{"id":182208,"date":"2024-10-10T00:22:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T22:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-commerce-minister-amin-modad-resigns-amid-controversy-over-luxury-vehicle-purchase\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T00:22:57","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T22:22:57","slug":"liberia-commerce-minister-amin-modad-resigns-amid-controversy-over-luxury-vehicle-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-commerce-minister-amin-modad-resigns-amid-controversy-over-luxury-vehicle-purchase\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Commerce Minister Amin Modad Resigns Amid Controversy Over Luxury Vehicle Purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Monrovia \u2014 Amin Modad, Liberia&#8217;s Minister of Commerce, has resigned following his controversial purchase of a luxury SUV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\"><em>The Liberian Investigator<\/em> gathered that Modad, who bid farewell to his staff on Wednesday morning, stepped down amid escalating scrutiny over his acquisition of a luxury SUV valued at over US$90,000. Modad continued to face mounting criticism and was accused of personal enrichment at the expense of public funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Sources also informed The Liberian Investigator that President&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410090510.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 Amin Modad, Liberia&#8217;s Minister of Commerce, has resigned following his controversial purchase of a luxury SUV. The Liberian Investigator gathered that Modad, who bid farewell to his staff on Wednesday morning, stepped down amid escalating scrutiny over his acquisition of a luxury SUV valued at over US$90,000. Modad continued to face mounting criticism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":182209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00540662:ff968429dae994120a3f4363ce9872f9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,23351,11988,9868,4712,1107,12064,5941,42997,257,20484,8623,254,7765],"class_list":["post-182208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-amin","tag-commerce","tag-controversy","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-luxury","tag-minister","tag-modad","tag-news","tag-purchase","tag-resigns","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vehicle"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn01.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00540662:ff968429dae994120a3f4363ce9872f9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182208","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=182208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}