{"id":247073,"date":"2026-10-14T00:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-41-lawmakers-demand-koon-fallahs-removal\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T00:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:00:10","slug":"liberia-41-lawmakers-demand-koon-fallahs-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/liberia-41-lawmakers-demand-koon-fallahs-removal\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: 41 Lawmakers Demand Koon, Fallah&#8217;s Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">&#8212; The 55th National Legislature has resumed its third and final quarter amid renewed tensions in the House of Representatives, where 41 lawmakers are demanding the removal of Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon and Deputy Speaker Thomas P. Fallah over allegations of financial misconduct and administrative irregularities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The dispute threatens to disrupt legislative proceedings at a critical period when lawmakers are expected to scrutinize and pass the proposed 2027 National Budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The Legislature&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610130593.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>&#8212; The 55th National Legislature has resumed its third and final quarter amid renewed tensions in the House of Representatives, where 41 lawmakers are demanding the removal of Speaker Richard Nagbe Koon and Deputy Speaker Thomas P. Fallah over allegations of financial misconduct and administrative irregularities. The dispute threatens to disrupt legislative proceedings at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":247074,"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":[258,256,7617,35420,47653,14377,4712,1107,257,9598,254],"class_list":["post-247073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-demand","tag-fallahs","tag-koon","tag-lawmakers","tag-liberia","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-removal","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\/247073","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=247073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}