Integrity or Opportunism?  -Koijee Reviews Dillon’s Record, Questions His Moral Authority

MONROVIA – Former Monrovia City Mayor and Secretary General of the immediate past ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), Jefferson Tamba Koijee, has released an extensive and forceful political critique targeting Montserrado County Senator Abraham Darius Dillon, questioning his moral authority, political consistency, and record in public life. In the article, titled “A Critique of Dillon’s Morality Card,” Koijee revisits key moments in Liberia’s recent political history, governance controversies, and current policy debates, arguing that the senator’s public claims of integrity and reform do not align with his past actions or present alliances. Koijee further situates his critique within broader national concerns about accountability, corruption, budget credibility, and leadership responsibility, while also addressing issues of political opportunism, institutional failure, and what he describes as selective advocacy in national governance. The commentary forms part of Koijee’s ongoing political engagement following the 2023 transition of power and reflects continuing tensions within Liberia’s evolving political landscape. See BELOW full text of Koijee’s article.

A Critique of Dillion’s Morality Card

By: Jefferson Tamba Koijee

It is both entertaining, and revulsive, to watch the likes of Abraham Darius Dillon, a man with the morals of a snake, attempt to cast himself as anything other than who he truly is, a soulless opportunist. 

Dillon’s character is best understood through the lens of Aesop’s fable “The Farmer and the Viper,” in which a rescued snake repays its benefactor with a fatal bite, an enduring lesson that a malicious and corrupt nature cannot be reformed.

Blinded by their hatred for Weah and the CDC, some of our people voted for Dillon a known con artist as Senator of Montserrado County. Today, Dillon has not merely abandoned every syllable he once uttered about transparency and accountability; he is actively colluding with the government of the octogenarian president to pollute the governance system, and line his never-filling, filthy pockets.

Hence, our resolve to critique this dangerous political creature.

Senator Abraham Darius Dillon’s record of political opportunism, dishonesty and downright hate for the people of Nimba is well documented in recent Liberian history, dating back to November 28, 1997, when Samuel Saye Dokie and family were arrested and brutally murdered on the Ganta highway. When this state-sanctioned murder occurred, and the entire nation was mourning, Dillon, then serving as Special Assistant to Taylor’s Solicitor General, Cllr. TC Gould, heartlessly exonerated the Taylor regime. He publicly claimed at the time that Taylor’s government had nothing to do with the murder of Samuel Saye Dokie and family. Instead of confronting the grim reality then, Dillon’s voice became part of the chorus working to calm public outrage. Imagine!

In fact, as Special Assistant to Cllr. T.C. Gould, Dillon wielded so much influence, that on one occasion, he struck and killed a young school girl while driving under the influence of alcohol, yet the case went nowhere.

Actually, it would be an understatement to describe Dillon as a living contradiction.  During the election campaign that catapulted him into the Senate, some repentant con artists cast him as a light,a mantra he eagerly embraced. Unfortunately, he has never lived by it.

Dillon is a man with a checkered history. His problem is not that he has a checkered past, many people do, but that he assumes Liberians will not look too closely. Yet how can we not? He was dismissed for stealing at B.W. Harris Elementary and Junior High School; falsified his high school diploma, and brazenly lied about his plane ticket as a senator. These are not trivial matters to be waved away as we deep dive this notorious rascal. 

If transparency and integrity matter at all, then scrutiny is NOT optional, it is necessary. That’s why Dillon is being critiqued. Dillon is the most debased member of the gang of thieves that now pillaging our country. Even a chameleon would fail against Dillon when it comes to changing colors and blending in opportunistically.

Dillon’s public positions tend to shift based on where the political winds blow. When standing with power serves him, he stands firmly. When criticizing that same power becomes popular, he reinvents himself as its most outspoken enemy. This kind of flexibility isn’t integrity; it is convenience masquerading as principle.

The Dokie case is not an isolated example of Dillon’s sick opportunism of bending the knee to power.  We saw and heard him during the Sirleaf administration when he announced that corruption was “wearing a coat suit and tie and walking Broad Street.” Yet the moment he entered into a cozy and compromising relationship with Rob Sirleaf, that righteous rhetoric vanished.

During the Weah administration, Dillon postured as a crusader against incompetence. He opposed Zoely Zoe’s confirmation, claiming the nominee had lied under oath. But to the utter dismay of our people, the same Dillon, in recent times, went on to confirm Fatima Bintu Sirleaf as Deputy Minister for Urban Affairs, a woman who shamelessly lied under oath by providing false academic information during her confirmation hearing, without blinking.

Worse still, Dillon is now actively promoting incompetence across the government of aging and makeup-wearing President Boakai. He has been instrumental in the appointment of unqualified individuals and stooges who collect public money only to funnel kickbacks back to him. The most glaring evidence of this sinking corruption is the appointment of his camera boy, Emmanuel Wreh Farr as Deputy Minister for Administration at the National Fire Service. This clown has zero competence for the role, yet he parades around in Fire Service uniform, staging photo-ops as if theatrics could substitute for merit.

For anyone paying attention, it is NOT difficult to see the cracks in Dillon’s performance.  This critique is intended solely to remind patriots of the inherently dubious character traits that define Dillon.

His lofty claims of integrity, accountability, and competence ring hollow. Under the watch of his camera boy, hundreds of homes have been reduced to ashes, with an alarming rise in preventable deaths across Montserrado County alone. These tragedies are not acts of fate; they are the direct consequences of negligence, incompetence, and political patronage.

Below are some of the established facts:

1. Caldwell Back Road residential fire-https://liberianinvestigator.com/update/six-killed-caldwell-back-road-house-fire-monrovia/ Liberian Investigator

2. New Matadi fire with four child fatalities — https://hotpepperliberia.com/devastating-fire-in-new-matadi-kills-four-children/ Hot Pepper Liberia

3. Jacob Town apartment fire — https://liberianinvestigator.com/news/jacob-town-fire-kills-woman-two-kids/ Liberian Investigator

4. River Gee County blaze — https://allafrica.com/stories/202507310269.html allAfrica.com

5. Paynesville orphanage fire — https://www.newrepublicliberia.com/liberian-news-tragic-fire-incident-leaves-two-disabled-orphans-dead/ New Republic Liberia

6. LNFS 2025 death confirmation — https://inprofiledailynews.com/lnfs-confirms-21-deaths-to-fire-related-incidents/

7. House fire on Caldwell Back Road (Oct 9, 2025)  – Six people killed (including two children) when a residential blaze consumed a home. Liberian Investigator

8. Jacob Town fire in Monrovia (Sept 25, 2025) One woman and her two children died in a blaze, total 3 deaths. Liberian Investigator

9. Fire in New Matadi community (May 8, 2025) Four children died when firefighters were blocked from timely access. Hot Pepper Liberia

10. Fire in River Gee County (July 26, 2025) Two people killed, three injured after a fire/explosion at a home in Tienpo Statutory District. allAfrica.com

11. Orphanage fire in Paynesville (March 13, 2025) Two disabled orphans died in a fire at a safe home. New Republic Liberia

In the midst of this ongoing national emergency, Dillon chooses to look away, content to collect corrupt money from his camera boy, Emmanuel Farr, while the country struggles to protect millions of Liberians from preventable fire disasters. Communities continue to suffer devastating losses from fires, and other crises, yet the very leaders who should be demanding accountability are instead collecting corrupt proceeds and settling for empty commentaries rather than acting.

Silence and delay are costly when decisive intervention is required. This reality is evident in Dillon’s continued pampering of his stooge at the National Fire Service.

Instead of advancing practical solutions and putting money where his mouth is, Dillon often hides behind silly arguments. For all intents and purposes, Liberia needs leadership grounded in responsibility, leaders unafraid to take decisive action in time of crisis and to confront failure head-on, not trash-talkers. In short, Liberia deserves better than a useless character like Dillon.

It is a painful reality that Dillon is unconcerned about the failure and challenges confronting the government, as he takes his tainted offering plate across the ministries and agencies, collecting corrupt proceeds from his stooges embedded within them.

After, having conned the country during his Senate campaign with the promised that he would not collect a salary exceeding $5000.00, Dillon has once more return to his familiar talking point of salary reduction or pay cut. This time around, he touting salary cuts – while benefiting from illicit gains flowing from across government institutions through his network of stooges. Ironically, Dillon appears to be milking the country more aggressively than sleepy Papay Joe.

For example, beyond the incompetence of Emmanuel Farr at the National Fire Service, Dillon openly boasts of having his sister-in-Law installed as head of the Ministry of Education. At the Ministry of Justice, the current Head, an avowed Liberty Party partisan and staunch Brunskine loyalists, also functions as one of Dillon’s trusted stooges. At the LPRC, Jacob Julius Smith plays a similar role.

Truly, Dillon has succeeded in positioning key loyalists across government institutions, embedding them in strategic posts where kickbacks are funnelled back to him. Against this backdrop, his loud and lousy posturing about taking a salary cut is nothing more than empty performance. These illicit arrangements operate alongside, and in addition to,Dillon’s continued fingering and/or manipulating the National Budget.

Dillion’s Silence over the Draft 2026 Budget:

 Dillon’s complete silence on the Draft 2026 Budget is not merely inexcusable; it is compelling evidence of complicity.  At a time when Liberia faces serious fiscal challenges, Dillon chose to say nothing while a budget riddled with questionable assumptions and unnecessary costs sailed through the approval process. His inaction sends a clear and troubling message: political convenience matters more to him than accountability, transparency, or the interests of ordinary Liberians.

At the risk of digressing into a policy-related discussion regarding the budget. It is interesting to note that the National Budget is riddled with red flags. It relies heavily on one-off revenues, like the US$200 million signature bonus from ArcelorMittal, instead of stable domestic resources. Meanwhile, lawmakers’ allocations were increased, recurrent spending dominates, and administrative lines such as the Ministry of State and Presidential Affairs receive excessive funds for travel, allowances, and media, while social services are almost ignored. These are not minor oversights,they are deliberate misalignments that prioritize political comfort over the real needs of the people.

The budget increased the Legislature’s funding from around US$41 million in 2025 to US$51.7 million in 2026 despite no clear justification for such a leap, Dillon does not talk. Ministry of State and Presidential Affairs is given US$15.1 million for travel, allowances and media coverage while US$16,000 is allocated to social development fund, yet Dillon talks nothing.

Given the foregoing evidence, Dillon, the so-called light remains uncharacteristically silent. Yet, even in his silence on matter of national importance, Dillon is unrelenting in advancing his long-standing hate for the people of Nimba.

Having casually dismissed the bloody murder of Samuel Saye Dokie, a strong revolutionary, as though he was an inconsequential dog, coupled with his complicity in the sad passing of Senator Prince Y. Johnson, a revered son and hero of Nimba, Dillon has now turned his attention toward another target. This time, he is waging a fresh campaign against another respected Nimba son, eminent lawyer and current Minister of Labour, Cllr. Cooper Kruah, Sr.,

Imagine, this clown yapping about the lack of jobs, while actively fingering and compromising the very national budget meant to serve our people.  Now he’s blaming and scapegoating Cllr. Cooper Kruah, even as he is woefully failing at his own job in the Senate. This hypocrisy is revulsive. Aye mehn, Dillon!

Honestly, my effort to catalog the hideous nature of Dillon is not merely rhetorical. It is civic responsibility intended to warn our people against repeating a costly mistake and to remind them of a timeless truth: Kindness shown to evil often ends in betrayal.

Everybody honest will admit that Dillon lacked the financial capacity then to have mounted a viable campaign for the senatorial seat in Montserrado County. The clown couldn’t afford to buy himself a bottle of beer. He picked the pockets of Musa Bility, and poor motor bike riders as well as rode on the sympathy our people to go to the Senate,to speak for them. Elected on the promise to represent the people, to expose corruption in the senate, Dillon has instead chosen to pursue personal interest, leaving the people of Montserrado unrepresented. His betrayal is clear. He must be rinsed!

As for the people of Nimba who are repelled and/or appalled by Dillon’s hatred and sick obsession with Nimbaians, this is your called as well. Help flush this conman to where he belongs.  Imagine this clown dismissing the death of Dokie, mocking Prince Johnson, repeatedly threatening him with a War Crimes Court, and now he’s turning his back on Cllr. Cooper kruah. Will you be passive in the face of this madness, or will you act?

Why are you, Dillion conspicuously silent on the advocacy of the war crimes court today?  This only proves that your advocacy was a mere targeting to eliminate Prince Johnson and to give the people of Nimba payback for supporting your 2023 campaigns for JNB presidency. In fact, was Prince Johnson the only warlord in the Liberian senate? Is there no warlord who exists in the governance system of our state? This, I can tell, only speaks to your bitter hate toward the people of Nimba.

Dillon, we will pay you no mind because you will struggle to present a shred of evidence to exonerate your millionaire slave master guided by the aphorism that “monkey can never leave his black hand behind.” 

For us, we will continue to work with our people, especially the young people who are willing, ready and able, to sharpen the contradictions, purge the Senate of pretentious idiots and crooks, and make our country a better place for all.

 In union strong success is sure.  We cannot fail! With God above, our rights to prove. We will o’er all prevail.