{"id":51634,"date":"2024-02-06T08:12:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T08:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/senator-prince-johnson-says-boakai-should-know-better"},"modified":"2024-02-06T08:38:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T08:38:41","slug":"senator-prince-johnson-says-boakai-should-know-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/senator-prince-johnson-says-boakai-should-know-better","title":{"rendered":"Senator Prince Johnson Says \u201cBoakai Should know Better\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. <\/strong><\/span>President Joseph Boakai\u2019s list of cabinet appointees has incurred the anger of Nimba County Senator, Prince Johnson, after only one person made the cut \u2013 Cllr. Cooper W. Kruah as Minister of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Nimbians appointed so far by President Boakai, however, reflects one of the lowest figures of appointees from the 15 counties.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Johnson on Sunday took to the podium at his Christ Chapel of Faith to express his discontent, saying that he expects President Boakai to know better rather than \u201cmarginalizing partisans of the Movement of Democratic and Reconstruction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNimba County deserves five to seven ministerial positions in the Boakai\u2019s administration, but it\u2019s saddened that only one cabinet position has been awarded to us (Nimbians),\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, President Boakai\u2019s administration is cloudy and characterized by \u201cstrange people\u201d whom he said didn\u2019t labor to make Boakai president.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Johnson, meanwhile, accused the Minister of State, Sylvester Grisby, of preventing the appointments of partisans from his MDR party recommended by Vice President Jeremiah Koung.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t discredit the role played by Nimba Nimba, we should be prioritized. We need four to five ministers. If Bomi county can get three, Bassa can get four, we need five or seven,\u201d Sen. Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Johnson \u2018s MDR played a vital role in making Boakai president of Liberia last year, winning more than 70 percent of the votes in vote-rich Nimba County.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\">Liberia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. President Joseph Boakai\u2019s list of cabinet appointees has incurred the anger of Nimba County Senator, Prince Johnson, after only one person made the cut \u2013 Cllr. Cooper W. Kruah as Minister of Justice. The number of Nimbians appointed so far by President Boakai, however, reflects one of the lowest figures of appointees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":51633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-51634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-liberia","tag-liberia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Senator Prince Johnson Says \u201cBoakai Should know Better\u201d - Liberia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Joseph Boakai\u2019s list of cabinet appointees has incurred the anger of Nimba County Senator, Prince Johnson, aft ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/senator-prince-johnson-says-boakai-should-know-better\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senator Prince Johnson Says \u201cBoakai Should know Better\u201d\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Joseph Boakai\u2019s list of cabinet appointees has incurred the anger of Nimba County Senator, Prince Johnson, aft ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/senator-prince-johnson-says-boakai-should-know-better\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Liberia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-02-06T08:12:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-02-06T08:38:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2024\/02\/sm_1707196010.587165.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1152\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"864\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/senator-prince-johnson-says-boakai-should-know-better#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/senator-prince-johnson-says-boakai-should-know-better\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Senator Prince Johnson Says \u201cBoakai Should know Better\u201d\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-02-06T08:12:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-02-06T08:38:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/senator-prince-johnson-says-boakai-should-know-better\"},\"wordCount\":258,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/senator-prince-johnson-says-boakai-should-know-better#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/liberia\/sites\/37\/2024\/02\/sm_1707196010.587165.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Liberia\",\"Liberia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/senator-prince-johnson-says-boakai-should-know-better#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/senator-prince-johnson-says-boakai-should-know-better\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/senator-prince-johnson-says-boakai-should-know-better\",\"name\":\"Senator Prince Johnson Says \u201cBoakai Should know Better\u201d - 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