{"id":183563,"date":"2024-10-30T01:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T23:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lacc-summons-lawmakers-over-alleged-bribery-in-speakers-removal-effort\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T01:04:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T23:04:50","slug":"liberia-lacc-summons-lawmakers-over-alleged-bribery-in-speakers-removal-effort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lacc-summons-lawmakers-over-alleged-bribery-in-speakers-removal-effort\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LACC Summons Lawmakers Over Alleged Bribery in Speaker&#8217;s Removal Effort"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Monrovia \u2014 The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) on Monday summoned Representatives Luther Collins of Gbarpolu County District #2 and James Kolleh of Bong County District #2 for questioning in connection with alleged bribery within the House of Representatives, aimed at removing Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa as Speaker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"70\">Last week, Rep. Collins publicly admitted to accepting a US$25,000 bribe, alleging it was part of an organized scheme targeting Speaker Koffa&#8217;s removal. In a video that quickly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410290283.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 The Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) on Monday summoned Representatives Luther Collins of Gbarpolu County District #2 and James Kolleh of Bong County District #2 for questioning in connection with alleged bribery within the House of Representatives, aimed at removing Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa as Speaker. Last week, Rep. Collins publicly admitted to accepting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":183564,"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":[258,256,4305,7673,9921,8452,14377,4712,1107,257,9598,254,14589,11860],"class_list":["post-183563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-bribery","tag-effort","tag-lacc","tag-lawmakers","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-removal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speakers","tag-summons"],"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\/183563","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=183563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}