{"id":180325,"date":"2024-09-10T23:09:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberias-officials-and-their-jumbo-pay\/"},"modified":"2024-09-10T23:09:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-10T21:09:54","slug":"liberias-officials-and-their-jumbo-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberias-officials-and-their-jumbo-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia&#8217;s Officials and Their Jumbo Pay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"76\">On Spoon Talk, Edwina Crump Zackpah, the suspended Director of LTA, confirmed that she and other Commissioners received a combined salary and benefits package of $15,000 during her tenure at the LTA, which is still ongoing. Liberia&#8217;s post-conflict reconstruction efforts, spanning over 18 years under the Unity Party (UP) and Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) led governments, have predominantly served the interests of a small political elite at the expense of the nation and its citizens.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409100375.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>On Spoon Talk, Edwina Crump Zackpah, the suspended Director of LTA, confirmed that she and other Commissioners received a combined salary and benefits package of $15,000 during her tenure at the LTA, which is still ongoing. Liberia&#8217;s post-conflict reconstruction efforts, spanning over 18 years under the Unity Party (UP) and Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180326,"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":[258,256,23745,1107,8536,257,6651,9105,254],"class_list":["post-180325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-jumbo","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-pay","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/180325","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=180325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}