{"id":224814,"date":"2026-02-24T00:32:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:32:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-police-ig-rejects-clarkes-resignation-insists-lnp-is-not-a-boy-scouts-amid-discrimination-claims\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T00:32:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T22:32:49","slug":"liberia-police-ig-rejects-clarkes-resignation-insists-lnp-is-not-a-boy-scouts-amid-discrimination-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-police-ig-rejects-clarkes-resignation-insists-lnp-is-not-a-boy-scouts-amid-discrimination-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Police IG Rejects Clarke&#8217;s Resignation, Insists Lnp Is Not &#8216;A Boy Scouts&#8217; Amid Discrimination Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\"><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Liberia National Police Inspector General Gregory O.W. Coleman has rejected the resignation of Deputy Commissioner of Police Cecelia G. Clarke, declaring that the police force &#8220;is not a boys scout that one can just enter and leave at will,&#8221; as controversy deepens over her alleged transfer and claims of workplace discrimination.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">Speaking to reporters in Monrovia, Coleman confirmed that Clarke submitted a resignation letter dated Feb. 18, one day after she was formally relieved of her duties as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602230554.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; Liberia National Police Inspector General Gregory O.W. Coleman has rejected the resignation of Deputy Commissioner of Police Cecelia G. Clarke, declaring that the police force &#8220;is not a boys scout that one can just enter and leave at will,&#8221; as controversy deepens over her alleged transfer and claims of workplace discrimination. Speaking to reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":224815,"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":[258,256,7654,8117,53743,9901,8191,4712,1107,7711,257,662,8440,14238,15774,254],"class_list":["post-224814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boy","tag-claims","tag-clarkes","tag-discrimination","tag-insists","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-lnp","tag-news","tag-police","tag-rejects","tag-resignation","tag-scouts","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\/224814","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=224814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}