{"id":200562,"date":"2025-06-20T20:22:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T18:22:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-pleebo-mayor-demands-fair-share-of-natl-budget\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T20:22:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T18:22:56","slug":"liberia-pleebo-mayor-demands-fair-share-of-natl-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-pleebo-mayor-demands-fair-share-of-natl-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Pleebo Mayor Demands Fair Share of Nat&#8217;l Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Mayor Larry Geekor of Pleebo City has appealed to the national government, decrying what he described as the city&#8217;s persistent neglect in Liberia&#8217;s national development budget despite its key role in driving Maryland County&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">In an exclusive interview with the Daily Observer, Mayor Geekor highlighted mounting frustrations over inadequate infrastructure, poor road conditions, and limited social services, which he says are stalling development and undermining the welfare of residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;How&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200486.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>Mayor Larry Geekor of Pleebo City has appealed to the national government, decrying what he described as the city&#8217;s persistent neglect in Liberia&#8217;s national development budget despite its key role in driving Maryland County&#8217;s economy. In an exclusive interview with the Daily Observer, Mayor Geekor highlighted mounting frustrations over inadequate infrastructure, poor road conditions, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200563,"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":[258,256,6080,6979,7724,4712,1107,7625,7456,257,32740,7294,254],"class_list":["post-200562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-budget","tag-demands","tag-fair","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mayor","tag-natl","tag-news","tag-pleebo","tag-share","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\/200562","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=200562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}