Riek Machar : The Serial Killer in the name of Democracy or the so-called Riekocracy
4 min readBy Wun de Deng
The leader of rebel SPLM/A in O , Riek Machar has proven himself as the Nuer leader not a national leader in his speech at Pagak and here I quote
‘…people are at a precarious crossroads between being and not being …the Juba genocide carried out by President Salva Kiir against his people killing over 20,000 innocent lives of Nuer people in less than a week. The massacres against Nuer in Juba triggered the present civil war…, The SPLM political dysfunction started with Kiir’s assumption of SPLM leadership in 2005’’
Riek said the war was triggered by the killing of Nuer therefore , the meaning of ‘ being and not being” is that Nuer will either defeated the government as Dinka or the Dinka defeated the rebels as Nuer, here there is no spirit of reconciliation and peace in his speech .
Riek said ‘’ 20, 000 Nuer killed in Juba’’ in media another 20,000 Nuer in UN camps in Juba, what a nonsense and a parallelism? There are no 20, 000 Nuer in Juba. .There are two reports of people killed in Juba ; UN says 800 people killed in Juba and 1300 wounded in Juba . The South Sudan Red Cross reported that 400 killed and 800 people wounded .
The claims of 20, 000 Nuer killed is nothing but false premises to incite Nuer by Riek Machar.
Riek said the ‘dysfunction of SPLM started with Salva Kiir assuming powers in 2005’ . If the dysfunction started with Kiir in 2005 . Why he ( riek) rebelled in 1991 ? what inconsistent Riekocrat?
Riek claimed to be effective , what has Riek ever achieved ? He signed Khartoum Peace Agreement , what has that agreement achieved? Nothing. That agreement gave Bashir Government powers to produced the oil,
Riek and Matiop fought over the 2% oil revenues given to Unity State , that pitied Nuer against Nuer , Bul Nuer agaist Jagey and Leer Nuer .
Riek said he fought Garang , Bashir and Salva Kiir for democracy ? if he was fighting for democracy? Then he is wrong. Democracy is the government of people, by people and for the people which is achieved through ballots in election, what Riek is fighting for is not democracy but it is Riekocracy which advocates violence , serial killing like the killing of 1991 and killing of 2013 , Riekocracy is the philosophy of violence and warmongering . it is about to ascend to power through bullet box not ballot box . This is paradoxical.
Riek said ‘’ Corruption in government – the practice of nepotism in ditching of inordinately overvalued government contract to relatives and people hailing from particular areas and to those who gave bribes was a major source of corruption’’,
Riek is best corrupt man in South Sudan because he spent his official budget of the year within 3 months by renting hotels for villagers who come in villages .,and he requested for more money in supplementary budget in this manner he spend the budget of three years in one year
Riek had been running the government since 2005 until his powers were reduced in march 2013 , so if there is any corruption took at that time , Riek is suspect number one
Riek classical case of corruption is when he gave corrupted Kenya company called GIBBS Africa contract of 200 million dollars to renovate the government houses in Juba ,the houses were not renovated but Riek took that money . Riek gave the same GIBBS Africa another unclear contract of 60 million dollars which he also took.
Riek gave his son Teny a contract called Clean Juba , why did he gave it to his son . Is this not nepotism ? it is a nepotism .
Riek Machar employed his own 7 family members in top jobs in the government , these are his wife Angelina as state minister of petroleum , his cousin Majok as deputy Governor of Bank of South Sudan , his niece Sarah Nyaulang as Minster . Is this not a tribalism? it is tribalism .
Now , Riek is saying if Wani is still a Vice President , he will not participate in the Government and his wife Angelina will be the Prime Minister instead of Taban Deng , what are all these ? they are all cases of nepotism and tribalism.
Riek is not effective leader, he is good in mobilizing his white army but difficult to control them .There is nothing good in Riek deeds and action except killing people in the name of democracy or his so- called Riekocracy
Thus , Riek’s speech was clear decoration of war , which is inciting, antagonizing , full of hatred , ethnical /tribal , political naïve and inconsistent in nature
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