"We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing" By Konstantin Josef Jireček, a Czech historian, diplomat and slavist.
Allow me to introduce myself to some of you who may be unfamiliar to me.
I am Makuer Mabor Mangar and I come from Lakes State’s Rumbek East County. I am a university graduate with bachelor and master degrees in Political Science and Counter Terrorism respectively.
I would like to announce to you that I have finally made a decision to join the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army under the leadership of Dr. Riek Machar Teny.
I have safely arrived Addis Ababa with my delegation. This is a decision that I am most proud of.
As a proud citizens, I cannot subject myself to a condition of what our eternal leader Dr. John Garang De Mabior referred to as the “crisis of conscience”.
For many years now, I have been lamenting the seemingly wilful neglect of the basic needs of our people by President Kiir and his few cliques. Schools, hospitals, roads and national cohesion have been traded in, in exchange for personal wealth, education of their children as well as clinical care of themselves in foreign countries.
These are things that need questioning. These are not discussed openly or one risks being killed as happened to Isaiah Abraham.
Therefore, I have rationally decided to use the language of guns that now seems to be the only language that President Kiir and his thugs understand.
I am prepared to take up arms as a means to let them hear our people’s concerns.
N/B Stay tune for my full press release in Pagak during the people’s conference in the next few days as advised by the leadership.
This statement is meant to clear the confusion that is spiraling out of control in regards to the identities of those who join the Movement.
SPLM/A Oyee!! Republic of South Sudan Oyee!!
Makuer Mabor, from Lakes state, Rumbek East county
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