{"id":203177,"date":"2025-07-24T21:32:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-documents-reveal-up-government-struck-100k-severance-deals-with-suspended-lta-bosses-as-incoming-chairman-denies-reviewing-agreements\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T21:32:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:32:51","slug":"liberia-documents-reveal-up-government-struck-100k-severance-deals-with-suspended-lta-bosses-as-incoming-chairman-denies-reviewing-agreements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-documents-reveal-up-government-struck-100k-severance-deals-with-suspended-lta-bosses-as-incoming-chairman-denies-reviewing-agreements\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Documents Reveal Up Government Struck $100k Severance Deals With Suspended LTA Bosses, As Incoming Chairman Denies Reviewing Agreements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Monrovia \u2014 FrontPage Africa has obtained documents showing that the Unity Party (UP)-led government entered into secret severance agreements worth US$100,000 each with two suspended commissioners of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) to facilitate their resignation, despite ongoing corruption allegations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The two officials, Israel Akinsanya and Zotawon D. Titus and were among several LTA Commissioners suspended by President Joseph Boakai in April 2024, following accusations of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507240682.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 FrontPage Africa has obtained documents showing that the Unity Party (UP)-led government entered into secret severance agreements worth US$100,000 each with two suspended commissioners of the Liberia Telecommunications Authority (LTA) to facilitate their resignation, despite ongoing corruption allegations. The two officials, Israel Akinsanya and Zotawon D. Titus and were among several LTA Commissioners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":203178,"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":[14182,258,256,6882,7367,6888,7844,7651,12126,6427,6509,4712,1107,8232,257,8303,35346,16507,254,17993,4314],"class_list":["post-203177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-100k","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-agreements","tag-bosses","tag-chairman","tag-deals","tag-denies","tag-documents","tag-government","tag-incoming","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lta","tag-news","tag-reveal","tag-reviewing","tag-severance","tag-south-africa-today","tag-struck","tag-suspended"],"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\/203177","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=203177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}