{"id":200341,"date":"2025-06-17T08:15:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:15:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-suspends-lta-chair-kamara-over-corruption-allegations\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T08:15:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:15:55","slug":"liberia-boakai-suspends-lta-chair-kamara-over-corruption-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-suspends-lta-chair-kamara-over-corruption-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Boakai Suspends LTA Chair Kamara Over Corruption Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Monrovia \u2014 President Joseph Boakai on Monday suspended Abdullah Kamara, Acting Chairman of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), barely nine months after his company, TAMMA Corporation, was flagged in a <a href=\"https:\/\/liberianinvestigator.com\/update\/gac-audit-lta-231-data-and-tamma-corp-drained-millions-from-the-digital-transformation-project\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">damning GAC audit<\/a> for receiving questionable payments from the very LTA he was later appointed to lead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The suspension, confirmed to <em>The Liberian Investigator<\/em> by sources within the Executive Mansion, is for administrative reasons and will remain in place until Kamara clears himself with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506170015.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 President Joseph Boakai on Monday suspended Abdullah Kamara, Acting Chairman of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), barely nine months after his company, TAMMA Corporation, was flagged in a damning GAC audit for receiving questionable payments from the very LTA he was later appointed to lead. The suspension, confirmed to The Liberian Investigator by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200342,"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":[258,256,8577,7324,6412,4723,9699,4712,1107,8232,257,254,10452],"class_list":["post-200341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegations","tag-boakai","tag-chair","tag-corruption","tag-kamara","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lta","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspends"],"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\/200341","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=200341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}