{"id":232268,"date":"2026-05-04T03:39:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ex-president-sirleaf-condemns-kolubahs-expulsion-decries-filthy-monrovia-and-weighs-in-on-key-national-issues\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T03:39:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T01:39:38","slug":"liberia-ex-president-sirleaf-condemns-kolubahs-expulsion-decries-filthy-monrovia-and-weighs-in-on-key-national-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-ex-president-sirleaf-condemns-kolubahs-expulsion-decries-filthy-monrovia-and-weighs-in-on-key-national-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Ex-President Sirleaf Condemns Kolubah&#8217;s Expulsion, Decries &#8216;Filthy Monrovia&#8217; and Weighs in On Key National Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Monrovia \u2014 Former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has strongly criticized the recent expulsion of Montserrado County District #10 Representative Yekeh Y. Kolubah, describing the decision as a threat to freedom of speech and democratic governance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Her comments come amid growing backlash from policymakers, legal experts, and political figures over the controversial action taken by the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"5\"><strong>&#8216;Not the Way to Go&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Speaking on the <em>Truth Breakfast Show<\/em> on Truth FM on Thursday, April&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010252.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 Former President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has strongly criticized the recent expulsion of Montserrado County District #10 Representative Yekeh Y. Kolubah, describing the decision as a threat to freedom of speech and democratic governance. Her comments come amid growing backlash from policymakers, legal experts, and political figures over the controversial action taken by the House [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232269,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681316:bd161133aab3446386fb288f25713bd7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,7610,10717,12175,16826,8586,8008,7274,29016,4712,1107,1088,6687,257,6912,254,14295],"class_list":["post-232268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-condemns","tag-decries","tag-expresident","tag-expulsion","tag-filthy","tag-issues","tag-key","tag-kolubahs","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-monrovia","tag-national","tag-news","tag-sirleaf","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weighs"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681316:bd161133aab3446386fb288f25713bd7:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232268","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=232268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}