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President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s veto of key provisions in the controversial Port Decentralization Act has drawn broad commendation from civil society groups and student organizations, who are now urging the Legislature to revise the legislation to correct legal inconsistencies and structural flaws.<\/p>\n
In a joint press conference Monday in Monrovia, a coalition of civic, student, and intellectual organizations described Boakai’s action as “timely and necessary,” asserting that the bill in its current…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> President Joseph Nyuma Boakai’s veto of key provisions in the controversial Port Decentralization Act has drawn broad commendation from civil society groups and student organizations, who are now urging the Legislature to revise the legislation to correct legal inconsistencies and structural flaws. In a joint press conference Monday in Monrovia, a coalition of civic, student, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203075,"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":[258,256,7292,12935,8227,13650,8013,7579,4712,1107,257,7137,6338,6354,51933,7120,254,26213],"class_list":["post-203074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bill","tag-boakais","tag-civil","tag-draws","tag-intensifies","tag-legislative","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-port","tag-praise","tag-push","tag-rework","tag-society","tag-south-africa-today","tag-veto"],"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\/203074","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=203074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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