{"id":201006,"date":"2025-06-26T20:36:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:36:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-kemayah-sawyer-broh-and-top-ndma-officials-jailed-in-expanding-rice-scandal\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T20:36:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:36:05","slug":"liberia-kemayah-sawyer-broh-and-top-ndma-officials-jailed-in-expanding-rice-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-kemayah-sawyer-broh-and-top-ndma-officials-jailed-in-expanding-rice-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Kemayah, Sawyer, Broh, and Top Ndma Officials Jailed in Expanding Rice Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"62\">Monrovia \u2014 Former Foreign Affairs Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, former GSA Director-General Mary T. Broh, former Deputy Foreign Minister Thelma Sawyer, and former Executive Director of the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) Henry O. Williams, along with three senior NDMA officials, have been incarcerated at the Monrovia Central Prison by Criminal Court &#8220;C&#8221; at the Temple of Justice, pending trial on serious corruption charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong><em>Willie N. Tokpah<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\">The arrests are tied to the alleged&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506260502.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>Monrovia \u2014 Former Foreign Affairs Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, former GSA Director-General Mary T. Broh, former Deputy Foreign Minister Thelma Sawyer, and former Executive Director of the National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) Henry O. Williams, along with three senior NDMA officials, have been incarcerated at the Monrovia Central Prison by Criminal Court &#8220;C&#8221; at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":201007,"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":[258,256,13251,15229,5696,32083,4712,1107,27957,257,6651,5085,20124,7454,254,7319],"class_list":["post-201006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-broh","tag-expanding","tag-jailed","tag-kemayah","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-ndma","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-rice","tag-sawyer","tag-scandal","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top"],"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\/201006","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=201006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}