrus Badio reportedly told newsmen yesterday: “Whoever the legislative body chooses as speaker or to lead, the Executive would work with them.
But it’s not that we are against Snowe and whatever that is taking place there has nothing to do with the Executive branch and it is totally in the authority of that body to decide what they want. Our only thing is that it is done in keeping with the laws of the land. As of now, there’s nothing we can do.”
Already, some Liberians have begun reacting to the decision to remove the speaker.
Cllr. Dempster Brown, Human Rights activist, has indicated his preparedness to pursue the case to the Supreme Court, but his legal colleague, Melvin Page, has discredited the decision to remove Snowe.
Now the question on many lips of Liberians is whether the former Speaker will still remain at the Parliament after being booted out/
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