{"id":202636,"date":"2025-07-17T09:17:49","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-cuts-ties-with-abdullah-kamara-names-clarence-massaquoi-as-new-lta-chair\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T09:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T07:17:49","slug":"liberia-boakai-cuts-ties-with-abdullah-kamara-names-clarence-massaquoi-as-new-lta-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-boakai-cuts-ties-with-abdullah-kamara-names-clarence-massaquoi-as-new-lta-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Boakai Cuts Ties With Abdullah Kamara, Names Clarence Massaquoi As New LTA Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">President Joseph Boakai has formally cut ties with Abdullah Kamara, the embattled Acting Chairman of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), following months of mounting pressure over his alleged role in a fraud scheme at the entity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">In a move that ends Kamara&#8217;s controversial tenure at the regulatory agency, the President on has nominated Commissioner Clarence Massaquoi as the new Chairman of the LTA, effectively closing the door on Kamara&#8217;s return after his suspension. Kamara, who also&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507170059.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>President Joseph Boakai has formally cut ties with Abdullah Kamara, the embattled Acting Chairman of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA), following months of mounting pressure over his alleged role in a fraud scheme at the entity. In a move that ends Kamara&#8217;s controversial tenure at the regulatory agency, the President on has nominated Commissioner Clarence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202637,"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":[15528,258,256,7324,6412,48573,7210,9699,4712,1107,8232,34553,8650,257,254,7051],"class_list":["post-202636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-abdullah","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-chair","tag-clarence","tag-cuts","tag-kamara","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lta","tag-massaquoi","tag-names","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ties"],"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\/202636","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=202636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}