{"id":219682,"date":"2026-01-08T10:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-police-probe-alleged-smuggling-of-electricity-meters-meant-for-river-cess-homes\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T10:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T08:46:10","slug":"liberia-police-probe-alleged-smuggling-of-electricity-meters-meant-for-river-cess-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-police-probe-alleged-smuggling-of-electricity-meters-meant-for-river-cess-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Police Probe Alleged Smuggling of Electricity Meters Meant for River Cess Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8211; As families in Cestos City, Rivercess County wait in darkness for electricity promised under the rural electrification program, police are investigating allegations that meters meant for their homes were quietly smuggled out of the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">An investigation by <em><strong>The Liberian Investigator<\/strong><\/em> has uncovered claims that electricity meters officially allocated to River Cess were removed from the county even as many approved customers remain unconnected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">According to police records and witness statements,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601070069.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; As families in Cestos City, Rivercess County wait in darkness for electricity promised under the rural electrification program, police are investigating allegations that meters meant for their homes were quietly smuggled out of the county. An investigation by The Liberian Investigator has uncovered claims that electricity meters officially allocated to River Cess were removed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":219683,"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":[258,256,4305,9051,4895,11282,4712,1107,13039,8031,257,662,5805,7263,9688,254],"class_list":["post-219682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-cess","tag-electricity","tag-homes","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-meant","tag-meters","tag-news","tag-police","tag-probe","tag-river","tag-smuggling","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/219682","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=219682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}