By Jefferson Koijee (National Secretary General, Congress for Democratic Change) There comes a time in the life of a nation when silence becomes betrayal. And once again, I refuse to stay silent in the face of intellectual dishonesty, brazen hypocrisy, and government-sanctioned mockery of our people’s suffering. Liberia’s current Information Minister, Jerolinmek Matthew Piah, has once more earned his notorious reputation not as a statesman, but as a reckless verbal loose cannon a man whose entire career is defined by what I have consistently described as verbal ejaculation.
Yes, VERBAL EJACULATION a pattern of empty, impulsive, ego-driven outbursts that leave nothing but disgrace and contradiction in their wake. Mr. Piah’s recent slander against the youth of Liberia, calling them “silly and stupid” for daring to protest peacefully, is not only offensive it is politically perverted and intellectually bankrupt.
This is the same Piah who, just a few years ago, from the safety and comfort of the United States, openly encouraged the June 7 protest against President George M. Weah. He criticized, condemned, and postured like a revolutionary. He aligned himself with every anti-Weah narrative, portraying himself as a bold voice for the voiceless. But now? Now that he sits in an air-conditioned office paid for by taxpayers who can barely afford rice, he spits on the same constitutional rights he once weaponized.
Let us be clear: Article 17 of the 1986 Constitution of Liberia does not ask Jerolinmek Piah for permission. It enshrines the inalienable right of all Liberians to assemble, protest, petition, and speak truth to power peacefully and without fear. So when Piah, who once pretended to be a freedom fighter, dares to insult our youth for exercising this very right, it is not just hypocrisy it is treachery.
This same Jerolinmek Piah, who we are told engineered a dubious immigration scheme involving his wife and another man to manipulate the U.S. residency system, now lectures struggling Liberians on patriotism? He who left Liberia and enjoyed academic luxury in America, never once joining those he urged into protest, now labels our youth “silly”? Is this not the textbook definition of a political coward and opportunist?
Let’s ask plainly:
Did Piah bring his wife or children to the June 7 protest he once praised?
Did Boakai bring Katumu, Jojo, or Tantan to protest?
No. But they expect ordinary Liberians to suffer, to march, to die while their families live comfortably abroad and feast on the spoils of state capture.
Today, Piah stands as the shameless mouthpiece of a regime that has brought unprecedented hardship, institutional decay, and unbearable corruption. Boakai and Koung, through their incompetence and deceit, have turned hope into hunger, change into chaos, and governance into gangsterism. Public institutions are collapsing. Hospitals are empty. Civil servants are unpaid. And while the people starve, their cronies shop abroad, build villas, and lecture us about democracy.
And what does Piah do? He ejaculates words. Pointless, arrogant, divisive words. Words without thought. Words without integrity. He is not a man of conviction he is a product of political masturbation, expelling phrases into the public without reflection or responsibility. This is why I have long said and now stand fully vindicated—Jerolinmek Piah is the embodiment of VERBAL EJACULATION.
To the Liberian people:
Do not be distracted by these rhetorical tantrums. Do not let the wolves of this regime wear sheep’s clothing. And never forget those who called for protest yesterday cannot condemn you for demanding justice today. Your rights are not subject to Jerolinmek’s mood swings or Boakai’s memory lapses.
And to Mr. Piah, consider this your final reminder:
Governments that mock, insult, and trample their citizens into silence are swept away not by guns, but by history. And history, Mr. Minister, is not kind to men who mistake a microphone for a moral compass.
Liberians will not be silenced. We will not be mocked. And we will not be fooled by men whose mouths move faster than their minds.
