{"id":17113,"date":"2019-04-20T15:40:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T15:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17113"},"modified":"2019-04-20T15:40:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T15:40:38","slug":"how-snakes-invaded-president-weahs-office-in-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=17113","title":{"rendered":"How snakes invaded President Weah\u2019s office in Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after rodents forced President Muhhammadu Buhari to work from home,\u00a0Liberian President George Weah has suffered a similar fate and this time around the Liberian first citizen has been forced out of his office by snakes.<br \/>\nBuhari had to vacate his As Rock office for about 81 days for fumigation.<br \/>\nPresidential spokesman Garba Shehu, while confirming the development said the rodents damaged furniture and air conditioning fittings in the office forcing the President to work from home.<br \/>\nSimilarly, Weah, the 1995 FIFA world player of the year and three-time African footballer of the year is currently working from home after two snakes were found in the building where his office is located.<br \/>\nThe black snakes were seen this week briefly emerging from a hole in a wall of the reception area of the building in Monrovia, Liberia\u2019s capital.<br \/>\nDeputy press secretary Smith Toby said the President who was one of the dignitaries at this year\u2019s Africa footballer of the year award held in Senegal with Mohammed Salah emerging winner, was advised to stay away until the Foreign Affairs building is properly fumigated.<br \/>\nThe president\u2019s office has been located in Ministry of Foreign Affairs since fire gutted the presidential mansion in 2006.<br \/>\nThe deputy press secretary said his office has opened an inquiry on the matter and a fumigation process has begun to take care of \u2018crawling and creeping things.\u2019<br \/>\nIt is less than a month since the building was last closed for fumigation between March 29 and April 1.<br \/>\n\u201cThe snakes were never killed. There was a little hole somewhere; they made their way back,\u201d Mr Toby said.<br \/>\nThe Executive Protection Service was unable to kill the snakes as they vanished back through the same passage from which they first appeared, a source told FrontPageAfrica.<br \/>\nToby added: \u201cThat building has been there for years now, and because of the drainage system, the possibility of having things like snakes crawling in that building was high.<br \/>\nLiberia is home to poisonous snakes \u2013 including black mambas and cobras and officials are not taking chances in ensuring that the 51 year old President and Ballon d\u2019Or winner is not harmed in anyway.<br \/>\nWeah, who played for AC Milan, PSG, Chelsea and Manchester City in the course of his soccer career, was sworn in as Liberian president in January 2018.<br \/>\nThe President and his immediate staff are hopefully expected to return to office on Monday.<br \/>\nPresident Weah is however, not the only one to have been forced to vacate his office temporarily because of \u201cunwanted visitors\u201d.<br \/>\nBy <strong>NAN<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years after rodents forced President Muhhammadu Buhari to work from home,\u00a0Liberian President George Weah has suffered a similar fate and this time around the Liberian first citizen has been forced out of his office by snakes. Buhari had to vacate his As Rock office for about 81 days for fumigation. Presidential spokesman Garba Shehu, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":17114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}