{"id":5661,"date":"2018-09-14T08:10:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-14T05:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=5661"},"modified":"2018-09-14T08:10:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T05:10:38","slug":"minister-jailed-for-abusing-lawmakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/14\/minister-jailed-for-abusing-lawmakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister Jailed For Abusing Lawmakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-reactid=\".1hsl3b87pc0.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1:$post-5b9a900c251de8065d164bf9.0.3.0.0:$post_0\">Liberia&#8217;s lower house of parliament, the House of Representatives, has used its powers to send a government minister to jail for two nights.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1hsl3b87pc0.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1:$post-5b9a900c251de8065d164bf9.0.3.0.0:$post_1\">Deputy Information Minister Eugene Fahngon was censured over misconduct after he was involved in a scuffle and then rained insults down onto two lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1hsl3b87pc0.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1:$post-5b9a900c251de8065d164bf9.0.3.0.0:$post_2\">Tough-talking Mr Fahngon was handcuffed and taken to the Monrovia Central Prison where he spent his first night on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1hsl3b87pc0.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1:$post-5b9a900c251de8065d164bf9.0.3.0.0:$post_3\">The deputy minister had reportedly refused to honour an invitation from the House to explain the incident.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1hsl3b87pc0.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1:$post-5b9a900c251de8065d164bf9.0.3.0.0:$post_4\">The recording of the minister\u2019s vulgar language against the two legislators has been played and replayed on local radio stations here.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1hsl3b87pc0.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1:$post-5b9a900c251de8065d164bf9.0.3.0.0:$post_5\">The decision to jail him was reached after hours of deliberation in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1hsl3b87pc0.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1:$post-5b9a900c251de8065d164bf9.0.3.0.0:$post_6\">President George Weah will now have to decide whether the minister remains in government.<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1hsl3b87pc0.4.0.0.1.0.$lx-commentary.$lx-commentary.2.0.1.1:$post-5b9a900c251de8065d164bf9.0.3.0.0:$post_6\"><em><strong>BBC Africa<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberia&#8217;s lower house of parliament, the House of Representatives, has used its powers to send a government minister to jail for two nights. Deputy Information Minister Eugene Fahngon was censured over misconduct after he was involved in a scuffle and then rained insults down onto two lawmakers. Tough-talking Mr Fahngon was handcuffed and taken to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":5664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5661\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}