{"id":207552,"date":"2025-09-18T23:42:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-president-boakai-suspends-bryant-mcgill-as-pressure-mounts-for-arrest-police-seek-more-time\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T23:42:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T21:42:32","slug":"liberia-president-boakai-suspends-bryant-mcgill-as-pressure-mounts-for-arrest-police-seek-more-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-president-boakai-suspends-bryant-mcgill-as-pressure-mounts-for-arrest-police-seek-more-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: President Boakai Suspends Bryant Mcgill As Pressure Mounts for Arrest &#8211; Police Seek More Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Monrovia \u2014 President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has suspended Deputy Minister for Youth Development at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Bryant McGill, following serious allegations linking him to the rape of a 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The Executive Mansion confirmed the suspension on Wednesday, stating that the decision aligns with the government&#8217;s zero-tolerance policy on sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) and is intended to allow for a fair and transparent investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">&#8220;This decision has been taken&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509180440.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 President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has suspended Deputy Minister for Youth Development at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, Bryant McGill, following serious allegations linking him to the rape of a 14-year-old girl. The Executive Mansion confirmed the suspension on Wednesday, stating that the decision aligns with the government&#8217;s zero-tolerance policy on sexual and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207553,"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":[258,256,6414,7324,52384,4712,1107,19175,21241,257,662,2450,15578,7745,254,10452,6599],"class_list":["post-207552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arrest","tag-boakai","tag-bryant","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mcgill","tag-mounts","tag-news","tag-police","tag-president","tag-pressure","tag-seek","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspends","tag-time"],"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\/207552","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=207552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}