{"id":189441,"date":"2025-01-24T01:52:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T23:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-speaker-koffa-calls-for-intl-assistance-in-capitol-arson-investigation\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T01:52:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T23:52:38","slug":"liberia-speaker-koffa-calls-for-intl-assistance-in-capitol-arson-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-speaker-koffa-calls-for-intl-assistance-in-capitol-arson-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Speaker Koffa Calls for Int&#8217;l Assistance in Capitol &#8216;Arson&#8217; Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Monrovia \u2014 Embattled Speaker Fonati Koffa has urged government authorities to seek international assistance for a transparent and impartial investigation into the December 18, 2024, fire that devastated the Capitol Building.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Speaker Koffa&#8217;s appeal, made on January 23, follows a formal communication from the Liberia National Police (LNP), which has identified several lawmakers, including Koffa, as persons of interest in the ongoing arson investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">In a letter addressed to the House of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501230666.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 Embattled Speaker Fonati Koffa has urged government authorities to seek international assistance for a transparent and impartial investigation into the December 18, 2024, fire that devastated the Capitol Building. Speaker Koffa&#8217;s appeal, made on January 23, follows a formal communication from the Liberia National Police (LNP), which has identified several lawmakers, including Koffa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":189442,"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":[258,256,23290,9651,6137,9887,8233,6834,34771,4712,1107,257,254,9632],"class_list":["post-189441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arson","tag-assistance","tag-calls","tag-capitol","tag-intl","tag-investigation","tag-koffa","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker"],"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\/189441","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=189441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}