{"id":179181,"date":"2024-08-24T22:26:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T20:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senator-amara-konneh-criticizes-csa-for-firing-opposition-supporters\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T22:26:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T20:26:16","slug":"liberia-senator-amara-konneh-criticizes-csa-for-firing-opposition-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senator-amara-konneh-criticizes-csa-for-firing-opposition-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Senator Amara Konneh Criticizes CSA for Firing Opposition Supporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Monrovia \u2014 Gbarpolu County Senator Amara Konneh has criticized the Civil Service Agency (CSA) for terminating government workers accused of &#8220;insulting leaders&#8221; on social media.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The senator, in a post on his official Facebook page on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, said that most of those fired were supporters of the opposition, raising concerns about fairness and free speech.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">At the Ministry of Information, Culture, and Tourism (MICAT) regular press briefing on Tuesday, August 13, 2024, CSA Director&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408220513.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 Gbarpolu County Senator Amara Konneh has criticized the Civil Service Agency (CSA) for terminating government workers accused of &#8220;insulting leaders&#8221; on social media. The senator, in a post on his official Facebook page on Tuesday, August 20, 2024, said that most of those fired were supporters of the opposition, raising concerns about fairness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179182,"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":[258,256,45725,24207,16352,10357,40710,4712,1107,257,5675,7798,254,9064],"class_list":["post-179181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amara","tag-criticizes","tag-csa","tag-firing","tag-konneh","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-opposition","tag-senator","tag-south-africa-today","tag-supporters"],"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\/179181","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=179181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}