{"id":208709,"date":"2025-10-02T00:12:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lprc-denies-witch-hunting-accusations-reaffirms-commitment-to-proper-sector-regulation\/"},"modified":"2025-10-02T00:12:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:12:04","slug":"liberia-lprc-denies-witch-hunting-accusations-reaffirms-commitment-to-proper-sector-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lprc-denies-witch-hunting-accusations-reaffirms-commitment-to-proper-sector-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LPRC Denies Witch-Hunting Accusations, Reaffirms Commitment to Proper Sector Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Monrovia \u2014 The Liberia Petroleum Refining Company (LPRC) has strongly denied allegations of targeting petroleum importers, including Srimex Oil and Gas, amid recent tensions over regulatory enforcement actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Speaking over the weekend during a donation exercise to the At-risk Youths Temporary Holding Center in Johnsonville, the Deputy Managing Director for Administration at the LPRC, Jocab Smith, clarified that the agency&#8217;s actions are strictly regulatory and not politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;We&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510010438.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 The Liberia Petroleum Refining Company (LPRC) has strongly denied allegations of targeting petroleum importers, including Srimex Oil and Gas, amid recent tensions over regulatory enforcement actions. Speaking over the weekend during a donation exercise to the At-risk Youths Temporary Holding Center in Johnsonville, the Deputy Managing Director for Administration at the LPRC, Jocab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208710,"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":[6562,258,256,6307,7651,4712,1107,33437,257,5754,8132,6950,5991,254,52468],"class_list":["post-208709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-accusations","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commitment","tag-denies","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lprc","tag-news","tag-proper","tag-reaffirms","tag-regulation","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-witchhunting"],"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\/208709","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=208709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}