{"id":184590,"date":"2024-11-14T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T11:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberias-anti-corruption-fight-stumbles-as-ministry-of-states-dismissal-of-three-top-officials-raises-questions-on-accountability\/"},"modified":"2024-11-14T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T11:44:07","slug":"liberias-anti-corruption-fight-stumbles-as-ministry-of-states-dismissal-of-three-top-officials-raises-questions-on-accountability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberias-anti-corruption-fight-stumbles-as-ministry-of-states-dismissal-of-three-top-officials-raises-questions-on-accountability\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia&#8217;s Anti-Corruption Fight Stumbles, As Ministry of States Dismissal of Three Top Officials Raises Questions On Accountability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Monrovia \u2014 In what is being discerned as a controversial decision, the Ministry of State for Presidential Affairs has reacted to findings from a Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) investigation that uncovered payroll padding within its ranks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Following a review of LACC&#8217;s report, which included witness interviews, statements, and financial analysis, the Ministry of State for Presidential Affairs, has dismissed three of its senior officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">They include Lamine Sharpe, Director of Budget&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202411140219.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 In what is being discerned as a controversial decision, the Ministry of State for Presidential Affairs has reacted to findings from a Liberia Anti-Corruption Commission (LACC) investigation that uncovered payroll padding within its ranks. Following a review of LACC&#8217;s report, which included witness interviews, statements, and financial analysis, the Ministry of State for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":184591,"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":[13948,258,256,10365,7350,4345,1107,8536,6857,257,6651,5152,5234,254,6484,20616,7319],"class_list":["post-184590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-accountability","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-anticorruption","tag-dismissal","tag-fight","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-questions","tag-raises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-states","tag-stumbles","tag-top"],"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\/184590","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=184590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}