{"id":237719,"date":"2026-06-29T05:50:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:50:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-house-targets-cargo-firms-in-u-s-19-million-cocaine-case-sen-mcgill-slams-government-over-slow-pace-of-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T05:50:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:50:53","slug":"liberia-house-targets-cargo-firms-in-u-s-19-million-cocaine-case-sen-mcgill-slams-government-over-slow-pace-of-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-house-targets-cargo-firms-in-u-s-19-million-cocaine-case-sen-mcgill-slams-government-over-slow-pace-of-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: House Targets Cargo Firms in U.S.$19 Million Cocaine Case, Sen. Mcgill Slams Government Over &#8216;Slow Pace&#8217; of Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">Monrovia \u2014 Pressure is mounting on the Liberian government over the handling of the US$19.2 million cocaine investigation, with the House of Representatives calling for the suspension of key cargo companies linked to the case, while Margibi County Senator Nathaniel F. McGill has criticized what he described as the &#8220;slow pace&#8221; of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">The House of Representatives on Thursday passed a resolution recommending the immediate suspension of the operations of GLS Menzies and Express&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606260281.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 Pressure is mounting on the Liberian government over the handling of the US$19.2 million cocaine investigation, with the House of Representatives calling for the suspension of key cargo companies linked to the case, while Margibi County Senator Nathaniel F. McGill has criticized what he described as the &#8220;slow pace&#8221; of the investigation. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237720,"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":[258,256,15349,6683,17366,7082,6427,5110,6834,4712,1107,19175,5118,257,11745,13557,9757,7756,254,7317,54725],"class_list":["post-237719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cargo","tag-case","tag-cocaine","tag-firms","tag-government","tag-house","tag-investigation","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-mcgill","tag-million","tag-news","tag-pace","tag-sen","tag-slams","tag-slow","tag-south-africa-today","tag-targets","tag-u-s-19"],"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\/237719","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=237719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}