“Diabolical Lies from the Pit of Hell,” MCSS Characterized Spoon Network’s Allegations

Monrovia, Liberia: The Monrovia Consolidated School System (MCSS) has called out the former Chief Executive Officer of the Spoon Communication Network and lead host of Spoon Talk, Stanton Witherspoon, to refrain from using his platform as a podium for smear campaigns against reputable individuals in the society.

The MCSS characterized Witherspoon‘s claims made against Superintendent James A. S. Momo as “diabolical lies," which has the propensity to injure the hard-earned integrity of Superintendent Momo.

Speaking to newsmen on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, at MCSS Headquarters located on Twelve Street in Sinkor, Samuel M. Nyenuh, MCSS Director of Public Relations and Media Services, accused Stanton of spewing falsehood and disseminating misleading information about MCSS on his widely listened-to online television and radio talk show platform (Spoon Talk).

Nyenuh urged Witherspoon to at all times seek to thoroughly authenticate info provided to the Spoon Talk before hasty publication to safeguard the credibility of the platform.

In an attempt to disprove Witherspoon’s false claim that volunteer teachers who the MCSS is advocating to be placed on government payroll are ghosts, the MCSS assembles more than two hundred volunteer teachers at its headquarters on Tuesday, February 25, 2025, for media verification.

“We want to assure all of our volunteer teachers, some of whom were referred to as ghosts, are not ghosts. Predicated upon this, we have invited them here today to the central office for the media to see them and interview them so that the public is aware and informed that they are not ghosts but actual human beings who have been volunteering their services, resources, and energies to ensure that our children are educated,” MCC Director for Public Relations and Media Services stated. 

Nyenuh emphasized that the MCSS volunteers are not just instructors, stating that they include teachers, securities, caretakers, MCSS Accelerated Vocational Training Program teachers, guidance counselors, plumbers, carpenters, and electricians, among others.

According to Nyenuh, Stanton used his Spoon Talk program to smear the hard-earned reputation of MCSS Superintendent James A. S. Momo, which runs contrary to the fundamental norms of professional media ethics.

The MCSS spokesperson’s visible frustration stemmed from what he termed Stanton’s false insinuation that the MCSS superintendent’s advocacy for the placement of volunteer teachers on government payroll is a cover-up steal to the government.

According to Nyenuh, Stanton’s assertion that Superintendent Momo’s bank account in the United States is frozen and therefore the MCSS boss is using a fake advocacy to underwrite his cost of living in Liberia by presenting ghost names as volunteer employees on the MCSS. 

Nyenuh counter-argued that Stanton's claim that the MCSS Superintendent bank account in the US was frozen is totally false, misleading, and bears no iota of truth.

“We like to use this medium to call on the Spoon Network CEO to refrain from using his platform to spew false and misleading information that has the propensity to injure the character of the Superintendent of the Monrovia Consolidated School System. We are cautioning the Spoon Network that in order to maintain its credibility, sanctity, and truthfulness for people to keep giving their trust and confidence to keep listening to the network, it is only fair enough for the network to reach out to the school system that it has such information.”

“But ever since the information was put out there about the school system, the network has not reached out to us to get our side of the story. The network intoned that the MCSS Superintendent told the MCSS administration that his bank account was frozen in the US and that he cannot have access to his account, and so as a result of that, the Human Resource Department should credit him. Does the HR department have the capacity to loan money to the superintendent?” the MCSS spokesman wondered.

Owing to this, the MCSS mouthpiece strongly cautioned Stanton to refrain from using the Spoon Talk Show as an attack medium to unduly bring a hard-earned character reputable in society to undue public ridicule.

Meanwhile, Nyenuh took advantage of the situation and trumpeted what he considered a massive transformation of the MCCS under the stewardship of Superintendent Momo while assuring the volunteer teachers that the school system will continue its engagement of stakeholders to ensure they are placed on payroll.

Highlighting Superintendent Momo's achievement since the ascendency, Nyenuh says, MCSS has witnessed tremendous progress, ranging from the ongoing massive renovation to foreign scholarships for teachers and the three best-performing students, among several others. 

Nyenuh said: “Ever since he took over the leadership here at the MCSS as its superintendent, he first thought about capacitating our teachers in specialized subjects; for example, chemistry, biology, and mathematics. So he was able to have sent fifteen teachers and three of our best-performing students on an international scholarship to India. Not only that, he was also able to have brought in corrugated steel chairs for all MCSS schools.” 

“Today, in the MCSS, our students are now sitting on modern corrugated steel armed chairs to learn. All of this has been happening under the remarkable administration of Superintendent James A. S. Momo. Barely eight months into office, all MCSS schools are using whiteboards. Today, in MCSS, the entire traditional blackboard has been replaced with modern whiteboard,” intoned

The Monrovia Consolidated School System provides primary and secondary education to the population of the Monrovia metropolitan area. 

The MCSS was established by government charter in 1964 under the Act to Amend the Education Law to Create the Monrovia Consolidated School System.

Prior to the creation of the MCSS, schools in Monrovia were individually administered by principals reporting directly to the Ministry of Education. 

A Memorandum of Understanding, the preliminary step to the establishment of the system, was signed on 28 February 1963.

With over four decades of dedicated expertise in the education field, MCSS brings a wealth of knowledge and practical insight to the country’s educational sector.