Important Letter: Kesselly Debunks Massaley's Attack On Him

Massaley,

 

Greetings to you from the great southern City of Atlanta, Georgia, where I am relaxing this morning and preparing to return to Philly later on. By the way my trip here was by far more successful and enjoyable than I had ever imagined. I hope your trip to the Neo-Pro meeting and the nearby Liberian Environmental Watch retreat in Maryland was the same.

 

Let me thank you for mustering the courage to use your own name in this instance instead of one of your multiple fake names, Fred Bropleh, Eric Sherman, J.K Ballah, Sackie Whitfield, etc. I however think your statement is a sign that you actually have not found your bearing in this campaign. One does not have to look far to observe that you are struggling to find resonance and as such you are allowing yourself to fall back on high school student politics. I will largely allow your statement to stand on its own merits--if ever it has one.  I don’t think it qualifies for public rebuttal for I know it is self-rebutting. Your waterloo will continue to be your misconception that the ULAA electorates are mentally at the level of your high school colleagues who were so unsuspecting that they were essential gullible to your cheapest of tricks. Sadly, you will find out how wrong you are.

 

ULAA voters will want to be told where was this "vociferous critic of Kesselly" when all through Kesselly two terms as Chairman of the ULAA Board he never uttered a word against the corruption that Kesselly presided over.

 

They will want to know what happened to Mr. Massaley's mental state when at the 2006 ULAA Assembly he, Massaley, ecstatically received an award from the hands of the same Board Chairman Kesselly and in turn praised the ULAA leaders for the wonderful job they were doing in the interest of the Liberian community.

 

The ULAA Family will also want to know what kind of heartless story teller is Abraham Massaley for him to come here ignorantly and be brave enough not to recognize all these quarterly fiscal performance reports that the Watson Administration (through able and competent Treasurer Delores Adigibhe) and those same reports in the Wettee Administration (from young and seasoned financial expert Emmanuel Togba) presented.

 

People will want to know why every statement that comes from Massaley is so filled with hate, falsehood, and bitterness to the point that it always tries to hide the truth. Since Massaley was most of the times absent from ULAA (except to receive money to come and moderate debates) people will ask why is he not in the practice of asking questions so that he is informed. 

 

Another question members of the Liberian community will be asking is why is Massaley having this audacity to talk about financial improprieties when he has on many occasions personally robbed community organizations (such as the Liberian Association of Pennsylvania) off thousands of dollars under the camouflage that he is running a business entity to do printings. Massaley has pocketed thousands of dollars under the pretext that these are exact fees for printing ballots for LAP. Does Massaley have a business license or does he get these fat contracts out of a bidding process? Imagine, this is the same Massaley who is in the culture of tongue-lashing the Liberian government for failing to award contracts based on merit based bidding system. Even worse, how many times has Massaley made financial report of the University of Liberian Alumni Association which he continues to head without any elections since 2003? Where is MOP’s financial report?  Or does it not deal in the expending of finances?

 

In fact, ULAA voters will also be interested in knowing Massaley’s financial records when he served as President of the University of Liberia Student Union and Press Union President. We have a lot here that will be exposed during this campaign so that the world can see the moral ground on which someone called Abraham Massaley stands to talk about corruption. The people might be bewildered to see those who were so poor before they got into student leadership but then immediately thereafter miraculously gained the financial capacity to operate transportation business by running taxis for profit in Monrovia .

 

Massaley also ventured to talk about the slowness of ULAA in responding to the crisis that erupted in Ghana involving Liberian refugees. While condemning the ULAA Leadership for being too slow in acting, Massaley cannot himself show how fast he acted. He has some group called Movement for Political Reform (MOP) which up to this minute has not commented on this crisis that had a lot of political undertones. What has the one-man MOP said?

 

Besides, was it not far slower for Massaley to take SIX MONTHS to comment on financial improprieties in ULAA under Kesselly? Kesselly left the ULAA Board chairmanship over six months ago. Now who is fast in reacting to ills in organization, Massaley or ULAA?

 

All in all, Kesselly remains ever proud that the allegations contained in Massaley’s sorrowful statement are not made by individuals who served with Kesselly on the Board. They know better and will dare not distort history.  It is even more gratifying that Massaley is profusely praising James Larsah—a person who was the second in command to Kesselly for the most recent term Kesselly served.  I know that Massaley (exactly in line with how Massaley runs an organization by ostracizing all those who serve with him) would like people to think that Larsah (who has now mortgaged his board chairmanship to the Massaley campaign) will have to share no blame in the board leadership in which he served as First Vice Chairman.  Massaley diid not have to write this edition of thank you jokes to try to please James Larsah.  But then that is the kind of joke Massaley has become known to be. 

 

Thank God that Massaley put himself out on the altar this time around.  Brutally scrutinized he will be.

 

Anthony V. Kesselly

From Atlanta, Georgia