{"id":218447,"date":"2025-12-29T15:28:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lofa-sports-steering-committee-rejects-sanctions-demands-probe-into-kickball-violence\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T15:28:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T13:28:53","slug":"liberia-lofa-sports-steering-committee-rejects-sanctions-demands-probe-into-kickball-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lofa-sports-steering-committee-rejects-sanctions-demands-probe-into-kickball-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Lofa Sports Steering Committee Rejects Sanctions, Demands Probe Into Kickball Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Monrovia \u2014 Lofa County Sports Steering Committee has broken its silence, formally rejecting the heavy fines and multi-year suspensions recently imposed by the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MYS) following a chaotic kickball encounter against Grand Cape Mount County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">In a statement issued Wednesday, the Committee termed the punitive measures &#8220;arbitrary&#8221; and &#8220;premature,&#8221; arguing that the sanctions were handed down without a full, independent, and impartial investigation into the root causes of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512290166.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 Lofa County Sports Steering Committee has broken its silence, formally rejecting the heavy fines and multi-year suspensions recently imposed by the Ministry of Youth and Sports (MYS) following a chaotic kickball encounter against Grand Cape Mount County. In a statement issued Wednesday, the Committee termed the punitive measures &#8220;arbitrary&#8221; and &#8220;premature,&#8221; arguing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218448,"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":[258,256,5857,6979,24884,4712,1107,1725,257,5805,8440,4650,254,8045,16911,2148],"class_list":["post-218447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-committee","tag-demands","tag-kickball","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lofa","tag-news","tag-probe","tag-rejects","tag-sanctions","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sports","tag-steering","tag-violence"],"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\/218447","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=218447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}