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What began as a simmering “rice saga” at the Monrovia Central Prison, marked by whispers of missing food meant for inmates, a leaked audio recording and growing public outrage, is now expected to draw to a close following an official investigation that found no theft or criminal wrongdoing.<\/p>\n
The Ministry of Justice released findings from a Special Investigation Panel on Wednesday, February 4, 2026, which reviewed the handling of a presidential rice donation made to the prison during the 2025…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> What began as a simmering “rice saga” at the Monrovia Central Prison, marked by whispers of missing food meant for inmates, a leaked audio recording and growing public outrage, is now expected to draw to a close following an official investigation that found no theft or criminal wrongdoing. The Ministry of Justice released findings from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":222939,"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":[258,256,5934,13869,6852,4712,1107,6857,1088,257,5115,5085,7674,254,9201,6997],"class_list":["post-222938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central","tag-finds","tag-justice","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-ministry","tag-monrovia","tag-news","tag-prison","tag-rice","tag-saga","tag-south-africa-today","tag-theft","tag-weeks"],"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\/222938","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=222938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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