Journalism Future’s Going Straight to Doom in South Sudan
By Heskey Dzeng
The future of journalism is in kismet, as disaster emerged once President Kiir’s names his entire cabinets through decree issues on State TV, July 31, a week of its disbanded, it like added salt in a injury, when newsreader read out a name of former minister for parliamentary affairs, Michael Makuei Lueth, reinstate as minister for information and broadcasting, as man, who odium journalists, become information minister, with new composed song, “nowhere to escape”.
On other way, it was happiness and uncontrolled joys to close-relative and friend {s} of Ministers on that night because theirs’ son came back through narrow way, in U-turn it was big blows to the young peoples, who are media practitioners in two years old nation, including me, definitely know that the darkness has enveloped the freedom of expression in the country, nowhere to escape.
With no doubt Mr. Makuei has spent much of his time in school studied law course, whether from his/her teachers or colleagues, just for himself, being selfish of others to have the same right of protection, though I have not study law, but with creation law in mind, really lawyer can’t be whistle blower to nullify the right to protect journalist {s}, I knew Minister is lawyer by professional, but his reaction in national parliament on media bill session, that means, he lack professional ethic, in present of unspecialized discussants, who agreed on protection of journalists, “Why do we need to protect the journalists if they will write things that defame people,” “Why do we need to protect the journalists if they will write things that defame people,”says “what is so special with them”, they {the journalists} either conform to the law or face it, “Why do we need to protect the journalists if they will write things that defame people,”“why do we need to protect journalist {S} if they writes things that defame people”, with this words, even {an} uneducated person can judge him, nowhere to escape.
More so, Mr. Lawyer is good in creature, but more destructive in way he do thing, so horrible and pessimistic too. In his former ministry, he was a man, who turned down the media bill, has hand and lip on media bill’s suspension, not a joke, “nowhere to escape”.
All in all, the future of journalism is straight to doom in this country, because Mr. Minister is a one, who folded media bill in his hand, in other word, life or dead of media is upon him. Also a man, who manipulate the president Kiir’s not to sign the media bill, with all this stage-manage, has pay back his way to ministry position, not laugh matter, “nowhere to escape”.
As I stated early, he is pessimistic, it is hard to accept one-on-one interview in his life, if you observed from his previous ministries post. Journalists just quoted his words in any public event or press conference, now as information minister, do you think, he might change his signify altitude? I don’t think, his personal-rudeness will not transform, though he join the repentance house for while, he will come back same, as people saying, if the donkey go to school, come back as donkey, because environment wouldn’t adjust you, “nowhere to escape”.
To my colleagues, we can’t abandon this torture,intimadation, harassment and suffering so far, no time for this government to satisfy us, when it almost time to get right, at the end of a day, we are subjected to humiliation again, what is special with Makuei to be Minister for Information, nothing but just to subjected journalists to afflict, as the senior government don’t want their ill-act to be know by the local populations.
Put it simply, I am not against Makuei, as your uncle, brother or relative, but fight for the freedom of media, media is tool for development in the world, both socially, politically and economically, but Makuei’s hate freedom of expression, do he fit really? do you think country will change without media, critic writers, No!…so don’t take it personal, supposed it would be given to person, who will protect journalists, especially the independent media journalists, because government journalists’ always report what favour the government, and media a tools to fight corruption, which put the country first in the worldwide.
In conclusion, it is worse than before as I say, our professional long-life enemy won the ministry, we are not so far from security personnel’s mishandling, take care but we shouldn’t give up from the threats, we can fight back because every war, have heroes and heroines, though Minister came with mouth’s word, “nowhere to escape
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