{"id":238107,"date":"2026-07-04T18:02:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lemus-ceo-dewalt-refutes-labor-abuse-claims-blames-rivals-jealousy-for-fake-news\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:02:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:02:55","slug":"liberia-lemus-ceo-dewalt-refutes-labor-abuse-claims-blames-rivals-jealousy-for-fake-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-lemus-ceo-dewalt-refutes-labor-abuse-claims-blames-rivals-jealousy-for-fake-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Lemu&#8217;s CEO Dewalt Refutes Labor Abuse Claims, Blames Rivals &#8216;Jealousy&#8217; for &#8216;Fake News&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Gardnerville \u2014 Lemu&#8217;s Clearing and Forwarding Services Chief Executive Officer, William Dewalt, has refuted media reports accusing him of labor exploitation, political connections, and profiteering through foreign business interests, calling the claims &#8220;false and misleading.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">In a press conference, Dewalt said the allegations were spread by &#8220;pay agents&#8221; intent on damaging his reputation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">&#8220;There is this speculation in the media that 90 percent of our staff have no formal employment contracts, no&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607030348.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>Gardnerville \u2014 Lemu&#8217;s Clearing and Forwarding Services Chief Executive Officer, William Dewalt, has refuted media reports accusing him of labor exploitation, political connections, and profiteering through foreign business interests, calling the claims &#8220;false and misleading.&#8221; In a press conference, Dewalt said the allegations were spread by &#8220;pay agents&#8221; intent on damaging his reputation. &#8220;There is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[5099,258,256,8259,7213,8117,54768,6891,17534,16863,54767,4712,1107,257,9698,10195,254],"class_list":["post-238107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-abuse","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-blames","tag-ceo","tag-claims","tag-dewalt","tag-fake","tag-jealousy","tag-labor","tag-lemus","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-refutes","tag-rivals","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238107","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=238107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}