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Monrovia – Amid announcement by the National Elections Commission (NEC) of provisional results of the just-ended Montserrado County senatorial by-elections that clearly puts him in winning ways, Abe Darius Dillon has predicted that he may not last long at the Legislature.
Addressing a huge crown of his supporters who converged on the National Headquarters of Liberty Party for pre-victory celebration Wednesday, Dillon, stated that once he’s seated as Montserrado County’s next junior senator, he intends to remove the lid off every secret at the Legislature, vowing to expose every shady deal in the House of Senate.
Political observers and pundits, who spoke to Punch FM/TV online service regarding Dillon’s assertions could not agree with him more, as they stated that if such stance is pursued at the Senate by the four collaborating parties’ candidate, it will constitute a breach of sessions 1 and 2 of rule 9 of that august body, adding that doing so would most likely than not land him into trouble with his colleagues.
Rule 9 Section 1 of the Liberian Senate standing rules: “On a motion made and seconded to close the doors of the Senate for the purpose of discussing any business which may, in the opinion of the Senate, require secrecy, the Presiding Officer shall direct the hall to be cleared, and during the discussion of such motion the doors shall remain closed to all persons except the Secretary of the Senate and the Sergeant-at-Arms who shall be sworn to secrecy. During the discussion of such motion, the doors shall remain closed.”
Session 2: “Any Senator or Officer of the Senate who shall disclose the secret of confidential business or proceedings of the Senate shall be liable; if a Senator, he/she shall be censured by the Body; and if an Officer, he/she shall be disciplined and punished in accordance with the administrative procedures.”
But Dillon told his supporters that if his colleagues at the Senate like, they can expel him, because he will disclosed to those he represents anything that is not in their favor but the rest of the senators may want to be kept away from the public as a secret.
“You are not going to hear rumor again. I will be your witness – that thing we call secret session, when we go to secret session and the secret is against you, soon as I come outside, y’all will know,” said Dillon, who added that with the exception of matters that have national security implications, all issues relating to the national budget and concessions agreements, will be disclosed to the public by him.
“I expect, I may be one week senator, or two weeks, one month or one day,” Dillon said, adding, “we’re going inside there (House of Senate) for those people to change for this country to benefit.”
