{"id":238983,"date":"2026-07-18T18:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-simeon-freeman-calls-president-boakai-a-drug-peddler-demands-answers-on-u-s-19-21-million-drug-case\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T18:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T16:41:10","slug":"liberia-simeon-freeman-calls-president-boakai-a-drug-peddler-demands-answers-on-u-s-19-21-million-drug-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-simeon-freeman-calls-president-boakai-a-drug-peddler-demands-answers-on-u-s-19-21-million-drug-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Simeon Freeman Calls President Boakai a &#8216;Drug Peddler,&#8217; Demands Answers On U.S.$19.21 Million Drug Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Monrovia \u2014 The political leader of the Movement for Progressive Change (MPC), Simeon Freeman, has sharply criticized President Joseph Nyuma Boakai over the government&#8217;s handling of the ongoing US$19.21 million drug case, publicly accusing the President of failing to ensure accountability in one of Liberia&#8217;s most high-profile narcotics investigations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Speaking on the matter, Freeman alleged that the President&#8217;s silence and what he described as a lack of urgency in resolving the case have raised&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607170366.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 The political leader of the Movement for Progressive Change (MPC), Simeon Freeman, has sharply criticized President Joseph Nyuma Boakai over the government&#8217;s handling of the ongoing US$19.21 million drug case, publicly accusing the President of failing to ensure accountability in one of Liberia&#8217;s most high-profile narcotics investigations. Speaking on the matter, Freeman alleged [&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":[258,256,16007,7324,6137,6683,6979,6949,21614,4712,1107,5118,257,27196,2450,29819,254,54869],"class_list":["post-238983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-answers","tag-boakai","tag-calls","tag-case","tag-demands","tag-drug","tag-freeman","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-million","tag-news","tag-peddler","tag-president","tag-simeon","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s-19-21"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238983","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=238983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238983\/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=238983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}