{"id":197256,"date":"2025-05-02T06:36:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T04:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-eps-threatens-to-withdraw-security-from-vips-accused-of-inciting-violence-amid-protest-calls-over-rule-of-law-abuse\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T06:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T04:36:54","slug":"liberia-eps-threatens-to-withdraw-security-from-vips-accused-of-inciting-violence-amid-protest-calls-over-rule-of-law-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-eps-threatens-to-withdraw-security-from-vips-accused-of-inciting-violence-amid-protest-calls-over-rule-of-law-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: EPs Threatens to Withdraw Security From Vips Accused of Inciting Violence Amid Protest Calls Over Rule of Law &#8216;Abuse&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Monrovia \u2014 A standoff is emerging between the Executive Protection Service (EPS) and opposition figures, spotlighting deepening tensions within the country&#8217;s political and security landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The controversy follows a warning from the EPS Wednesday that it will withdraw protection from any VIP who incites rebellion or violence &#8212; a statement widely interpreted as a response to former Vice President Jewel Howard-Taylor&#8217;s recent warnings of &#8220;chaos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">While the EPS did not explicitly name Taylor,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505010318.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>Monrovia \u2014 A standoff is emerging between the Executive Protection Service (EPS) and opposition figures, spotlighting deepening tensions within the country&#8217;s political and security landscape. The controversy follows a warning from the EPS Wednesday that it will withdraw protection from any VIP who incites rebellion or violence &#8212; a statement widely interpreted as a response [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197257,"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":[5099,7083,258,256,6137,19376,15233,7077,4712,1107,257,2194,7858,4586,254,10413,2148,51264,10905],"class_list":["post-197256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-abuse","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-calls","tag-eps","tag-inciting","tag-law","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-protest","tag-rule","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens","tag-violence","tag-vips","tag-withdraw"],"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\/197256","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=197256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}