Monrovia, Jan. 20 -- Intense, high-level deliberations are underway at the Executive Mansion as President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr. weighs whether to veto-again-the re-enacted Liberia Sea and Inland Ports Regulatory Act, exposing a sharp divide within his inner circle and placing the administration in a state of political and legal ambivalence.

FrontPage Africa has reliably learned that senior officials are split over the fate of the legislation, which the President earlier vetoed over what he described as serious legal, constitutional, and regulatory deficiencies. Lawmakers subsequently re-enacted the bill and forwarded it to the President for assent, setting the stage for a renewed confrontation between the Executive and the Legislature...