{"id":220476,"date":"2026-01-14T23:03:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lnp-clears-ex-deputy-minister-of-rape-allegation\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T23:03:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T21:03:52","slug":"liberia-lnp-clears-ex-deputy-minister-of-rape-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lnp-clears-ex-deputy-minister-of-rape-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LNP Clears Ex &#8211; Deputy Minister of Rape Allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Liberia National Police (LNP) has officially cleared former Deputy Minister for Youth Development Bryan McGill of any wrongdoing following a thorough investigation into an alleged rape case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The probe, launched after a formal complaint was filed late last year, concluded with no evidence to support the allegations, according to a statement by Police Inspector General Col. Gregory Coleman on Monday, January 12, 2026, at LNP headquarters in Monrovia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">&#8220;The Liberia National Police has completed a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601140325.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>The Liberia National Police (LNP) has officially cleared former Deputy Minister for Youth Development Bryan McGill of any wrongdoing following a thorough investigation into an alleged rape case. The probe, launched after a formal complaint was filed late last year, concluded with no evidence to support the allegations, according to a statement by Police Inspector [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":220477,"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":[258,256,13514,11223,6012,4712,1107,7711,5941,257,305,254],"class_list":["post-220476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegation","tag-clears","tag-deputy","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lnp","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-rape","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\/220476","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=220476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}