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Senior Freetown Counsel Mr. Blyden Jenkins-Johnston has warned Presidential Affairs Minister Joseph Koroma that no-one is above the law and has threatened to file suit against him for contempt of an earlier court ruling in regards to a plot of land at Spur Road at Wilberforce.
In what he described to us as ‘misbehaviour and misue of government office’ Mr. Jenkins-Johnston explained that Mr. Koroma has trespassed on the land in dispute “in complete defiance of the Authority of the High Court”.
“I plan to take proceedings against Mr. Koroma for contempt of court. If this succeeds he will go to prison” the lawyer said.
Mr. Jenkins-Johnston said that his client Edith Diop had registered the Land by Deed of Conveyance dated October 20, 1999, (No. 987/79).
The Plaintiff avers that sometime in 2009 after the Defendant took up office as Minister for Presidential Affairs, he suddenly reappeared on the land, together with Soldiers, Police and a band of thugs, who threatened Plaintiff’s Caretaker that if he did not vacate the land, he would be beaten up and kicked out of the land.
The Plaintiff avers that various threats were also uttered by some of the band who accompanied the Defendant, alluding to the fact that Defendant now had State Power and that he would not hesitate to use it to expel Plaintiff from the land.
An Interlocutory injunction was granted in November 2009 restraining Mr. Joseph Koroma, his servants, agent, workman or otherwise from entering the land pending determination of the law suit.
However it is alleged the Presidential Affairs Minister disregarded the injunction and continued working on the Land.
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