By Ahmed Elumami.
Tripoli, 30 January 2014:
The Justice and Construction Party (J&C) says it has started legal proceedings to sue . . .[restrict]Warshefana Congressman Juma Sayah over charges he made against the party during an interview on Awlan TV channel.
“The law office of the party has begun legal action to sue Sayah because of his false accusations against the party”, a member of the J&C executive office, Mohamed Al-Harizi, told the Libya Herald today. “Sayah claimed that the party stole nearly LD 30 billion and that the party is behind of most the recent security incidents,” Harizi alleged.
This is not the first time that Sayah and the J&C have crossed legal swords. In September last year, 61 out of 104 Congress members voted to lift his immunity as well as that of National Forces Alliances member Hajer Al-Ghaid and independent Kufra member Tuati Al-Aidha, to enable the Public Prosecutor to investigate them. It followed J&C claims that they had defamed the party by alleging that it had “sold oil illegally to the Muslim Brotherhood, additionally having secret relations with foreign countries”.
The previous month, J&C Congresswoman Amina Mahjoub told the Libya Herald that she and her colleagues were suing Sayah, Al-Gaid and Aidha “because they said on one of the local [TV] channels that J&C members of Congress received large sums of money from Qatar for the ideas of the Muslim Brotherhood in Libya”.
In the event, no legal action was taken against the three. [/restrict]
