{"id":227477,"date":"2026-03-20T13:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-airport-authority-board-chair-mantein-accused-of-orchestrating-removal-of-md-hughes-motive-questioned\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T13:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:31:15","slug":"liberia-airport-authority-board-chair-mantein-accused-of-orchestrating-removal-of-md-hughes-motive-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-airport-authority-board-chair-mantein-accused-of-orchestrating-removal-of-md-hughes-motive-questioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Airport Authority Board Chair Mantein Accused of Orchestrating Removal of MD Hughes, Motive Questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Monrovia \u2014 Well-placed sources within government circles have informed FrontPage Africa that the Board Chairman of the Liberia Airport Authority, Nyah Mantein, is allegedly making efforts to influence an ongoing investigation commissioned by President Joseph Nyuma Boakai at the Ministry of Justice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The investigation, which is said to be focused on operational and financial concerns at the airport, has reportedly drawn heightened attention amid claims that Mr. Mantein is seeking to interfere with&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603200036.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>Monrovia \u2014 Well-placed sources within government circles have informed FrontPage Africa that the Board Chairman of the Liberia Airport Authority, Nyah Mantein, is allegedly making efforts to influence an ongoing investigation commissioned by President Joseph Nyuma Boakai at the Ministry of Justice. The investigation, which is said to be focused on operational and financial concerns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":227478,"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":[7083,258,256,2819,9367,6727,6412,46188,4712,1107,53960,46001,257,53961,18788,9598,254],"class_list":["post-227477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-accused","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airport","tag-authority","tag-board","tag-chair","tag-hughes","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mantein","tag-motive","tag-news","tag-orchestrating","tag-questioned","tag-removal","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\/227477","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=227477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}