{"id":239323,"date":"2026-07-23T06:51:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-eugene-nagbe-alleges-official-collusion-in-liberias-cocaine-trade-disputes-governments-u-s-19-million-valuation\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T06:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T04:51:26","slug":"liberia-eugene-nagbe-alleges-official-collusion-in-liberias-cocaine-trade-disputes-governments-u-s-19-million-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-eugene-nagbe-alleges-official-collusion-in-liberias-cocaine-trade-disputes-governments-u-s-19-million-valuation\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Eugene Nagbe Alleges Official Collusion in Liberia&#8217;s Cocaine Trade, Disputes Government&#8217;s U.S.$19 Million Valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Eugene Nagbe, a former top official in George Weah&#8217;s government, has alleged that people in authority are colluding with drug traffickers, saying the large cocaine shipments surfacing at Liberia&#8217;s ports could not slip through undetected without inside help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">Speaking Tuesday on the Okay Morning Rush in Monrovia, Nagbe, who served as chief of office staff to the former president, said the recent seizures, including the Roberts International Airport bust and a newer case in the VOA Community, expose&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607220536.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>Eugene Nagbe, a former top official in George Weah&#8217;s government, has alleged that people in authority are colluding with drug traffickers, saying the large cocaine shipments surfacing at Liberia&#8217;s ports could not slip through undetected without inside help. Speaking Tuesday on the Okay Morning Rush in Monrovia, Nagbe, who served as chief of office staff [&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":[258,256,20138,17366,23280,12689,12518,6201,4712,1107,8536,5118,24007,257,5092,254,5979,54725,31319],"class_list":["post-239323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleges","tag-cocaine","tag-collusion","tag-disputes","tag-eugene","tag-governments","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-liberias","tag-million","tag-nagbe","tag-news","tag-official","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trade","tag-u-s-19","tag-valuation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239323","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=239323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239323\/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=239323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}