{"id":208781,"date":"2025-10-03T00:13:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-suspended-officials-withheld-salaries-funding-1000-classroom-chairs\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T00:13:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T22:13:54","slug":"liberia-suspended-officials-withheld-salaries-funding-1000-classroom-chairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-suspended-officials-withheld-salaries-funding-1000-classroom-chairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Suspended Officials&#8217; Withheld Salaries Funding 1,000 Classroom Chairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\"><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> The Civil Service Agency says more than 1,000 classroom chairs are nearing completion under President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr.&#8217;s &#8220;One Chair, One Child&#8221; initiative, financed through salaries withheld from government officials who failed to declare their assets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">CSA Director-General Josiah F. Joekai Jr., speaking Wednesday during a tour of the first batch of chairs at the Monrovia Vocational Training Center (MVTC), said the project is proving skeptics wrong.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">&#8220;What many had dismissed as a myth is&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510020529.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>&#8211; The Civil Service Agency says more than 1,000 classroom chairs are nearing completion under President Joseph Nyuma Boakai Sr.&#8217;s &#8220;One Chair, One Child&#8221; initiative, financed through salaries withheld from government officials who failed to declare their assets. CSA Director-General Josiah F. Joekai Jr., speaking Wednesday during a tour of the first batch of chairs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":208782,"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":[258,256,11599,8188,6141,4712,1107,257,6651,19058,254,4314,47697],"class_list":["post-208781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chairs","tag-classroom","tag-funding","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-officials","tag-salaries","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspended","tag-withheld"],"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\/208781","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=208781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}