{"id":237820,"date":"2026-06-30T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senator-kogar-demands-suspension-of-security-chiefs-over-airport-cocaine-saga\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:54:00","slug":"liberia-senator-kogar-demands-suspension-of-security-chiefs-over-airport-cocaine-saga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-senator-kogar-demands-suspension-of-security-chiefs-over-airport-cocaine-saga\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Senator Kogar Demands Suspension of Security Chiefs Over Airport Cocaine Saga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Nimba County Senator Samuel Kogar wants Liberia&#8217;s top security chiefs suspended and investigated over the interception of 19 kilograms of suspected cocaine at Roberts International Airport, saying the case exposed dangerous cracks in the country&#8217;s security architecture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"49\">Speaking on the sidelines of Cuttington University&#8217;s 64th graduation convocation, Kogar demanded a fast-tracked, independent investigation into how the consignment moved through one of Liberia&#8217;s most heavily guarded entry points&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606300561.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>Nimba County Senator Samuel Kogar wants Liberia&#8217;s top security chiefs suspended and investigated over the interception of 19 kilograms of suspected cocaine at Roberts International Airport, saying the case exposed dangerous cracks in the country&#8217;s security architecture. Speaking on the sidelines of Cuttington University&#8217;s 64th graduation convocation, Kogar demanded a fast-tracked, independent investigation into how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237821,"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":[258,256,2819,7493,17366,6979,31956,4712,1107,257,7674,4586,7798,254,10829],"class_list":["post-237820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-airport","tag-chiefs","tag-cocaine","tag-demands","tag-kogar","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-saga","tag-security","tag-senator","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspension"],"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\/237820","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=237820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}