{"id":208628,"date":"2025-10-01T00:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-demanta-kokoyah-residents-demand-immediate-halt-to-flawed-town-hall-project-amid-safety-concerns\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T00:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T22:09:05","slug":"liberia-demanta-kokoyah-residents-demand-immediate-halt-to-flawed-town-hall-project-amid-safety-concerns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-demanta-kokoyah-residents-demand-immediate-halt-to-flawed-town-hall-project-amid-safety-concerns\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Demanta Kokoyah Residents Demand Immediate Halt to &#8216;Flawed&#8217; Town Hall Project Amid Safety Concerns."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">Bong County, Electoral District #2 &#8211; What was intended to be a symbol of progress has now become the center of controversy, as furious residents of the Demanta Kokoyah Road community are demanding an immediate halt to the ongoing construction of their long-awaited town hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">The US$130,000 project, funded through the Liberia Agency for Community Empowerment (LACE) and contracted to Sesay Brothers Construction Company, is under heavy fire from locals who allege the building is being erected without&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509300681.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>Bong County, Electoral District #2 &#8211; What was intended to be a symbol of progress has now become the center of controversy, as furious residents of the Demanta Kokoyah Road community are demanding an immediate halt to the ongoing construction of their long-awaited town hall. The US$130,000 project, funded through the Liberia Agency for Community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208629,"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":[258,256,5987,7617,52463,6563,6622,7520,25329,4712,1107,257,6504,4288,4672,254,8636],"class_list":["post-208628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concerns","tag-demand","tag-demanta","tag-flawed","tag-hall","tag-halt","tag-kokoyah","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-project","tag-residents","tag-safety","tag-south-africa-today","tag-town"],"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\/208628","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=208628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}