{"id":192571,"date":"2025-03-01T15:10:39","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T13:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-whistleblower-protections-in-place-but-transparency-advocates-say-they-are-useless-without-funding\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T15:10:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T13:10:39","slug":"liberia-whistleblower-protections-in-place-but-transparency-advocates-say-they-are-useless-without-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-whistleblower-protections-in-place-but-transparency-advocates-say-they-are-useless-without-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Whistleblower Protections in Place but Transparency Advocates Say They Are Useless Without Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">It&#8217;s been four years since Sensee Morris took the brave decision to call out corruption. It&#8217;s a choice very few Liberians make, according to transparency advocates, because of the dangers involved. And Mr. Morris has paid a heavy price.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"72\">As a deputy managing director of the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation, Mr. Morris, 46, had helped secure $30 million from the World Bank to build water infrastructure in central Monrovia. When his colleagues withdrew $US80,000 of the funds without his knowledge,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502280547.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>It&#8217;s been four years since Sensee Morris took the brave decision to call out corruption. It&#8217;s a choice very few Liberians make, according to transparency advocates, because of the dangers involved. And Mr. Morris has paid a heavy price. As a deputy managing director of the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation, Mr. Morris, 46, had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":192572,"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":[12303,258,256,6141,4712,1107,257,8673,15110,254,7609,19608,7895],"class_list":["post-192571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-advocates","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-funding","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-place","tag-protections","tag-south-africa-today","tag-transparency","tag-useless","tag-whistleblower"],"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\/192571","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=192571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}