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THERE IS A line between defending public service and excusing corruption. Senator Crayton Duncan of Sinoe County crossed that line — and then kept walking.<\/p>\n
IN A RECENT statement before the Liberian Senate, Senator Duncan chose to lash out at Liberians who criticize their elected officials for amassing wealth after ascending to public office.<\/p>\n
IN A SPEECH laced with frustration and defiance, he claimed that Liberians are too focused on dragging down their own leaders while ignoring foreign…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> THERE IS A line between defending public service and excusing corruption. Senator Crayton Duncan of Sinoe County crossed that line — and then kept walking. IN A RECENT statement before the Liberian Senate, Senator Duncan chose to lash out at Liberians who criticize their elected officials for amassing wealth after ascending to public office. IN […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198933,"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":[258,256,51459,4723,51460,31970,6918,4712,1107,8338,21679,257,18382,51461,13557,254],"class_list":["post-198932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-camouflaged","tag-corruption","tag-duncans","tag-hide","tag-illegal","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-logging","tag-nationalistic","tag-news","tag-rhetoric","tag-selfenrichment","tag-sen","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/198932","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=198932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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