{"id":183282,"date":"2024-10-25T12:54:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T10:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-bribery-allegations-threaten-legislatures-credibility\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T12:54:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T10:54:12","slug":"liberia-bribery-allegations-threaten-legislatures-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-bribery-allegations-threaten-legislatures-credibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Bribery Allegations Threaten Legislature&#8217;s Credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Reports that some members of the 55th legislature received $15,000 each to unseat House Speaker, J. Fonati Koffa, have raised serious concerns about the body&#8217;s integrity and commitment to democratic principles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1iK4CrwCRtw8Sbj1c5GCQolT7CIc8EKMg\/view?usp=drive_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Anderson Miamen, Executive Director, Center for Transparency and Accountability<\/a> (CENTAL), said such allegations undermine public trust in government institutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;The current wave of allegations of bribery to unseat the current speaker does not help to place lawmakers in a moral position&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410250200.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>Reports that some members of the 55th legislature received $15,000 each to unseat House Speaker, J. Fonati Koffa, have raised serious concerns about the body&#8217;s integrity and commitment to democratic principles. Anderson Miamen, Executive Director, Center for Transparency and Accountability (CENTAL), said such allegations undermine public trust in government institutions. &#8220;The current wave of allegations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183283,"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":[258,256,8577,7673,16039,49823,4712,1107,257,254,7002],"class_list":["post-183282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegations","tag-bribery","tag-credibility","tag-legislatures","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threaten"],"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\/183282","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=183282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}