{"id":232542,"date":"2026-05-07T03:46:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cooper-slams-house-for-illegal-expulsion-of-rep-yekeh\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:46:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T01:46:01","slug":"liberia-cooper-slams-house-for-illegal-expulsion-of-rep-yekeh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-cooper-slams-house-for-illegal-expulsion-of-rep-yekeh\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Cooper Slams House for &#8216;Illegal&#8217; Expulsion of Rep. Yekeh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Former Margibi County Senator Oscar Cooper has sharply criticized the House of Representatives for expelling Montserrado County District #10 Representative Yekeh Kolubah, describing the action as illegal, unconstitutional, and a dangerous precedent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Reacting to the decision during the 2026 World Press Freedom Day observance in Kakata City, Cooper insisted that allegations of treason cannot be determined by legislative vote but must be proven through judicial process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">&#8220;This action is totally&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605060400.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>Former Margibi County Senator Oscar Cooper has sharply criticized the House of Representatives for expelling Montserrado County District #10 Representative Yekeh Kolubah, describing the action as illegal, unconstitutional, and a dangerous precedent. Reacting to the decision during the 2026 World Press Freedom Day observance in Kakata City, Cooper insisted that allegations of treason cannot be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":232543,"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":[258,256,11650,16826,5110,6918,4712,1107,257,10554,9757,254,28755],"class_list":["post-232542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cooper","tag-expulsion","tag-house","tag-illegal","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-rep","tag-slams","tag-south-africa-today","tag-yekeh"],"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\/232542","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=232542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}