{"id":217435,"date":"2025-12-20T15:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-it-is-not-my-private-project-boakai-says-foya-villa-development-is-mru-peace-initiative-not-personal-residence\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T15:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:10:09","slug":"liberia-it-is-not-my-private-project-boakai-says-foya-villa-development-is-mru-peace-initiative-not-personal-residence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-it-is-not-my-private-project-boakai-says-foya-villa-development-is-mru-peace-initiative-not-personal-residence\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: &#8216;It Is Not My Private Project&#8217; &#8211; &#8211; Boakai Says Foya Villa Development Is MRU Peace Initiative, Not Personal Residence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Monrovia \u2014 President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has dismissed claims that a multimillion-dollar villa project under construction in Foya, Lofa County, is intended for his personal benefit, insisting the development is a Mano River Union (MRU) peacebuilding initiative and not a private undertaking linked to him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Speaking publicly for the first time on the controversy during a live interview on state radio, ELBC, on Friday, President Boakai emphasized that he has never used public funds for personal&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512190512.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 President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has dismissed claims that a multimillion-dollar villa project under construction in Foya, Lofa County, is intended for his personal benefit, insisting the development is a Mano River Union (MRU) peacebuilding initiative and not a private undertaking linked to him. Speaking publicly for the first time on the controversy during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":217436,"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":[258,256,7324,5989,8693,9890,4712,1107,7070,257,6157,8913,5990,6504,13187,254,23630],"class_list":["post-217435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakai","tag-development","tag-foya","tag-initiative","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mru","tag-news","tag-peace","tag-personal","tag-private","tag-project","tag-residence","tag-south-africa-today","tag-villa"],"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\/217435","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=217435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}