{"id":222425,"date":"2026-01-31T11:41:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lra-celebrates-74th-international-customs-day-in-ganta-as-former-defense-minister-samukai-urges-vigilance\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:41:05","slug":"liberia-lra-celebrates-74th-international-customs-day-in-ganta-as-former-defense-minister-samukai-urges-vigilance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lra-celebrates-74th-international-customs-day-in-ganta-as-former-defense-minister-samukai-urges-vigilance\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: LRA Celebrates 74th International Customs Day in Ganta As Former Defense Minister Samukai Urges Vigilance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Ganta \u2014 The Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) marked the 74th International Customs Day with a vibrant celebration in Ganta City, Nimba County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"53\">The Ganta celebration drew massive crowd of LRA officers, joint security personnel and Guinean delegates. Amid festive drumming, colorful banners fluttering in the tropical breeze and speeches echoing under a canopy tent, former Defense Minister and aspiring 2029 Lofa County Senator Brownie J. Samukai Sr. rallied attendees to remain vigilant in their&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601300361.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>Ganta \u2014 The Liberia Revenue Authority (LRA) marked the 74th International Customs Day with a vibrant celebration in Ganta City, Nimba County. The Ganta celebration drew massive crowd of LRA officers, joint security personnel and Guinean delegates. Amid festive drumming, colorful banners fluttering in the tropical breeze and speeches echoing under a canopy tent, former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222426,"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":[32226,258,256,6547,6944,7165,8027,11877,4337,4712,1107,1963,5941,257,32854,254,6810,15452],"class_list":["post-222425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-74th","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-celebrates","tag-customs","tag-day","tag-defense","tag-ganta","tag-international","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lra","tag-minister","tag-news","tag-samukai","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-vigilance"],"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\/222425","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=222425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}