{"id":97381,"date":"2015-03-07T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=97381"},"modified":"2015-03-07T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T14:10:00","slug":"sierra-leones-ruling-party-expels-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=97381","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Leone&#8217;s ruling party expels Vice President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sierra Leone&#8217;s Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana has been expelled from the ruling party, the national broadcaster reported late Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement came as Sam-Sumana was one week into a self-imposed 3-week quarantine, following the death of one of his body guards of Ebola.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The broadcaster reported that according to the Constitution Sumana remains vice president of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sierra Leone Broadcasting Corporation made the announcement late Friday after a meeting of the National Advisory Council of the ruling party, the All Peoples Congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the broadcast news item, Sam-Sumana was expelled for several reasons including allegations that he presented a fake Master&#8217;s degree certificate and that he was involved in the formation of a new political party.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sam-Sumana did not immediately respond to his expulsion from the party or the allegations against him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: nytimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone&#8217;s Vice President Samuel Sam-Sumana has been expelled from the ruling party, the national broadcaster reported late Friday. The announcement came as Sam-Sumana was one week into a self-imposed 3-week quarantine, following the death of one of his body guards of Ebola. The broadcaster reported that according to the Constitution Sumana remains vice president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":97382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[38,14],"class_list":["post-97381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=97381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/97382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=97381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=97381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=97381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}