{"id":180567,"date":"2024-09-14T11:18:15","date_gmt":"2024-09-14T09:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lawmakers-insensitive-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2024-09-14T11:18:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-14T09:18:15","slug":"liberia-lawmakers-insensitive-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lawmakers-insensitive-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;Lawmakers Insensitive&#8217; &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Liberians are furious over the allotment of whooping $45thousand dollars in the national budget for lawmakers&#8217; vehicles in the face of biting of economic realities they are faced with.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\">House Speaker, J. Fonati Koffa who oversaw the budgetary exercise and did nothing to thwart such undertaking for the sake of the suffering citizens is at the receiving end of outpouring criticisms and condemnation, with some of them describing his leadership as being insensitive to the plight of ordinary people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">As&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409130553.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>Liberians are furious over the allotment of whooping $45thousand dollars in the national budget for lawmakers&#8217; vehicles in the face of biting of economic realities they are faced with. House Speaker, J. Fonati Koffa who oversaw the budgetary exercise and did nothing to thwart such undertaking for the sake of the suffering citizens is at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180568,"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":[258,256,42655,39234,14377,4712,1107,257,254],"class_list":["post-180567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-insensitive","tag-lawmakers","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","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\/180567","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=180567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}