17/11/2025
Abraham Godsent Wheon, fight back at LBS Director Eugene Fahngon, he writes;
Reasons behind your anger directed at me.
I understand the reasons behind this whole fight and the anger directed toward me, Abraham Godsent Wheon. Your issue is not really about what I say about JNB because deep down, you know the things I say about him, and his governance styles are based on facts. Many of you have said the same things in the past, but now that he has satisfied you or rescued you from the very poverty he once experienced, you pretend to be angry with me today. Your anger and ranting are rooted in the fear of potentially losing salaries and jobs in 2029 because my voice against JNB and your misrule may contribute to Liberians deciding otherwise at the polls.
The difference between you and me is this: I am not in this for myself, my family, Former President George Weah, or the CDC, as many of you assume. I have consistently made painstaking decisions to resist every temptation to accept a government job, even though it is not a crime to do so.
In 2014, when I transitioned from sports commentary to political commentary through political endorsements, the same UP supporters accused me of seeking a government job. I understood their assumptions because Truth FM holds the record as the only post-war media entity that produced the highest number of public officials from the media environment, when people like Ambrose Nmah, Patrick Honah, Christopher Sirlee, Smith Toby, So, among others, all received presidential appointments. And for this, I applauded the UP government.
In 2017, these same UP supporters attacked me when I spearheaded the Liberty Party media campaign and later supported the CDC for regime change. Patrick Honah, then Deputy Director at LBS, even claimed on local radio that I was only doing so to take his job. He was wrong. During the entire six years of CDCโs leadership, I resisted every temptation to accept an appointment, including a Deputy Director General role at LBS, offered when Jallah Grayfield and I were recommended by Nathaniel McGill and Ledgerhood Rennie. Jallah accepted; I declined and chose to remain in the private sector, leaving Truth FM in 2021 and joining Freedom FM.
In fact, the current LBS Director General, Eugene Fagon, then Deputy Minister of Information, once joked, โYou are the first Bassa man to leave a $4,000 job for a $500 job.โ
Yet, through all these choices, God blessed me. Even without a government job, my modest salary and occasional support enabled me to build my dream house, earn three degrees, own and drive my low-level luxurious vehicles, and ensure my family is well.
The puzzling part of your behavior is glaring: you insult President Weah, a man I love and support wholeheartedly, and say all sorts of degrading things about him. Yet, I do not silence you or attack you. But when I speak the truth about JNB, you abuse me and sever relationships. As I have said, you do not truly love JNB. You know he is not fit. You know I am speaking facts that could help redeem this country. But selfishness and greed have blinded you to these truths that could save Liberia.
Finally, I am not in this for myself, my family, Weah, or the CDC. I am in this for Liberia. As long as this country exists, as long as I am alive, and as long as JNB remains in power, I will not stop speaking out. Your unpatriotic desire to place personal interest above national interest will continue to be resisted.
So help me God.
โWe are getting there.โ
