MONROVIA, LIBERIA-Associate Justice Jamesetta Wolokolie on Wednesday declined to issue the Alternative Writ of Certiorari as prayed for by former Speaker Fonati Koffa’s legal team.

A Writ of Certiorari allows the higher court to examine the lower court’s decision for legal questions.

The objective of the writ by defendant Koffa and others was to overturn Judge Roosevelt Willie’s ruling on the motion to suppress evidence.

Justice Wolokolie also mandated Judge Willie to resume jurisdiction over the matter, and proceed with the law, thereby lifting the stay order placed on the case at Criminal Court “A”.

Justice Wolokolie’s decision means that Judge Willie was not in error when he denied Koffa’s legal team’s application to suppress the government’s evidence that led to their indictment.

Following the Justice in Chambers’s decision, one of Cllr. Koffa’s lawyers, Cllr. Arthur Johnson said,” We are not troubled by the decision, and we will present our case before the jury”.

Representative Fonati Koffa is among fourteen other defendants indicted by the Grand Jury of Montserrado County in connection with the burning of a portion of the Capitol Building on December 18, 2024.

In another development, the Monrovia City Court has sent a sixty-five-year-old woman to the Monrovia Central Prison for allegedly having over three hundred grams of harmful drugs.

Defendant Lucy Morris, a resident of West Point Community in Central Monrovia, was arrested at her residence on October 6, in a “plain view operation”.

The Liberia Drug Enforcement Agency (LDEA) puts the value of the drug at over six thousand US Dollars.

Defendant Lucy was caught with the substance and told investigators that the substance belonged to her son, Sam Togbah.

Defendant Lucy explained that her son has been advised several times to quit drugs, but has refused to listen.