{"id":187680,"date":"2025-01-01T13:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T11:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-deputy-finance-minister-denies-322k-contract-conflict-allegations\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T13:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T11:02:54","slug":"liberia-deputy-finance-minister-denies-322k-contract-conflict-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-deputy-finance-minister-denies-322k-contract-conflict-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Deputy Finance Minister Denies $322K Contract Conflict Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">Monrovia \u2014 Deputy Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Bill McGill Jones, has vehemently dismissed allegations of conflict of interest surrounding two contracts awarded for the renovation and structural assessment of the Ministry&#8217;s complex, collectively valued at over $322,000. The Minister described the accusations as &#8220;false, misleading, and a deliberate smear campaign&#8221; aimed at tarnishing his reputation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The controversy erupted following social media claims that the Ministry engaged&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501010025.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 Deputy Minister of Finance and Development Planning, Bill McGill Jones, has vehemently dismissed allegations of conflict of interest surrounding two contracts awarded for the renovation and structural assessment of the Ministry&#8217;s complex, collectively valued at over $322,000. The Minister described the accusations as &#8220;false, misleading, and a deliberate smear campaign&#8221; aimed at tarnishing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":187681,"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":[50312,258,256,8577,2444,7062,7651,6012,7829,4712,1107,5941,257,254],"class_list":["post-187680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-322k","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegations","tag-conflict","tag-contract","tag-denies","tag-deputy","tag-finance","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/187680","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=187680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}