{"id":241838,"date":"2026-08-22T19:56:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-kemayah-committees-legality-questioned\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T19:56:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T17:56:54","slug":"liberia-kemayah-committees-legality-questioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-kemayah-committees-legality-questioned\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Kemayah Committee&#8217;s Legality Questioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">The prosecution has opened its case in the high-profile Saudi humanitarian rice diversion trial before Criminal Court &#8220;C,&#8221; with the State&#8217;s first witness alleging that former Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah Sr. created an unauthorized inter-ministerial committee to investigate the disappearance of donated rice and subsequently facilitated the removal of the remaining consignment from its lawful custodian.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"45\">John Kumeh, an investigator assigned to the Anti-Theft Squad of the Liberia&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608210332.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>The prosecution has opened its case in the high-profile Saudi humanitarian rice diversion trial before Criminal Court &#8220;C,&#8221; with the State&#8217;s first witness alleging that former Foreign Minister Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah Sr. created an unauthorized inter-ministerial committee to investigate the disappearance of donated rice and subsequently facilitated the removal of the remaining consignment from its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":241839,"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":[258,256,7952,32083,16188,4712,1107,257,18788,254],"class_list":["post-241838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-committees","tag-kemayah","tag-legality","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-questioned","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/241838","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=241838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}