{"id":180833,"date":"2024-09-18T23:29:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T21:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-breach-of-public-trust\/"},"modified":"2024-09-18T23:29:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T21:29:50","slug":"liberia-breach-of-public-trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-breach-of-public-trust\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Breach of Public Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Amidst an ongoing investigation into budget tampering, the Civil Society Budget Platform describes the act as criminal and a complete breach of public trust.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;If legislators have altered the approved budget to serve individual or partisan interests, this constitutes a criminal act of corruption with far-reaching implications for Liberia&#8217;s governance and development,&#8221; it says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">The national convener of the CSOs budget platform and executive director of Integrity Watch Liberia, Harold Aidoo, says the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409180490.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>Amidst an ongoing investigation into budget tampering, the Civil Society Budget Platform describes the act as criminal and a complete breach of public trust. &#8220;If legislators have altered the approved budget to serve individual or partisan interests, this constitutes a criminal act of corruption with far-reaching implications for Liberia&#8217;s governance and development,&#8221; it says. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180834,"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":[258,256,9706,4712,1107,257,5751,254,8641],"class_list":["post-180833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breach","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-public","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trust"],"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\/180833","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=180833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}