The former Mayor of Monrovia, Jefferson T. Koijee, has maintained that he is a victim of malicious and vicious lies and propaganda, both nationally and internationally, claiming that the Boakai and Koung machinery and their surrogates spent thousands of dollars lobbying to have him sanctioned.
Koijee said while they threw lies at his name, they thought the rumors would break him up and their stories would weaken his spirit. He added that they believed that if they talked long enough, loud enough, convincingly enough, the world would turn against him, but unfortunately he is still standing, still moving, and that is what disturbs them the most.
He said, “Lies are supposed to destroy, false accusations are supposed to isolate, reputations are meant to stay damaged permanently, yet somehow none of it worked on me. They spoke with confidence but not with truth, they gathered allies but not integrity. They told their version of the story so often that even they started believing it.”
The former mayor, who was accused several times by critics of being involved in violence, human rights abuse and extrajudicial killings, noted that “the truth has a strange power, and does not need defending; it does not rush, it does not argue, truth waits”. He said while they were busy watching mouths and whispering, they were silently expecting him to react—to fight publicly, to explain himself, to beg people to understand his side—but instead he chose progress over gossip, growth over noise, results over revenge, and that decision alone changed everything. “While they were replaying the past, I was creating a future that no lie could touch,” he stated.
“They do not understand how I kept going when my name was dragged through places it never deserved to be. They do not understand how I smiled when I was misunderstood. They do not understand how I stayed focused when people were waiting for me to fall. What they fail to realize is this: I was not winning because the lies missed me; I was winning despite the opposition. Every attempt to bury me only confirmed one thing: they underestimated what I was made of.
“Unfortunately for them, God alone is the Author and Finisher of my destiny. Yesterday it was individuals who were sanctioned, today under the Boakai and Koung mission the entire country carries the weight of sanctions. They thought the rumors would break me, they thought the stories would weaken my spirit, they believed noise could replace truth. But here I stand, still moving forward, still building, still focused. I did not argue with lies, I outgrew them,” Koijee burst out.
