Not Too Young To Run

Liberia Senate's will be making the greatest mistake of all time to think about expelling Ab Darius Dillon out.

SENATOR DILLON is not God. He is human like the rest of us. If, as a lawmaker he feels frustrated about the way things are, if he somehow feels cheated by his peers and believe that they did something wrong, it is his right to voice out his views as a member of the Senate.

ARTICLE 42 of the constitution is clear. “No member of the Senate or House of Representatives shall be arrested, detained, prosecuted or tried as a result of opinions expressed or votes cast in the exercise of the functions of his office. Members shall be privileged from arrest while attending, going to or returning from sessions of the Legislature, except for treason, felony or breach of the peace. All official acts done or performed, and all statement made in the Chambers of the Legislature shall be privileged, and no Legislator shall be held accountable or punished therefor.”

AS SIR KNIGHT rightly said in his book: “Politicians sometimes use unwarranted abuse to enliven what they know is a dull brief. They are aware that the barb helps them to hold the floor and thereby get the message across.”

SO, INSTEAD of orchestrating a poorly-hatched and calculated attempt to weaken Senator Dillon in an election year, Pro Temp Albert Chie and his peers can do Liberia the favor and save democracy the trouble by focusing on the plight of those languishing at the bottom of the economic ladder and delivering democracy dividends to the people of Liberia, instead of trying to shortchange them under the guise of bogus and undemocratic attempt to remove a popularly-elected Senator from his post.

SENATOR DILLON is not perfect. He has made some missteps, but he has apologized for them. When the public felt shorted, they took him to task, and he has not shied away from apologizing and checkmating himself. People see him as the light.

Front-page Africa quote "SENATOR DILLON has been a rare light in the darkness of a legislative body that has brought nothing but shame and disgrace to Liberia, signing bogus concessions, failing to ask the right questions to unqualified nominees and simply turning a blind eye to the ills in society".

People believed in him as the light, making that attempt to expel him from the Senate will be the upper house greatest mistake of all time.