{"id":243675,"date":"2026-09-08T08:33:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-presidential-press-secretary-defends-boakais-justice-ministry-reassignment\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:33:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T06:33:22","slug":"liberia-presidential-press-secretary-defends-boakais-justice-ministry-reassignment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-presidential-press-secretary-defends-boakais-justice-ministry-reassignment\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Presidential Press Secretary Defends Boakai&#8217;s Justice Ministry Reassignment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Presidential Press Secretary Atty. Kula Fofana has defended President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s decision to reassign the leadership of the Ministry of Justice, saying the move falls squarely within the President&#8217;s constitutional authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Atty. Fofana said the President has the power to appoint, remove, dismiss, reassign or realign members of his administration at any point during his presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">She explained that presidential appointees serve at the will and pleasure of the President, who may&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609080075.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>Presidential Press Secretary Atty. Kula Fofana has defended President Joseph Nyuma Boakai&#8217;s decision to reassign the leadership of the Ministry of Justice, saying the move falls squarely within the President&#8217;s constitutional authority. Atty. Fofana said the President has the power to appoint, remove, dismiss, reassign or realign members of his administration at any point during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":243676,"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":[258,256,12935,7820,6852,4712,1107,6857,257,6438,6010,55376,5932,254],"class_list":["post-243675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boakais","tag-defends","tag-justice","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-ministry","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-press","tag-reassignment","tag-secretary","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\/243675","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=243675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243675\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}