{"id":174773,"date":"2024-06-18T19:52:05","date_gmt":"2024-06-18T17:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-public-works-minister-roland-giddings-calls-for-legal-actions-against-delinquent-contractors\/"},"modified":"2024-06-18T19:52:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T17:52:05","slug":"liberia-public-works-minister-roland-giddings-calls-for-legal-actions-against-delinquent-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-public-works-minister-roland-giddings-calls-for-legal-actions-against-delinquent-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Public Works Minister Roland Giddings Calls for Legal Actions Against &#8216;Delinquent&#8217; Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Monrovia \u2014 Public Works Minister Roland Giddings has disclosed that Liberia&#8217;s public works sector is heavily corrupt, prompting the stalling of developmental projects across the country and the losing of millions of dollars by the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">According to him, monies have been paid by the government to construction companies for the rehabilitation and construction of roads in the country, but those companies have reneged on fulfilling their contracts signed with the government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Minister Giddings&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406180578.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 Public Works Minister Roland Giddings has disclosed that Liberia&#8217;s public works sector is heavily corrupt, prompting the stalling of developmental projects across the country and the losing of millions of dollars by the government. According to him, monies have been paid by the government to construction companies for the rehabilitation and construction of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":174774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[10838,258,256,6137,2141,45064,48810,6393,4712,1107,5941,257,5751,36095,254,6436],"class_list":["post-174773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-actions","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-contractors","tag-delinquent","tag-giddings","tag-legal","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-public","tag-roland","tag-south-africa-today","tag-works"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}