9/16/2020 NATIONAL ELECTIONS COMMISSION V AMOS SIEH SIEBO-MOTION TO DISMISS-FINAL JUDGMENT – Commissioners of the NEC is Article 79(c)(iii). The Article provides that: “No association, by whatever name called, shall function as a political party, nor shall any citizen be an independent candidate for election to public office unless the headquarters of the association or independent candidate and his organization is situated in the electoral center in the constituency where the candidate seeks election as a member of the House of Representatives or to any other public office.” Furthermore, the Nomination Committee, during its hearing into the respondent/appellant’s application, also found that the respondent/appellant had been arrested and charged by the Liberian National Police with the crimes of criminal conspiracy, theft of property and offenses relating to fraudulent Registration Cards, in violation of various sections of the Penal Law of Liberia, and that the case was still pending before the Magisterial Court. As such, the Committee noted that in the absence of the respondent/appellant providing satisfactory clarity on the resolution of the criminal charges levied against him, a further basis existed for denial of his application. Hence, it concluded that in addition to the other ground stated, coupled with “public policy reasons”, it was rejecting movant/appellee’s application, and thereby not allowing him to contest the representative seat for the district for which he had applied. Considering the informational importance of the Nomination Committee’s ruling, we quote same verbatim as follows: “THE DECISION OF THE NOMINATION COMMITTEE On July 25, 2017, the Nomination Committee heard the matter involving Representative Aspirant Amos S. Siebo, Jr. The Members of the Committee are: Dir. Jospeh Yassiah; Cllr. John Wonsehleay and Atty. Cephas N. Teewia. That on July 20, 2017, Aspirant Amos S. Siebo, Jr. submitted his Nomination application to the National Elections Commission (NEC) to contest the 2017 General Elections as a Representative candidate in District #1, Montserrado County. During review of his nomination documents, the scrutiny committee observed that the Aspirant did not have an office in District #1 where he was contesting as a candidate and, that the species of evidence judiciary.gov.lr/national-elections-commission-v-amos-sieh-siebo-motion-to-dismiss-final-judgment/ 6/36