‘I Owe No Road Fund’ -Bility Replies Accusers, Vows to Be on Presidential Ticket

MONROVIA – Though 2029 may still be far, the reigning political establishment still in its puberty, and 2023 losers still adjusting, its appears politics and all its shenanigans are already in their ferocity. Political prophets who predict that the next general and presidential elections would be politically deadly are being proven right, with plots and counterplots afoot, including decapitation apparently meant to weaken or annihilate before the real fight begins. Same is with one of the newest political parties, Citizens Movement for Change (CMC), enduring one vicious attack after another, and concurrently unleashing rebukes after another. In a public interview Wednesday, September 3, 2025, the party’s Chairperson Musa Bility took on accusers, including those alleging that the party is webbed in a huge National Road Fund debts, angrily labelling one of them, LBS Director Eugene Fahngon, as a Buffoon. The Analyst reports.       

Nimba County District #7 representative Musa Hasan Bility has been defending his records against “political opponents” linking him to road fund indebtedness, stating his records are clear and speak for themselves.

Bility, who is also the political leader of the fledgling Citizens Movement for Change (CMC), appeared on a local radio Truth FM yesterday, September 3, 2025, at which time he spoke on a several national issues, including accusations that he owed road fund.

One key official of the ruling establishment who has often run with the road fund allegations against Bility is Liberia Broadcasting System Director General Eugene Fahngon.

Asked to respond to the allegation, Bility took a particularly crude aim at the accuser: “Eugene Fahngon is a buffoon. He is an empty-skull person. Education is important; if you don’t have it, that’s what can happen. I don’t owe Road Fund.”

Bility said the LRA management of had written him that its records had shown the CMC leader owes government road fund.

“And I replied the Commissioner General Dorbor Jallah. I said, Hon. Commissioner, contrary to the noise around, I don’t owe. Here are the receipts,” Bility said, indicating that commissioner acknowledged receipt of the receipts, but indicated that the LRA would make sure that they are not fake receipts, and that the monies were paid to Central Bank”.

After three months, Bility further told the inquisitive journalist, the LRA Commissioner wrote him back and said, “Yes, I have verified all the receipts and there are payments, but there is a difference which was not covered in the receipts”.

The CMC leader said based upon the LRA’s concern, he notified them about reason there was a difference, and that is “because it is not my company’s responsibility”.

He continued: “Here are the documents to prove that this amount was not my obligation. I run a warehouse and those other companies that put products theirs in. The guys at LRA then were been political; they took everything and put it on me. So I gave him that information and gave him the evidence, and I am waiting for him to come back.”

Bility said the Unity Party knows that he does not owe road fund.

“Who is the most vocal politician today? Who is calling this government corrupt? Who is calling this government that there is stealing inside,” he further said. “I was denigrated, defamed, stereotyped for six years about Unity Party. It is 20 months since they took office; have they charged me for any crime? Have they even accused me? The Liberian people will see through these things.”

CMC as Fallback of the CDC?

Responding to questions if his CMC was a discrete tributary of the former ruling Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC), Bility said a big ‘no’, declaring that the party will feature a presidential candidate in 2029.

CMC will have a candidate in the 2029 elections for the presidency, he said. “I, Musa Hassan Billity, will vie for that presidential seat through the process that the party will lay down.”

He averred that if the party picks him a standard bearer, nothing absolutely would stop him from been on the presidential.

“No anybody can be a better president than me. The only thing that can stop me is if they go to CMC and pray so that it does not make me its standard bearer. CMC makes me their standard bearer, I will run for president.:

Billy further said: “By 2029, I will be 60. If you see people turn 70-80 years, politics is the most stressful thing in life. If you see anybody inside politics above 75 years, you did do much when you were younger. What will you be looking for after 75 years, let’s think about it. I who have grandchildren and great grandchildren, do you know how it feels in the morning to sit on your farm way up the hilltop and look at your farm and see your achievement at what time in your life you going to sit back drink coffee in the morning and stay home until the sun rises. I will run for the presidency. Nothing will stop me from running.”

Running Mate

Bility’s interviewer was curious to know who may be his running mate should he is chosen to be the standard bearer of his party.

He said: “Our running will come from anywhere. I met the Southeast people yesterday. We have our running mate from the Southeast. Some politicians don’t analyze. For every citizen in the southeast, there is a multiplication of at least four outside of the southeast that is from there. The number of Grand Kru citizens that live in Clara Town and New Kru Town are three times more the Grand Kru citizens that live in Grand Kru, and Sinoe as well.

“We will look for our running mate where we find it fate. We will break the chain. I will go the Southeast in December. I will institute five major projects, especially a bridge in every county. We will electrify all the roads; all towns and villages with solar lights, and we believe the people of Southeast will respond positively.”

CMC Founding Idea

Bility also was asked to reflect on how the founding idea of the CMC came about. To this, he said, after he entered the Legislature and realized that the Legislature was the cause of Liberia’s intractable nemeses, he set up to also see if he could use his influence to give Liberians an alternative after 20 years of two parties.

He said Liberians deserve something else, something new—a new political party and political direction.

“The people deserve another organization, another formal politics,” he said. “The Liberian people have been told too many stories, too many promises without deliverables. We valued the Liberian people.”

Undertaking Projects far from Elections Day

Asked why he couldn’t wait close to election time before undertaking major development projects, the CMC leader said Liberians deserve better than to be viewed in light of how most politicians if not all treat the people.

“At the CMC, that is not how we view the Liberian people,” he said. “If you don’t trust yourself, that’s the time you will wait for elections before putting into practice what you would do when elected.”

He said there are two reasons why some politicians wait for the 11^th hour to engage in serious political works: they have stolen money from the people, and they don’t want to show their wealth and how they got it.

He quipped: “Where is their source of money? Most of the politicians normally declare their assets but the public can’t see them. Whenever you declare assets, is not just about declaring; it is also about showing to the people how you get it and from where.”

He said the Liberian government doesn’t care about performance report. “Have you seen the audit report at the legislature? They spent over USD$300 Million in 6 to 7 years including this 55^th legislature; not a single audit has been conducted. How do you govern like that? For me, every dime I receive from the legislature, if you go online and check my report, you will see it. It is clear.

“Who do we hold responsible for armed robbery? The police? Who do we hold responsible for drugs business? The LDEA? Who do hold responsible for bad governance? The body that is held responsible by the constitution to check everybody is the legislature. The constitution gives the power of oversight to the legislature.”

Bility emphasized that most people go to the legislature with the mentality to live the same live the rest of lawmakers are living at the legislature, adding, “That’s why they killing our country.  I go there to work every day. I sought out to be a lawmaker when I read the power of the legislature and I said I going there to use the power to bring accountability to the country.”

He said by next week, he would introduce some proposals, hoping the House would pass them so “we can have a referendum to reduce the tenure of the president. We think that the president should be for 4 years, the representative 4years, and the Senator 6years.”