{"id":214159,"date":"2025-11-19T13:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cannot-afford-land-fraud-at-the-top\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T13:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:58:12","slug":"liberia-cannot-afford-land-fraud-at-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cannot-afford-land-fraud-at-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Cannot Afford Land Fraud At the Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"100\"><strong>Liberia&#8217;s land<\/strong> sector has once again fallen into a crisis of confidence, this time not caused by petty actors or local schemers, but by the very official entrusted to protect the nation&#8217;s most sensitive and conflict-prone asset. The revelation that Liberia Land Authority (LLA) Chairman Samuel F. Kpakio signed a development grant deed naming <em>two different owners<\/em>, violated a presidential moratorium, bypassed a legally required community consent process, used a private surveyor on public land, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511190284.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>Liberia&#8217;s land sector has once again fallen into a crisis of confidence, this time not caused by petty actors or local schemers, but by the very official entrusted to protect the nation&#8217;s most sensitive and conflict-prone asset. The revelation that Liberia Land Authority (LLA) Chairman Samuel F. Kpakio signed a development grant deed naming two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":214160,"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":[10271,258,256,8666,6122,4712,1107,257,254,7319],"class_list":["post-214159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-afford","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-fraud","tag-land","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top"],"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\/214159","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=214159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}