What did the tough-talking former UP chairman and former Minister of Mines, Hon. Wilmot Paye, say in his Spoon FM interview last evening? Here’s a summary:
1) “Thomas Fallah and Jeremiah Koung founded NIMBO. It is a political party they are forming, and Unity Party members would be naive to think these people are interested in working with us.”
2) “These people think they are smart, but they are the people that we should actually be prosecuting because their hands were in the cookies jar. These are the very same people who were chair and co-chair on ways, means, and finance respectively. So, now, they want to come and sit on us, and then say we are smelling.”
3) “They want to replace the Unity Party. Do they think we don’t know that? They are targeting all the potential people in the Unity Party and fighting them, thinking it will give them an advantage. That strategy will not work. They will not replace the Unity Party.”
4) “With all the BM things they’re involved in, do they think the people of Liberia don’t know them? I have sensitive documents showing how they sold out some of our important mineral deposits. I intercepted the deeds they tried to transfer to other companies in the country. So they’re afraid. They wanted me out of the way so they could do whatever they wanted, but I will fight back.”
5) “Fallah is the reason some citizens died in Lofa, in 2023. What is he bringing to the table? I don’t see what he is bringing; he is the only one benefiting from us.”
6) “I can vouch for President Boakai any day, but there are people who believe that it is their time, so they have to do this. Ley baby na born yeh ley eye boy big big leh da?”
7) “The Vice President didn’t want me at the Ministry of Mines and Energy. He said I don’t support his 2029 ambition to become President; he accused me of being a Ngafuan guy.”
