IN THE HONORABLE SUPREME COURT OF THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA SITTING IN ITS MARCH TERM, A. D. 2017 BEFORE HIS HONOR: FRANCIS S. KORKPOR, SR......................CHIEF JUSTICE BEFORE HIS HONOR: KABINEH M. JA'NEH....................... ASSOCIATE JUSTICE BEFORE HER HONOR: JAMESETTA H. WOLOKOLIE............ASSOCIATE JUSTICE BEFORE HIS HONOR: PHILIP A. Z. BANKS, III...................ASSOCIATE JUSTICE BEFORE HIS HONOR: SIE-A-NYENE G. YUOH.......................ASSOCIATE JUSTICE Harrison S. Karnwea & Liberty Party………APPELLANTS ) ) VERSUS ) The National Elections Commission (NEC), represented ) by and thru its Chairman, Cllr. Jerome G. Korkorya, and ) all Officers of NEC, all of the City of Monrovia, County ) of Montserrado, Republic of Liberia……………APPELLEE ) ) Heard: July 13, 2017. Appeal from the Decision of the National Elections Commission, Barring Harrison S. Karnwea From Contesting for the Ensuing Elections Decided: July 20, 2017. Counsellors Powo C. Hilton, D. Onesimus Barwon and James G. Innis, Jr. of Brumskine and Associates Law Firm appeared for the appellants. Counsellor Joseph N. Blidi, In-House Counsel for the National Elections Commission, and Counsellors Frank Musa Dean and C. Alexander B. Zoe, appeared for the appellee. MR. JUSTICE BANKS delivered the Opinion of the Court. This case is the second in a series of cases filed before the Supreme Court for review of decisions of the National Elections Commission denying the applications of aspirants seeking certification, as required by law, to contest elective public offices in the October 2017 Presidential and General Elections. Those elections, by the command and mandate of the Constitution (1986), are scheduled to be held on the second Tuesday in October, same being October 10, 2017. By the command of the Constitution also, the National Elections Commission is vested with the power and the responsibility to determine whether a person seeking elective public office has met the constitutional and statutory requirements to be eligible to contest for a particular elective public office in order that his or her name is placed on the ballot to be voted on by the people of Liberia or of the particular constituency the aspirant seeks to represent in the Legislature or other body subject to election by the people. In the previous case, Abu Bana

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