The Minister of Finance and Improvement Planning is in bother with the Home of Representatives as he faces potential incarceration over contempt cost.
Failed to look earlier than the August Physique on Thursday, Minister Boima Kamara has once more been summoned to look earlier than them on Tuesday of subsequent week.
The Plenary had requested the Minister to supply proof to justify why he shouldn’t be held in contempt for impeding the work of the legislative physique, however his failure to point out up has infuriated lawmakers who termed as disrespectful and charged him with contempt.
Throughout Thursday’s session, the Home invoked its Contempt Energy as outlined in rule 4, citing actions that impede legislative operate as grounds for contempt.
In response to the Home’s Guidelines and Procedures, the Finance Minister failure to look for the fourth time triggered his punishment for contempt which might embody a tremendous of as much as LD$5,000 or imprisonment for as much as one month, or the period of the present session of the Home.
The choices made in contempt instances usually are not topic to attraction.
Minister Kamara, together with officers from the Liberia Income Authority, Inside Affairs, and Liberia Petroleum Refining Firm, had been invited to supply monetary updates on consolidated accounts and financial institution balances, and validate studies from the Liberia Income Authority on income assortment.
Whereas all different events have cooperated, the failure of the Ministry of Finance to look has been thought of contemptuous.