Bong County Needs Servant, Not King -Former VP Taylor Doubles Down on Senator Prince Moye

MONROVIA – Many pundits must have mistaken the silence of former Vice of President Jewel Howard Taylor on current political affairs of the country for an exit from politics, or tolerance for the excesses of the Unity Party administration. The Analyst Reporters reached out to her to her yesterday for a chitchat on prevailing national events, and she used the exclusive interview to also speak about political developments in her Bong County homeland, where she suspects some leaders, specifically Senate Prince Moye, are turning themselves into kings. The Analyst reports.

Former Vice President of Liberia, Jewel Howard Taylor, has picked bone with Bong County Senator Prince Moye who was reportedly crowned recently with laurels of appreciation by a number of the church leaders in the country.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with The Analyst, she said: “I don’t know where the church leaders in Bong County gathered to say they making him king of Bong County. Let them show the humanitarian work that he has done. But you must look at the title king. It is not a reflection of the majority of our people. That is the discussions that is taking place now since the few churches got together, saying they were making him king of Bong County”.

She conjectured that the organizers honored him because he “dosed something” for the church privately, “but look at his trajectory; everything that Senator Moye has built in Bong County is profits making. Everything I did over the years as Vice President and Senator was done to serve the people by providing scholarships amongst other things.

“Bong County do not need a king, but a servant that will serve the people,” the former Vice President noted. “When you are servant and not a king, you listen and serve your people.”

Responding to speculations that she has not been frequenting the county, she said “It is not true.”

According to her, she along with Margibi County Senator McGill, Bong lawmaker Mravin Cole, Flomo, normally go to Bong County almost every week providing for the people, bringing women for loan together especially, ensuring scholarships for students.

She expressed concerns about the new mindset about Bong County affairs, the mindset of kingship”              

 The former Liberian VP noted that there is a difference between CDC Bong County leadership on the one hand, and the Unity Party Bong County leadership on the other.

She said the CDC Bong leadership that included her, Hon Marvin Cole, Miama Briggs Mensah, Augustus Flomo, and others, got involved into different activities and didn’t look at themselves as leaders of Bong County.

“We made ourselves as servants,” she said. “And so, you will see that the level of work that we did was in service, whether it was scholarships, whether it was providing money for women for the village saving and loans, amongst others. We give.”

During the CDC leadership, she disclosed, she and others from Bong could “actually give to our people, and there is a different between a daughter, or a son, then you know you are serving your parents, right? “So, I think we consider ourselves in that positions that we were sons and daughters of Bong County as such everything we had, we took it home to improve the lives of our people.”

On the other end, Madam Taylor continued, “the Unity Party led leadership in Bong County, all you see is personal growth, personal development; people have universities. That is, being sponsored by government that supposed to be helping to upgrade the Bong County Technical College, the university for all in the county, is still cheaper than others, whether it is Cuttington, or the Moye University”.

“You see them building of these huge farms for themselves; you see them building huge buildings in their compounds for themselves.  You can see what somebody will say, ‘I want be king for Bong County because the traditional norms of a king is that the people will come to you and served you.

“When somebody say they want to be king of Bong County, that means more should be given. There are already opportunities in the budget to put all of the projects to go give money to it the budget, which is wrong,” she said further. “When you go and build a private university, government should not be sponsoring that private university, and that was the issue I raised in our government. I always said to president Weah, ‘our responsibility goes first to the public institutions, public hospitals, public clinics. At that point, we were talking between CB Dunbar and Phebe hospitals. I said give money to CB Dunbar because it is a public hospital.”

She recalled that during her government one sees different people going to their homes, building clinics and other things. “We give back to our communities. Everywhere president Weah went, he provided support for something that will improve the lives of the people. He didn’t ask for anything back”.

She said the difference between the CDC Bong Caucus and that of the Unity Party led government Bong Caucus is that the UP Bong leaders are striving to be kings and queens and rulers so that the people will serve them. Conversely, the CDC led government of which she was a part prioritized the sons and daughters of Bong communities by giving back to them.

Those comments by the former Vice President were in direct response to Bong County Senator Prince Moye comments at programs during which he was officially crowned and certified as the political “Godfather” of Bong County by the Prophetic Call to Ministry Like Mind Pastors. 

On March 22, 2025, at the Dominion Christian Fellowship Center in Gbarnga, the faith-based group honored Moye for his unwavering leadership and commitment to the county’s development.

Rep. Marvin Cole also Reacts

For Bong County Representative Marvin Cole who followed the developments, condemned Bong prelates who honored Moye as God Father, stating that it would connotes desecrating the pulpits to do so.

Cole also maintained that giving a religious honor to Moye undermines the integrity of pastors.

The Bong representatives said Senator Moye does not merit such a title. He warned pastors to stop such grievous acts.

Other Reactions from other Bongese

Other Bong citizen, Emmanuel Tamata and Victor Voor, also called warn pastors to stop giving people misguided honor such as the one by Senator Moye.

Tamata and Voor expressed disenchantment over the decision made by some pastors to crown Senator Prince K Moye as the Godfather of Bong County.

According to them Godfather is a sacred and religious office, and as such it should not be used lightly in so far as the honoree’s character portrays.