Published: December 10, 2025
PAYNESVILLE — The Estate of the late Mamade “Mamadee” Kamara on Tuesday accused government enforcement officers of carrying out evictions in the Red Light commercial district that violate a clear Supreme Court mandate, displacing businesses and igniting tensions over land boundaries long considered settled.
At a crowded press conference held on the Kamara family property, spokesperson Sheikh Mamade “Sekou” Kamara said the estate is demanding an immediate halt to all enforcement actions that fall outside the “metes and bounds” defined in the Supreme Court’s August 14, 2025 ruling. “The Supreme Court ordered that ‘the appellant must be placed in possession of his property strictly based on the metes and bounds of the deed pleaded before the Court,’” Sheikh Kamara said. “That mandate fixed the location of enforcement. The Court identified one of the lots as being occupied by Ecobank. Yet enforcement carried out in November targeted Kamara-owned businesses and premises — not the Ecobank location.
That action departs from, and therefore violates, the Supreme Court’s mandate.” Conflicting Records and Rising Tensions According to the estate, contradictions between the Supreme Court’s judgment and a Liberia Land Authority (LLA) investigative survey have fueled confusion.
The LLA’s April 26, 2024 report, the family said, states that “the defendant property is now being occupied by Ecobank and other structures,” placing the same building on two different parcels in two different official records. “When a court issues a mandate based on metes and bounds, enforcement that disregards those bounds violates the judgment itself,” Kamara said. “A technical aid cannot overrun a judicial mandate. Administrative error cannot replace longstanding peace.”
The Kamara Estate insists that independent title and lease documents show that the lot where Ecobank sits belongs to the Watta Yongor Estate, which acquired the land in 1975 and leased it to Sethi Brothers — under whom Ecobank currently operates. Because the Yongor Estate was neither notified nor heard, its administrator, Madam Finda Amet, has filed a Writ of Prohibition that is now pending before the Supreme Court. The Kamara Estate publicly endorsed the writ. “Our purpose today is to highlight the violation of the Supreme Court’s mandate and support the Writ of Prohibition filed by the Watta Yongor Estate,” Kamara said.
Decades of Peace, Now Shaken Kamara emphasized that the dispute is the result of procedural errors — not hostility between neighbors. He said the Kamara and Watta Yongor families have coexisted peacefully for more than 50 years. “For decades, the Kamara family and the Watta Yongor family lived peacefully as adjoining landowners. Their boundaries were recognized. There were no conflicts,” he said. “It was only after the flawed survey and the misdirected enforcement that harmony was disturbed.”
He added that the estate had previously engaged senior government officials — including the Vice President, Chief Justice and the President — urging that a proper survey be completed before any eviction to ensure adherence to the Supreme Court’s mandate. “I personally met the Vice President and the Chief Justice,” Kamara recounted. “I asked for one thing: a survey to put Mr. Keita in possession of his property based on the metes and bounds of the deed. That is not a special favor — that is from the Supreme Court of Liberia.”
He said the Chief Justice instructed the lower court to arrange a conference with surveyors, but the promised meeting never occurred. Instead, enforcement teams arrived on November 13.
Dispute Over Ecobank Lot Deepens
Despite the Supreme Court’s identification of the Ecobank-occupied lot as the area for enforcement, no action reportedly took place there. Kamara said government teams instead targeted businesses and structures belonging to the Kamara Estate. “We were told the government surveyor was not in town. When he returned, we would be called,” he said. “That did not happen.”
A representative of the Watta Yongor family — referred to as the Yogo family in the statement — also addressed reporters, disputing any suggestion that their deed was erroneous and placing blame on the LLA. “The land authority’s survey report was in error,” the representative said. “They surveyed and took our land and joined it into the Kamara properties. We ask for a re-survey so the truth of our boundaries is known.” Calls for Rule of Law and a Fresh Survey The Kamara Estate presented three key requests: strict enforcement of the Supreme Court mandate as written; suspension of enforcement outside the Court-specified bounds; and a court-supervised survey involving all adjoining landowners before any further action. “This is not a protest. This is not defiance of the judiciary,” Kamara said.
“We are asking for faithful obedience to the mandate of the Supreme Court of Liberia.” The Writ of Prohibition filed by the Watta Yongor Estate remains pending at the Supreme Court. If granted, it could halt further enforcement actions on disputed land until contradictions between official records and the Court’s findings are resolved. Kamara closed the press conference with an appeal for calm and adherence to due process. “We stand for the rule of law. We stand for due process,” he said. “And we stand for faithful obedience to the Supreme Court of Liberia’s mandate.”
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