Will Nyenabo Survive Removal Or..?

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Will Nyenabo Survive Removal Or..?
Senate Decides Today, By Stephen Binda
Courtesy: Liberian Observer
March 17, 2009

The fate of embattled Pro- Tempore Isaac Nyenabo will today, Tuesday March 17, 2009, be decided by members of the Liberian Senate.
The move on Senator Nyenabo by some 25 senators follows a categorical vote of no confidence expressed in a draft resolution to him and to the entire leadership of the Senate.

Last Thursday, about 23 senators presented a draft resolution to the President of the Senate, Vice President Joseph Boakai, in which they noted that they no longer enjoyed the leadership of Pro-Temp Nyenabo along with five other members of the Senate leadership.

The senators also informed the President of the Senate that their action to oust Nyenabo and other officials was also on account of prevailing disharmony, discord and mutual distrust in the Upper House.

According to them, since the commencement of the Senate leadership brouhaha, they had not been able to fully concentrate on the statutory and constitutional mandate for which they had been elected.

The senators, in their petition, said Senator Nyenabo had miserably failed to ensure effective and proper functioning of the Senate for which he had been elected.
Following the reading of the senators' petition last week in executive session, legislative insiders told the Daily Observer that Pro-Temp Nyenabo pleaded with his fellow senators for time to enable him respond to the vote of no confidence filed against him.

Following today's response to his fellow lawmakers, a vote is expected to be taken to determine the fate of Senator Nyenabo. If 20 senators out of the 23 that signed vote against him that means Pro-Temp Nyenabo would lose his positio.

At the same time about five senators at the Liberian Senate have resigned their leadership positions due to a majority call of a vote of no confidence against them.
The five officials resigned last Thursday March 14, 2009 following the submission of a draft resolution by 23 senators to plenary.

Among those who resigned last week were Gloria Musu Scott of Maryland county chairperson on Executive; Senator Frederick Cherue of River Gee county chairman on Judiciary; Senator Able Massaley of Grand Cape Mount county chairman on Foreign Affairs; Senator Clarice Jah of Margibi County chairperson on Rules Order and Administration and Senator Richard Devine of Bomi County chairman ways Means Fancies committee.

It is not yet clear as to whether Senator Nyenabo, who has now become the target for more than six months, will survive the removal but what remains certain is that members of the Liberian Senate will decide his fate today.