Nyandeng de Mabior: Political Dynasty Restoration Gone Wrong
5 min readIn a Book entitled; ‘The River and the Source’ by Wandia, it is stated that yesterday, today and tomorrow are not the same, each day is different from the eyes of ‘Were’ (Luo for God).
This is the cardinal message to be sent to the former first family of Dr. John Garang de Mabior who are now engrossed in the quest of dynasty restoration albeit haphazardly. Nobody is sure about what drives the son and mother to simultaneously scramble for the country’s leadership without considering one principal thing, hierarchy, observed by the princes and the kings of this world.
The untimely death of the then charismatic leader is to blame for everything that goes wrong in his family and the Country at large. The country is however, rambling on and this may not be the case with his family now in the open fighting for the soul of the nation using whatever, means available even with the demons. A respectable family knows how to organise and handle its affairs as far as leadership aspirations are concern. Everybody thinks that they’re fit for leadership but only through honourable and permissible means that do not drag your name in to disrepute.
Everybody in this country has the illusion of what Garang’s family is after. Regaining the presidency is the ultimate goal but how they want to do that is the question in everybody’s lips. Nyandeng was once a powerful minister and she is currently an advisor to the President on social and religious affairs. Like everyone else, these positions do not motivate her any longer and that is the logic why she wants to be the president herself to further her husband’s unfulfilled dreams for South Sudan. The same could be said for her son, Mabioor Garang de Mabioor. The two family members need to reconcile on who should be allowed in the quest for political dynasty restoration.
Nyandeng was the first to blow it to the media that the SPLM has lost track of the vision and mission as articulated by her hubby, John Garang. She even cried at some point about this issue but nobody, took heed of her opinions not even the sitting president whom she advises. This is what stoked her bitterness now unleashed through the rebellion of Riek Machar with her support.
Riek has been courting Nyandeng loyalty since demised of Garang and this culminated in the thinly availed apology for the 1991 massacres of the Bor Dinka right in her house. There was no single reason why he should apologise in her house without travelling to Bor and talk directly to the aggrieved who are still bitter to date. Nyandeng was not a representative of Bor Dinka in Juba to directly receive this belated change of heart aimed at scoring political points. The whole issue was like supping with the devil as evidenced by the events of December 15 2013 and running.
Nyandeng’s failures are innumerable. She has failed to manage her family which serves as an example on how well one would do managing the whole nation composed of many families. Her sons are not properly married according to Jieng customs along with the daughters. Worse, the family is not united on anything worthwhile as seen through the political disarray now in play. The whole family has failed to listen to advice from relatives, uncles and other well informed individuals in the community.
Comrade Nyandeng has tasted good life since her marriage to Garang and won’t let go of it easily. Everyone sees that she is in for a long haul to achieve what no woman in America has achieved, to become the president. This is an impossible task before her right now. Further, looking at how prepared for such a task she is, reveals shocking details. She is less educated by the standards of South Sudan ladies. She is not skilful speaker who possesses exceptional oratory skills among other women who are well ahead in formal education. She is not a well established businessperson.
She established one school in Juba and was involved once in farming in year 2013 in her village of Pawoi. These endeavours were largely funded by taxpayer money or family sources mainly from the government.
She was one of those who abuse public property with impunity. She paid no taxes. She unfairly benefits from free labour from the armed forces. She was guarded twenty four hours by commando forces even on her private farm. That is the nature of Nyandeng who wants to bask on glory unlimited.
Comrade Nyandeng is still remorseless and unapologetic despite the fact that thousands and millions of people are killed and displaced respectively. She is one of the soulless and spineless politicians who ever exist in human history. Mothers are always soft hearted but ‘mama’ Nyandeng as she used to be referred to, has a heart of a stone simply because she wants to be president. This is the tragedy that has befallen South Sudan. Many people think that she lost the ‘mama’ title of respect. When she comes back nobody is sure on how to address her. Some already think that she remarried and this is another reason she turned her back on her party, people even her very family.
Tell me who contributed to the death of tens of thousands of South Sudanese people and this writer will tell about Nyandeng, the wayward mama. She lectured over the BBC about assumed killings in Juba without ascertaining facts on the ground, something that fuel the crisis on end. The Obama administration should include her on the sanction list for this is the right thing to do now that others have received those sanctions.
In conclusion, Nyandeng will not by the path she has taken become the president of this country. She is already been despised and shoes thrown at her by many of her womenfolk. Her support is lowest in South Sudan even before the current crises of which she played a major part. She is now unsure of what to do after leaving Juba where she claimed that she was under house arrest.
The great respect bestowed on her by the president and the whole country has now largely disappeared and she is now the naked queen of yesteryears.
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