The Representative of Nimba County’s district #7, Musa Hassan Bility, has observed that he has not come this far in politics and leadership to compromise his integrity, bend to power, serve ego and make peace with corruption; instead, he has come to disrupt it.
Representative Bility’s statement is being attributed to the recent struggle for political supremacy at the House of Representatives after Cllr. Fonati Koffa’s resignation from the Speakership and the subsequent election of Representative Richard Koon as his successor. It is being rumored that the Koon leadership had approached Bility to compromise his stance against the former “majority block” in order to be reward a chairmanship of one of the standing committees of the House.
However, it appears like Bility remains resolute on his position and does not intend to trade in.
Bility noted that he knows what it means to fight for space, for voice, for justice in a system that rewards silence, and yet he choses to speak and act, and not to fold into the convenience of mediocrity.
According to him, politics in Liberia demands surrender; it demands one bends to power, serves ego, and makes peace with corruption; however, he did not come this far to trade his soul for a seat. “I did not enter this arena to be celebrated by the status quo; I came to disrupt it,” he wrote.
He stated that the easiest thing in this country is to fit in—”to say what they want to hear, to smile when you’re being used, to dance for favors and beg for relevance”, but as for him he did not come this far to dance—he has come to lead.
“To the young people who are watching: do not be fooled. Success in Liberia is not measured by how close you are to power, but how committed you are to purpose. To the elders who still hold wisdom: speak, before your silence becomes complicity. And to those who think I will eventually yield: know this—I would rather stand alone with truth than be crowned by compromise,” Representative Bility urged.
