{"id":215754,"date":"2025-12-05T02:35:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-payroll-fraud-allegations-shake-nicol-as-leaked-letter-reaches-president-boakai-administration-denies-wrongdoing-insists-hiring-process-followed-legal-procedures\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T02:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:35:48","slug":"liberia-payroll-fraud-allegations-shake-nicol-as-leaked-letter-reaches-president-boakai-administration-denies-wrongdoing-insists-hiring-process-followed-legal-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-payroll-fraud-allegations-shake-nicol-as-leaked-letter-reaches-president-boakai-administration-denies-wrongdoing-insists-hiring-process-followed-legal-procedures\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Payroll Fraud Allegations Shake Nicol As Leaked Letter Reaches President Boakai, Administration Denies Wrongdoing, Insists Hiring Process Followed Legal Procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Monrovia \u2014 The National Insurance Corporation of Liberia (NICOL) has been thrown into controversy following the circulation of a leaked letter sent to President Joseph Boakai, alleging payroll fraud, tribalism, internal conflicts, and a widening power struggle within the state-owned entity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The communication, purportedly written by an employee identified as Rick Mark James, accuses Deputy Managing Director Abdullah S. Swaray of orchestrating internal strife and manipulating the employment&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512040492.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 National Insurance Corporation of Liberia (NICOL) has been thrown into controversy following the circulation of a leaked letter sent to President Joseph Boakai, alleging payroll fraud, tribalism, internal conflicts, and a widening power struggle within the state-owned entity. The communication, purportedly written by an employee identified as Rick Mark James, accuses Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215755,"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":[7115,258,256,8577,7324,7651,8666,10109,8191,16170,6393,5747,4712,1107,257,45597,8851,2450,10123,5755,6259,7587,254,31378],"class_list":["post-215754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-administration","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegations","tag-boakai","tag-denies","tag-fraud","tag-hiring","tag-insists","tag-leaked","tag-legal","tag-letter","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-nicol","tag-payroll","tag-president","tag-procedures","tag-process","tag-reaches","tag-shake","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wrongdoing"],"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\/215754","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=215754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}