{"id":196608,"date":"2025-04-23T06:18:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T04:18:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-this-is-no-longer-about-who-is-speaker-its-about-the-rule-of-law\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T06:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T04:18:42","slug":"liberia-this-is-no-longer-about-who-is-speaker-its-about-the-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-this-is-no-longer-about-who-is-speaker-its-about-the-rule-of-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: This Is No Longer About Who Is Speaker&#8211;It&#8217;s About the Rule of Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\"><em>Enough is enough.<\/em> For seven months, Liberia has been locked in a constitutional nightmare, one that has paralyzed the Legislature, shredded public confidence in our institutions, and now threatens the nation&#8217;s credibility on the international stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"50\"><strong>The crisis<\/strong> at the House of Representatives is no longer about whether Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa is Speaker or not. That debate has long passed. What&#8217;s at stake now is whether the laws of Liberia still matter&#8211;whether the Constitution still holds authority&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504220568.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Enough is enough. For seven months, Liberia has been locked in a constitutional nightmare, one that has paralyzed the Legislature, shredded public confidence in our institutions, and now threatens the nation&#8217;s credibility on the international stage. The crisis at the House of Representatives is no longer about whether Cllr. J. Fonati Koffa is Speaker or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":196609,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7077,4712,1107,7100,257,7858,254,51193],"class_list":["post-196608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-law","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-longer","tag-news","tag-rule","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speakerits"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196608","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=196608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}