Ahead of delayed presidential run-off vote in Liberia scheduled for Tuesday December 26, the National Elections Commission spokesman has been taken to prison for being in contempt of court, the BBC reports.
Henry Boyd Flomo was on Thursday sentenced by the Supreme Court to two days in prison and fined him $500 (£375) meaning the commission is currently without a spokesman for Tuesday’s presidential run-off election.
“I am here and okay,” Mr Flomo, a former sports writer, told a BBC reporter from prison on Friday morning.
He also told the BBC that he is glad the court, which is the highest court in Liberia, gave the go ahead for the election, rejecting an application by the governing party to postpone it.
Former soccer star George Weah will battle it out for the country’s top job with Vice-President Joseph Boakai in the poll that was held up for several weeks by a court challenge by the candidate who came third in round one.
Last week, the Supreme Court said the commission should clean up the voters roll by removing names that appeared more than once.
Mr Flomo on the next day told state radio that the roll had already been cleaned up and that was the comment that booked him a space in a prison in the capital Monrovia.
Whoever will win in this run-off will replace Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as president in what will be, if it goes smoothly, Liberia’s first peaceful handover of power in 70 years.
