MONROVIA – Representative Musa Hassan Bility has taken his fight against drug trafficking directly to President Joseph Boakai, in deeply personal terms. The Nimba County lawmaker and Citizens Movement for Change leader has published an open letter revealing that his own son is imprisoned on drug-related charges. Bility frames the crisis as a national emergency, not a partisan attack. He acknowledges Liberia’s political differences but insists this issue transcends them. His central demand: an independent, fearless investigation into officials allegedly protecting drug trafficking networks. He warns that history will judge how Boakai responds. As THE ANALYST reports, the letter arrives as Liberia’s drug crisis draws growing legislative and civil society attention.
Representative Musa Hassan Bility, Political Leader of the Citizens Movement for Change (CMC) and Representative for District No. 7, Nimba County, has published an open letter to President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, appealing for urgent and decisive government action against drug trafficking in Liberia.
The letter is unusually personal: Bility discloses that his own son is currently imprisoned on drug-related charges, and frames his appeal as coming not only from a lawmaker but from a father whose family has been directly affected by the crisis he is describing.
In the letter, Bility writes that his son is in jail today because he was caught in possession of drugs, and that as painful as it is, he accepts that his son must face the consequences of his actions. He expresses hope that the experience may give his son the opportunity to recover and rebuild his life.
But Bility stresses that his son is not alone, noting that across Liberia, thousands of children have lost their way because of drugs — some imprisoned, some on the streets, and some in homes where families are suffering quietly.
A Father’s Personal Account
Bility recounts that he sent his son overseas to be educated, and that his son returned home with a future ahead of him and went on to have two children of his own. He writes that he has not seen his son in over two years, and that his son’s life has been deeply damaged.
While acknowledging that his son must face the consequences of his own actions, Bility argues that the bigger truth cannot be ignored: had it not been for those who bring drugs into the country and sell them to children, many of these young people would still have a chance at a future.
Bility Says Crisis Transcends Politics
Bility states in the letter that he believes President Boakai, as an individual, would never knowingly sanction the distribution of drugs in Liberia. However, he argues that authority has been delegated throughout the government, and that where that authority is allegedly abused — where people in high places use their positions to protect drug importation, trafficking, and peddling — the responsibility cannot be ignored. He writes that the President may not be personally involved, but as President, cannot escape the duty to act.
Bility describes the drug crisis as no longer simply a law enforcement issue, but a national emergency that is destroying families, weakening communities, and endangering the future of the Liberian state.
He acknowledges that some may criticize him for speaking out given his son’s situation, but says that is precisely why he must speak — as a father, for his son, and for the thousands of Liberian families suffering in silence. He notes that despite political differences with the administration, this matter is bigger than politics and concerns the survival of the country.
Bility Calls for Independent Investigation
In his appeal, Bility urges President Boakai to take action and not allow position, friendship, power, or influence to protect anyone involved in harming Liberia’s children. He calls for a serious, independent, and fearless investigation, and for those found responsible to be exposed and prosecuted regardless of who they are.
He warns that if the government fails to act decisively, history will remember it, and that the crisis will define the administration for years to come. Conversely, he states that if the President acts with courage, the Liberian people will know that in a moment of national danger, their leader rose to the occasion.
Bility closes the letter with a direct appeal for the President to be bold and courageous in addressing the crisis, for the sake of his own son, the thousands of Liberian children already affected by drugs, and those who may still be saved.