{"id":200645,"date":"2025-06-21T20:25:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T18:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-bong-rep-briggs-mensah-criticizes-president-boakai-speaker-koon-for-failing-to-notify-legislature-of-foreign-trips\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T20:25:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T18:25:02","slug":"liberia-bong-rep-briggs-mensah-criticizes-president-boakai-speaker-koon-for-failing-to-notify-legislature-of-foreign-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-bong-rep-briggs-mensah-criticizes-president-boakai-speaker-koon-for-failing-to-notify-legislature-of-foreign-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Bong Rep. Briggs-Mensah Criticizes President Boakai, Speaker Koon for Failing to Notify Legislature of Foreign Trips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Capitol Hill \u2014 Bong County Electoral District #6 Representative Moima Briggs-Mensah has strongly criticized President Joseph Nyuma Boakai and House Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon for departing the country without officially notifying the Legislature of their respective foreign engagements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">President Boakai is currently attending the West Africa Economic Summit in Abuja, Nigeria&#8211;a three-day gathering of West African presidents, government officials, investors, and business leaders aimed at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506200168.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"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>Capitol Hill \u2014 Bong County Electoral District #6 Representative Moima Briggs-Mensah has strongly criticized President Joseph Nyuma Boakai and House Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon for departing the country without officially notifying the Legislature of their respective foreign engagements. President Boakai is currently attending the West Africa Economic Summit in Abuja, Nigeria&#8211;a three-day gathering of West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":200646,"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":[258,256,7324,2960,51694,24207,21944,5169,47653,9722,4712,1107,257,46544,2450,10554,254,9632,11638],"class_list":["post-200645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-bong","tag-briggsmensah","tag-criticizes","tag-failing","tag-foreign","tag-koon","tag-legislature","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-notify","tag-president","tag-rep","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speaker","tag-trips"],"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\/200645","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=200645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}